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Filippi dominates Auto GP finale

Luca Filippi took a comfortable victory in the final round of Auto GP's maiden season at Monza

The Italian immediately assumed the lead from the outside of the front row, and then had a straightforward run to the flag in front.

It was Filippi's first victory since the season-opener, and a first Auto GP triumph for his Super Nova team - Filippi having started the year running under the Euronova banner.

Jan Charouz took second for Charouz-Gravity, five seconds behind Filippi, and a safe distance ahead of champion Romain Grosjean.

Having clinched the crown yesterday, the DAMS driver had hoped he would be able to come through from eighth on the partially-reversed grid to add another win, but he lost too much time in a long battle with Trident's Julian Leal. The Colombian had made a slow start from pole but was not keen to relinquish a podium place - though he eventually had to concede to Grosjean.

Adrien Tambay, another member of the Charouz-Gravity fleet, fended off DAMS' Edoardo Piscopo for sixth, while Duncan Tappy lost his chance of another podium for DAMS when given a drive-through penalty for cutting a chicane.

Pos  Driver             Team                Time/Gap
 1.  Luca Filippi       Super Nova        21m13.694s
 2.  Jan Charouz        Charouz-Gravity     + 5.001s
 3.  Romain Grosjean    DAMS                + 7.773s
 4.  Julian Leal        Trident             + 8.644s
 5.  Adrien Tambay      Charouz-Gravity    + 16.128s
 6.  Edoardo Piscopo    DAMS               + 16.613s
 7.  Federico Leo       Trident            + 19.758s
 8.  Davide Valsecchi   RP                 + 20.506s
 9.  Fabio Onidi        Lazarus            + 22.412s
10.  Natacha Gachnang   Charouz-Gravity    + 27.659s
11.  Duncan Tappy       DAMS               + 30.711s
12.  Stefano Bizzarri   RP                 + 35.358s
13.  Giuseppe Cipriani  Durango            + 43.107s
14.  Jonny Reid         Super Nova       + 1m06.061s
15.  Alexander Sims     Charouz-Gravity      + 1 lap

Retirements:

     Giorgio Pantano    Ombra            0 laps
     Carlos Iaconelli   Durango          0 laps

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