Ricciardo takes crushing Brands win

The Red Bull-backed Australian converted his fifth pole position of the season into win number six with consummate ease. The Carlin driver crushed the opposition with blistering speed, driving away from his rivals by up to a second per lap at times.

He sliced more than six tenths of a second from 2008 champion Jaime Alguersuari's Grand Prix circuit lap record and took victory by 15.531s from Carlin team-mate Max Chilton - the largest winning margin of the season.

The start of the race was delayed when Chilton's front brakes caught fire on the grid, but once the officials had decided there was no need to employ the fire truck and the smoke died down, the pack were able to complete another green flag lap before getting underway without incident.

Chilton spent most of his race with mirrors full of Fortec's Riki Christodoulou, who completed the podium with his strongest drive since scoring a maiden win at Snetterton in July.

This pair were chased home by invitation entry Marcus Ericsson (Double R), who stayed glued to Christodoulou's gearbox in the first half of the race before his pace fell away slightly in the latter stages and he settled for a safe fourth.

The trio enjoyed half a second per lap advantage over the rest of the field, headed by Hitech Racing's Walter Grubmuller. The Austrian made an excellent start from row four to jump Double R team-mates Carlos Huertas and Daisuke Nakajima, before settling down to a lonely run to fifth.

Huertas went on to complete the top six, while Nakajima retired to the pits with a slipping clutch. Carlin's Henry Arundel shadowed Huertas for the entire 22 laps, but could not find a way past the Colombian and settled for seventh.

Adriano Buzaid benefited from Carlin's Philip Major binning his Dallara in the Paddock Hill gravel and T-Sport team-mate Wayne Boyd pitting for a new front wing to take a comfortable eighth, while Fortec's fast-starting National Class champion Daniel McKenzie rose from 17th on the grid to take class honours in ninth overall.

Pos  Driver              Team       Car     Time/Gap
 1.  Daniel Ricciardo    Carlin     D/V   28m47.041s
 2.  Max Chilton         Carlin     D/V    + 15.531s
 3.  Riki Christodoulou  Fortec     D/M    + 16.135s
 4.  Marcus Ericsson     Double R   D/M    + 17.890s
 5.  Walter Grubmuller   Hitech     D/M    + 28.861s
 6.  Carlos Huertas      Double R   D/M    + 30.246s
 7.  Henry Arundel       Carlin     D/V    + 30.542s
 8.  Adriano Buzaid      T-Sport    D/V    + 36.912s
 9.  Daniel McKenzie     Fortec     D/H    + 55.307s
10.  Hywel Lloyd         CF         D/H    + 57.945s
11.  Gabriel Dias        T-Sport    D/H    + 58.588s
12.  Victor Garcia       Fortec     D/M  + 1m01.708s
13.  Jay Bridger         Litespeed  M/H  + 1m05.608s
14.  Joe Ghanem          Carlin     D/H      + 1 lap
15.  Wayne Boyd          T-Sport    D/V      + 1 lap
16.  Qinghua Ma          West-Tec   D/H     + 2 laps

Retirements:

     Victor Correa       Litespeed  S/H  14 laps
     Philip Major        Carlin     D/V  3 laps
     Maxim Snegirev      West-Tec   D/H  1 lap
     Daisuke Nakajima    Double R   D/M  0 laps