Aiello wins Feature race at Brands

The Nissan driver made the better start and took the lead into Paddock and was not
troubled for the rest of the race.

Behind the lead two, the next group held station on Lap one with David Leslie, James Thompson, Peter Kox and Vincent Radermecker filling third to sixth.

Further back there was more chaos, Gabriele Tarquini made a bad start in his Honda and was back in the last three, Mark Blair apparently went for a gap at Druids, and tapped Tarquini.

This was unlucky for Yvan Muller, who was trying to go round both of them.

Blair continued but the other two were left stranded in the gravel.

In a separate incident Alain Menu tangled with somebody in his Ford, probably Plato, and spun into the Armco on Coopers Straight and into retirement.

Also in trouble was Matt Neal, who initially thought he had lost his steering, but the presence of fluid spraying on the car's floor indicated he had lost the power steering.

He lost a few places then struggled on.

The two incidents brought out the safety car for five laps while the machinery was collected - and it was only lap one.

The Safety Car departed and the race resumed, but not much happened until the pit stop window except Neal lost another place to Cleland who picked up 10th.

The pit stop window opened, Aiello had a good sub 6s stop, while Volvo could not get the power spanner on Rydell's car, taking over 11s to complete his stop.

This put Aiello back an untroubled first, and Rydell back in fifth.

Meanwhile, David Leslie had James Thompson filling his mirrors lap after lap.

After 25 laps of this Thompson decided it was time to try and get through, looked on the inside a couple of times but settled for his second third place of the day.

'I was hoping to pressure David [Leslie] into a mistake, but was not willing to interfere in the title battle by pushing him off,' said Thompson.