An excellent entry of 34 cars arrived at Knutstorp for the first round on the Swedish F3 Championship of which the fastest 22 would start the race. The runners included the works March of Gunnar Nilsson who was missing the clashing BP round at Silverstone for contractual reasons.

It began to rain heavily as the cars formed up on the grid and everyone quickly fitted their wets. Nilsson made a lightning start and was a huge 3 seconds up on second man Conny Andersson at the end of lap 1, Nilsson then proceeded to extend his lead by a second a lap to take a comfortable win by nearly 20 seconds from Andersson. Ulf Svensson challenged Andersson hard in his Brabham BT41 with Anders Olofsson in fourth in his GRD until the latter spun. Conny Ljungfeldt moved then moved up to third in his ex-Andersson March 743 and began to challenge the former owner but in the end Ljungfeldt settled for third.