the race to win the first leg and began the second from pole position. He was joined on the grid's front row by Gommendy. The final classified finishers were Karthikeyan, Kovalainen, Ide, Matsuura, Doornbos, Jouanny, Antinucci, Kerr, Kogure, Campaniço, Carbone, Costa, Yoshimoto, Lee, Hiranaka, Citron, Sato, Ho and Lei. Leg 2 The second leg of the race started later that day at 15:40 local time in cloudy and dry weather. For the second successive leg, the driver who started from pole position lost the lead as Montin narrowly avoided stalling his car and elevated Kovalainen to first place and Ide overtook Gommendy for second. Jouanny hit the armco barrier at Lisboa turn and ricocheted across the circuit. Kerr could not avoid him despite turning right and ran into his car. Carbone was also collected and the accident prompted the safety car's deployment for debris clearing by marshals. When the safety car was withdrawn on lap three, Kovalainen fended off a challenge from Ide on the run to Mandarin Oriental Bend to hold the lead. Kovalainen began to pull clear from the rest of the field. Lei went off the track at Lisboa corner but restarted his car so he could continue driving. Doornbos did the same on the next lap and also returned to the track without damaging his car. In the meantime, Montin attacked Kogure and Ide was under pressure from Gommendy whom was passed by Karthikeyan but Gommendy retook his former position soon after. Karthikeyan crashed into the wall leaving Maternity Bend corner and retired on the fourth lap. Although Kovalainen was continuing to pull away with a series of fastest laps, Ide later responded to his pace and Kovalainen did the same by increasing his lead at the front to half a second. Gommendy was then close by Ide and passed him for second on lap eight at Mandarin Oriental Bend. Meanwhile, Costa overtook Campaniço on the straight and the latter removed his front wing in a collision with the wall at Lisboa corner after Costa's pass surprised him. At the front Kovalainen again tried to establish a small lead when Gommendy drew close to him due to a more powerful engine. On lap nine, Ide had third taken from him by fellow Japanese Matsuura as the two avoided a collision into Lisboa turn. Ide drove onto the turn's escape road after unsuccessfully blocking Matsuura due to