Uwe Alzen dominated the second Speedcar Series round at Sentul, Indonesia today. The German started fourth on the grid but fought his way ahead of Nicolas Navarro, touring car guest star Klaus Ludwig, and local favourite and pole-sitter Ananda Mikola to assume the lead on the eighth lap.

Alzen built himself a comfortable lead and controlled the race from there, leaving Mikola and the rest to fight over second place.

"I'm delighted to win the race," said Alzen, "but it's very hard work. It's very hot in the car and 45 minutes is a long time. Malaysia is going to be very tough as well."

Frenchman David Terrien was Mikola's closest challenger in the early stages, but he fell away as Jean Alesi made a spirited charge through the field. The former Ferrari grand prix driver started down in eighth place, but he stormed relentlessly past car after car until he arrived on Mikola's tail in the dying moments of the race.

The large home crowd cheered on Indonesian local Mikola, but it was to no avail as Alesi dived ahead of him with less than two minutes remaining and added a second place to the win he scored yesterday. Terrien held on to fourth place, ahead of a race-long battle for fifth that was eventually won by Mattias Lauda, ahead of Ludwig and Johnny Herbert.

Indonesian Moreno Soeprapto suffered a tyre puncture at the race today putting him out of the running, much to the disappointment of the grandstands filled to their capacity with supporters. The crowd was ecstatic to have the other local hero Ananda Mikola take the podium though.

Pos	Driver	Team	Laps	Gap
1	Alzen	Phoenix Racing	26	40:39.625
2	Alesi	Speedcar Team	26	+ 0:02.594
3	Mikola	Speedcar Team	26	+ 0:04.586
4	Terrien	UP Team	26	+ 0:07.871
5	Lauda	G.P.C. Team	26	+ 0:08.821
6	Ludwig	Phoenix Racing	26	+ 0:12.939
7	Herbert	Speedcar Team	26	+ 0:17.061
8	Katayama	Speedcar Team	26	+ 0:21.942
9	Al Maktoum	UP Team	26	+ 0:26.889
10	Navarro	First Centreville	26	+ 0:28.728
11	Johansson	Speedcar Team	26	+ 0:44.793
12	Giroix	First Centreville	26	+ 0:59.396
13	Morbidelli	Speedcar Team	23	+ 3 Laps
14	Soeprapto	Speedcar Team	17	DNF