Vergne takes title with 12th win

The Red Bull junior led the race from start to finish from pole position to claim his 12th victory of the season, and the title.

A brief safety car interruption to retrieve the stranded car of Fortec's Max Snegirev, who crashed on the opening lap, allowed Carlin team-mate Adriano Buzaid to threaten briefly, but Vergne held firm into Copse on the lap-four re-start and then pulled out a handy gap that he managed to the end.

Buzaid continued his strong day by taking second place. He traded tenths with Vergne through the middle part of the race, but the Parisian always looked in command.

Fortec's Oli Webb made up for a miserable weekend by completing the podium, ahead of yesterday's winner James Calado (Carlin), who took a subdued fourth in a processional affair.

Lucas Foresti and Rupert Svendsen-Cook made it five Carlin cars in the top six, well adrift of the leading quartet, while T-Sport's Alex Brundle produced his best drive of the season to take eighth, sandwiched by Hitech pairing Gabriel Dias and William Buller.

Fortec's Daniel McKenzie completed the top 10. Both he and Buller benefited when Mucke's Carlos Munoz spun at Maggotts/Becketts on the lap-four re-start.

T-Sport's Menasheh Idafar dominated the National Class in 14th place overall.


Pos  Driver                Team                 Car     Time/Gap
 1.  Jean-Eric Vergne      Carlin               D/V   41m01.289s
 2.  Adriano Buzaid        Carlin               D/V     + 1.212s
 3.  Oli Webb              Fortec               D/M     + 6.234s
 4.  James Calado          Carlin               D/V     + 7.280s
 5.  Lucas Foresti         Carlin               D/V    + 20.222s
 6.  Rupert Svendsen-Cook  Carlin               D/V    + 24.772s
 7.  Gabriel Dias          Hitech               D/V    + 25.895s
 8.  Alex Brundle          T-Sport              D/V    + 29.188s
 9   William Buller        Hitech               D/V    + 29.981s
10.  Daniel McKenzie       Fortec               D/M    + 30.678s
11.  Daisuke Nakajima      Raikkonen Robertson  D/M    + 32.643s
12.  Felipe Nasr           Raikkonen Robertson  D/M    + 34.385s
13.  Jazeman Jaafar        Carlin               D/V    + 35.048s
14.  Menasheh Idafar       T-Sport              D/H    + 35.832s
15.  Hywel Lloyd           CF/Manor             D/M    + 37.296s
16.  Jay Bridger           Litespeed            D/M    + 46.232s
17.  Carlos Huertas        Raikkonen Robertson  D/M    + 49.601s
18   Adderly Fong          Sino Vision          D/M    + 49.890s
19.  Carlos Munoz          Mucke                D/M    + 52.482s
20.  James Cole            T-Sport              D/H  + 1'06.183s
21.  Juan Carlos Sistos    West-Tec             D/H  + 1'18.599s
22.  Yann Cunha            Manor                D/M  + 1'19.141s
23.  Pietro Fantin         Hitech               D/V  + 1'21.452s

Retirements:

     Maxim Snegirev        Fortec               D/M       0 laps