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Villa sprints to maiden victory

Javier Villa won his first race in the GP2 series this morning during the sprint race at Magny-Cours. The Racing Engineering driver managed to withstand some intense pressure to clinch victory only a day after his teammate Ernesto Viso was involved in a horror crash.

The Spaniard finished just six tenths ahead of Super Nova's Luca Filippi with feature race winner Giorgio Pantano completing the podium. Lucas di Grassi finished fourth for ART Grand Prix whilst Vitali Petrov and DAMS' Kazuki Nakajima filled the other two points paying positions.Bruno Senna just missed out in seventh for Arden International and British hopeful Adam Carroll finished down in 14th for FMS International on his comeback. 

Pole-sitter Nicolas Lapierre looked destined for victory until a brake failure at the Adelaide hairpin ruined his chances of a dream home win. Thus Villa was left to collect the win having started from second on the grid although the Spaniard had to see off the challenge from Filippi and GP2 veteran Pantano. 

Young Brit Mike Conway of Super Nova, who was in with a good chance of scoring points, retired early with a hydraulic failure. Senna was at the centre of much of the action after making contact with teammate Adrian Zaugg, Pastor Maldonado and then more costly with Petrov, which lost him his sixth place to Nakajima. Championship leader Timo Glock retired three laps from the end, whose double retirement this weekend means that his lead over Filippi in the standings gets slashed to eight points

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