Adam Carroll took his second win of the year with a storming drive, and a fortuitous pit call, in race one at the Hungaroring, holding on despite constant pressure throughout the second half of the race applied by Kazuki Nakajima and Andi Zuber to claim the win by just seven tenths of a second.

The victory came as a result of the Ulsterman leading the field as a result of pitstops by other drivers as a huge accident on the front straight involving Luca Filippi allowed his FMS team to make a phenomenal pitstop and cycle him back on track in the lead.

The start of the race was delayed for one lap as a result of Sebastien Buemi's stall on the grid, but when they got started pole-sitter Timo Glock was able to easily cover fellow front row starter Zuber, although by doing so he gave faster starter Lucas di Grassi a clear run around the outside to lead the field into turn one.

Giorgio Pantano almost followed the Brazilian through but had to give best to Glock, slotting in behind the German but just ahead of Pastor Maldonado, who had slid inside Zuber to take fourth place, with Carroll, Nakajima and Nicolas Lapierre rounding out the top eight as they made their way back around to the front straight. One man who wouldn't be joining them there was Mike Conway, who spun off at turn five, giving himself a short walk home.

The iSport teammates were soon hounding their immediate rivals, with Glock pushing di Grassi hard for the lead while Zuber was all over the rear of Maldonado. The next time by Nakajima was in for what is fast becoming his traditional early stop, changing the rears and heading back out into clear air, albeit back in 19th position.

Back on track a couple of triumvirates soon formed, with di Grassi/Glock/Pantano easily pulling away from Maldonado/Zuber/Carroll, but the tight nature of the circuit meant that it was almost impossible for anyone to get through without someone making a mistake. Zuber, however, was determined to force a mistake from his rival, almost running into the back of the slowing Venezuelan at the final turn before jinking to the outside next time by, inching past along the final straight before kinking right to give his rival the big don't argue as he took fourth position into turn one.

Glock was clearly learning from Nakajima, realising that he needed some clear air to make some time over his title rival and coming in for his stop on lap six. Unfortunately for the German there was a problem with the right rear wheel nut, causing a big delay which cycled him back on track in 19th, seven positions behind the Japanese driver.

Di Grassi came in next time around, but Nakajima had him covered as the Brazilian came out right on his tail, and it looked as though the Japanese driver had done enough to claim the win: with Maldonado throwing his car into the wall, Zuber slotting inbetween Nakajima and di Grassi, and Carroll in the temporary lead just 17 seconds ahead, there looked to be nothing that could keep Nakajima off the top spot.

And then Filippi hit the wall, and everything changed.

The Italian was having a solid race and looked on for more points until he came into the final turn where his left rear suspension collapsed, pitching him luridly into the tyre wall before bouncing off and spinning around and around as he came back down the front straight, shedding pieces of his car everywhere, before finally coming to a rest against the pitwall. Vitaly Petrov and Xandi Negrao were out on the spot, but more importantly Filippi was able to climb straight out of the debris, remarkably looking as fresh as a daisy.