Teddy Clairet led a 1-2 finish for Team Clairet Sport, securing his first win in four years, and the first 1-2 finish for the family-run team in the series, which elevates him into the lead of the championship, while many of the series’ front-runners ran into difficulties during the race.

MA:GP’s Viktor Andersson started from pole position in his Lynk & Co, while Teddy Clairet got a great launch off the line and passed Sten Dorian Piirimägi’s ALM Honda into La Source, before getting a perfect run on the exit to take the lead from Andersson before Eau Rouge.

Teddy’s brother and team-mate Jimmy Clairet was quickly up to third, passing Piirimägi on the way to Eau Rouge, with Piirimägi quickly shuffled down behind Junesung Park and Marco Butti, before Butti’s Honda then overtook Park with a daring move at the final chicane to move up to fourth.

Butti overtook Jimmy Clairet for third, while further down the order there were intense battles taking place between the many drivers who’d started out of position, with Jenson Brickley throwing his Monlau CUPRA down the inside of team-mate Eric Gené and the Honda of Santiago Concepción for ninth at Eau Rouge, before running wide a few corners later and dropping back down to 13th.

At the end of lap four, Butti passed Andersson for second place with a pass into the chicane, completed after running wide at Blanchimont, and was ordered to give the place back. Before the end of the lap, he handed the spot back for two corners before re-passing Andersson at La Source, but by now this had allowed Teddy Clairet to build an even larger lead.

At just over half distance, Sten Dorian Piirimägi passed Park’s Hyundai back for fifth, before developing a puncture two laps later and pitting for new tyres, allowing both Junesung and his team-mate Junui Park back up to fifth and sixth, with Ruben Volt’s ALM Honda right behind them.

Jimmy Clairet moved up to third, passing Andersson at Les Combes on lap six, while the race then settled down until a dramatic crash on the penultimate lap, as Butti began to lose pace before crashing out hard at Blanchimont, suffering extensive damage to the front of his Honda CIvic Type R but was able to get out of the car unaided.

Jenson Brickley, who’d got up to tenth position, was then the next retirement, stopping at the final chicane, with the race able to finish after 12 laps of green flag racing  with Teddy Clairet claiming victory ahead of his brother Jimmy by nine seconds, with Viktor Andersson securing his best finish of the season in third, and securing the win in the young drivers’ classification.

Nicola Baldan finished seventh and secured a second win in a row in the Diamond drivers’ class, and retakes the lead of that trophy by 12 points ahead of Felipe Fernández.

Teddy Clairet now leads the standings by four points over his brother Jimmy, while Eric Gené’s consistent weekend moves the Spanish driver up to third in the standings, 27 points behind, heading to the next race at the Hockenheimring in Germany on June 6th-8th.