Hamad, of GFH Bahrain, again made a flying start to hold off Team Goddard’s Vervisch into turn one whilst his team mate, Rafael Suzuki, was hung out to dry and fell from third to fifth. Aran Racing’s Gonzales was third from Howson of PTRS and they went through the ultra fast turn six side by side before Howson took third place in turn seven. Meanwhile Hamad and Vervisch had already opened up a gap and were to spend the rest of the race only metres apart. Suzuki forced his way past Gonzales into fourth place at turn one on the third lap and spent the rest of the race trying to chase down Matt Howson, failing to catch him by less than one second at the flag.
Lap five saw Hamad and Vervisch side by side on the run up to turn one but the driver from Bahrain was just able to hold off his Belgian rival. Vervisch almost made it past on lap seven at turn 14 but fell back in the process. However he was soon back on the tail of Hamad and try as he might he could not find a way past. It was another accomplished win for Al Fardan who drove an almost faultless race under great pressure.
Howson was happy to finish third in the results this time whilst Suzuki felt he was too cautious on the first lap. Team Goddard’s David Julian was the Promotions Class winner.
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