2013 Monaco GP2 Series round

Background

Circuit de Monaco, where the race was held.

The 2013 Monaco GP2 Series round was the fourth of eleven scheduled events in 2013. It was held on 24 and 25 May at the Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo and was run in support of the 2013 Monaco Grand Prix.^[1] Tyre supplier Pirelli brought two types of tyre to the race: two dry compounds (supersoft "options" and soft "primes"). The supersoft tyres were identified by a red stripe on their side-walls, and the soft tyres were similarly identified in yellow.^[2]

Before the race Rapax driver Stefano Coletti led the Drivers' Championship with 93 points, seventeen ahead of nearest rival Felipe Nasr in second, who in turn, was a further eighteen points in front of Fabio Leimer in third. Robin Frijns was fourth on 33 points and Sam Bird was four points behind the driver in fifth place.^[3] Carlin were leading the Teams' Championship on 107 points; Rapax had a small deficit of six points in second and Racing Engineering were third with 64 points. Hilmer Motorsports were fourth on 56 points and Russian Time were one point behind in the battle for the position.^[3] Leimer (Racing Engineering) and Coletti (Rapax) had so far dominated the championship with Bird and Frijns winning one race each. James Calado (ART Grand Prix) and Nasr had taken at least one second place finish and Mitch Evans, Alexander Rossi and Jon Lancaster had all finished third once.^[3] After his strong start to the season, Frijns confirmed on Twitter that he would contest the Monaco round as his contract with Hilmer Motorsports was on a race-by-race basis.^[4]

Practice and qualifying

Sam Bird (pictured in 2012) set the fastest lap in practice and qualified in third position before going on to win the feature race.

One 30-minute practice session was held on Thursday before the two races.^[5] Bird, who called the Circuit de Monaco his favourite track in the GP2 Series, was the fastest driver with a time of one minute and 21.512 seconds on super-soft tyres, 0.057 seconds faster than Russian Time teammate Tom Dillmann in second. Evans was third-fastest, ahead of Carlin's Jolyon Palmer. Marcus Ericsson of DAMS and Arden International's Johnny Cecotto Jr. were fifth and sixth. Leimer was seventh-fastest, Nasr eighth, Rio Haryanto of Addax ninth and Calado completed the top ten ahead of qualifying.^[6] Only minor off-track excursions were reported with DAMS's Stéphane Richelmi spinning at La Rascasse corner and stalled in his attempt to continue driving.^[6] Nasr narrowly avoided impacting the barriers at the Swimming Pool complex and Coletti, Leimer, Calado and Kevin Giovesi for Lazarus all ran deep into the track's run-off areas at various points in the half hour session.^[6]

Friday afternoon's qualifying session ran for 30-minutes.^[5] As in 2012, qualifying was divided into two groups of thirteen cars, with the odd numbered vehicles in Group A and the even numbered cars in Group B. The starting order was determined by the fastest overall driver in either group.^[7] Most cars had the soft types equipped at the start of qualifying and most made pit stops for set-up alterations with some having supersoft tyres installed.^[8] Cecotto clinched his first pole position of the season, the second of his career, and his second in Monte Carlo with a time of one minute and 21.141 seconds.^[9] He was joined on the grid's front row by teammate Evans who topped Group B but his best time set at the end of qualifying was 0.016 seconds slower than Cecotto and Evans's effort was not enough to earn him pole position.^[10] On his final timed lap, Bird was fastest in the first sector, but lost six tenths of a second in the final two sectors and could only muster third.^[11] Leimer drifted sideways at the final corner on his fastest lap but did not make contact with the barrier en route to fourth place.^[12] Kevin Ceccon (Trident) took fifth.^[9] Palmer's first attempt at going faster proved unsuccessful as he came across Richelmi in the final sector but took it at his next attempt before Leimer demoted him down the order.^[12] Palmer eventually took sixth.^[10]

