Tasmanian Alex Peroni has claimed the unlikeliest of podium finishes for the year at Sunday's FIA Formula 3 race at Silverstone.
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First across the line, Aleksandr Smolyar, was stripped of the win after the Russian's team was warned to cease weaving as a defensive move against the chasing pack.
A post-race investigation found Smolyar was in breach of F3 regulations, with race stewards issuing the driver a five-second pentalty that demoted him to sixth.
Peroni had crossed the line fourth, but moved up to third after German David Beckmann inherited the British victory to close the fourth round of the delayed season.
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Peroni earlier fended off rivals for sixth place during Saturday's Silverstone race.
The next day's return to the track, Peroni was challenged but kept Clement Novalak and later Frederik Vesti both at bay, with the top-four split by less than two seconds.
The promotion happened to be Peroni's second podium after earning third in the season opener a month ago.
That performance marked a huge return in the Hobart driver's first race outing since pulling up in a horror crash last year at Monza when he collided at 250km/h.
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