Race 2: Priaulx wins at last

The Guernseyman held off Takuma Sato for the entire race as the two men sped away from the pack in a league of their own, to notch up the first win for Alan Docking Racing since the team ran Mark Webber in 1997.

Priaulx got the jump on poleman and ADR team-mate Paul Edwards at the start, the American suffering from being on the wetter side of the track and spinning his wheels in a puddle.

Sato went around the outside of Edwards at the first corner and from then on kept the pressure on Priaulx. But, with the Japanese having endured such a miserable start to the season, he was unwilling to try anything more than a couple of tentative attempts at the lead.

"It wasn't necessary for me to take a big risk," explained Sato. "Of course, I'm always desperate to win, but I really needed a result. I'm satisfied, even if I'm not really happy."

Priaulx beamed: "I've broken the duck! It's only a year since I won a race [in Renault Spiders] but it feels like a century. I had a good start and just controlled it from there. I thought Sato would push me, but I knew I had a little bit more and where I needed to defend. I didn't need to win it by 15 seconds."

Edwards had a steady run to third, keeping at arm's length an interesting race for fourth. Derek Hayes held the position all race long, but he had to fend off Nicolas Kiesa, who in turn was fighting James Courtney.

Courtney tried a last-ditch effort on the run to the line, but Kiesa made sure there was no way through and clung onto fifth place as they took the flag.

Ryan Dalziel made good progress from a lowly grid position to make his way through to seventh in the early laps, netting his second respectable points haul of the day. Next up was pre-race points leader Matt Davies, who had an excellent first lap from 14th on the grid, then consolidated his position from then on. Unfortunately for the Essex man, it wasn't enough to prevent the consistent Hayes from drawing level at the top of the points table.

A great battle for ninth went to Andre Lotterer after a race-long scrap with Gianmaria Bruni, Alex Gurney and Milos Pavlovic.

Robbie Kerr trounced his rivals in the Scholarship Class to win by nearly 20 seconds, with points leader Matt Gilmore forced to settle for third behind Adam Blair.



1 Andy Priaulx (Alan Docking Racing Dallara-Mugen) 17 laps in 20m35.129s
2 Takuma Sato (Carlin Motorsport Dallara-Mugen) +0.538s
3 Paul Edwards (Alan Docking Racing Dallara-Mugen) +14.213s
4 Derek Hayes (Manor Motorsport Dallara-Mugen) +15.427s
5 Nicolas Kiesa (RC Motorsport Dallara-Opel) +17.373s
6 James Courtney (Jaguar Racing Dallara-Mugen) +17.406s
7 Ryan Dalziel (RC Motorsport Dallara-Opel) +22.563s
8 Matt Davies (Team Avanti Dallara-Opel) +27.030s
9 Andre Lotterer (Jaguar Racing Dallara-Mugen) +27.522s
10 Gianmaria Bruni (Fortec Renault Dallara-Renault) +29.619s
Scholarship Class Robbie Kerr (Fred Goddard Racing Dallara-Renault)
Fastest lap Sato 1m11.232s

Championship standings
1= Davies & Hayes 49pts
3 Priaulx 43pts
4 Bruni 37pts
5 Courtney 36pts
6 Sato 26pts