Behind him, Borja Garcia and Andy Soucek gave home fans yet more reason to cheer with fifth and sixth place finishes for Durango and DPR, the latter driver looking more confident than ever since his superb Spa-Francorchamps round. They even had the pleasure of overtaking a tentative Glock to record four and three points each, while Garcia's team-mate Karun Chandhok scored a useful extra point for fastest lap.
Rounding out the top eight was, rather unsurprisingly given how many times he has done so this year, Javier Villa, another Spaniard delighting the home fans. Starting from his fourth sprint race pole position of the season, having won the last three races he started from that place, who would bet against him making it a quartet in the final race of the season…?
That is for tomorrow though and for today it is Petrov and Campos that were the happiest people in the paddock. Together with Pantano second it marks a dream result for the team that are based just three miles down the road. Petrov's win also gives him the outstanding honour of being the first Russian to win an international single-seater race.
Pantano is just one point behind Filippi now in the fight for third place in the standings, although his team will have some repair work to do after Nakajima got too close to the Italian over the line and hit the back of his car.
Despite the rather inauspicious ending though, third place marks Nakajima's sixth podium of the season and although it was not the win he was likely hoping for, the Japanese driver will now end the season with best rookie status – no mean feat.
With some of the lesser positions decided now, attention turns back to the title race. However, with di Grassi starting down in 23rd and Glock will starting second, the title is very much in the grasp of the German and iSport International. It is one that is set to end ART Grand Prix's reign as the leading GP2 team, but as they say, anything can still happen.
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