Julián Leal (Racing Engineering) took seventh after encountering traffic on his final lap and needed to pass one car to record his fastest time.^[8] Dillmann lined up in eighth place.^[10] Nasr set the early pace in Group B before settling for ninth and Frijns rounded out the top ten.^[9][12] Ericcson was the fastest driver not to qualify in the top ten; his best time of one minute and 22.349 seconds was 1.208 seconds off Cecotto's pace.^[10] Ericsson paced Group B early on but was demoted as the session progressed.^[12] He was followed by Sergio Canamasas (Caterham Racing) in 12th and Rossi in 13th place.^[9] Coletti was another Group B early pace setter but ended up starting from 14th position. Haryanto qualified in 15th but was demoted ten places on the grid for causing an avoidable accident at the previous round of the season in Catalunya.^[12] Hence Nathanaël Berthon (Trident) inherited the place and was followed by Calado. Richelmi and Daniël de Jong (MP Motorsport) filled the next two placings and 20th place qualifier René Binder (Lazarus) was given a three-place grid penalty for impeding Canamasas during the session.^[9] Giovesi thus started from Binder's qualifying position with Daniel Abt (ART Grand Prix) joining him on the grid's tenth row. Simon Trummer (Rapax) and Jake Rosenzweig (Addax) clinched the 22nd and 23rd positions.^[10] Lancaster started from 24th after spinning his car at Sainte Dévote turn necessitating yellow flags to be waved in the area.^[11][12] The final position in the field was taken by Adrian Quaife-Hobbs (MP Motorsport) whose fastest time was 2.2 seconds slower than Cecotto.^[10]

Races

The first race was held over a distance of either 140 kilometres (87 mi) or 60 minutes (which ever came first) and all drivers were required to make one pit stop. The first ten finishers scored points, with two being awarded to the competitor who recorded the fastest lap. The starting order for the second race was determined by the finishing positions of the first race but with the first eight drivers in reverse order of where they finished. It was run over a distance of either 100 kilometres (62 mi) or 45 minutes (which ever came first) and in contrast to the first race drivers were not allowed to make pit stops. The top eight finishers scored points towards their respective championships.^[5]

Feature race

Fabio Leimer (pictured in 2015) was caught up in a first lap accident triggered by Johnny Cecotto Jr.

The feature race was due to start at 11:15 Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00) on 24 May,^[7] but was delayed by fifteen minutes due to an incident during qualifying for the Porsche Supercup race in which several cars crashed at Massenet corner. Repairs were required to the barriers at the turn as they had been dislodged and oil laid on the track surface at the same turn was cleaned by course workers using cement dust.^[11][13][14] When the race eventually began under overcast and cooler weather conditions with an air temperature of 18 °C (64 °F) and a track temperature of 26 °C (79 °F)^[15] Cecotto spun his tyres allowing teammate Evans to lead the field heading into Sainte Dévote turn.^[16] Shortly afterwards a fifteen car pile up at the first corner caused the race to be red-flagged to a halt. After losing the lead Cecotto was fending off an attack from Leimer through Sainte Dévote but it was not possible for Cecotto to maintain his line and he understeered straight into the barrier. Leimer was trapped in the manoeuvre and mounted the left-hand corner of Cecotto's car in response. Palmer took avoiding action by spinning on the inside line causing the turn to be blocked.^[16][17] Palmer avoided injury when Leal's front wing came close to striking his helmet.^[18]

Coletti, Leal, Dillmann, Frijns, Ericsson, Rossi, Berthon, Binder, Giovesi, Haryanto, Rosenzweig and Abt were all trapped in the blockade with varying degrees of car damage.^[16] Nasr was near Bird and Ceccon and managed to avoid the collision between Leal and Palmer. Drivers ran back to their cars and remonstrated with marshals to enable them to take the restart.^[17] A forty-minute delay was necessitated to allow the track to be cleaned before the race could be restarted.^[16] Nine drivers had enough damage to warrant their retirement: Cecotto, Leimer, Palmer, Leal, Frijns, Ericsson, Rossi, Berthon and Giovesi. The running order at the restart was determined by the order of the drivers that went through the first sector with the cars that did not enter being put in their starting position.^[18] This meant Evans led the field behind the safety car followed by Bird, Ceccon, Nasr and Calado. The safety car was withdrawn at the end of lap two and racing resumed with Evans leading Bird.^[17] Both drivers opened up a two-second advantage over Ceccon, Nasr, Calado and Richelmi.^[16] Although Evans had switched to the supersoft tyres during the stoppage Bird set consecutive fastest laps of the race on the soft tyres.^[17]

Rio Haryanto (pictured in 2011) was forced into retirement after Daniel Abt punted him into the barriers.

