His race was compromised by a difficult start but he made up for it to finish an honourable ninth.

"The race went quite well", explained Bellin, "even though I ran onto the dirty part of the track at turn four and had to clean the tyres. This meant I had to slow down for a few laps.

Unfortunately, sharing the drive with Rinaldi means that I don't know the car that well as I only ran a few laps in practice. All in all though I am pleased with how the race went as I ended up in ninth having started in thirteenth.

The car handles really well. If I hadn't got the tyres dirty I would have had even more fun..."