Romain Grosjean capitalised on a Jules Bianchi error with just over a lap remaining to steal victory in the second GP2 race at the Nurburgring.

The French pair were involved in a three-way dice, which included race one winner Luca Filippi, in the final laps of a race that had started wet but dried out. Once everyone had switched to slicks, Bianchi enjoyed a slender lead over his pursuers. Grosjean had only launched one attack – four laps from the end – into Turn 1, but Bianchi had repassed him on the exit and seemed to just about have things under control.

However, the Ferrari junior driver then locked up at the final chicane on the penultimate lap, running wide and enabling Grosjean to get a run on him into the final corner. Filippi then challenged Bianchi into Turn 1, but the Italian clattered into the side of the ART car and spun. Both cars were undamaged, and they held onto their podium places.

Behind them Christian Vietoris took fourth, while Adam Carroll sustained pressure from Marcus Ericsson to take fifth. Ericsson spun at Turn 2 on the final lap, handing the final point to Max Chilton.

Chilton just kept polesitter Sam Bird at bay to the checkered flag. The Briton had led the opening lap, but he spun at Turn 10 on lap two, handing the lead to Bianchi.

The Frenchman had already benefited from some of the other leaders hitting trouble, as Dani Clos and Giedo van der Garde clashed at Turn 5 on the opening lap while fighting over second.

The battle for the lead should have featured Esteban Gutierrez as well, as the Mexican was fighting hard with Grosjean in the first half of the race. He got ahead of the eventual winner when they both pitted for slicks, but his race came to an end when he lost a wheel just over a lap later.


Results - 23 laps:

Pos  Driver               Team                    Time/Gap
 1.  Romain Grosjean      DAMS                  45m09.296s
 2.  Jules Bianchi        ART                       1.569s
 3.  Luca Filippi         Coloni                    7.768s
 4.  Christian Vietoris   Racing Engineering       14.388s
 5.  Adam Carroll         Super Nova               24.962s
 6.  Max Chilton          Carlin                   42.102s
 7.  Sam Bird             iSport                   42.428s
 8.  Fabio Leimer         Rapax                    45.561s
 9.  Julian Leal          Rapax                    59.610s
10.  Michael Herck        Coloni                 1m04.044s
11.  Josef Kral           Arden                  1m05.990s
12.  Fairuz Fauzy         Super Nova             1m06.370s
13.  Kevin Mirocha        Ocean                  1m07.101s
14.  Luiz Razia           AirAsia                1m07.957s
15.  Rodolfo Gonzalez     Trident                1m15.328s
16.  Marcus Ericsson      iSport                   + 1 lap
17.  Pal Varhaug          DAMS                     + 1 lap

Retirements:

     Charles Pic          Addax                    20 laps
     Davide Valsecchi     AirAsia                  17 laps
     Jolyon Palmer        Arden                    17 laps
     Esteban Gutierrez    ART                      15 laps
     Alvaro Parente       Carlin                   10 laps
     Johnny Cecotto       Ocean                     6 laps
     Stefano Coletti      Trident                   6 laps
     Giedo van der Garde  Addax                     1  lap
     Dani Clos            Racing Engineering        0 laps