Race 2: Kaffer wins, but only just

Kaffer, who started from pole, had an easy route to the first corner as fellow front row man Winkelhock seemed more concerned with putting championship leader Frank Diefenbacher on the grass on the run to the first corner than he did to grab the lead. Despite that, Winkelhock ended the lap just 0.2secs behind Kaffer, but he then allowed the gap to drift out to half a second by lap five.

In true Winkelhock family style, he wasn't about to let Kaffer score an easy win, however, and Markus hammered in some fast laps to close right up by lap 20. He was almost close enough to capitalise when Kaffer ran wide at the hairpin on lap 24, but Pierre just managed to keep him covered.

On the final lap, a huge attack going into the Castrol chicane proved to be the closest Winkelhock got to Kaffer, who held on to win by 0.1secs.

Diefenbacher was a distant third, ahead of the equally lonely Joao Paulo de Oliveira. Hannes Lachinger kept ahead of Kari Maenpaa throughout to take fifth.

It was all-action further down the order, however, with the chief victim of some hard racing tactics being Toshihiro Kaneishi. The Japanese driver came into the race in second place in the championship, but Tony Schmidt punted him into retirement over a battle for ninth.

Also creating entertainment was Saturday race winner Bjorn Wirdheim, who stormed from 24th to 11th, and Gary Paffett, who rose four places from his lowly starting position to finish 15th.

Diefenbacher now leads the series by nine points from Kaffer, while Kaneishi has dropped to third, 14 points in arrears.

Pierre Kaffer, Team Kolles Dallara-Mugen, 27 laps
Markus Winkelhock, Mucke Motorsport Dallara-Opel, +0.1s
Frank Diefenbacher, Bertram Schafer Racing Dallara-Opel, +3.1s
Joao Paulo de Oliviera, Swiss Tony Racing Team Dallara-Opel, +3.8s
Hannes Lachinger, GM Motorsport Dallara-Toyota, +13.3s
Kari Maenpaa, Swiss Tony Racing Team Dallara-Opel, +14.4s