A potentially genius move became one that has probably ended his title dreams after di Grassi could not handle the car on a tricky surface and duly spun away into the gravel trap. Leaving him at the back of the field for the second race, Glock and iSport are now champions elect.
Still, Glock himself was not having one of his finer drives, the German favouring a cautious approach on wet tyres, particularly given di Grassi was well behind him, and especially when he made a terrible start and slipped from second to sixth by the first corner.
Also misguidedly starting on wets, Luca Filippi was another to endure a race to forget, the Italian starting well but slipping gradually down the order with a problem before eventually spinning out of eighth place with only two laps remaining – thus surrendering pole position for the sprint race.
Together with Nicolas Lapierre (getting a bad start and being tagged by di Grassi), Adam Carroll and Bruno Senna (who had already been delayed by having to make two pit-tops before spinning) all failing to finish, the top eight took on a more varied look than usual – although it was clear what was making the difference around the tight, but sweeping Spanish circuit.
Indeed, Spanish drivers were in superb form, those that had driven the track in their Formula 3 days enjoying a definite advantage in tricky conditions that caught out those normally able to keep it on the straight and narrow.
As such, fourth place went, remarkably, to Marcos Martinez, the youngster enjoying a superb race in the Racing Engineering car after taking the risk of starting on slick tyres. Such was his pace, he was up to ninth place by the end of the first lap from 19th on the grid, fifth by the pit-stops before eventually crossing the line in fourth place, albeit well off the top three.
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