Robin Frijns added 'GP2 race winner' to his already impressive CV, after claiming victory in the Sa🦂turday feature race at t🃏he Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona for Hilmer Motorsport.

Frijns was helped by three leading contenders - Racing Engineering's Fabio Leimer, DAMS' Marcus Ericsson and ART's James Calado - all ending up out of contentio⛦n early in the race after collisions. Frijns then converted an early pit stop into a controlled drive to the finish line ahead of a storming Felipe Nasr who had made short work of Jolyon Palmer, Tom Dillmann and Stefano Coletti i♋n the closing laps.

Frijn's Hilmer team mate Jon Lancaster proved the team's strength in Spain by picking up third place in his d?but with the te🔯am after Jolyon Palmer was penalised for forcing Russian Time's Sam Bird off track in the closing laps.

Bird himself was involved in the incident that sidelined Ericsson and will have a five-place grid penalty for Sunday's sprint race. Bird's team mate Tom Dillmann was involved in a late race spat with ꦬDAMS' St?phane Richelmi having already survived a scary incident which saw Nathana?l Berthon's Trident launched over the back of Sergio Canamasas' Caterham on lap 4; Berthon gets ℱa ten-place sprint grid penalty for causing that accident.

Feature race results

1. #22 Robin Frijns Hilmer Motorsport 1:00:38.896s (37 laps)
2. #9 Felipe Nasr Carlin + 3.316s
3. #23 Jon Lancaster Hilmer Motorsport + 12.609s
4. #18 Stefano Coletti Rapax + 13.329s
5. #12 Tom Dillmann Russian Time + 14.325s
6. #15 Alexander Rossi Caterham Racing + 17.160s
7. #21 Kevin Ceccon Trident Racing + 17.504s
8. #5 Johnny Cecotto Jr. Arden + 24.013s
9. #17 Rio Haryanto Barwa Addax + 32.024s
10. #10 Jolyon Palmer * Carlin + 32.290s
11. #4 Daniel Abt ART GP + 32.823s
12. #6 Mitch Evans Arden + 35.748s
13. #7 Juli?n Leal Racing Engineering + 39.922s
14. #16 Jake Rosenzweig Barwa Addax + 40.999s
15. #2 St?phane Richelmi DAMS + 42.690s
16. #27 Dani?l de Jong MP Motorsport + 43.102s
17. #26 Adrian Quaife-Hobbs MP Motorsport + 54.532s
18. #8 Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering + 56.946s
19. #19 Simon Trummer Rapax + 57.935s
20. #24 Rene Binder Venezuela GP Lazarus + 1 laps
21. #11 Sam Bird ? Russian Time + 4 laps

DNF #25 Kevin Giovesi Venezuela GP Lazarus (retired on lap 11)
DNF #1 Marcus Ericsson DAMS (retired on lap 10)
DNF #14 Sergio Canamasas Caterham Racing (retired on lap 5)
DNF #20 Nathana?l Berthon + Trident Racing (retired on lap 4)
DNF #3 James Calado ART GP (retired on lap 1)

Fastest lap

#19 Simon Trummer Rapax 1:33.409 (111.476mph) on lap 33

* denotes 20s penalty for forcing car #11 off track? denotes 5-place sprint race grid penalty for colliding with car #1+ denotes 10-place sprint race grid penalty for colliding with car #14