Rio Haryanto takes maiden victory in Auto GP race two at Valencia

Starting fourth on the grid, he made a rocket-like start to grab second place behind Carroll (Campos Racing) in the opening two corners. After stalking Carroll for four laps, Haryanto made a decisive pass into Turn 2 on lap five.

Once ahead, he immediately pulled well away from Carroll, who was left to defend from fellow front row starter Samuele Buttarelli (TP Formula), which he managed to do for the rest of the race to claim second. GP3 race winner Haryanto won by almost 10s to take his first victory in the series.

Adrien Tambay (Campos) finished fourth, but was made to work hard for it. Fabrizio Crestani (Lazarus) did not give him a moment's rest from start to finish, but Tambay held on by just over a tenth of a second. In a rare overtaking move, Fabio Onidi (Lazarus) grabbed sixth from Adrian Campos Jr (Campos) with a great lunge at the final corner.

Campos would later go off at Turn 2, allowing GP2 star Luca Filippi to finish seventh for Super Nova. Saturday race winner Sergei Afanasiev (DAMS) was pushed onto the grass at the start, and dropped to 12th. He was running 11th until making a pitstop on lap 14, meaning he finished last.

Results - 17 laps:

Pos  Driver                Team           Time/Gap
 1.  Rio Haryanto          DAMS         24m42.401s
 2.  Adam Carroll          Campos         + 9.479s
 3.  Samuele Buttarelli    TP            + 10.204s
 4.  Adrien Tambay         Campos        + 11.597s
 5.  Fabrizio Crestani     Lazarus       + 11.773s
 6.  Fabio Onidi           Lazarus       + 12.135s
 7.  Luca Filippi          Super Nova    + 14.732s
 8.  Kevin Ceccon          Ombra         + 17.155s
 9.  Giovanni Venturini    Durango       + 18.011s
10.  Pasquale di Sabatino  TP            + 19.728s
11.  Daniel de Jong        MP            + 21.469s
12.  Giuseppe Cipriani     Durango       + 31.581s
13.  Francesco Dracone     Emmebi        + 32.811s
14.  Sergei Afanasiev      DAMS        + 1m01.395s

Retirements:

     Adrian Campos Jr      Campos          15 laps