Having taken his maiden F3 podium in the opening race in Bucharest, Sam Bird celebrated his first win in race two in the Romanian capital as he led home Carlin team-mate Niall Breen to a 1-2 finish.
The win saw Bird become the first rookie driver to win a race during the 2007 season, with Breen taking his second podium in as many meetings and pole-man Stephen Jelley completing the top three – although for the Raikkonen Robertson Racing driver it was very much as case of what might have been after an incident while battling for the lead saw him lose any chance of a first win.
As was the case with the opening race of the weekend, the Safety Car led the field away at the start, with Greg and Leo Mansell joining Walter Grubmuller on the sidelines as a result of their retirements in race one. The race finally got underway on the third lap when the Safety Car returned to the pits with Jelley leading the way from Alberto Valerio, the Brazilian having qualified second for Carlin, while further back, championship leader Marko Asmer was moving in the wrong direction when he lost tenth place to the Mygale of Michael Devaney as the race went green.
By the end of the opening lap at race speed, Valerio was closing on Jelley, while young Finn Atte Mustonen held third from Maro Engel. As the front two raced across the start-finish line, Valerio went for the inside into the first right-hander, but Jelley took the racing line and turned in – with the resulting contact seeing both drivers take a trip into the escape road on the outside of the turn. That promoted Mustonen into the lead of an F3 race for the first time, but his run out front wouldn't last for long as Engel went down the inside into the chicane only to find himself squeezed into the wall, both cars suffering too much damage to continue.
