Sacha Fenestraz drove a champion?s race to win the final race of the Formula Renault Eurocup season at Barcelona, withstanding pressure from Robert Shwartzman throughout.
Fenestraz took a record-equalling ninth pole of the season in qualifying, with Shwartzman lining up alongside on the front row.
At the start Shwartzman did not offer too much of a challenge, but reset himself after a short safety car period and stayed on Fenestraz?s gearbox for the rest of the race.
Although Fenestraz continuously locked up at Turn 4, there was no opening for Shwartzman and they ended the 15 lap race separated by 0.4 seconds.
Max Defourny made up for his destructive race two crash with his 11th podium of the season, with Will Palmer finishing fourth and securing second place in the standings.
Richard Verschoor finished fifth and took the rookie win, with Tech 1 team-mates Gabriel Aubry and Max Fewtrell just behind.
Alex Peroni, Jarno Opmeer and Aleksey Korneev rounded out the points.
Red Bull junior Daniel Ticktum finished 12th, meaning Fewtrell?s seventh place secured the Renault F1 junior the rookie?s title.
Aleksandr Vartanyan, who qualified tenth, fell to the back of the field on the first lap after an off at Turn 4, but overtook 10 drivers and finished the race an impressive 18th.
The sole appearance of the safety car in the race was to retrieve Ghislain Cordeel?s stricken car from the Turn 12 gravel.
The crash that eliminated 12 drivers from the second race also prevented four from starting the third, with Zane Goddard, Charles Milesi, Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer and Najiy Razak failing to take part due to the damage to their cars.
Race results (15 laps)
| Pos | Name | Team | Gap |
| 1 | Sacha Fenestraz | Josef Kaufmann Racing | 27m30.197s |
| 2 | Robert Shwartzman | R-ace GP | +0.400s |
| 3 | Max Defourny | R-ace GP | +6.445s |
| 4 | Will Palmer | R-ace GP | +7.360s |
| 5 | Richard Verschoor | MP Motorsport | +7.430s |
| 6 | Gabriel Aubry | Tech 1 Racing | +7.520s |
| 7 | Max Fewtrell | Tech 1 Racing | +7.896s |
| 8 | Alex Peroni | Fortec Motorsports | +8.792s |
| 9 | Jarno Opmeer | MP Motorsport | +9.399s |
| 10 | Aleksey Korneev | Fortec Motorsports | +10.138s |
| 11 | Yifei Ye | Josef Kaufmann Racing | +11.325s |
| 12 | Dan Ticktum | Arden | +16.825s |
| 13 | Thomas Maxwell | Tech 1 Racing | +17.438s |
| 14 | Thomas Randle | AVF | +17.814s |
| 15 | Xavier Lloversa | AVF | +19.040s |
| 16 | Henrique Chaves | AVF | +19.432s |
| 17 | Neil Verhagen | MP Motorsport | +19.889s |
| 18 | Aleksandr Vartanyan | JD Motorsport | +20.944s |
| 19 | Thomas Neubauer | Tech 1 Racing | +22.106s |
| 20 | Frank Bird | Fortec Motorsports | +22.501s |
| 21 | Axel Matus | AVF | +24.166s |
| 22 | Raul Guzman | R-ace GP | +24.624s |
| 23 | Luis Leeds | Josef Kaufmann Racing | +26.143s |
| 24 | Sun Yue Yang | JD Motorsport | +26.554s |
| 25 | Julia Pankiewicz | Mark Burdett Motorsport | +30.674s |
| Ret | Logan Sargeant | R-ace GP | |
| Ret | Presley Martono | Mark Burdett Motorsport | |
| Ret | Ghislain Cordeel | Arden | |
| Pole | Sacha Fenestraz | Josef Kaufmann Racing | 1m42.894s |
| FL | Robert Shwartzman | R-ace GP | 1m45.141 |
Championship Standings
1 Fenestraz 367.5 ??2 Palmer 298 ??3 Shwartzman 285 ??4 Defourny 255 ??5 Aubry 232 ??6 Fewtrell 164 ??7 Ticktum 134 ??8 Ye 106.5 ??9 Verschoor 89 ??10 Peroni 71