The Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year produced a dominant performance to win the blue-riband Macau F3 race on Sunday, but it required two perfect getaways from the front of the pack.
At both the original start, and the late safety car restart following the red-flag interruption for Paul Aron's fiery crash, Browning committed to the inside line on the long run to Lisboa to protect himself from attack from behind as rivals tried to capitalise on his slipstream.
He said his approach was deliberate – and had been settled on after he had gone through replays of old Macau starts to work out tactics that did and did not work.
“I watched every start of Macau up until this point and this seemed to be the [one with the] highest success rate,” he told Autosport about the approach that helped keep rivals at bay.
“[At the restart], I was trying to get Dennis [Hauger] and Gabriele [Mini] an equal amount of tow down the straight, so that they caught me in the slowest amount of time.
“I did it for both races and I just managed to hang on. But the last one was super tight.”
Source: Autosport