Stefano Coletti won himself a piece of history in the Saturday sprint race, after becoming the first native winner of a Monaco GP weekend event in over 80 years.
A first-lap crash that engulfed half the field proved just the opportunity Russian Time's Sam Bird needed to repeat his 2012 World Series by Renault victory in Monaco.
Russian Time scored its maiden win in the GP2 Series as Sam Bird took the lead early in the sprint race and then held off Felipe Nasr to the line by inches.
Fabio Leimer didn't let Racing Engineering down on Saturday, converting his emphatic pole position to an equally comfortable feature race win in Bahrain.
Wet track conditions first thing gave teams the chance to test their rain and intermediate tyres, but did nothing for the times on the third day at Jerez.