Mortara takes first win in race two

The Signature-Plus driver comfortably beat Sebastien Buemi into Paddock and never looked like losing the lead.

A brief safety car period to remove race one winner Romain Grosjean from the Paddock Hill gravel trap failed to upset Mortara's rhythm and he went on to take victory in only his fourth F3 race.

Buemi shadowed Mortara throughout but also had the attentions of Kamui Kobayashi to contend with. The Japanese driver had made an absolutely lightning start to jump from sixth to third off the line and he was able to stay with the leading pair. Once again, however, the confines of the Brands Indy circuit prevented him from trying a pass on Buemi.

Some distance behind the leading trio came a three-car battle between Yelmar Buurman, Tim Sandtler and Nico Hulkenberg. Each looked quicker than the man ahead, but no-one was prepared to try a risky move and they finished in the order that they started.

The only Briton in the field, James Jakes, came home eighth, behind Yann Clairay.

Jakes made a poor start from eighth on the grid but pulled off a superb passing manoeuvre on the run to Druids to oust Harald Schlegelmilch from ninth. He then gained another place when Dani Close went off at Druids with 10 laps to go, but eighth was poor reward for the Briton's pace this weekend.

After Grosjean grabbed the lead of the title following race one, Buemi's second means that he is back atop the standings as the series prepares to head to the Norisring in a fortnight.

Classified:

Pos  Driver            Car               Time
 1.  Edoardo Mortara   Dallara/Mercedes  40:25.471
 2.  Sebastien Buemi   Dallara/Mercedes  +   0.631
 3.  Kamui Kobayashi   Dallara/Mercedes  +   1.616
 4.  Yelmer Buurman    Dallara/Mercedes  +   8.780
 5.  Tim Sandtler      Dallara/Mercedes  +   9.536
 6.  N.Hulkenberg      Dallara/Mercedes  +   9.865
 7.  Yann Clairay      Dallara/Mercedes  +  14.498
 8.  James Jakes       Dallara/Mercedes  +  16.029
 9.  Tom Dillmann      Dallara/Mercedes  +  19.771
10.  Edoardo Piscopo   Dallara/Mercedes  +  23.663
11.  H.Schlegelmilch   Dallara/Mercedes  +  27.300
12.  Jean-Karl Vernay  Dallara/Mercedes  +  28.995
13.  Michael Patrizi   Dallara/Mercedes  +  39.167
14.  Marco Holzer      Dallara/Opel      +  40.145
15.  Cyndie Allemann   Dallara/Mercedes  +  40.481
16.  Sergei Afanasiev  Dallara/Mercedes  +  41.075
17.  Filip Salaquarda  Dallara/Mercedes  +  41.448
18.  Basil Shaaban     Dallara/Mercedes  +   1 lap
19.  R.van der Zande   Dallara/Mercedes  + 10 laps
20.  Daniel Clos       Dallara/Mercedes  + 11 laps

Not classified:

     Driver            Car               Laps
     Franck Mailleux   Dallara/Mercedes  7
     Romain Grosjean   Dallara/Mercedes  0