Martinez takes third win in a row

The Pons driver made a perfect start and grabbed the lead through a brave manoeuvre around the outside of pole-sitter Marco Barba at La Source.

While Barba fell down the order to an eventual seventh place, his Draco team-mate Bertrand Baguette exploited his local knowledge to the full and charged up from eighth. Baguette had progressed up to second in just nine laps but, despite applying pressure to Martinez, he had to settle for second, 3.8 seconds adrift, as his tyres withered.

"Our objective before the race was to finish on the podium," said Martinez, "But I did a very good start and the car was strong. The race was very hard throughout, as when I saw Baguette was behind I had to dig and push a little bit more. I was right on the limit over the last part of the race."

Miguel Molina finally won out in an intense scrap with Russian Daniil Move to complete the podium. Move had earned a warning flag through over-defensive driving on the run up to the Les Combes chicane, and was eventually passed by Molina after running wide onto the grass in the same place on lap 19.

With dirt on his tyres, Move was unable to prevent Molina from out-braking him around the outside of the following, downhill, Rivage corner.

Move was demoted to fifth on the last corner of the last lap when Charles Pic dived boldly down the inside of the P1 Motorsport car at the Bus Stop chicane. However, the result still equals the Russian's best World Series finish, also at Spa, in 2008.

Oliver Turvey recovered from a difficult qualifying for Carlin Motorsport to finish sixth, just 0.4s behind Move.

Pos Driver                   Team                      Gap
 1. Marcos Martinez          Pons               46m36.943s
 2. Bertrand Baguette        Draco                 +3.816s
 3. Miguel Molina            Ultimate             +11.052s
 4. Charles Pic              Tech 1               +14.668s
 5. Daniil Move              P1                   +14.887s
 6. Oliver Turvey            Carlin               +15.262s
 7. Marco Barba              Draco                +19.257s
 8. Pasquale di Sabatino     RC                   +19.775s
 9. Chris van der Drift      Epsilon              +20.051s
10. Jaime Alguersuari        Carlin               +30.837s
11. Brendon Hartley          Tech 1               +36.491s
12. Adrian Zaugg             Interwetten          +37.383s
13. Greg Mansell             Ultimate             +38.213s
14. Tobias Hegewald          Interwetten          +38.466s
15. Fairuz Fauzy             Fortec               +52.416s
16. Frankie Provenzano       Prema              +1m04.325s
17. Federico Leo             Pons               +1m09.708s
18. Sten Pentus              Fortec             +1m17.802s
19. Julian Leal              Prema              +1m20.170s
20. Anton Nebylitskiy        Comtec             +1m43.028s

Retirements

    James Walker             P1                    14 laps
    Alexandre Marsoin        Comtec                 0 laps

    Adrian Valles            Epsilon                   DNS


Fastest lap, Baguette 2m06.518s on lap 2