Walker takes maiden win in race two

Guillaume Moreau shrugged off a broken hand to finish second for KTR, having overtaken third placed Marco Bonanomi around the outside of Goddard's corner at the conclusion of lap eight.

Lining up on pole, courtesy of tenth place in Saturday's race one, Walker dropped behind front row man Mikhail Aleshin at the start.

The Fortec driver consolidated his second place, and kept the Russian within his sights, until Aleshin threw victory away by running wide at the Old Hairpin on a restart with eight laps remaining.

The opening lap was predictably action packed. From the green light Miguel Molina barged Davide Valsecchi onto the grass on the pit-straight.

That spectacle was surpassed by Bertrand Baguette performing three 360 degree spins in the middle of the pack at the Old Hairpin.

Championship leader Alvaro Parente had a wild excursion across the gravel on the exit of McLeans, his good work having risen from seventh to fourth being thrown away.

The Portuguese was followed off the road by race one winner Alvaro Barba, but all concerned were able to continue.

The order of the top-six on lap two was Aleshin, Walker, Bonanomi, Moreau, Yelmer Buurman and Michael Ammermuller. Aleshin pushed to create a 1.3-second lead by lap seven, while Bonanomi dropped further behind Walker after dropping a wheel onto the grass at the Esses.

The error allowed Moreau to gain momentum on Bonanomi, before braving it out around the outside at Goddards, three corners later.

Race one's heroes continued to be in the wars, Alvaro Barba's day ending for good after crashing into the tyres on the tricky exit of Starkey's Bridge.

Parente lost further ground by running wide at his bogey corner, Coppice, where he had suffered a similar lapse in race one. Parente had been disputing the corner with Mexican Salvador Duran.

Valsecchi recovered well from his start line drama until incurring a puncture from Pippa Mann's front wing endplate at the Melbourne Hairpin.

Mann was in the thick of the midfield tussles, the lady driver's race ending on lap 17 when Charlie Kimball rammed into her side-pod at the Esses.

With Mann's Cram car stalled in the middle of the road, and Parente having yet another moment on the exit of the Craner Curves, the safety car was brought out until lap 22.

At the restart Aleshin wriggled on the power, as behind him Walker locked up on the entry to Redgate. Heading down into the Old Hairpin the Russian ran off course, possibly caught out on tyres which had cooled, and rejoined the road losing places hand over fist.

Entering Schwantz alongside the ninth placed Baguette, who carried substantially more momentum, Aleshin locked up and tagged the KTR machine.

Baguette's race ended with his right rear wheel cocked up in air, while the resting place of Aleshin's car necessitated the final appearance of the safety car.

Walker held on for the four remaining laps of racing. "It's a dream after qualifying so badly (yesterday), but we bounced back," said Walker. "I've never had to work so hard behind a safety car to keep heat into the brakes and tyres. I so nearly followed Aleshin off the road."

Parente came in under the final safety car for new tyres prior to an attempt on fastest lap, but his nightmare day ended embedded nose first in the tyres at Redgate.

Ben Hanley also failed to score after making contact with Spa winner Milos Pavlovic. The Serb followed Parente's thinking, pitting for fresh tyres and a replacement rear wing prior to setting the fastest lap.

Pos  Driver                 Team                  Time
 1.  James Walker           Fortec Motorsport     46:02.035
 2.  Guillaume Moreau       KTR                      +0.614
 3.  Marco Bonanomi         RC Motorsport            +2.274
 4.  Yelmer Buurman         Fortec Motorsport        +3.030
 5.  Michael Ammermuller    Carlin Motorsport        +3.823
 6.  Filipe Albuquerque     Epsilon Euskadi          +4.332
 7.  Julien Jousse          Tech 1 Racing            +4.704
 8.  Salvador Duran         Interwetten.com          +5.272
 9.  Alejandro Nunez        Team Comtec              +5.800
10.  Fairuz Fauzy           Cram Competition         +6.124
11.  Miguel Molina          Pons Racing              +7.628
12.  Giedo van der Garde    Victory Engineering      +8.557
13.  Charlie Kimball        Victory Engineering      +9.982
14.  Xavier Maassen         Prema Powerteam         +10.684
15.  Pasquale di Sabatino   GD Racing               +11.167
16.  Michael Herck          Team Comtec             +11.695
17.  Dani Move              Interwetten.com         +14.299
18.  Julian Theobald        Eurointernational       +15.374
19.  Alessandro Ciompi      Eurointernational       +17.187
20.  Carlos Iaconelli       Pons Racing              +1 lap
21.  Davide Valsecchi       Epsilon Euskadi          +1 lap

Retirements

     Alvaro Parente        Tech 1 Racing            26 laps
     Milos Pavlovic        Draco Racing             26 laps
     Mikhail Aleshin       Carlin Motorsport        22 laps
     Bertrand Baguette     KTR                      22 laps
     Pippa Mann            Cram Competition         16 laps
     Clivio Piccione       RC Motorsport            15 laps
     Ben Hanley            Prema Powerteam          14 laps
     Alvaro Barba          Draco Racing             10 laps
     Luiz Razia            GD Racing                 3 laps