Razia wins as Hulkenberg takes title

Razia, who had only scored his first point of the season a day earlier when he was promoted to eighth after a post-race penalty was issued to Alvaro Parente, made a perfect start from pole, and after surviving an initial challenge from Racing Engineering's Lucas di Grassi, never looked threatened.

He crossed the line 2.1s clear of his compatriot, the victory coming just two weeks after his Coloni team was forced to miss the Spa round due to its cars being impounded as part of a legal dispute.

Di Grassi's second place owed everything to his superb start - the Brazilian made up five places on the run to the first corner - but while he was unable to do anything about Razia, he was equally unthreatened by Hulkenberg (ART) behind him.

Hulkenberg had other priorities. The German needed just one point to finally put the championship beyond the reach of rival Vitaly Petrov (Addax), and while the Russian challenged him early on, a late mistake dropped him to fifth behind DAMS' Jerome D'Ambrosio, and left Hulkenberg free to become the first driver ever to secure the GP2 crown with a round still to spare.

Feature race winner Giedo van der Garde (iSport) scored the final point in sixth.

The race was fairly processional compared with the excitement of yesterday, although the safety car was needed on the first lap when Diego Nunes and Dani Clos clashed on the run up to the first Lesmo. Both cars ended up in the gravel - in Clos's case, upside down.

Pos  Driver               Team                  Time/Gap
 1.  Luiz Razia           Coloni              35m12.921s
 2.  Lucas di Grassi      Racing Engineering    +  2.576
 3.  Nico Hulkenberg      ART                   +  4.955
 4.  Jerome D'Ambrosio    DAMS                  +  7.374
 5.  Vitaly Petrov        Addax                 +   7.92
 6.  Giedo van der Garde  iSport                +  8.687
 7.  Roldan Rodriguez     Piquet                +  9.133
 8.  Davide Rigon         Trident               + 13.395
 9.  Davide Valsecchi     Addax                 + 24.809
10.  Javier Villa         Super Nova            + 25.492
11.  Alberto Valerio      Piquet                + 26.254
12.  Karun Chandhok       Ocean                 + 33.526
13.  Michael Herck        DPR                   +  35.32
14.  Ricardo Teixeira     Trident               + 59.622

Retirements:

     Pastor Maldonado     ART                 19 laps
     Johnny Cecotto Jr    DPR                 18 laps
     Kamui Kobayashi      DAMS                18 laps
     Luca Filippi         Super Nova          15 laps
     Andreas Zuber        Coloni              11 laps
     Alvaro Parente       Ocean               6 laps
     Edoardo Mortara      Arden               6 laps
     Sergio Perez         Arden               1 lap
     Diego Nunes          iSport              0 laps
     Dani Clos            Racing Engineering  0 laps