Filippi excluded, Buemi wins at Sentul

Filippi just edged out Buemi in a tense last lap battle, but was stripped of the victory when he was found to have used tyres allocated to his teammate, Hiroki Yoshimoto.

A safety car period on the second lap of the race caused all but seven cars to make an unscheduled pit stop. Filippi was one of the first cars to pit, while Yoshimoto stayed out, and somewhere in the confusion the team fitted the Japanese driver's tyres to the wrong car.

QI-Meritus Mahara boss Peter Thompson explained what happened: "Hiroki was due for his stop after three laps, but the safety car came out as Luca was in the last corner. He called to say he was in the pit lane already and the mechanics didn't realise in time.

"We reported it to the clerk of the course immediately and we decided to finish the race. We're pretty devastated but we can't change what happened. We're a new team and these things happen, but we were pleased with our performance in general though."

A statement from the stewards read: "the rear tyres on car number 27 [Filippi] were found to be allocated to car number 26 [Yoshimoto]. This does not comply with the regulations and therefore the car has been excluded from the results."

Filippi will also have to start tomorrow's sprint race from the back of the grid, as will ninth-place finisher Stephen Jelley, who was excluded from the classification for having had his car refuelled on the grid prior to the start of the race.

PROVISIONAL AMENDED RESULTS:

Pos  Driver          Team                        Time
 1.  Buemi           Trust Team Arden            1:10:28.016
 2.  Valles          Fisichella Motor Sport      +     9.206
 3.  Hanley          Barwa International Campos  +    11.139
 4.  Grosjean        ART Grand Prix              +    16.301
 5.  Petrov          Barwa International Campos  +    27.840
 6.  Pavlovic        BCN Competicion             +    41.163
 7.  Senna           iSport International        +    43.257
 8.  Fauzy           Super Nova Racing           +    48.685
 9.  Herck           Fisichella Motor Sport      +    71.539

NOT CLASSIFIED/RETIREMENTS:

     Driver          Team                        On lap
     Valerio         Durango                       37
     Yoshimoto       Qi-Meritus Mahara             34
     Valsecchi       Durango                       31
     Tung            Trident Racing                30
     d'Ambrosio      Dams                          27
     Bonanomi        Piquet Sports                 26
     Ebrahim         DPR                           21
     Nunes           DPR                           19
     Chandhok        iSport International          16
     Khan            Trust Team Arden               2
     Tahinci         BCN Competicion                2
     Bakkerud        Super Nova Racing              1
     Schleghelmilch  Trident Racing                 1
     Kobayashi       Dams                           1
     Puglisi         Piquet Sports                  1
     Jelley          ART Grand Prix                DQ
     Filippi         Qi-Meritus Mahara             DQ

FASTEST LAP: Senna, 1:15.686 on lap 43