Porteiro Wins Valencia Race 1

The local driver led home his Epsilon teammate and championship leader Robert Kubica by 1.147 seconds to take his first win of the season.

Pole sitter Porteiro was only threatened at the start when he had to move across the front of fellow front-row starter Kubica to lead into the first turn. Afterwards the Spaniard was able to pull away from the field to victory.

Carlin Motorsport's Will Power secured his first podium victory of the season passing American Colin Fleming on the first lap. Fleming had taken the position but the pair collided. Fleming ran wide onto the gravel and Power took the position.

Spaniard Adrian Valles kept the home crowd happy with fourth place, ahead of Frenchmen Simon Pagenaud and Patrick Pilet.

CLASSIFIEID

Pos  Driver               Team         Time
 1.  Felix Porteiro       Epsilon      26:46.474
 2.  Robert Kubica        Epsilon      +   1.147
 3.  Will Power           Carlin       +   1.974
 4.  Adrian Valles        Pons         +   2.603
 5.  Simon Pagenaud       Saulnier     +   3.544
 6.  Patrick Pilet        Jenzer       +   9.236
 7.  Tristan Gommendy     KTR          +   9.964
 8.  Alx Danielsson       Dams         +  11.973
 9.  Colin Fleming        Jenzer       +  13.542
10.  Enrico Toccacelo     Victory      +  14.186
11.  Markus Winkelhock    Draco        +  14.925
12.  Christian Montanari  Draco        +  15.388
13.  Daniel La Rosa       Interwetten  +  17.636
14.  Jaap Van Lagen       KTR          +  19.547
15.  Milos Pavlovic       GD           +  21.380
16.  Karun Chandhok       RC           +  21.883
17.  Ryo Fukuda           Saulnier     +  25.460
18.  Celso Miguez         Pons         +  35.993
19.  Frederik Vervisch    GD           +  36.332
20.  Damien Pasini        Cram         +  48.704
21.  Giovanni Tedeschi    RC           +  49.907
22.  Ivan Bellarosa       Avelon       +  57.958
23.  Eric Salignon        Cram         +  2 Laps

NOT CLASSIFIED/RETIREMENTS:

Driver              Team               On Lap
Giorgio Mondini     Eurointernational   13
Tomas Kostka        Victory             13
Raffaele Giammaria  Dams                 6
Andreas Zuber       Carlin               4
Mehdi Bennani       Avelon               0