The Heylen caution was extended when PKV Racing rookie Katherine Legge suffered her third and finally terminal ‘off' of the day, hitting the turn one wall on cold tyres as she completed her final stop. Legge's crash completed a dismal couple of minutes for the PKV team, who also retired Servia's leaking machine with gearbox troubles under the same caution.
Pizzonia eventually led the field to green on lap 50 and behind ‘Jungle Boy,' who would still have to make a late stop for fuel, sat Philippe, Dominguez and Tracy, who was adjudged to have passed his former teammate under the yellow flags and was ordered to drop from third to fourth. Behind the simmering Forsythe driver was Tagliani, Junqueira, Ranger, Bourdais, Zwolsman and Wirth who completed the lead lap runners.
After holding off a breathtaking turn five move from Dominguez on lap 51 Philippe assumed the lead on lap 52 when Pizzonia finally stopped and caught a small break when Tracy began attacking Dominguez for second. However Tracy's afternoon got even worse when he cut across the VB chicane and not only had to drop back from Dominguez's bumper but also had to surrender third place to Tagliani at the request of the race director.
Philippe and Dominguez were left to duel it out amongst themselves for the win with Dominguez saving his last ‘push to pass' for the run past the white flag. Dominguez got agonisingly close to Philippe going into turn one on the final lap but a slight mistake by the Rocketsports driver coming out of turn four gave Philippe the critical advantage he needed.
With the crowd cheering enthusiastically, but nowhere near as enthusiastically as they had done earlier for Power, Philippe took the chequered flag by seven tenths of a second from Dominguez with Tagliani salvaging a podium for Team Australia some six seconds behind.
