The newly introduced reverse grid system threw up another maiden winner from the second World Series by Renault race of the weekend at Monza when Salvador Duran cruised to victory on his debut for reigning champions Interwetten Racing.
Although a disappointing qualifying session had seemingly put hopes of a strong result out of the question, Duran drove through the carnage in the first race to claim ninth and merit a front row starting position for the second event.
Duly taking advantage of his prime position, Duran moved straight into the lead from the off and would never succeed it, holding off the advances of the charging Milos Pavlovic to the chequered flag, while
Sebastien Vettel rounded out the podium.
Although the reverse grid handed pole position to a nervous Pippa Mann, she was not able to hold off the faster starting Duran down into the first chicane, the Cram driver slotting into second ahead of Miguel Molina and
Sebastian Vettel.
Mann continued to slip back though, first being quickly passed by Vettel and then Pavlovic, both having managed to get ahead of Molina to run second and third respectively, albeit already some distance away from Duran who appeared comfortable in the lead.
Nonetheless, the Mexican's advantage was wiped out by a safety car period following a crash by Richard Philippe, the top ten reading Duran, Vettel, Pavlovic, Mann, Celso Miguez, race one winner Mikhail Aleshin, Alvaro Parente, Filip Albuquerque, Marco Bonanomi and Carlos Iaconelli.
With the race underway again, the top three surged ahead as Mann fought tooth and nail to keep the queue of traffic behind her, eventually dropping to sixth behind Aleshin and Miguez.
Up at the front, the hard charging Pavlovic out-braked Vettel to jump ahead into second place, leaving the German to slip away into the clutches of Aleshin, who in turn was making impressive headway from tenth on the grid.
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