Settling into a rather processional order over the first few laps, Danielsson eked out a two second gap on Soucek after six laps, who in turn was pulling away from Parente and Pavlovic, while Garcia was holding back Franck Perera, Sean McIntosh, Adrian Zaugg, up from eleventh on the grid, Christian Montanari and Mikhail Aleshin.
However, it was all change on lap seven when Garcia muscled his way past Pavlovic, the Serbian being pushed on the back foot and dropping several places down to tenth.
Worse was to come for the Draco Multiracing driver though when he lost control of his car at the end of the home straight as the field began lap eight, spinning out of control and clipping Celso Miguez Comtec car, with Pavlovic being launched into a series of barrel rolls. He walked away unharmed, albeit rather shocked.
Up to fourth and fifth place, now some 15secs off the leaders, most attention was on the tussle between Garcia and Perera, the Frenchman, making his World Series debut for Interwetten.com this weekend, hounding the Spaniard lap after lap.
However, in a dramatic twist for the championship, Garcia began slowing down on the penultimate lap with what turned out to be a mechanical problem, losing a potential eight vital points, something that means he will not go into the final race of the season in the championship lead.
Danielsson though was dominant out in front, the Swede eventually pulling a lead of almost five seconds on Soucek, the Spaniard unable to do anything about the driver who midway in the season barely featured in the top ten of the championship standings, but now goes into the final race of the season as arguably the favourite if current form is anything to go by.
"It's superb! If someone would have told me after Spa that I would be in with a shout for the title in the last race of the season, I would never have believed it. But we've put together a good series of results thanks to some impeccable work by the team, which has given me a car which is both fast and easy to drive."
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