As they had been compromised by the first lap pileup and were at the back of the field, Dillmann and Coletti chose to make their mandatory pit stops when the window opened at the end of the seventh lap for rear soft compound tyres.^[16][18] Haryanto and Abt made their stops on the next lap and Calado and Lancaster did the same on lap nine. Coletti's early pit stop resulted in him lapping faster than any other driver by two seconds. Other drivers became aware of the significance and Nasr went into the pit lane to keep his position from Calado and Ceccon and Richelmi did the same on the eleventh lap. This placed pressure on race leader Evans who was at this point three seconds a lap slower than Ceccon.^[16] Evans made his own pit stop on lap 12 for four soft compound tyres but did not retain first place as Ceccon made up enough time to move in front of him.^[18] Evans could not keep close to Ceccon and was three seconds behind the driver after one lap and his diminishing pace hurt the delayed Bird who became the leader when Evans made his pit stop.^[16] On lap 15, De Jong made a problematic pit stop: his rear jack failed which delayed him and then crossed the yellow line at the pit lane exit twice, earning him a drive-through penalty.^[17][18]

Bird set fast laps while leading and kept the lead after his pit stop at the end of the 16th lap ahead of the yet-to-stop Binder, Ceccon and Evans.^[16][18] Bird was pushing when he slid after clipping the kerb on the track and glanced the barrier leaving Portier turn on lap 18.^[17] Abt was attacking Haryanto for 13th position on lap 28 and went to the outside of Haryanto by braking later than he did.^[16][18] The resulting manoeuvre meant Abt punted Haryanto into the inside barrier with his car's front nose being broken as a consequence.^[16] The need for the safety car was avoided as Haryanto's car was extracted from the track quickly.^[17] Abt was adjudged to have been too aggressive towards Haryanto by the stewards and was handed a drive-through penalty and was shown a black flag with an orange disc requiring him to make repairs to his car.^[18] Dillmann attempted to pass Rosenzweig but ran deep at the Novelle Chicane. He was required to hand the position back to Rosenzweig. Binder made his pit stop on the 29th lap and emerged in seventh place behind Coletti.^[16] Bird continued to lead with a seventeen-second advantage over Ceccon who was fending off the faster Evans in third position who himself had Nasr and Calado close behind him.^[17]

Bird was able to further open up a twenty-two second lead over the rest of the field and maintained it for the remainder of the race to secure the victory. Ceccon finished one with one second covering Evans in third and Nasr in fourth; Evans narrowly fended off Nasr for the final podium place. Calado secured fifth with Coletti taking sixth and Binder seventh.^[18] Quaife-Hobbs passed Richemi for eighth place in the final stages of the race and thus earned the sprint race pole position.^[16] Richelmi and De Jong rounded out the top-ten points-scoring positions.^[18] Dillmann, Lancaster, Trummer, Rosenzweig and Canamasas took the next five places and Abt was the last of the classified finishers.^[19] It was Bird's third win in the GP2 Series,^[19] his (and Russian Time's) second of the season, and his first victory at the circuit since his 2012 Formula Renault 3.5 Series Monaco round triumph.^[20] After the race, the stewards deemed Cecotto responsible for causing the first lap accident that triggered the sole stoppage and Cecotto was barred from competing in the following day's sprint race.^[18]

Sprint race

The second race began at 16:10 local time on 25 May.^[15] Weather conditions at the start of the event were cooler than the previous day's race with light rain falling.^[17] The air temperature was 17 °C (63 °F) and the track temperature was 25 °C (77 °F).^[21] Most cars on the grid started on the soft compound tyres.^[17] When the race started, pole sitter Quaife-Hobbs maintained his startline advantage heading into Sainte Dévote corner while Coletti moved into second place as Binder was slow leaving the grid and fell to sixth.^[22] Calado initially held third place,^[22] but Evans overtook him around the outside at Mirabeau turn to move into the position.^[23] Nasr passed Calado at the start of the following lap at Sainte Dévote corner for fourth position.^[17][22] Having been close behind Quaife-Hobbs in the race's opening stages,^[24] Coletti pressured the Quaife-Hobbs by using his local knowledge to apply pressure on the latter. Coletti lined up an overtaking manoeuvre on Quaife-Hobbs on the third lap leaving the tunnel and heading into the Novelle Chicane.^[22] He steered right onto the inside line and braked later than Quaife-Hobbs to pass him for the lead.^[23][24] Coletti began to pull away from Quaife-Hobbs, setting the fastest lap of the race at that point on the fourth lap to be 2.1 seconds ahead of Quaife-Hobbs.^[24]

Stefano Coletti (pictured in 2010) became the first Monesaque driver to win his home event since Louis Chiron in 1931.

