Luca Filippi charges to Spa race two win for Coloni

The Italian worked his way from fifth to second in the opening six laps, picking off Dani Clos, Fairuz Fauzy and the fast-starting (11th to second) Johnny Cecotto Jr with moves at Les Combes.

He was making inroads into Josef Kral's lead when the safety car came out, after Fabio Leimer (Rapax) had a nasty-looking crash at Eau Rouge.

Filippi (Coloni) then passed Arden driver Kral at Les Combes after the restart, and from there he was able to pull away while the rest of the field went into battle behind him.

Romain Grosjean, Dani Clos and Jules Bianchi picked off Fauzy's Super Nova car when the Malaysian went wide after attacking Cecotto (Ocean) at Les Combes.

As Cecotto fought to keep DAMS driver Grosjean at bay, that allowed Clos (Racing Engineering) and Bianchi (ART) to challenge. Clos got past the new champion out of La Source, while Bianchi got a run on both to pull off a stunning three-abreast pass into Eau Rouge.

From there, Bianchi picked off Cecotto, before passing Kral for second on the penultimate lap.

Cecotto slipped out of contention in the closing laps, while Grosjean got back ahead of Clos and held on to fourth to the end.

The Spaniard had to look in his mirrors from there, as Sam Bird was completing a charge from 12th on the grid for iSport. The Briton passed Clos with three laps to go, to keep himself in contention in a five-way fight for the runner-up spot in the title race.

Results - 18 laps:

Pos  Driver               Team                  Time/Gap
 1.  Luca Filippi         Coloni              39m34.834s
 2.  Jules Bianchi        ART                   + 4.476s
 3.  Josef Kral           Arden                 + 6.857s
 4.  Romain Grosjean      DAMS                  + 7.685s
 5.  Sam Bird             iSport                + 8.993s
 6.  Dani Clos            Racing Engineering   + 12.952s
 7.  Esteban Gutierrez    ART                  + 14.364s
 8.  Johnny Cecotto       Ocean                + 19.360s
 9.  Brendon Hartley      Ocean                + 19.634s
10.  Davide Valsecchi     AirAsia              + 20.192s
11.  Adam Carroll         Super Nova           + 21.472s
12.  Marcus Ericsson      iSport               + 22.033s
13.  Christian Vietoris   Racing Engineering   + 22.348s
14.  Jolyon Palmer        Arden                + 22.917s
15.  Michael Herck        Coloni               + 23.672s
16.  Max Chilton          Carlin               + 27.960s
17.  Rodolfo Gonzalez     Trident              + 28.510s
18.  Pal Varhaug          DAMS                 + 28.540s
19.  Charles Pic          Addax                + 28.853s
20.  Giedo van der Garde  Addax                + 29.374s
21.  Fairuz Fauzy         Super Nova           + 59.072s

Retirements:

     Julian Leal          Rapax                  13 laps
     Mikhail Aleshin      Carlin                 13 laps
     Luiz Razia           AirAsia                12 laps
     Fabio Leimer         Rapax                   7 laps