Glock takes first GP2 win

Glock took over at the front when he passed Lucas di Grassi, but the Brazilan had yet to pit. The real battle for the lead had been decided when pole sitter - and early race leader - Jose Maria Lopez had a slow pit stop.

This dropped the Super Nova driver back to fifth, but a charging drive took him past Giorgio Pantano (who also had a slow stop) and Nelson Piquet Jr (whose team had done a brilliant pit job) and into the final podium position.

Premat made a great start to run fourth in the early stages, and he pitted at the same time as the delayed Lopez and Pantano. As Glock closed on the late-stopping di Grassi, he reduced the lead to just over a second, but that was as close as he came, and Glock eventually rode out a comfortable winner.

Piquet held onto fourth, while team-mate Xandi Negrao had his best GP2 weekend to date, passing Pantano late on for fifth.

Di Grassi dropped back to seventh after his stop and that's where he finished, while eighth and race two pole, went to Ferdinando Monfardini, after he deposed Hiro Yoshimoto with a handful of laps to go.

Championship leader Lewis Hamilton had a miserable race. He tagged the rear of Adam Carroll at the hairpin on the first lap and had to pit for a new nose, He then set fastest lap before his pace dropped off dramatically. The final insult came on the last lap when he was lapped by Glock.

Pos  Driver       Team                 Time
 1.  Glock        iSport
 2.  Premat       ART            +    5.988
 3.  Lopez        Super Nova     +   17.100
 4.  Piquet       Piquet Sports  +   24.226
 5.  Negrão       Piquet Sports  +   27.944
 6.  Pantano      FMS            +   31.586
 7.  Di Grassi    Durango        +   34.277
 8.  Monfardini   DAMS           +   46.130
 9.  Yoshimoto    BCN Comp.      +   53.671
10.  Viso         iSport         +   54.151
11.  Jani         Arden          +   57.918
12.  Ammermuller  Arden          + 1:02.158
13.  Piccione     DPR            + 1:02.619
14.  Hernandez    Durango        + 1:03.288
15.  Valles       Campos Racing  + 1:05.753
16.  Pla          DPR            + 1:15.321
17.  Villa        Racing Eng.    + 1:21.238
18.  Porteiro     Campos Racing  + 1:22.011
19.  Hamilton     ART            +    1 lap
20.  Carroll      Racing Eng.    +    1 lap

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     Driver       Team                 Laps
     Perera       DAMS                   34
     Tahinci      FMS                    16
     Fauzy        Super Nova             4
     Bruni        Trident                1
     Zuber        Trident                1
     Filippi      BCN Comp.              0