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Luca Filippi celebrated his 100th GP2 Series start with a win at the Nurburgring

Luca Filippi celebrated his 100th start in the GP2 Series by winning at the Nurburgring on Saturday

The category veteran, who switched to Coloni this weekend after being replaced at Super Nova by Adam Carroll, jumped early race leader Charles Pic during the pitstops and never looked back from there.

The Addax driver hung onto the back of the Italian for a few laps, before Filippi settled down and pulled away to win by more than five seconds.

Pic couldn't relax too much behind him though, as championship leader Romain Grosjean was lurking throughout the final stint in third place.

Grosjean will be relatively happy considering that he extended his championship lead, as his closest challengers Giedo van der Garde and Sam Bird finished behind him.

The DAMS drivers race didn't get off to the smoothest of starts though, as he lost out to Jules Bianchi on the opening lap and had to capitalise on a slow stop for the ART driver to get back into a podium place.

Bianchi then came home a lonely fourth, while Marcus Ericsson pinched fifth from van der Garde on the penultimate lap.

The scrap for the front row of Sunday's reversed-grid race got particularly lively in the closing stages, as Alvaro Parente, Dani Clos and Sam Bird fought over positions seven to nine.

Parente held onto seventh when he cut the chicane on lap 28, and on the following lap Bird was able to snatch eighth from Clos at Turn 1. Clos re-took the race two pole at the same place a lap later, and both were promoted when Parente was given a drive through for not respecting the track limits.

From there the fight settled down, with Bird just having to keep an eye on Fabio Leimer who dropped out of the points during the pitstops for the last couple of laps to hang onto eighth.

Leimer subsequently found himself in trouble with the stewards, as he was placed under investigation for clashes with points contenders Adam Carroll and Luiz Razia as he made his way back through the field, and was ultimately excluded.

Results - 34 laps:

Pos  Driver               Team                    Time/Gap
 1.  Luca Filippi         Coloni              1h01m06.975s
 2.  Charles Pic          Addax                   + 5.558s
 3.  Romain Grosjean      DAMS                    + 6.877s
 4.  Jules Bianchi        ART                    + 33.491s
 5.  Marcus Ericsson      iSport                 + 37.716s
 6.  Giedo van der Garde  Addax                  + 41.146s
 7.  Dani Clos            Racing Engineering     + 45.977s
 8.  Sam Bird             iSport                 + 46.461s
 9.  Fabio Leimer         Rapax                  + 47.075s
10.  Rodolfo Gonzalez     Trident                + 48.452s
11.  Johnny Cecotto       Ocean                + 1m12.166s
12.  Michael Herck        Coloni               + 1m12.581s
13.  Esteban Gutierrez    ART                  + 1m13.285s
14.  Davide Valsecchi     AirAsia              + 1m13.447s
15.  Julian Leal          Rapax                + 1m20.824s
16.  Adam Carroll         Super Nova           + 1m23.404s
17.  Fairuz Fauzy         Super Nova           + 1m25.492s
18.  Max Chilton          Carlin               + 1m26.566s
19.  Josef Kral           Arden                + 1m31.615s
20.  Jolyon Palmer        Arden                    + 1 lap
21.  Alvaro Parente       Carlin                  + 2 laps

Retirements:

     Luiz Razia           AirAsia                  29 laps
     Stefano Coletti      Trident                  28 laps
     Christian Vietoris   Racing Engineering         1 lap
     Pal Varhaug          DAMS                      0 laps
     Kevin Mirocha        Ocean                     0 laps

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