Buemi takes Hungaroring sprint win

The Swiss driver had looked destined to play second fiddle to Super Nova's Andy Soucek, who made a strong start from pole and led by about a second for the first 12 laps. But then he locked up and understeered off at a right-hander, which gifted Buemi the victory.

Buemi always looked to have more pace than Soucek, and demonstrated this by pulling away to a 7.9-second win. Soucek clung on to second, and was given some respite when third-placed Pastor Maldonado's Piquet Sports car broke down just as he was getting on terms with him.

That allowed Bruno Senna a late run on Soucek in the closing stages, and he crossed the line just fractions of a second behind. More importantly, Senna outscored series leader Giorgio Pantano by a further two points, to close the gap between them in the title race to seven points with three rounds remaining.

Pantano finished fifth, well behind Sakon Yamamoto (ART) but just ahead of Racing Engineering teammate Javier Villa.

Yesterday's winner Lucas di Grassi should have made it a double podium but punted Mike Conway into a spin at Turn 1 early on, earning himself a drivethrough penalty. He recovered to finish 10th, ironically passing Conway cleanly to do so with a couple of laps to go.

From the back of the grid, following his 10-place penalty yesterday for hitting Pantano, Romain Grosjean finished 12th. He did, however, punt Alvaro Parente into a spin at Turn 2, which could lead to a grid penalty for the next event.

Pos  Driver             Team                  Time
 1.  Sebastien Buemi    Trust Team Arden      42:39.084
 2.  Andy Soucek        Super Nova Racing     +   7.978
 3.  Bruno Senna        iSport International  +   8.066
 4.  Sakon Yamamoto     ART Grand Prix        +  14.075
 5.  Giorgio Pantano    Racing Engineering    +  15.766
 6.  Javier Villa       Racing Engineering    +  16.341
 7.  Andreas Zuber      Piquet Sports         +  18.533
 8.  Kamui Kobayashi    DAMS                  +  19.162
 9.  Vitaly Petrov      Barwa Campos Team     +  19.718
10.  Lucas Di Grassi    Barwa Campos Team     +   30.14
11.  Mike Conway        Trident Racing        +  30.647
12.  Romain Grosjean    ART Grand Prix        +  31.225
13.  Davide Valsecchi   Durango               +  35.646
14.  Ho-Pin Tung        Trident Racing        +  51.478
15.  Diego Nunes        DPR                   +  53.405
16.  Michael Herck      DPR                   +1:00.993
17.  Alberto Valerio    Durango               +1:04.537
18.  Pastor Maldonado   Piquet Sports         +  3 laps
19.  Adrian Valles      BCN Competicion       +  3 laps

Retirements:

     Driver             Team                  Laps
     Luca Filippi       Trust Team Arden      23
     Jerome D'Ambrosio  DAMS                  21
     Marko Asmer        FMS International     12
     Roldan Rodriguez   FMS International     8
     Carlos Iaconelli   BCN Competicion       6
     Alvaro Parente     Super Nova Racing     5
     Karun Chandhok     iSport International  0