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Bourdais makes it two in two
After a thrilling, race-long ding-dong battle with his less experienced team-mate, Sebastien Bourdais managed to replicate his win in Sepang on the dry roads of Suzuka. In a battle that carried on until the final lap - he finished less than a second clear of the young Kiwi. Scuderia Italia's Umair Alonso managed to round off the podium places.
Aside from the regular lead-swapping, the race was largely defined by a chaotic opening lap incident. Tenacious Racing's Franck Montagny misjudged the left-hand hairpin and caught the curb, spinning across the circuit and into the gravel trap. He managed to avoid ending anyone else's race thanks to a huge slice of luck, but he caused both Petronas drivers to take evasive action, including the consistently unlucky Prathik, as well as clipping the front wing of Patrick Friesacher.
Once the yellow flags were lifted, Vitantonio Liuzzi and Red King were the stars of the race. King, although he finished pointless, climbed five places from his grid position, and raced as high as sixth place during the pit-stops. Liuzzi, meanwhile, managed to get some real pace out of his Scuderia Italia, and overtook both Mugens, both RBS cars and Sully's Mobil-Vodafone en route to a nine-place gain in fifth place.
Joe Messi, however, was the day's real loser as he was blamelessly eliminated by a poor overtaking move by Alguersuari's Cosworth. Alguersuari lost a wheel while forcing Messi into the wall to make it two retirements in two races for the luckless Aussie.
Another very entertaining race, then, as Formula PC continues to stamp its mark on the motorsport landscape.
The full result is as follows:
2 | Michael Ng | Racing Francais |15 pts
3 | Umair Alonso | Scuderia Italia |12 pts
4 | Rishabh Tandon | Mobil-Vodafone |10 pts
5 |Vitantoni Liuzzi| Scuderia Italia |8 pts
6 |Anthony Davidson| Mugen |6 pts
7 | Sam Boromono | RBS |4 pts
8 |Sakon Yamamoto| Panasonic |3 pts
9 |Bruno Senna| Mugen |2 pts
10 |Sebastian Buemi| RBS |1 pt
11| Thomas Sully | Mobil-Vodafone |-
12| Red King | Cosworth|-
13| Peter Quill | Infiniti |+1 lap
14| Tarak Sai Prathik | Petronas |+1 lap
15| Sami Khan | Suzuki |+1 lap
16|Markus Winkelhock| Petronas |+1 lap
17|Patrick Friesacher| Infiniti |+1 lap
-| Joe Messi | Tenacious |Crash
-|Jaime Alguersuari| Cosworth |Crash
-|Kazuki Nakajima| Panasonic |Engine
-| Alphonso Mazzacane | Suzuki |Engine
-|Franck Montagny| Tenacious |Spin
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