Quaife-Hobbs focused himself on holding off the closing Evans, Nasr and Calado. Dillmann was forced to go two laps behind the leader on the seventh lap after he sustained car damage. Bird was in seventh but was challenged by Ceccon who put his car on the line entering the Novelle Chicane forcing Bird to overshoot the corner to avoid colliding with him. Bird was aware that his move would entail a drive-through penalty and thus yielded seventh place to Ceccon. Bird was immediately attacked by Richelmi but it became evident that Bird's car was suffering from a major problem. Bird lost further positions before entering the pit lane for technical assistance that put him one lap behind the race leader.^[22] He thus set the fastest lap of the race on supersoft tyres but as he was outside of the top ten he did not score the point entailed by the achievement.^[17][23] Palmer overtook Canamasas on lap 13 in a carbon-copy move to Abt's manoevure on Haryanto in the previous day's race. But on this occasion both drivers continued without any significant damage.^[22][24] Quaife-Hobbs was able to fend off the three-car train and appeared stronger as the race progressed and the tyres degraded.^[22]

As the field became tightly packed, no driver had the advantage of getting the edge for moving up the field. This was the case until Rosenzweig stuck the front-end of his car down the inside of Lancaster through the Lowe's hairpin and tapped Lancaster into a half-spin. Rosenzweig's move enabled him to move into tenth while Lancaster could not recover sufficiently from the incident and lost five places in two corners.^[22][23] Coletti's control of the lead was waning because tyre degradation removed some of his earlier fast pace and handling, causing his lead over Quaife-Hobbs to be reduced to one second. Less than four seconds covered the first five runners with a 14-second gap over a battle for sixth place between Binder, Ceccon and Richelmi. Coletti had help from Quaife-Hobbs who was defending from Evans and by this point the track was completely dry with no rain falling.^[22] Evans made another attempt at taking second place on the final lap, almost going into the rear of Quaife-Hobbs's car as the pair left the Novelle Chicane.^[24] Coletti maintained the lead for the rest of the race to win.^[17] Coletti's victory made him the first Monegasque driver to win on the streets of Monaco since Louis Chiron in the 1931 Monaco Grand Prix.^[23] Quaife-Hobbs finished in second position, three-tenths of a second ahead of Evans in third and Nasr took fourth. Calado secured fifth, Binder took sixth, Ceccon clinched seventh and Richelmi rounded out the top eight points-scoring positions.^[24] De Jong, Rosenzweig, Canamasas, Palmer, Leimer, Leal, Frijns, Haryanto, Lancaster, Ericcson, Rossi, Giovesi, Berthon, Abt, Trummer, Bird and Dillmann were the last of the classified finishers.^[23]

Post-race

The top three drivers in both races appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and in a later press conference. Although Bird spoke of his satisfaction of controlling the pace of the feature race, he believed he was fortunate because of him receiving a new rear wing after being impacted by Ceccon at the first start, "It’s an amazing to be able to win my first GP2 race in Monaco. Maybe I should have done it already in the past in GP2, but it felt pretty right today."^[25] Ceccon stated he was "happy" to secure second place and praised his team for his strategy that enabled him to move ahead of Evans, " It’s my first GP2 podium and it’s two years in a row that I finish on the podium here since I finished third last year in GP3 here as well. Today, I finished in P2 in race 1. It’s good."^[25] When asked if he was disappointed over his third place finish, Evans replied yes as he struggled with grip on his supersoft compound tyres at the restart and was being pressured by Bird on the harder soft compound tyres.^[25] Evans believed that had he overtaken Ceccon he could have had similar pace levels to Bird and felt the best possible result he could have achieved was second but stated he would accept the result.^[25]

Jolyon Palmer (pictured in 2012), a vocal critic of Cecotto's driving in the feature race.

