Zuber takes first win of season

The iSport driver has had dreadful luck so far this year, but he was able to secure his second career victory in the category just ahead of Mike Conway.

Zuber led away from pole at the start, heading Conway (Super Nova), Lucas di Grassi (ART), iSport teammate Timo Glock and Kazuki Nakajima (DAMS).

Behind them, Adam Carroll (FMS) had lost a place at the start to Michael Ammermuller (ART), but he won it back at Maggots.

Carroll then passed Nakajima for fifth at Vale, and closed in on the di Grassi/Glock fight. On lap four, Glock got a run on di Grassi, who defended into Abbey, so the German simply drove around the outside of him.

Di Grassi ran wide on the exit, allowing Carroll to pounce for another place, and the Ulsterman wasn't far away from passing Glock as well.

Zuber's biggest scare came after his pitstop. He stopped a lap later than Conway, and the Super Nova driver had used his fresher tyres to close the gap.

When Zuber rejoined, Conway was right on his tail and pushed him hard for the next lap, before the leader was able to pull away and romp to victory.

Third place would change hands on numerous occasions, as first Glock dropped out of contention with alternator failure and then Carroll lost a certain podium finish when he was caught speeding in the pits.

His drive-through penalty promoted Nakajima to third, who had got ahead of di Grassi after making an earlier stop.

Behind di Grassi, Luca Filippi finished fifth from 11th on the grid for Super Nova, while Magny-Cours feature race winner Giorgio Pantano went out when the engine of his Campos Grand Prix entry blew up.

Despite his penalty, Carroll finished sixth, ahead of Pastor Maldonado (Trident ) and Roldan Rodriguez (Minardi/Piquet).

Nicolas Lapierre was lucky to walk away from his DAMS car when an apparent front suspension failure sent him into the tyre wall at Copse. He was uninjured but his car was wrecked.

Glock set the fastest lap of the race, although he will not get the bonus point for it as he was not classified as a finisher. That goes to Zuber instead.

Pos  Driver             Team                        Time
 1.  Andreas Zuber      iSport International        54:21.118
 2.  Mike Conway        Super Nova International   +    1.815
 3.  Kazuki Nakajima    DAMS                       +   16.916
 4.  Lucas Di Grassi    ART Grand Prix             +   28.365
 5.  Luca Filippi       Super Nova International   +   36.481
 6.  Adam Carroll       FMS International          +   47.392
 7.  Pastor Maldonado   Trident Racing             +   48.300
 8.  Roldan Rodriguez   Minardi Piquet Sports      +   51.681
 9.  Vitaly Petrov      Campos Grand Prix          +   54.214
10.  M.Ammermuller      ART Grand Prix             +   58.845
11.  Bruno Senna        Arden International        +   58.955
12.  Karun Chandhok     Durango                    + 1:00.810
13.  Javier Villa       Racing Engineering         + 1:01.243
14.  Adrian Zaugg       Arden International        + 1:02.947
15.  F.Albuquerque      Racing Engineering         + 1:05.102
16.  Sakon Yamamoto     BCN Competicion            + 1:06.357
17.  Ho-Pin Tung        BCN Competicion            + 1:07.999
18.  Kohei Hirate       Trident Racing             + 1:22.338
19.  Jason Tahinci      FMS International          + 1:23.255
20.  Borja García       Durango                    +   4 Laps
                    
Not classified:                    
                    
     Timo Glock         iSport International          26 laps
     Nicolas Lapierre   DAMS                          19 laps
     Giorgio Pantano    Campos Grand Prix             17 laps
     Alexandre Negrao   Minardi Piquet Sports          8 laps
     C.Bakkerud         DPR                            1 laps
     Andy Soucek        DPR                            0 laps
                         
Fastest lap: Glock, 1:30.952 on lap 20