Grosjean dominates Monaco feature

In a repeat of the season-opener at Barcelona two weeks ago, Grosjean led team-mate Vitaly Petrov across the line for a Barwa Addax one-two. But on this occasion the Frenchman's margin of victory was considerably greater, with 6.6 seconds separating him from the Russian when the chequered flag was waved.

Racing Engineering's Lucas di Grassi was third, albeit more than 16s further down the road.

Grosjean and Petrov were in control of the race from the start and ran in close formation during the first stint. But a string of quick laps during the pit sequence allowed Grosjean to put some more space between himself and the Russian, and from that point on the championship leader never looked under threat.

Di Grassi's podium came at the expense of ART's Nico Hulkenberg, who had been holding down third for the first part of the race only to be leap-frogged during the pitstops.

Andi Zuber (Fisichella) was fifth ahead of DAMS driver Jerome D'Ambrosio and Ocean Racing Technology's Karun Chandhok, with Super Nova's Javier Villa picking up the final point and pole for tomorrow's race with eighth.

The race was a typical Monaco procession, enlivened only by a few equally typical Monaco cases of cars hitting barriers. All were cleared without the need for a safety car, although it could have been different when Edoardo Mortara came to a stop on the exit of the hairpin. Fortunately, everyone behind him was paying attention and managed to avoid hitting the stricken Arden car, and the threat of a pile-up was averted.

Pos  Driver               Team                Time
 1.  Romain Grosjean      Addax               1h03m06.299s
 2.  Vitaly Petrov        Addax                +    6.600s
 3.  Lucas Di Grassi      Racing Engineering   +   22.984s
 4.  Nico Hulkenberg      ART                  +   24.443s
 5.  Andreas Zuber        Fisichella           +   31.040s
 6.  Jerome D'Ambrosio    DAMS                 +   59.777s
 7.  Karun Chandhok       Ocean                + 1m01.789s
 8.  Javier Villa         Super Nova           + 1m10.089s
 9.  Roldan Rodriguez     Piquet               + 1m11.546s
10.  Pastor Maldonado     ART                  + 1m20.236s
11.  Davide Rigon         Trident              + 1m21.248s
12.  Sergio Perez         Arden                +     1 lap
13.  Luiz Razia           Fisichella           +     1 lap
14.  Giacomo Ricci        DPR                  +     1 lap
15.  Davide Valsecchi     Durango              +    2 laps
16.  Michael Herck        DPR                  +    2 laps

Not classified/Retirements:

     Giedo van der Garde  iSport              38 laps
     Alvaro Parente       Ocean               36 laps
     Edoardo Mortara      Arden               35 laps
     Luca Filippi         Super Nova          34 laps
     Kamui Kobayashi      DAMS                18 laps
     Daniel Clos          Racing Engineering  16 laps
     Diego Nunes          iSport              13 laps
     Alberto Valerio      Piquet               5 laps
     Nelson Panciatici    Durango              4 laps