After the sprint race, Coletti spoke of his childhood dream of hearing the Monegasque national anthem while standing on the top step of the Monaco podium, "It feels great I mean I’ve seen all the drivers winning here since I was a kid. I’m really, really happy especially that with this win I’ve consolidated my lead in the standings."^[26] He said for the season's next race at Silverstone his team need to improve his car in qualifying trim and then aim to secure victory in the feature race.^[26] Quaife-Hobbs said it felt "amazing" to clinch his first career podium, "Today, it’s a great reward for the team and how hard they’ve worked. We are a new team. Now every new team have had a podium."^[26] Quaife-Hobbs believed if he had defended from Coletti on the third lap both drivers would not have entered the Novelle Chicane and affirmed that he elected to follow Coletti with the view for a attack later in the race.^[26] Third-place finisher Evans revealed on the formation lap he struggled to get the optimum rear tyre temperature especially since the start of the race was the best time to gain track position and was aware that finishing on the podium would probably not be realistic. Nevertheless he was happy to have again finished on the Monaco podium after altering his car.^[26]

Cecotto's driving which caused the multi-car pileup in the feature race received much attention.^[27] It was third such incident in the season when Cecotto courted controversy and criticism from drivers: he was disqualified from qualifying for the Sepang round when he forced Bird off the track but avoided being issued with a penalty in the Catalunya sprint race when he swerved into Canamasas during a battle for fifth position.^[28] Leimer claimed that Cecotto solely concentrated on him rather than making the corner, "It's really, really disappointing as a lot was possible today and I could have scored a lot of points. But once more due to another driver I lost out, while my competitors in the battle for the championship are scoring."^[15] Palmer was more vocal in his criticism in Cecotto, remarking he would rather start from the pit lane than within two rows of Cecotto.^[14] Peter Allen of Formula Scout argued that while Cecotto's manoeuvre was not clearly malicious in intent, the Venezuelan deserved the race ban and that it would help him realise that he needed to control his aggressiveness.^[27]

The result of the round meant Coletti increased his advantage at the lead of the Drivers' Championship on 120 points. Nasr remained in second place, 24 points behind Coletti, while Bird's feature race victory enabled him to move into third position. Because he did not score any points in the two races, Leimer fell to fourth and Calado gained three positions to rounded out the top five.^[3] Rapax took over the lead of the Teams' Championship and were a solitary point ahead of previous leaders Carlin. Russian Time's form enabled the company to move into third place on 80 points and were a further sixteen in front of fourth-placed Racing Engineering. Arden took over fifth place with seven rounds left in the season.^[3]

Qualifying

Group A

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time	Grid
1	5	Johnny Cecotto Jr.	Arden International	1:21.141	1
2	11	Sam Bird	Russian Time	1:21.509	3
3	21	Kevin Ceccon	Trident Racing	1:21.986	5
4	7	Julián Leal	Racing Engineering	1:22.092	7
5	9	Felipe Nasr	Carlin	1:22.163	9
6	1	Marcus Ericsson	DAMS	1:22.349	11
7	15	Alexander Rossi	Caterham Racing	1:22.511	13
8	17	Rio Haryanto	Barwa Addax	1:22.589	251
9	3	James Calado	ART Grand Prix	1:22.677	16
10	27	Daniël de Jong	MP Motorsport	1:22.943	18
11	25	Kevin Giovesi	Lazarus	1:23.006	19
12	19	Simon Trummer	Rapax	1:23.017	21
13	23	Jon Lancaster	Hilmer Motorsport	1:23.443	24
Source:[9]

Group B

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time	Grid
1	6	Mitch Evans	Arden International	1:21.157	2
2	8	Fabio Leimer	Racing Engineering	1:21.185	4
3	10	Jolyon Palmer	Carlin	1:21.198	6
4	12	Tom Dillmann	Russian Time	1:21.387	8
5	22	Robin Frijns	Hilmer Motorsport	1:21.418	10
6	14	Sergio Canamasas	Caterham Racing	1:21.522	12
7	18	Stefano Coletti	Rapax	1:21.658	14
8	20	Nathanaël Berthon	Trident Racing	1:22.245	15
9	2	Stéphane Richelmi	DAMS	1:22.317	17
10	24	René Binder	Lazarus	1:22.376	222
11	4	Daniel Abt	ART Grand Prix	1:22.716	20
12	16	Jake Rosenzweig	Barwa Addax	1:22.842	23
13	26	Adrian Quaife-Hobbs	MP Motorsport	1:23.328	26
Source:[9]

Notes:

• ^1 — Rio Haryanto received a ten-place grid penalty for causing a collision at the previous race.^[12]
• ^2 — René Binder was penalised three places for impeding Canamasas during qualifying.^[12]

