The falling rain was starting to make the track extremely slippery, especially as all of the cars were wearing Avon slick rubber. The leaders rounded Lesmo and headed down towards Ascari for the first time. Chilton went through but Alguersuari, who had made up some ground on his grid place, slid off the track at Ascari dropping him back down the order. Then there was chaos in the mid field as a spinning car collected Viktor Jensen and other cars went off in avoidance. The safety car was deployed to enable the marshals to collect the beached cars of Jensen, Philip Major, Salman Al Khalifa, Craig Reiff and Henry Arundel.
The race was restarted at the end of lap three and once again Chilton moved ahead of the rest as Chinosi came under pressure from Mustonen and Devaney. Alguersuari had recovered from his earlier spin and was slicing his way to the front, passing Esteban Guerrieri and Sebastian Hohenthal on lap four and then moving into second on the next lap by passing Chinosi, Devaney and Mustonen.
As the rain stopped two other drivers were on the move, the first being Sergio Perez and the second was Nick Tandy. The Mexican was tenth at the end of lap four and was making rapid progress, gaining five further places by the end of lap seven, with Tandy tracking his every move to end the lap one place behind Perez.
In the National Class Andy Meyrick was being caught by Jay Bridger but then had the International Class runners Sam Abay and John Martin slotting in between them to give Meyrick some breathing space. However on lap nine Bridger caught and passed the Welshman before his race ended in the barriers at the exit of Ascari. Bridger now had a comfortable lead over the battling duo of Kristjan Einar and Hywel Lloyd.
