Monza GP2: Davide Valsecchi stretches points lead with victory

DAMS racer Valsecchi made a perfect start from third on the reversed-grid to dominate from lights-to-flag. He won by 0.4 seconds over Racing Engineering's Fabio Leimer.

Jolyon Palmer completed the podium for iSport, holding off team-mate Marcus Ericsson at Rettifilo by bouncing across the sleeping policemen.

Ericsson tumbled to seventh on the last lap after a fantastic side-by-side scrap with poleman Stefano Coletti through the Ascari chicane. Johnny Cecotto Jr and Max Chilton both passed the Swede too on the exit of the chicane, finishing fifth and sixth respectively.

Valsecchi extends his championship lead over Luiz Razia, who could only finish 16th after starting 25th due to a five-place grid penalty after his collision with Leimer on Saturday.

Lotus duo James Calado and Esteban Gutierrez kissed goodbye to their title hopes at Monza. Calado was 14th, while Gutierrez crashed out at the Parabolica on lap three, having collided with Cecotto and Luca Filippi on the opening lap.

Saturday's winner Filippi had to settle for fastest lap, after being forced to pit due to wing and tyre damage.

Results - 21 laps:

Pos  Driver               Team                   Time/Gap
 1.  Davide Valsecchi     DAMS                 33m06.731s
 2.  Fabio Leimer         Racing Engineering     + 0.444s
 3.  Jolyon Palmer        iSport                 + 7.873s
 4.  Stefano Coletti      Rapax                 + 10.787s
 5.  Johnny Cecotto Jr    Addax                 + 10.953s
 6.  Max Chilton          Carlin                + 11.418s
 7.  Marcus Ericsson      iSport                + 11.606s
 8.  Julian Leal          Trident               + 12.661s
 9.  Stephane Richelmi    Trident               + 13.383s
10.  Giedo van der Garde  Caterham              + 14.540s
11.  Sergio Canamasas     Lazarus               + 15.013s
12.  Rio Haryanto         Carlin                + 15.711s
13.  Rene Binder          Lazarus               + 15.934s
14.  James Calado         Lotus                 + 16.667s
15.  Nathanael Berthon    Racing Engineering    + 20.179s
16.  Luiz Razia           Arden                 + 20.484s
17.  Simon Trummer        Arden                 + 25.436s
18.  Ricardo Teixeira     Rapax                 + 29.051s
19.  Jake Rosenzweig      Addax                 + 30.292s
20.  Rodolfo Gonzalez     Caterham              + 34.034s
21.  Felipe Nasr          DAMS                + 1m14.092s
22.  Luca Filippi         Coloni              + 1m26.253s

Retirements:

     Esteban Gutierrez    Lotus                     1 lap
     Nigel Melker         Ocean                     1 lap
     Fabio Onidi          Coloni                    1 lap
     Victor Guerin        Ocean                     1 lap