Mortara wins first GP2 race Edoardo Mortara held off the challenge of Romain Grosjean to claim the Sprint Race - and his first GP2 win - at the Circuit de Catalunya on Sunday morning.
The Italian, racing for Arden International, started on the second row of the grid - having finished sixth in Saturday's Main Race - but an excellent start saw him leap into the lead.
Jerome D'Ambrosio and Giedo van der Garde followed in second and third respectively, with Grosjean moving up to fourth ahead of pole sitter Kamui Kobayashi. Fourth quickly became third for Grosjean, who was the quickest man on track, and he then closed right in on Belgian D'Ambrosio, who only had eyes for the race leader. It did not take long for the French racer to get by his DAMS rival though, Grosjean stealing past by braking much later than his opponent.
However, the sight of Grosjean in his rear mirror was all Mortara needed to spring into action and establish a lead of just over a second.
Grosjean did reply - reducing the gap to 0.7 seconds - and though he did get a chance to attack the race leader late on, Mortara had enough about him to hang on for victory.
Results
Pos
Driver
Team
1.
Edoardo Mortara
Telmex Arden International
2.
Romain Grosjean
Barwa Campos Team
3.
Jérôme d’Ambrosio
DAMS
4.
Giedo van der Garde
iSport International
5.
Kamui Kobayashi
DAMS
6.
Pastor Maldonado
ART Grand Prix
7
Luca Filippi
Super Nova Racing
8.
Diego Nunes
iSport International
9.
Vitaly Petrov
Barwa Campos Team
10.
Lucas di Grassi
Fat Burner Racing Eng.
11.
Alvaro Parente
Ocean Racing Technology
12.
Luiz Razia
FMSI
13.
Alberto Valerio
Piquet GP
14.
Nico Hülkenberg
ART Grand Prix
15.
Giacomo Ricci
DPR
16.
Davide Valsecchi
Durango
17.
Sergio Perez
Telmex Arden International
18.
Nelson Panciatici
Durango
19.
Dani Clos
Fat Burner Racing Eng.
20.
Ricardo Teixeira
Trident Racing
21.
Davide Rigon
Trident Racing
DNF
Driver
Team
DNF
Karun Chandhok
Ocean Racing Technology
DNF
Javier Villa
Super Nova Racing
DNF
Michael Herck
DPR
DNF
Andreas Zuber
FMSI
DNF
Roldan Rodriguez
Piquet GP
Fastest lap time: Dani Clos (Fat Burner Racing Engineering) – 1:30.063 on lap 4
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