Guerrieri wins Hockenheim race two

From pole position, ISR's Argentinean lost the lead to fellow front row starter Daniel Zampieri into the first corner, but recovered the position three corners later after gaining a slipstream through Parabolika and passing the Ferrari Academy driver on the exit of the hairpin.

Once ahead, Guerrieri recorded a sequence of fastest laps to build a lead of approaching seven seconds. Zampieri (Pons) fended off a determined drive from Comtec's Stefano Coletti to hang on to second place - equalling his highest finish of the season.

"The car was a pleasure to drive today," said Guerrieri. "I had to push in the early laps as [Zampieri and Coletti] were very close. I also have to thank the guys for a good pitstop.

"In the last three laps I began to lose my brakes. It was only a problem at Turn 2, Mercedes and at the hairpin, but I had enough of a gap to back off and play safe."

Coletti had harried Zampieri until the pitstop phase, the pair running wheel to wheel into the hairpin on lap 12. With an apparent speed advantage, the Monegasque elected to stay out three laps longer than Zampieri and make his stop on lap 16. However, a small error would prove costly.

"I made a mistake just before my pitstop," said Coletti. "I ran wide at a corner and lost around two seconds. Without that I am sure I could have finished second."

Draco's Nathanael Berthon took fourth place, although the Frenchman was suspected by Epsilon Euskadi of punting its driver Albert Costa into a spin on the opening lap. Costa's afternoon unravelled further after he picked up a puncture following contact with Nelson Panciatici.

Mikhail Aleshin extended his championship lead to eight points courtesy of a solid fifth place finish for Carlin. The Russian benefited from a torrid race for closest rival Daniel Ricciardo of Tech 1 Racing.

The race one victor would not score after serving a drive-through penalty for breaking the 60km/h pitlane speed limit, his second offence of the day.

"This morning I already thought there was a problem because I was clocked doing 10km/h over [the limit]," said Ricciardo. "Usually I am too careful. We can't download the data at the moment, but they're now saying I was doing 73km/h when it was reading 56km/h [in the car]. I engaged the limiter as normal, and well before the line. We changed the engine overnight so maybe there is a problem with the transponder."

Ricciardo's Tech 1 team-mate, British Formula 3 champion Jean-Eric Vergne completed the top six. The Frenchman demonstrated strong pace to rise from 14th on the grid, and also gained ground as a number of rivals became caught up in incidents.

Greg Mansell's highest Formula Renault 3.5 qualifying result of the season, fourth, ended infuriatingly after contact with Jon Lancaster at Turn 2 on the opening lap.

Pos  Driver             Team                Time/Gap
 1.  Esteban Guerrieri  ISR               46m47.925s
 2.  Daniel Zampieri    Pons                + 3.622s
 3.  Stefano Coletti    Comtec              + 5.891s
 4.  Nathanael Berthon  Draco              + 11.112s
 5.  Mikhail Aleshin    Carlin             + 13.905s
 6.  Jean-Eric Vergne   Tech 1             + 14.436s
 7.  Sten Pentus        Fortec             + 24.987s
 8.  Filip Salaquarda   ISR                + 25.741s
 9.  Jon Lancaster      Fortec             + 29.127s
10.  Julian Leal        Draco              + 29.772s
11.  Federico Leo       Pons               + 35.950s
12.  Daniel Ricciardo   Tech 1             + 36.723s
13.  Nelson Panciatici  Junior Lotus       + 46.583s
14.  Keisuke Kunimoto   Epsilon Euskadi  + 1m02.956s
15.  Bruno Mendez       FHV Interwetten  + 1m03.222s
16.  Jan Charouz        P1               + 1m26.765s
17.  Daniil Move        Junior Lotus     + 1m28.321s
18.  Albert Costa       Epsilon-Euskadi      + 1 lap
19.  Victor Garcia      KMP                 + 2 laps

Retirements:

     Anton Nebylitskiy  KMP              12 laps
     Sergio Canamasas   FHV Interwetten  12 laps
     Walter Grubmuller  P1               8 laps
     Greg Mansell       Comtec           1 lap
     Jake Rosenzweig    Carlin           0 laps