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Tom Dillmann takes maiden GP2 victory in Bahrain sprint

Tom Dillmann claimed his maiden GP2 win with a faultless drive in the Sakhir sprint race

The Rapax driver inherited pole when DAMS' Felipe Nasr picked up a penalty after Friday's feature race, and Dillmann made the most of his good fortune. He made a perfect start, held the lead into the first corner and then set about eking out an advantage.

Initially iSport's Marcus Ericson gave chase, but as happened in the feature the Swede was unable to build upon an excellent start and he was soon passed by Arden's Luis Razia.

In the closing stages the Brazilian started to take sizeable chunks out of Dillman's lead, but the Frenchman had just enough of an advantage to hold on.

Davide Valsecchi fell two places short of making GP2 history by winning four races on the bounce. The DAMS star was delayed when Caterham's Giedo van der Garde was tipped into a spin by Lotus's Esteban Gutierrez at the first corner of the opening lap and then spent too long finding a way by the ailing Ericsson, who had damaged his front wing when he hit an errant polystyrene brake marker board.

Gutierrez made up for a terrible performance by Lotus in the feature event by holding on to fourth, ahead of Carlin's on-form Rio Haryanto. Nasr worked his way up to sixth while Ericsson clung on to seventh.

Racing Engineering's Fabio Leimer claimed the final point after a last-lap pass on Coloni's Fabio Onidi.

Results - 23 laps:

Pos  Driver               Team                   Time/Gap
 1.  Tom Dillmann         Rapax                41m16.276s
 2.  Luiz Razia           Arden                  + 0.198s
 3.  Davide Valsecchi     DAMS                   + 3.958s
 4.  Esteban Gutierrez    Lotus                 + 16.488s
 5.  Felipe Nasr          DAMS                  + 18.602s
 6.  Rio Haryanto         Carlin                + 20.425s
 7.  Marcus Ericsson      iSport                + 26.294s
 8.  Fabio Leimer         Racing Engineering    + 29.605s
 9.  Fabio Onidi          Coloni                + 33.490s
10.  Nathanael Berthon    Racing Engineering    + 34.078s
11.  Nigel Melker         Ocean                 + 43.463s
12.  James Calado         Lotus                 + 44.371s
13.  Max Chilton          Carlin                + 46.743s
14.  Julian Leal          Trident               + 47.439s
15.  Rodolfo Gonzalez     Caterham              + 54.991s
16.  Brendon Hartley      Ocean                 + 59.764s
17.  Stephane Richelmi    Trident             + 1m00.655s
18.  Stefano Coletti      Coloni              + 1m02.090s
19.  Giedo van der Garde  Caterham            + 1m02.632s
20.  Ricardo Teixeira     Rapax               + 1m07.468s
21.  Giancarlo Serenelli  Lazarus             + 1m08.293s
22.  Jolyon Palmer        iSport              + 1m18.688s
23.  Fabrizio Crestani    Lazarus             + 1m26.049s

Retirements:

     Simon Trummer        Arden                   21 laps
     Dani Clos            Addax                   19 laps
     Johnny Cecotto       Addax                    0 laps

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