Sam Bird won the following day's 30-lap sprint race for Russian Time, with Carlin's Felipe Nasr second and Coletti third.

Tom Dillmann started from pole position in the sprint race but lost the lead to teammate Bird before the end of the first lap.

Leimer's feature race win was his second of the season and Bird's sprint event victory was the first for Russian Time after it took over from ISport International.

Leimer lowered Coletti's lead in the Drivers' Championship to one point Nasr maintained third position and Bird's victory moved him to fourth.

[3] Leimer and Coletti had won the season's previous two races in the opening round in Sepang three weeks prior.

Having been in one of the Caterham Racing cars in the preceding round in Sepang, Ma Qinghua was replaced by the former Formula Renaullt 3.5 Series driver Alexander Rossi for the rest of the year.

[5] Robin Frijns, the reigning Formula Renault 3.5 Series champion and test and reserve driver for Sauber, was employed by Hilmer Motorsport to drive in lieu of Conor Daly who left the team after Sepang since he was on a one-round contract with them.

Rossi, Marcus Ericsson of DAMS, Nasr, Calado, Russian Time's Tom Dillmann, Johnny Cecotto Jr. of Arden International and Daniel Abt for ART Grand Prix were in positions four to ten.

[8] Friday afternoon's 30-minute qualifying session saw the drivers' fastest lap times determine the starting order for the first race.

[14] Kevin Giovesi (Lazarus) was also penalised after the stewards ruled that he impeded Cecotto between turns nine and ten and dropped three places on the grid.

[14] Mitch Evans (Arden International) was the only driver to be affected by electrical problem in his car and pulled off onto a run-off area.

[12] Notes: The first race was held over 170 km (110 mi) or 60 minutes (which ever came first) and all drivers were required by regulations to make one pit stop.

[18] As the five red lights went out to begin the race, Leimer held off the fast-starting Coletti to lead the field in the opening sequence of corners.

Canamasas was penalised for the second day running as the stewards imposed a drive-through penalty on him, deeming him to have deliberately forced Calado off the circuit.

[19] Leimer's advantage over Coletti had dwindled to 1.3 seconds but he regained some of that lead by overtaking the battling Evans and Giovesi at turn four.

[19] Evans became the race's final retirement on the 25th lap when he stopped on a run-off area with smoke bellowing from his car due to debris penetrating the radiator and overheating the engine.

Abt, Haryanto, Rosenzweig, Berthon, Binder, Leal, Canamasas and Frijns rounded out the 21 classified finishers.

[23] On the grid, pole position starter Dillmann made a clean getaway to hold off Quaife-Hobbs and keep the lead into the first corner.

Bird initially got away from his starting position slowly but Quaife-Hobbs's blocked Coletti and allowed him into second place on the inside.

On the sixth lap, Bird came upon a large chunk of debris intto the first corner and locked his tyres trying to avoid running over it.

By lap seven, one second covered the trio and Leimer looked for a way past Quaife-Hobbs but was cautious not to allow Palmer to take advantage of the situation.

[24] The damage to Ericsson's car became too problematic for him and became the race's sole retirement at its midway point while Binder visited the pit lane twice, putting him a lap behind the leader.

Tyres began to show signs of degradation during this period and more action was observed: Ceccon passed Rosenzweig for 11th and caught Cecotto.

Canamasas battled with Trummer over who would be the first driver to pass the ailing Berthon who elected to make a pit stop for new tyres.

[24] On the 19th lap,[24] Palmer overtook Leimer on the inside at turn one for sixth after the latter ran wide in an attempt to defend position.

[25][28] The pressure on Bird was temporarily relieved when Coletti locked his tyres heading towards the tenth corner and then braked deep for the final turn.

Leimer, Ceccon, Canamasas, Cecotto, Richelmi, Trummer, Evans, Leal, Giovesi, De Jong, Rosenzweig, Rossi, Varhaug, Berthon, Frijns, Haryanto and Binder were the final classified finishers.

Leimer revealed his objective for the feature race was to execute a fast start but in spite of struggling which almost lost him a position to Coletti, declared himself "very happy" as he had waited for some time to achieve another victory in the GP2 Series.

"[30] Coletti said he was happy with his team but felt he could have pushed harder earlier in the race due to the fear of wearing his tyres and decided to not take the risk.

"[28] Nasr spoke about car management and maintaining the pace levels with the leaders and believed he could have won in an alternative situation, adding, "But anyway, it’s still a good result.