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Maldonado wins shortened sprint

Pastor Maldonado won a shortened reversed-grid GP2 race in Monaco today following a spectacular crash involving championship leader Romain Grosjean

The race was red-flagged two laps before full distance due to the damage sustained by the barriers at Tabac in the accident, which was triggered when the Frenchman attempted a move on Andi Zuber.

But he only succeeded in tripping over the FMSI car's rear wheel, launching him skywards and onto the top of the wall.

DAMS driver Jerome D'Ambrosio was second ahead of Nico Hulkenberg, the ART rookie picking up the first GP2 main series podium of his career.

While Maldonado took the final honours the majority of the race was actually led by Ocean's Karun Chandhok, but the Indian's afternoon came to an end when he pulled off the circuit with a suspected broken driveshaft.

The misfortunes of both the race leader and the points leader were the only real noteworthy moments in an otherwise processional race, although Racing Engineering's Lucas di Grassi will be relieved to have got some points on the board for fourth place after a difficult start to the season.

Zuber held on for fifth, with Grosjean's Barwa Addax team-mate Vitaly Petrov rounding out the top six.

Pos Driver             Team                         Time
 1.  Maldonado         ART Grand Prix               39:02.772
 2.  D'Ambrosio        DAMS                          + 1.505
 3.  Hulkenberg        ART Grand Prix                + 3.545
 4.  Di Grassi         Fat Burner Racing             + 4.480
 5.  Zuber             FMSI                          + 6.494
 6.  Petrov            Barwa Addax Team              + 9.349
 7.  Rigon             Trident Racing                + 10.448
 8.  Villa             Super Nova Racing             + 53.234
 9.  Perez             Telmex Arden International    + 56.237
10.  Razia             FMSI                          + 57.770
11.  Van Der Garde     iSport International          + 58.582
12.  Kobayashi         DAMS                          + 59.696
13.  Mortara           Telmex Arden International    + 63.710
14.  Nunes             iSport International          + 64.840
15.  Panciatici        Durango                       + 67.681
16.  Herck             DPR                           + 1 lap
17.  Grosjean          Barwa Addax Team              + 2 laps
18.  Valsecchi         Durango                       + 2 laps

Retirements: 
   Driver            Team                           On lap
   Clos              Fat Burner Racing Engineering   23
   Valerio           Piquet GP                       23
   Filippi           Super Nova Racing               23
   Chandhok          Ocean Racing Technology         21
   Ricci             DPR                             18
   Parente           Ocean Racing Technology         15
   Rodriguez         Piquet GP                        2

Fastest lap: Petrov, 1:22.045 on lap 9

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