The youngster, however, made no mistake when the lights went out, leaving the poor start to team-mate Jiminez. The slow Racing Engineering car helped shuffle the pack into turn one, albeit without quite the same chaos as Saturday. di Grassi made the most of the opportunity, vaulting into second spot, with Senna following him through after new boy Mikhail Aleshin had appeared to be best placed to follow Villa through.
The leading group was scattered further, however, as Mike Conway made contact with Roldan Rodriguez, spinning the Spaniard and causing both Adrian Zaugg and Kohei Hirate to take to the gravel. Rodriguez was out on the spot, ending a disappointing day for the Minardi Piquet Sports team, which had been forced to run without Xandi Negrao following the Brazilian's heavy shunt in race one. Having started every test, practice and race session in GP2 history, Negrao may also have to sit out the Monaco round in two weeks' time.
With Lapierre's engine deciding that enough was enough and not permitting the DAMS car to leave the pits, the retirement list was boosted to three at the end of lap one when Jason Tahinci dropped out, and further still in the opening stages when Andy Soucek added to his poor start with DPR. The Spaniard's team-mate, Christian Bakkerud, was also running hurt, having trapped a nerve in his back earlier in the weekend, but made a decent enough start to run in the top ten for the opening part of the 25-lap encounter.
While the rest of the field contented itself with tripping over each other, Glock was already making his move, passing Senna on lap two and di Grassi one tour later. At that point, Villa had a two-second advantage on the German, but it quickly became clear that the iSport car was by far the faster of the two. A full second came off the gap on lap six alone ad, two laps later, Villa made no attempt to protect his lead as Glock swept by into turn one. From that point, the race for victory was over unless the German ran into reliability problems.
