Glock scores second season win

The German lost his pole position advantage at the start when he was out-dragged off the grid by fellow front-row starter Lucas di Grassi (ART). Glock tracked di Grassi for the opening nine laps until the Brazilian pitted.

Glock then drove a stunning couple of laps which, coupled with a stellar pitstop by his team two laps later, meant he rejoined ahead of di Grassi.

Kazuki Nakajima (DAMS) made an early stop and ran some quick laps to elevate himself to third after the pitstops cycled through.

The only thorn in Glock's side was from the unlikely source of Jason Tahinci (FMS). Glock got stuck behind the Turkish driver, who had yet to make his pitstop, and had to endure a couple of slow laps, which allowed di Grassi and Nakajima to close right up.

Glock lunged past at Turn 1 on lap 14, and after that there were no further worries. He won by 2.2 seconds.

Di Grassi, meanwhile, had to hold off Nakajima in the closing laps, which he did by 0.4 seconds.

Giorgio Pantano finished fourth for Campos Grand Prix, ahead of Kohei Hirate (Trident), whose late-stopping strategy worked out nicely to give him a fifth placed finish from 14th on the grid.

Hirate passed teammate Pastor Maldonado with a good move in the Mercedes Arena. Maldonado finished sixth, ahead of Adrian Zaugg (Arden) and Javier Villa, who will start his Racing Engineering car from pole position tomorrow in the reverse grid race.

Silverstone winner Adam Carroll was punted into a spin by Bruno Senna, who received a drive-through penalty.

Series front-runner Luca Filippi was punted off at the first corner by ART's Sebastien Buemi and retired.

Classified:

Pos  Driver     Team                      Time
 1.  Glock      iSport International      1h01:32.032
 2.  di Grassi  ART Grand Prix            +     2.274
 3.  Nakajima   DAMS                      +     2.723
 4.  Pantano    Campos Grand Prix         +    18.937
 5.  Hirate     Trident Racing            +    19.706
 6.  Maldonado  Trident Racing            +    33.680
 7.  Zaugg      Arden International       +    35.779
 8.  Villa      Racing Engineering        +    36.960
 9.  Lapierre   DAMS                      +    37.478
10.  Rodriguez  Minardi Piquet Sports     +    56.548
11.  Petrov     Campos Grand Prix         +  1:00.889
12.  Negrao     Minardi Piquet Sports     +  1:01.420
13.  Yamamoto   BCN Competicion           +  1:01.925
14.  Viso       Racing Engineering        +  1:02.849
15.  Senna      Arden International       +  1:03.189
16.  Tung       BCN Competicion           +  1:08.460
17.  Tahinci    FMS International         +    1 Lap
18.  Conway     Super Nova International  +    1 Lap
19.  Garcia     Durango                   +    2 Laps 
  
Not Classified:

     Driver     Team                     Laps
     Soucek     DPR                       29
     Chandhok   Durango                   26
     Carroll    FMS International         18
     Zuber      iSport International      5 
     Bakkerud   DPR                       2 
     Filippi    Super Nova International  1 
     Buemi      ART Grand Prix            1 

Fastest lap: Conway, 1:43.006 on lap 29