Convincing win for van der Garde

The win went some way to consoling the Dutchman, who was unable to capitalise on his superiority in race one yesterday after sustaining a high speed accident with Julien Jousse.

Marco Bonanomi had appeared to be the only driver capable of threatening van der Garde's dominance, but the Super Pole winner was unable to keep van der Garde at bay for long, as the Dutchman took the lead into Les Combes on lap four. Bonanomi settled for second, fending off of Mikhail Aleshin by two seconds at the chequered flag.

Salvador Duran consolidated a good weekend by adding fourth place to the second position secured in race one. KTR's Daniil Move surpassed himself. Having led the race briefly, courtesy of a making a late pitstop, the Russian executed a fine manoeuvre for fifth place on Miguel Molina at Les Combes, on the penultimate lap.

Move's KTR team-mate Guillaume Moreau was denied the fifth place points haul when he was slapped with a drive-through penalty. The Frenchman was mixed up in a tightly contested first corner incident at La Source.

A successful attempt to squeeze down the inside of Julien Jousse had the consequence of leaving the Tech 1 driver unable to avoid contact with Robert Wickens on his outside. For the second consecutive day Wickens' race effectively ended at the first turn, as both he and Jousse were forced into retirement.

Van der Garde had dropped a place behind the fast starting Aleshin away from the line, but overtook the Carlin driver into Les Combes on lap one. After dispensing with Bonanomi, the P1 Motorsport driver pulled clear at half-a-second a lap, before making his compulsory pitstop at the completion of lap seven.

Van der Garde enjoyed a lightning four-second change of tyres, and rejoined in sixth position. The winning margin was stretched to over seven seconds as he resumed his searing rhythm.

"Yesterday was a pity, I think Jousse made a big mistake," said van der Garde. "Today was a new day, though. I had too much wheel-spin at the start, but I was able to start on new tyres leftover from qualifying, and the car couldn't have been better."

Pos Driver                  Team                Gap
 1. Giedo van der Garde     P1            42:25.461
 2. Marco Bonanomi          Comtec           +7.247
 3. Mikhail Aleshin         Carlin           +9.202
 4. Salvador Duran          Interwetten     +10.391
 5. Daniil Move             KTR             +19.530
 6. Miguel Molina           Prema           +20.159
 7. Alex Marsoin            Epsilon         +31.111
 8. Pasquale di Sabatino    Comtec          +32.482
 9. Marcos Martinez         Pons            +33.163
10. Alvaro Barba            Prema           +33.972
11. Bertrand Baguette       Draco           +36.416
12. Charles Pic             Tech 1          +39.834
13. Maximo Cortes           Pons            +40.482
14. Guillaume Moreau        KTR             +43.054
15. Borja Garcia            RC              +45.898
16. James Walker            Fortec          +46.332
17. Mario Romancini         Epsilon         +52.182
18. Aleix Alcaraz           RC              +53.412
19. Claudio Cantelli Jr     Ultimate        +55.120
20. Marco Barba             Draco           +55.624
21. Julian Theobald         Fortec        +1:31.582

Not Classified

    Driver                  Team              Laps
    Pippa Mann              P1              6 laps
    Pablo Sanchez           Interwetten     5 laps
    Robert Wickens          Carlin          2 laps
    Julien Jousse           Tech 1          0 laps
    Fabio Carbone           Ultimate        0 laps

Fastest lap, van der Garde 2:04.951