Guerrieri completes Brno double

In a replay of Saturday's race, the Argentinean made a superior start to pole-sitting team-mate Filip Salaquarda, and from the inside of the front row powered into the lead at Turn 1.

Until worsening understeer set in during the closing laps, Guerrieri had appeared comfortable out in front. But the deteriorating handling allowed Draco's French rookie Nathanael Berthon to reel in the leader rapidly. From his second row starting position, Berthon's strong race pace had been sufficient to leapfrog him ahead of Salaquarda during the mandatory pitstop sequence.

With no signs of the illness that subdued his weekend at Monaco, Berthon applied heavy pressure on Guerrieri for six laps. Unable to stage a serious passing attempt, and suffering with inferior straightline speed, Berthon elected to drop back on the penultimate tour to finish 1.1s down at the chequered flag.

"The team amazes me all the time, because you have to remember it is only our fourth meeting," said Guerrieri. "We've scored the most points that you can in this game over the weekend.

"We have made a massive step forward, but we have to see what happens in the next races - if I am there, because we still have to find a budget. It is hard, but we will try and keep going. With the contenders going into this weekend not doing well, I am in the fight for the championship all of a sudden."

Having survived an attack from third starter Stefano Coletti into Turn 1, which resulted in the Monegasque spinning off on the dusty outside line, Salaquarda held off a tight squabble involving former British Formula 3 rivals Walter Grubmuller and Daniel Ricciardo for the final place on podium.

Brendon Hartley followed his Tech 1 racing team-mate Ricciardo home to complete the top-six. Ricciardo's result was not enough demote Mikhail Aleshin as the mid-season points' leader, and the Russian will claim the prize exhibition outing in Renault's roadshow Formula 1 car at Magny-Cours on June 19-10.

Sten Pentus appeared to be an innocent party when he was knocked into a spin on the opening lap at Turn 3. Keisuke Kunimoto, and Daniil Move also retired in the incident, while race one podium finisher Anton Nebylitskiy and European Formula 3 Open champion Bruno Mendez required attention in the pits.

Pos Driver                 Team               Time/Gap
 1. Esteban Guerrieri      ISR               45m59.31s
 2. Nathanael Berthon      Draco                +1.177
 3. Filip Salaquarda       ISR                  +5.681
 4. Walter Grubmuller      P1                   +6.489
 5. Daniel Ricciardo       Tech 1               +7.206
 6. Brendon Hartley        Tech 1              +12.830
 7. Jon Lancaster          Fortec              +13.881
 8. Nelson Panciatici      Junior Lotus        +29.352
 9. Mikhail Aleshin        Carlin              +29.641
10. Albert Costa           Epsilon             +30.354
11. Jan Charouz            P1                  +30.555
12. Stefano Coletti        Comtec              +30.925
13. Julien Leal            Draco               +31.539
14. Greg Mansell           Comtec              +32.293
15. Daniel Zampieri        Pons                +33.608
16. Jake Rosenzweig        Carlin              +35.822
17. Sergio Canamasas       Interwetten         +37.377
18. Federico Leo           Pons                +37.853
19. Bruno Mendez           Interwetten         +46.687
20. Victor Garcia          KMP                 +54.733

Not classified

    Anton Nebylitskiy      KMP                   1 lap
    Daniil Move            Junior Lotus         0 laps
    Sten Pentus            Fortec               0 laps
    Keisuke Kunimoto       Epsilon              0 laps