Pic dominates Monaco race two

The French Addax driver fended off a fast starting Josef Kral (Arden) to hold on to the lead into the first corner at the start, and from there he was never challenged.

Kral stayed close early on, but after two safety car periods in the first 12 laps Pic started to ease away when the race settled down.

It was only in the closing stages that Kral had any pressure from behind, as third-placed Romain Grosjean closed up to his rear wing.

Before that, the DAMS driver went through a long sequence of setting a quick lap, then seemingly backing off to give himself enough clear track to make another attempt at getting the extra point for fastest lap, which was enough to put him joint with Sam Bird at the top of the championship.

The race was dull until the closing stages, when Carlin's Max Chilton, who had made a slow start from second on the grid, came under pressure in fourth place.

Davide Valsecchi (AirAsia) launched an attack into the chicane on lap 24, but he missed the corner and was then passed by Chilton and Super Nova's Luca Filippi on the run to Tabac.

Filippi then put a clean move on Chilton at the same corner on lap 27, and shortly after Valsecchi was also through to take fifth.

Results - 30 laps:

Pos  Driver               Team                  Time/Gap
 1.  Charles Pic          Addax               45m50.498s
 2.  Josef Kral           Arden                 + 3.332s
 3.  Romain Grosjean      DAMS                  + 3.885s
 4.  Luca Filippi         Super Nova           + 14.587s
 5.  Davide Valsecchi     AirAsia              + 27.072s
 6.  Max Chilton          Carlin               + 29.626s
 7.  Fabio Leimer         Rapax                + 29.846s
 8.  Oliver Turvey        Carlin               + 30.372s
 9.  Giedo van der Garde  Addax                + 30.859s
10.  Fairuz Fauzy         Super Nova           + 31.585s
11.  Jolyon Palmer        Arden                + 32.317s
12.  Kevin Ceccon         Coloni               + 32.790s
13.  Sam Bird             iSport               + 33.147s
14.  Rodolfo Gonzalez     Trident              + 38.695s
15.  Michael Herck        Coloni               + 40.518s
16.  Alvaro Parente       Racing Engineering   + 40.687s
17.  Johnny Cecotto       Ocean                + 41.131s
18.  Dani Clos            Racing Engineering   + 42.611s
19.  Jules Bianchi        ART                  + 51.544s
20.  Luiz Razia           AirAsia                + 1 lap
21.  Pal Varhaug          DAMS                   + 1 lap

Retirements:

     Stefano Coletti      Trident                20 laps
     Marcus Ericsson      iSport                  8 laps
     Julian Leal          Rapax                   3 laps
     Kevin Mirocha        Ocean                   2 laps
     Esteban Gutierrez    ART                     0 laps