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Glock takes crucial win at Monza

Timo Glock steered through the chaos at Monza to score a vital GP2 Series victory that extends his lead over rival Lucas di Grassi to 11 points

Glock took full advantage when weekend dominator Giorgio Pantano, who made a brilliant start and was running second by lap two from eighth on the grid, spun at Turn 1 after a clash with poleman Ricardo Risatti.

Pantano tried to avoid the collision by steering over the kerbs on the inside, but spun anyway. He quickly rejoined in seventh.

Risatti continued to lead, chased by Bruno Senna, while Glock took third from Sebastien Buemi on lap three. Buemi lost further places to Luca Filippi and ART teammate Lucas di Grassi, who was driving a storming race from 14th on the grid.

Glock passed Senna for second with a good move at Parabolica, while Filippi also found a way past the Brazilian at Ascari a lap later.

Glock then towed past Risatti for the lead on the start/finish straight starting lap eight, and Risatti quickly fell behind Filippi and Senna too.

Di Grassi passed Risatti for fourth at Parabolica, only for Risatti to outbrake himself at Turn 1 and hit the back of the Brazilian, breaking his own front wing.

Pantano, meanwhile, had recovered to fifth when he went straight on at Turn 1, dropping behind Buemi again. A couple of laps later, Pantano appeared to misjudge his braking for the second chicane and clattered into the back of Buemi, spinning him around.

However, the Italian claimed that Buemi had braked early, and too hard, causing the collision.

Pantano continued, despite the fact his front wing was hanging off. He received the black and orange flag, but carried on, with only Andreas Zuber getting past him in the remaining five laps, despite his damage.

Glock finished 1.8 seconds clear of Filippi, with Senna third and di Grassi fourth. Zuber and Pantano rounded out the point scorers, but seventh placed Karun Chandhok reckons Pantano will be disqualified for ignoring the black/orange flag.

Adam Carroll got the point for fastest lap, recovering well after breaking his front wing early on, forcing him to pit.

Perhaps the hardest luck story was Javier Villa, who actually led the field into Turn 1 before his clutch exploded and everyone piled past him, denying him another reverse grid success.

Pos  Driver             Team                       Time
 1.  Timo Glock         iSport International       32:32.346
 2.  Luca Filippi       Super Nova International      +1.814
 3.  Bruno Senna        Arden International           +8.470
 4.  Lucas Di Grassi    ART Grand Prix               +12.554
 5.  Andreas Zuber      iSport International         +19.240
 6.  Giorgio Pantano    Campos Grand Prix            +21.473
 7.  Karun Chandhok     Durango                      +21.642
 8.  Andy Soucek        DPR                          +22.853
 9.  Roldan Rodriguez   Minardi Piquet Sports        +25.648
10.  Mike Conway        Super Nova International     +25.739
11.  Kohei Hirate       Trident Racing               +26.309
12.  Markus Niemela     BCN Competicion              +33.507
13.  Vitaly Petrov      Campos Grand Prix            +39.292
14.  Olivier Pla        DPR                          +41.350
15.  Sebastien Buemi    ART Grand Prix               +42.306
16.  Adam Carroll       FMS International          +1:19.863
17.  Ho-Pin Tung        BCN Competicion               +1 lap
18.  Nicolas Lapierre   DAMS                          +1 lap
19.  Kazuki Nakajima    DAMS                          +1 lap
20.  Borja Garcia       Durango                       +1 lap
21.  Jason Tahinci      FMS International             +1 lap

Retirements

     Ricardo Risatti    Trident Racing               10 laps
     Javier Villa       Racing Engineering            9 laps
     Adrian Zaugg       Arden International           2 laps
     Alexandre Negrao   Minardi Piquet Sports         1 laps
     Marcos Martinez    Racing Engineering            0 laps

Fastest lap: Carroll, 1:31.595 on lap 18

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