Pole position wasn't a surprise as Sulla Looming lined up alongside Yuriko while Nella Boccara put her best performance in todate as she lined up 3rd.
Yuriko made the best start but by lap 3 Boccora was leading her first race; and doing it in style. She soon dropped into 19s laps as Sulla worked her way up into second.
At this stage the front group were fairly close with Sulla, Yuriko and Crippy all taking turns in second before Sulla made a pass stick on lap 10. Rattra and Jafo were a few seconds back while Katier, running in low boost, was leading PJ and Suzy who was aiming to run one stop.
As the field approached Lap 20 things seemed to be settling as drivers worked out what lap they would need to stop. Most seemed comfortable to run to lap 28 or 29, at 1/3 distance, but suddenly Nella made a 'slowing to pit' call on Lap 23. 
This proved disastrous for the reynard driver as she slowed perhaps a touch early while still on the racing line approaching the kink.
Sulla was caught out and unfortunately ran into the leader putting her out of the race. A disapointing end for a run that promised a decent finish. With her early stop a win was unlikely but she had the pace to get a top 3 finish.
Most of the field pitted under the subsequent yellow but did as a result face some care with fuel if the race went green to the end. After the stops Crippy became leader number four and she was soon embroiled in a battle with Sulla.
Behind them Jafo looked strong in third ahead of Rattra and PJ who had jumped several places with the stops. Then the yellow flew again, Yuriko went into Turn 3 too deep and lost a wheel on the outside wall.
Katier and Sulla both pitted although some drivers elected to stay out. Both the pitters did so with one thing in mind, trying to maximum time at boost 1 so it was no surprise to see them both being racey when the race went green again.
Katier was being a little more cautious than Looming but they soon started working up through the field. Crippy continued to lead but was under pressure from Rattra and Jafo and on lap 40 she lost it on the apron in T4, she spun up, down and over.. rolling violently down the track and amazingly landing on all four wheels with nothing missing.
Suzy spun in sympathy and was lucky not to lose a radiator as Katier hit the blue and white car leading a huge dent in her sidepod. Katier lost her nose but all three had to pit for repairs. Suzy decided to try to run from there to the end non-stop while Katier elected to run one stop. Some other cars pitted and off the re-start, leader number 5, Rattra, lead from Katier and Sulla. These two, boost on full, now proceeded to work their way into the first two places with Jafo not far behind.
The question now appeared to be, would one more stop as seemingly the plan for Kat, Sulla and Jafo, outdo non-stop from Rattra and Suzy. The decision was made on lap 63 when Jafo made a hash of entering the pits under green. He spun, without hitting anything, was promptly lapped by Sulla and Katier but brought out the yellow.
Jafo thus did another lap, pitted under the yellow and lost minimal time. Unfortunately Sulla did a Yuriko while slowing for the yellow and became the last retirement with a car that was lacking a wheel.
That was pretty much the end of the action, Rattra got a penalty for passing (just) Suzy off the restart but only lost a single place as a result, ironically to Suzy. Katier was a lap or more up on the entire field so just brought it home although Jafo did unlap himself.. as Katier crossed to take the Checkers.
Jafo unlaps himself with 0.071s of Katiers race left to run.
He would finish a solid second with Suzy finishing the podium
and retaining the lead in the championship.
