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Prema Powerteam’s Bruno Bonifacio claimed a dominant victory in the first of two races at Vallelunga circuit for the first round of the Formula Renault 2.0 Alps season. The Brazilian started from pole position, led every lap of the race and also managed to get the fastest lap on the eighth lap.
In second place came the rookie Antonio Fuoco, also racing for Prema Powerteam, after trailing Bonifacio for the entire race, staying on a strong pace in relation to his more experienced teammate and finished almost two seconds behind the Brazilian driver.
Completing the podium was Pierre Gasly for Tech 1 Racing, after opening a very substantial gap to the cars behind and having not too much pressure trough the entire race.
Nyck de Vries came in fourth place for Koiranen Motorsports, with the third Prema Powerteam car driven by Italian Luca Ghiotto finishing fifth. In sixth place was Brazilian Guilherme Silva in the second Koiranen Motorsport car, followed closely by two of the Euronova Racing drivers, British Gregor Ramsay in seventh and Japanese Uyko Sasahara in eighth.
Indian driver Parth Ghorpade finished ninth for the BVM Racing team and Italian Kevin Gilardoni finished in tenth for GSK Grand Prix Team, getting the last point scoring position.
The second race is scheduled to start on Sunday at 14:30 local time.
Race results
| Pos | Driver? | Team | Time/Gap? |
| 1 | Bruno Bonifacio | Prema Powerteam | 17 laps in 26:43.328 |
| 2 | Antonio Fuoco | Prema Powerteam | +1.505 |
| 3 | Pierre Gasly | Tech 1 Racing | +6.616 |
| 4 | Nyck De Vries | Koiranen Motorsport | +13.361 |
| 5 | Luca Ghiotto | Prema Powerteam | +15.558 |
| 6 | Guilherme Silva | Koiranen Motorsport | +19.468 |
| 7 | Gregor Ramsay | Euronova Racing | +20.212 |
| 8 | Ukyo Sasahara | Euronova Racing | +20.728 |
| 9 | Parth Ghorpade | BVM Racing | +24.121 |
| 10 | Kevin Gilardoni | GSK Grand Prix | +25.444 |
| 11 | Kevin Jorg | Jenzer Motorsport | +25.866 |
| 12 | Andrew Tang | Jenzer Motorsport | +29.273 |
| 13 | Ivan Taranov | Tech 1 Racing | +30.589 |
| 14 | Egor Orudzhev | Tech 1 Racing | +32.730 |
| 15 | Francisco Mora | Interwetten.com Racing | +42.374 |
| 16 | Simon Gachet | ARTA Engineering | +43.068 |
| 17 | Konstantin Tereschenko | Interwetten.com Racing | +45.079 |
| 18 | Alberto Di Folco | Team Torino Motorsport | +46.795 |
| 19 | Luke Chudleigh | Tech 1 Racing | +48.055 |
| 20 | Max Schaumburg-Lippe | Jenzer Motorsport | +48.701 |
| 21 | Josh Raneri | Team Torino Motorsport | +52.910 |
| 22 | Alejandro Abogado | Interwetten.com Racing | +57.540 |
| 23 | Alex Bosak | SMP Racing by Koiranen | +58.473 |
| 24 | Pietro Peccenini | TS Corse | +58.861 |
| 25 | Nikita Zlobin | SMP Racing by Koiranen | +59.728 |
| 26 | Dzhon Simonyan | GSK Grand Prix | +1:00.764 |
| 27 | Simon Tirman | ARTA Engineering | +1 lap |
| 28 | Daniele Cazzaniga | Viola Formula Racing | +1 lap |
| Not classified | |||
| Hans Villemi | SMP Racing by Koiranen | 9 laps | |
| Joffrey De Narda | ARTA Engineering | 4 laps | |
| Javier Amado | Euronova Racing | 3 laps | |
| Semen Evstigneev | SMP Racing by Koiranen | 3 laps | |
| Matthieu Vaxiviere | Tech 1 Racing | 1 lap | |
| William Vermont | ARTA Engineering | 1 lap | |
| Dario Capitanio | BVM Racing | 0 laps | |
| Denis Korneev | Jenzer Motorsport | 0 laps | |