France weather Dutch storm to win

Duval took over the lead in the first of the two pitstop phases, when early leaders Team Malaysia gave Fairuz Fauzy an over-long stop. Once ahead Duval was never really threatened, despite two safety car periods wiping out his comfortable advantage.

The final of these came in the closing laps of the race, which meant Duval had to survive a 100-metre dash to the line, but he timed his restart perfectly for a well-earned win.

It was a chaotic race, and just seven cars were running on the final lap after myriad crashes removed almost two-thirds of the field. Yet again Fauzy drove a strong race, not putting a wheel wrong on his way to second.

Teenage Kiwi Earl Bamber claimed his second podium of the weekend with third place, while John Martin survived numerous incidents to take fourth for Team Australia.

Jeroen Bleekemolen limped home fifth in a gearchange-deficient Team Netherlands car, while Clivio Piccione handed Team Monaco sixth for their first points.

Team Korea spun like a top, but kept going to take seventh, while Team Lebanon scored its first ever points despite Daniel Morad crashing out of fourth place late on. He took the innocent Ho Pin Tung with him, and Team China were credited with ninth in the end.

The final point went to Team USA, despite Charlie Kimball crashing out after having just set the fastest lap of the race.

Pos  Driver               Team                       Gap
 1.  Loïc Duval           France             1:11:58.723
 2.  Fairuz Fauzy         Malaysia              +  2.288
 3.  Earl Bamber          New Zealand           +  2.709
 4.  John Martin          Australia             +  6.329
 5.  Jeroen Bleekemolen   Netherlands           +  8.273
 6.  Clivio Piccione      Monaco                + 2 Laps
 7.  Jin Woo Hwang        Korea                 + 3 Laps
 8.  Daniel Morad         Lebanon               + 4 Laps
 9.  Ho-Pin Tung          China                 + 5 Laps
10.  Charlie Kimball      USA                   + 6 Laps

Not classified

     Felipe Albuquerque   Portugal               15 laps
     Satrio Hermanto      Indonesia              12 laps
     Adrian Zaugg         South Africa            5 laps
     Fabio Onidi          Italy                   5 laps
     Felipe Guimarães     Brazil                  5 laps
     Adam Carroll         Ireland                 4 laps
     Neel Jani            Switzerland             4 laps

Fastest lap, Kimball 1:47.115 on lap 30