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Maldonado takes commanding victory

Pastor Maldonado's run of good form continued with an emphatic win in today's GP2 Series feature race at Silverstone

The Rapax driver jumped polesitter Jules Bianchi (ART) at the start and never looked threatened from there on, gradually extending his advantage to win by 10.1 seconds. Bianchi was second ahead of Racing Engineering's Dani Clos, who came home a further 9.4s down the road.

It was a largely processional affair through most the field, with Bianchi's ART team-mate Sam Bird having an equally straightforward run to fourth, although Sergio Perez and Christian Vietoris did their best to inject some interest with their scrap for fifth over the second half of the race. Addax driver Perez finally found a way past the German Racing Engineering man with two laps to go, although sixth was still a good reward for Vietoris after starting from 12th on the grid.

iSport's Davide Valsecchi and Oliver Turvey were able to mop up the remaining points when Addax's Giedo van der Garde made a mistake on the final lap while running fifth, allowing Valescchi to pass him immediately and Turvey to follow a couple of corners later. The latter will start his home race from pole tomorrow.

Only two cars failed to make the finish, with Rapax's Luiz Razia pulling off the track mid-way through the race, and DAMS' Ho-Pin Tung retiring after several visits to the pits. Tung had started the race in a brand-new, unliveried chassis that was rushed through scrutineering this morning after destroying his race car in a trip over the kerbs during Friday practice.

Pos  Driver               Team                   Time/Gap
 1.  Pastor Maldonado     Rapax                50m21.479s
 2.  Jules Bianchi        ART                   + 10.125s
 3.  Dani Clos            Racing Engineering    + 19.549s
 4.  Sam Bird             ART                   + 20.979s
 5.  Sergio Perez         Barwa Addax           + 32.039s
 6.  Christian Vietoris   Racing Engineering    + 35.739s
 7.  Davide Valsecchi     iSport                + 37.702s
 8.  Oliver Turvey        iSport                + 38.753s
 9.  Giedo van der Garde  Barwa Addax           + 39.087s
10.  Charles Pic          Arden                 + 39.845s
11.  Jerome D'Ambrosio    DAMS                  + 40.101s
12.  Marcus Ericsson      Super Nova            + 53.949s
13.  Giacomo Ricci        DPR                   + 54.906s
14.  Alberto Valerio      Coloni              + 1m02.132s
15.  Adrian Zaugg         Trident             + 1m11.973s
16.  Rodolfo Gonzalez     Arden               + 1m12.825s
17.  Fabio Leimer         Ocean               + 1m14.214s
18.  Johnny Cecotto       Trident             + 1m16.113s
19.  Max Chilton          Ocean               + 1m17.805s
20.  Luca Filippi         Super Nova          + 1m33.652s
21.  Vlado Arabadjiev     Coloni              + 1m34.243s
22.  Michael Herck        DPR                     + 1 lap

Retirements:

     Luiz Razia           Rapax               18 laps
     Ho-Pin Tung          DAMS                12 laps

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