Sims charges to race two victory

The British driver worked his way through the field in the early laps, and took the lead from Roberto Merhi on lap seven before stretching away to take a comfortable win.

Behind ART driver Sims, race one winner Edoardo Mortara snatched second place with a stunning three-wide pass around the outside of Merhi and Marco Wittmann at Signes on the final lap.

Wittmann had spent the second half of the race chasing down Merhi (Mucke), and just as he finally made the pass on the final lap, Mortara was able to slipstream them both to demote his German team-mate back down to third.

Merhi had to settle for fourth behind the two Signature drivers, while Laurens Vanthoor came from the back of the grid to take fifth in the third Signature car.

ART's Valtteri Bottas completed the points scorers in sixth, after a poor start left the Finn scrapping for minor places while the other title favourites worked their way to the front early on.

Pos  Driver                  Team       Car    Time/Gap
 1.  Alexander Sims          ART        D/M  26m56.953s
 2.  Edoardo Mortara         Signature  D/V    + 7.477s
 3.  Marco Wittmann          Signature  D/V    + 8.557s
 4.  Roberto Merhi           Mucke      D/M    + 9.519s
 5.  Laurens Vanthoor        Signature  D/V   + 10.338s
 6.  Valtteri Bottas         ART        D/M   + 11.615s
 7.  Daniel Juncadella       Prema      D/M   + 14.501s
 8.  Antonio Felix da Costa  Motopark   D/V   + 16.665s
 9.  Adrian Quaife-Hobbs     Motopark   D/V   + 17.328s
10.  Nicolas Marroc          Prema      D/M   + 18.581s
11.  Jim Pla                 ART        D/M   + 19.457s
12.  Carlos Munoz            Mucke      D/M   + 22.123s
13.  Matias Laine            Motopark   D/V   + 31.250s