Feature race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	11	Sam Bird	Russian Time	42	1:36:15.919	3	25
2	21	Kevin Ceccon	Trident Racing	42	+22.077	5	18
3	6	Mitch Evans	Arden International	42	+23.225	2	15
4	9	Felipe Nasr	Carlin	42	+23.416	9	12
5	3	James Calado	ART Grand Prix	42	+29.588	16	10
6	18	Stefano Coletti	Rapax	42	+1:00.519	14	10 (8+2)
7	24	René Binder	Lazarus	42	+1:02.449	22	6
8	26	Adrian Quaife-Hobbs	MP Motorsport	42	+1:08.400	26	4
9	2	Stéphane Richelmi	DAMS	42	+1:12.107	17	2
10	27	Daniël de Jong	MP Motorsport	42	+1:22.410	18	1
11	12	Tom Dillmann	Russian Time	42	+1:29.356	8
12	23	Jon Lancaster	Hilmer Motorsport	41	+1 lap	24
13	19	Simon Trummer	Rapax	41	+1 lap	21
14	16	Jake Rosenzweig	Barwa Addax	41	+1 lap	23
15	14	Sergio Canamasas	Caterham Racing	40	+2 laps	12
16	4	Daniel Abt	ART Grand Prix	40	+2 laps	20
Ret	17	Rio Haryanto	Barwa Addax	26	Accident	25
Ret	5	Johnny Cecotto Jr.	Arden International	0	Accident	1
Ret	8	Fabio Leimer	Racing Engineering	0	Accident	4
Ret	10	Jolyon Palmer	Carlin	0	Accident	6
Ret	7	Julián Leal	Racing Engineering	0	Accident	7
Ret	22	Robin Frijns	Hilmer Motorsport	0	Accident	10
Ret	1	Marcus Ericsson	DAMS	0	Accident	11
Ret	15	Alexander Rossi	Caterham Racing	0	Accident	13
Ret	20	Nathanaël Berthon	Trident Racing	0	Accident	15
Ret	25	Kevin Giovesi	Lazarus	0	Accident	19
Fastest lap: Stefano Coletti (Rapax) — 1:23.665 (on lap 9)
Bold indicates the drivers who finished in the points-scoring positions
Source:[20]

Sprint race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	18	Stefano Coletti	Rapax	30	42.50.707	3	17 (15+2)
2	26	Adrian Quaife-Hobbs	MP Motorsport	30	+1.869	1	12
3	6	Mitch Evans	Arden International	30	+2.218	6	10
4	9	Felipe Nasr	Carlin	30	+2.536	5	8
5	3	James Calado	ART Grand Prix	30	+3.747	4	6
6	24	René Binder	Lazarus	30	+19.293	2	4
7	21	Kevin Ceccon	Trident Racing	30	+20.015	7	2
8	2	Stéphane Richelmi	DAMS	30	+20.576	9	1
9	27	Daniël de Jong	MP Motorsport	30	+21.197	10
10	16	Jake Rosenzweig	Barwa Addax	30	+31.720	14
11	14	Sergio Canamasas	Caterham Racing	30	+34.105	15
12	10	Jolyon Palmer	Carlin	30	+35.775	19
13	8	Fabio Leimer	Racing Engineering	30	+36.488	18
14	7	Julián Leal	Racing Engineering	30	+36.913	20
15	22	Robin Frijns	Hilmer Motorsport	30	+42.125	21
16	17	Rio Haryanto	Barwa Addax	30	+43.235	17
17	23	Jon Lancaster	Hilmer Motorsport	30	+1:03.893	12
18	1	Marcus Ericsson	DAMS	30	+1:04.258	22
19	15	Alexander Rossi	Caterham Racing	30	+1:04.735	23
20	25	Kevin Giovesi	Lazarus	30	+1:05.044	25
21	20	Nathanaël Berthon	Trident Racing	30	+1:05.468	24
22	4	Daniel Abt	ART Grand Prix	30	+1:06.174	16
23	19	Simon Trummer	Rapax	30	+1:07.413	13
24	11	Sam Bird	Russian Time	29	+1 lap	8
25	12	Tom Dillmann	Russian Time	27	+3 laps	11
EX	5	Johnny Cecotto Jr.	Arden International	—	Excluded3	—
Fastest lap: Stefano Coletti (Rapax) — 1:22.853 (on lap 8)
Bold indicates the drivers who finished in the points-scoring positions
Source:[21]

Notes:

• ^3 — Johnny Cecotto Jr. was excluded from the race for causing a pile-up at the beginning of the feature race.^[28]