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Di Grassi completes Campos double

Lucas di Grassi made it a double success for the Campos team at Valencia on Sunday, matching his teammate Vitaly Petrov's success from yesterday with victory in the Sunday morning sprint race

Di Grassi inherited the win when longtime leader Luca Filippi punted off Romain Grosjean at Turn 2, who had just passed him for the lead at the final corner on the lap before.

Grosjean was forced out after being shoved into the tyrewall, and was livid with the Italian's driving.

Filippi had led for the first nine laps, but despite his collision with Grosjean, clung on to second to the finish under pressure from third-placed Jerome d'Ambrosio. But it was in vain because the stewards slapped him with a 25-second penalty, which dropped him to 13th place.

Di Grassi, meanwhile, nipped ahead while Filippi was hitting Grosjean, and took the lead that he would hold to the end, despite a brief safety car period.

It was a hugely significant race for the title battle, as Bruno Senna looked set to eat into Giorgio Pantano's series lead. But after getting up to fourth from ninth on the grid, Senna shunted his iSport car into the wall.

It was a race he could have finished second in, and he rued afterwards: "I've let the team down."

The main beneficiaries were d'Ambrosio and Pantano, who finished third and fourth, with Diego Nunes scoring his first points of the year in fifth, ahead of Javier Villa.

Yesterday's winner Petrov had a ragged race, straightlining a chicane on the opening lap and ultimately getting punted into a spin by Karun Chandhok.

Pantano gained another three points over Senna today, taking his points tally to 70 to Senna's 58.

Pos  Driver         Team                    Time
 1.  Di Grassi      Barwa Campos Team      43:01.131
 2.  D'Ambrosio     Dams                    + 6.456
 3.  Pantano        Racing Engineering      + 7.545
 4.  Nunes          DPR                     + 12.039
 5.  Villa          Racing Engineering      + 12.674
 6.  Kobayashi      Dams                    + 13.201
 7.  Valsecchi      Durango                 + 15.394
 8.  Conway         Trident Racing          + 17.496
 9.  Tung           Trident Racing          + 20.072
10.  Rodriguez      FMS International       + 22.960
11.  Iaconelli      BCN Competicion         + 24.716
12.  Valerio        Durango                 + 25.933
13.  Filippi        Trust Team Arden        + 29.213
14.  Herck          DPR                     + 1 Lap
15.  Petrov         Barwa Campos Team       + 1 lap

Retirements:

    Driver         Team                      Laps
    Chandhok       iSport International      18
    Asmer          FMS International         12
    Grosjean       ART Grand Prix            11
    Soucek         Super Nova Racing         7
    Senna          iSport International      7
    Yamamoto       ART Grand Prix            4
    Valles         BCN Competicion           3
    Buemi          Trust Team Arden          3
    Maldonado      Piquet Sports             2
    Parente        Super Nova Racing         0
    Zuber          Piquet Sports             0

Fastest lap: Di Grassi, 1:47.712 on lap 18

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