Glock steals last-lap win
Timo Glock snatched victory in his home GP2 race on the final lap, passing long-term leader Jose Maria Lopez with just a couple of corners remaining
Lopez had led since a three-way tussle for the lead between pole-sitter Clivio Piccione, himself and Giorgio Pantano into the hairpin on the first lap resulted in Piccione ending up in the barriers and the Super Nova car in the lead.
The Argentinean stretched his advantage to as much as three seconds, while from sixth on the grid Glock made an excellent start and battled his way into second.
At first the gap was maintained, but in the closing stages Lopez's advantage ebbed away until, on the final lap, Glock was close enough to capitalise when Lopez got sideways in the chicane and he nipped by for an emotional home win.
Lopez took second to complete a great comeback after his qualifying faux pas. Lewis Hamilton was a distant third, but his drive from seventh on the grid included a series of textbook passing moves into the hairpin.
One of those vanquished was Ernesto Viso, but Glock's iSport teammate repeated the move on Pantano to claim fourth place late in the race.
Pantano just held off a charging drive from race one winner Gimmi Bruni to claim fifth, while the fastest car in the closing stages was the Arden machine of GP2 returnee Nicolas Lapierre, who narrowly missed out on a point as he crossed the line just fractions behind Bruni in seventh.
Adam Carroll ran in the points for a long period, but his pace dropped off in the latter laps and he dropped to eighth by the flag.
CLASSIFIED:
Pos Driver Team Time
1. Glock iSport International 38:36.598
2. Lopez Super Nova International + 1.322
3. Hamilton ART Grand Prix + 12.610
4. Viso iSport International + 14.680
5. Pantano FMS International + 21.351
6. Bruni Trident Racing + 21.914
7. Lapierre Arden International + 22.153
8. Carroll Racing Engineering + 32.166
9. Negrao Piquet Sports + 32.402
10. Fauzy Super Nova International + 35.370
11. Perera DAMS + 40.957
12. Monfardini DAMS + 44.342
13. Villa Racing Engineering + 44.586
14. Zuber Trident Racing + 50.383
15. Petrov DPR + 57.102
16. Filippi BCN Competicion + 67.422
17. Tahinci FMS International + 72.159
18. Porteiro Campos Racing + 72.570
NOT CLASSIFIED:
Driver Team Laps
Hernandez Durango 22
Ammermueller Arden International 20
Valles Campos Racing 20
Di Grassi Durango 14
Yoshimoto BCN Competicion 9
Premat ART Grand Prix 9
Piccione DPR 0
Piquet Jr. Piquet Sports 0
Fastest lap: Di Grassi, 1:24.477 on lap 13
Championship standings, round 8 (race 15):
Drivers Teams
1. Hamilton 82 1. ART Grand Prix 131
2. Piquet Jr. 56 2. iSport International 75
3. Premat 49 3. Piquet Sports 64
4. Glock 40 4. Arden International Ltd 50
5. Viso 34 5. Trident Racing 37
6. Bruni 33 6. Super Nova International 29
7. Lopez 29 7. FMS International 24
8. Ammermueller 25 = Racing Engineering 24
= Lapierre 25 9. BCN Competicion 14
10. Carroll 24 10. DAMS 13
11. Pantano 22 11. DPR 12
12. Piccione 12 = Campos Racing 12
13. Yoshimoto 9 13. Durango 5
14. Perera 8
= Negrao 8
16. Valles 7
17. Gommendy 6
18. Monfardini 5
= Porteiro 5
20. Zuber 4
= Di Grassi 4
22. Filippi 2
23. Hernandez 1
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