Estoril – Race 2

Milos Pavlovic (Draco Racing) notched up his second race win of the season at Estoril today, after passing Clivio Piccione (RC Motorsport) midway through the race. Fairuz Fauzy (Cram Compétition) was the third man on the podium. Meanwhile, Alvaro Parente (Tech 1 Racing) has extended his lead over Ben Hanley (Prema Powerteam) in the overall standings to 22 points. Clivio Piccione got off to a good start, but Milos Pavlovic was right up with him on the first bend. The RC driver managed to maintain his lead, however. At the back of the field, Bertrand Baguette (KTR) and Carlos Iaconelli (Pons Racing) were the victims of the first bend. At the end of the first lap, Piccione led from Pavlovic, Fauzy, Van der Garde, Parente, Albuquerque, Walker, Bonanomi, Valsecchi and Jousse. Molina, who started from tenth position after winning yesterday's race, was way back in fourteenth.

Alvaro Barba (Draco Racing) was in fine form, and climbed two places on lap 3, moving past first Julien Jousse (Tech 1 Racing) and then Davide Valsecchi (Epsilon Euskadi).

At the front, Piccione simply could not shake off Pavlovic. Fauzy, however, could not keep pace with the front two. Van der Garde, too, found himself lapping on his own in fourth, quite some distance ahead of Parente, Albuquerque and Walker.

Bonanomi faced stiff competition from Barba for his eighth position. The Spanish driver eventually sneaked past him on lap 7, before going after Walker!  The man from Seville took advantage of the clear track in front of him to clock the fastest lap of the race.

On the eleventh of the race's 27 laps, Pavlovic began to make things increasingly difficult for Piccione. The Serbian eventually took the lead at the beginning of lap 14. Fairuz Fauzy soon made up ground on Piccione, who received a warning after zigzagging in an effort to keep his Malaysian rival at bay.

With nine laps remaining, Filipe Albuquerque made a move on Alvaro Parente. The ensuing duel between the two Portuguese drivers delighted the crowd… not to mention Walker and Barba, who sensed an opportunity in the offing! And one lap later, Parente duly made a mistake that let all three men past. Valsecchi, meanwhile, slipped back two places to eleventh, behind Jousse and Wickens.

Walker then made an error that allowed Barba to climb to sixth, less than a second adrift of Albuquerque! Parente, Bonanomi, Jousse and Wickens completed the top ten at this stage.

Resigning himself to a finish outside the points, Ben Hanley (Prema Powerteam) stopped off in the pits before setting out in pursuit of the two points awarded for the fastest race lap. And the RDD driver achieved his goal with ease!

Milos Pavlovic: "I'd saved a fresh set of tyres, and I knew I could win it. Qualifying has often been difficult for me this season. I'm focusing more on my race results rather than my final position in the championship."

Clivio Piccione: "Obviously, I'm a bit disappointed, but I was expecting this to be a long, hard race. I just concentrated on not making any mistakes."

Fairuz Fauzy: "I had a few opportunities to pass Clivio. But my car wasn't handling so well in the second half of the race, so I opted to play it safe."

Pos Number Driver  Team  Laps Time GapFirst KPH 

1 3 Milos PAVLOVIC INTERNATIONAL DRACO RACING 27 40:16.424 - 169.6   2 9 Clivio PICCIONE RC MOTORSPORT 27 40:21.538 +5.114 169.6   3 19 Fairuz FAUZY CRAM COMPETITION 27 40:22.685 +6.261 169.4   4 11 Giedo VAN DER GARDE VICTORY ENGINEERING 27 40:23.496 +7.072 169.7   5 21 Filipe ALBUQUERQUE EPSILON EUSKADI 27 40:23.990 +7.566 169.8   6 4 Alvaro BARBA INTERNATIONAL DRACO RACING 27 40:24.663 +8.239 170.2   7 32 Alvaro PARENTE TECH 1 RACING 27 40:30.858 +14.434 169.3   8 10 Marco BONANOMI RC MOTORSPORT 27 40:33.078 +16.654 168.7   9 31 Julien JOUSSE TECH 1 RACING 27 40:34.142 +17.718 169.5   10 8 Robert WICKENS CARLIN MOTORSPORT 27 40:34.461 +18.037 169.3   11 22 Davide VALSECCHI EPSILON EUSKADI 27 40:35.830 +19.406 169.6   12 14 Guillaume MOREAU KTR 27 40:36.302 +19.878 169.7   13 30 Richard PHILIPPE FORTEC MOTORSPORT 27 40:41.383 +24.959 168.9   14 7 Mikhail ALESHIN CARLIN MOTORSPORT 27 40:42.486 +26.062 169.4   15 20 Pippa MANN CRAM COMPETITION 27 40:42.926 +26.502 170.0   16 5 Michael HERCK RED DEVIL TEAM COMTEC 27 40:52.612 +36.188 168.2   17 1 Salvador DURAN INTERWETTEN.COM 27 40:59.224 +42.800 168.5   18 2 Daniil MOVE INTERWETTEN.COM 27 41:03.912 +47.488 168.7   19 26 Johannes THEOBALD EUROINTERNATIONAL 27 41:27.020 +1:10.596 166.3   20 29 James WALKER FORTEC MOTORSPORT 27 41:30.528 +1:14.104 171.7   21 28 Pasquale DI SABATINO GD RACING 27 41:44.386 +1:27.962 172.1   22 6 Alejandro NUÑEZ RED DEVIL TEAM COMTEC 26 40:54.107 1 Lap 171.2   23 18 Ben HANLEY PREMA POWERTEAM 24 41:04.294 3 Laps 173.2     23 Miguel MOLINA PONS RACING 20 30:20.352   170.0     27 Frederic VERVISCH GD RACING 19 28:38.810   169.0     25 Julian THEOBALD EUROINTERNATIONAL 17 28:01.209   165.5     16 Xavier MAASSEN PREMA POWERTEAM 12 18:33.284   165.9     15 Bertrand BAGUETTE KTR 1 2:04.741         24 Carlos IACONELLI PONS RACING 0