Adam Carroll provided the perfect warm-up for the British Grand Prix crowd at
Silverstone by winning the second GP2 Series event of the weekend from third on the grid.
The Briton took full advantage of a slow getaway from poleman Roldan Rodriguez but then had to pull off a ballsy move on the even faster starting Lucas di Grassi through the Becketts esses on lap one to assume the role of chief pursuer to early leader Pastor Maldonado.
With Rodriguez slotting into fourth, the top three had the opportunity to establish an early gap, while the likes of
Kazuki Nakajima, Luca Filippi, Mike Conway and Andi Zuber found themselves bottled up behind the Minardi Piquet Sports car. Further back, championship leader
Timo Glock was already on the move, the German determined to salvage something from 21st on the grid after his Saturday disappointment, and up to 18th by the end of lap one.
Maldonado's early gap - achieved while Carroll negotiated di Grassi - was quickly erased by the Briton, who was within a second after three laps and within half that two tours later. Once up behind the Trident car, however, Carroll found it difficult to make up the final gap and contented himself with keeping in touch with the leader as the race wore on.
The real action was further back in the pack, as Glock scythed his way through the midfield. Magny-Cours winner Giorgio Pantano provided little opposition as the German dived inside the Campos car for 14th on lap four, and the two Arden cars proved almost as easy as the points leader took 13th and twelfth with almost identical moves at Stowe on successive laps. As soon as the crowd had tuned into the where the passing was, however, the show was over, Glock's eagerness to pass Karun Chandhok at Bridge leaving him open to attack from Zaugg. When the South African missed his braking point, however, the iSport car was the nearest object and Glock spun into the gravel and out of the race.
