With the safety car summoned, Pantano, Grosjean and Zuber knew they had to make their pi-stops count immediately. All received solid service from their teams, resuming in the same order as they had arrived, but deep in a queue as the pace car picked up at random. Fortunately for the nerves of all intimately involved with the top three, the backmarkers were waved through until Pantano was back at the head of the pack.
The Italian also had less to fear at the restart, as the lapped Andy Soucek and Luca Filippi filled the gap back to Grosjean, who still had Zuber for company. As a result, Pantano had little trouble in resuming his commanding advantage as the safety car pulled off, and reeled off the laps to the chequered flag.
Indeed, with the exception of the lapped runners giving way to their faster rivals, there was little notable action over the final five laps, save for Villa zapping past Carroll with one tour remaining. Having appeared on course to reprise his 2007 tactic of claiming eighth in the feature to start on pole for the sprint, Villa may have been undone by his British rival, who carried nothing like the speed of the Racing Engineering machine into the final complex.
![Giorgio Pantano - Racing Engineering [pic credit: GP2 Series]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/437628.jpg)
