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Pic storms to Silverstone victory

Charles Pic took an unchallenged Formula Renault 3.5 victory at Silverstone today

Following a formidable pole position on Saturday, the Renault Development Driver put in a superlative display to build a 4.2-second winning margin. With little prospect of anyone troubling Pic, it was left to a home-grown scrap for second between James Walker and Oliver Turvey to provide interest.

Turvey was able to hound the P1 Motorsport car through the second part of the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit, but lost ground to Walker through the fast, opening sequence of corners.

At the chequered flag, Turvey was just 0.3s adrift to repeat his Saturday result of third, while Walker's result moves him ahead of Bertrand Baguette into second position in the championship.

"The beginning of the season was very hard," said Pic, "but we continued to work and this result is great for me and the team. Our strategy was to be very fast in the beginning of the race, at the end the car was quite difficult to drive but I have to thank the team for giving me a car with so much performance."

Brendon Hartley made an excellent start to pass Walker around the outside at Copse, but the Kiwi's hopes of joining Tech 1 team-mate Pic on the podium ended with a drive-through penalty for speeding in the pitlane.

Hungaroring winner Fairuz Fauzy put in another strong showing to take a comfortable fourth for Fortec, while Baguette withstood prolonged pressure from championship leader Martinez to hold fifth.

Martinez retains his series lead on 73 points, five ahead of Walker, with Baguette a further two points adrift in third.

                    
Pos  Driver               Team               Time/Gap
 1.  Charles Pic          Tech 1           45m45.997s
 2.  James Walker         P1               +   4.273s
 3.  Oliver Turvey        Carlin           +   4.559s
 4.  Fairuz Fauzy         Fortec           +   5.383s
 5.  Bertrand Baguette    Draco            +  21.606s
 6.  Marcos Martinez      Pons             +  23.338s
 7.  Sten Pentus          Fortec           +  23.707s
 8.  Daniil Move          P1               +  32.558s
 9.  Jaime Alguersuari    Carlin           +  35.524s
10.  Marco Barba          Draco            +  38.651s
11.  Adrian Zaugg         Interwetten      +  44.107s
12.  Guillaume Moreau     SG               +  44.595s
13.  Brendon Hartley      Tech 1           +  44.770s
14.  Adrian Valles        Epsilon Euskadi  +  45.272s
15.  Jon Lancaster        Comtec           +  52.826s
16.  Julian Leal          Prema            +  56.950s
17.  Filip Salaquarda     Prema            +1m04.383s
18.  Michael Herck        Interwetten      +1m05.991s
19.  Chris van der Drift  Epsilon Euskadi  +1m06.339s
20.  John Martin          Comtec           +    1 lap
21.  Federico Leo         Pons             +    1 lap
22.  Greg Mansell         Ultimate         +   2 laps

Retirements:

     Anton Nebylitskiy    SG               16 laps
     Pasquale di Sabatino RC               13 laps
     Miguel Molina        Ultimate         12 laps

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