Andi Zuber finally put an end to the jinx that has been following him around this season, taking a comfortable lights-to-flag win from pole in the feature race at
Silverstone.
Having annexed his maiden pole in the GP2 Series on Friday afternoon, the UAE-based Austrian made the most of the clear road ahead of him - something he hadn't managed to do from second spot at Magny-Cours a week ago - to head Mike Conway and Lucas di Grassi into Copse.
Further back, there was less action than in France, with
Timo Glock a significant mover, making up a place at the expense of
Kazuki Nakajima. Adam Carroll also took advantage of a slow start from the DAMS driver to slot into fifth, while Giorgio Pantano made one of the best getaways of the afternoon, gaining four place to sit ninth.
Already out at this stage were both DPR cars. Andy Soucek, among those to have been demoted for yellow flag offences in qualifying, caused the initial start to be aborted when he stalled on the grid, and then pulled off exiting Club on his first lap. At the same time, team-mate Christian Bakkerud was in the pits, his race run as the gremlins hit his 'home' race.
Having failed to make the start in each of the last three feature races, Zuber was not about to waste this opportunity, and was quickly opening out a gap to Conway half a second up by the end of lap three, the margin edged towards a full second before Conway stemmed the flow. Third place was already dropping away, as di Grassi came under heavy pressure from both Glock and Carroll.
The German was in no mood to hang about, eager not to let his iSport team-mate have things all his own way, but also keen to bolster a championship lead badly hit at Magny-Cours. Approaching Abbey on lap four, he lined up outside di Grassi and held his nerve to claim the inside for the second part of the chicane. Caught by surprise, di Grassi then yielded another spot to the opportunistic Carroll, who cut back down the inside at the exit of the corner.
