Conway takes first win at Monaco

He led from start to finish from pole position, which he only earned thanks to Javier Villa punting him out of third place in the feature race and its reverse grid line-up.

Conway had two safety car periods to worry about, the second of which negated his 11.4sec lead over Trident Racing team-mate Ho-Pin Tung.

At the restart, he had the cushion of a backmarker between himself and Tung, but was able to pull away regardless. His winning margin was a convincing 18.4secs.

Alvaro Parente was close behind Tung but unable to find a way past and settled for his second podium finish of the season.

Adrian Valles would have finished fourth for BCN, but he overtook Roldan Rodriguez by cutting the corner at Ste Devote on the opening lap and was handed a drive-through penalty. It took until lap 21 for him to finally take it, giving Rodriguez the place back.

Yesterday's hero Bruno Senna finished fifth after spending the entire race tucked under Rodriguez's rear wing. He had Andy Soucek for company for most of the race, until the DPR man dropped off the pace in the closing stages. Soucek finished sixth, which wasn't bad considering he started yesterday's race dead last, and it was DPR's first point of the season.

The safety car was required for a first corner clash between Pastor Maldonado and Karun Chandhok, which took them both out, while independently of this, Christian Bakkerud flew over the rear wheel of Andi Zuber but fortunately landed the right way up.

The second safety car period was for Alberto Valerio, who spun into the wall on the exit of Casino Square, blocking most of the track.

In another significant shunt, series leader Giorgio Pantano clashed with Durango's Marcello Puglisi at the harbour-front chicane, wrecking his left-front suspension. Pantano now jointly leads the series with Senna on 24 points.

Pos Driver             Team                  Time
 1. Mike Conway        Trident Racing        45:31.105
 2. Ho-Pin Tung        Trident Racing        + 18.446
 3. Alvaro Parente     Super Nova Racing     + 18.915
 4. Roldan Rodriguez   FMS International     + 20.898
 5. Bruno Senna        iSport International  + 21.298
 6. Andy Soucek        DPR                   + 22.256
 7. J.D'Ambrosio       DAMS                  + 23.188
 8. Yelmer Buurman     Team Arden            + 23.887
 9. Diego Nunes        DPR                   + 33.072
10. Romain Grosjean    ART Grand Prix        + 33.536
11. Sebastien Buemi    Team Arden            + 35.756
12. Luca Filippi       ART Grand Prix        + 37.885
13. Javier Villa       Racing Engineering    + 39.162
14. Benjamin Hanley    Campos Team           + 40.604
15. Vitaly Petrov      Campos Team           + 41.865
16. Adrian Valles      BCN Competicion       + 43.233
17. Andreas Zuber      Piquet Sports         1 lap

Retirements:

    Driver                  Team                       Laps
    Kamui Kobayashi         DAMS                        14
    Marcello Puglisi        Durango                     11
    Alberto Valerio         Durango                     8
    Giorgio Pantano         Racing Engineering          7
    Adam Carroll            FMS International           2
    Karun Chandhok          iSport International        0
    Pastor Maldonado        Piquet Sports               0
    C.Bakkerud              Super Nova Racing           0