Vietoris takes a lights-to-flag win at Monza

Racing Engineering's Vietoris jumped into the lead from third on the grid at the start, as he and Rapax driver Fabio Leimer got ahead of polesitter Jules Bianchi (ART).

From there, the top two pulled away in the early laps. They fell back into the clutches of Bianchi and Sam Bird (iSport) when Vietoris had to defend for a couple of laps, but as he opened out a small margin over Leimer they were both able to get away from the chasing pack again.

Bianchi could do nothing about the leaders and instead had to turn his attentions to keeping Bird and Filippi at bay. Bird dropped back during the last couple of laps, while Coloni driver Filippi recovered from going straight on at the first chicane to set fastest lap and earn an extra point.

That put him clear of Bianchi in the standings, but the Italian was on course for second even if they tied on points because he has more race wins.

Of the other contenders for second, Addax driver Charles Pic's race lasted only two corners as he collided with Filippi at the start and ran over the back of Romain Grosjean's DAMS car.

Filippi escaped relatively unscathed, while Grosjean rejoined two laps down with a new rear wing to complete his final GP2 race.

Giedo van der Garde climbed from 21st to 14th in the other Addax car, completing a miserable end to the season which cost him the runner-up spot to Grosjean.

Results - 21 laps:

Pos  Driver               Team                   Time/Gap
 1.  Christian Vietoris   Racing Engineering   32m51.770s
 2.  Fabio Leimer         Rapax                  + 0.730s
 3.  Jules Bianchi        ART                    + 2.851s
 4.  Sam Bird             iSport                 + 3.556s
 5.  Luca Filippi         Coloni                 + 4.010s
 6.  Esteban Gutierrez    ART                   + 10.957s
 7.  Dani Clos            Racing Engineering    + 11.584s
 8.  Marcus Ericsson      iSport                + 16.079s
 9.  Luiz Razia           AirAsia               + 17.619s
10.  Pal Varhaug          DAMS                  + 19.814s
11.  Adam Carroll         Super Nova            + 22.136s
12.  Alvaro Parente       Carlin                + 22.617s
13.  Giedo van der Garde  Addax                 + 22.966s
14.  Stephane Richelmi    Trident               + 24.538s
15.  Johnny Cecotto       Ocean                 + 35.241s
16.  Rodolfo Gonzalez     Trident               + 35.408s
17.  Josef Kral           Arden                 + 35.681s
18.  Max Chilton          Carlin                + 36.244s
19.  Jolyon Palmer        Arden                 + 37.728s
20.  Brendon Hartley      Ocean               + 1m23.392s
21.  Romain Grosjean      DAMS                   + 2 laps

Retirements:

     Davide Valsecchi     AirAsia                 12 laps
     Charles Pic          Addax                    0 laps
     Julian Leal          Rapax                    0 laps
     Fairuz Fauzy         Super Nova               0 laps