Bono Huis won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix followed by Fredrik Nilsson (Twister-Racing) and Dennis Hirrle (Mak-Corp Racing) Sister Mak-Corp Racing driver Mikko Puumalainen finished in 4th with Cyril Werdmuller finishing in 5th. Raino Room, John Eric-Saxen and Dimitri De Matos finished in 6th, 7th and 8th after driving the entire race only a few seconds apart. Muhammed Patel finished in 9th, closely followed by Martin Gosbee.
With only nine drivers setting a time in Qualifying 2, Bono Huis took pole by over half a second to Fredrik Nilsson. Nilsson beat Hirrle by nearly four tenths. The German pipped Karim Wezenberg to third. Mikko Puumalainen qualified in 5th. Werdmuller, Saxén, De Matos and Brljak were separated by just 4 tenths of a second.
Drama struck before the start when Karim Wezenberg stalled his car, and Muhammed Patel jumped the start. Huis was able to maintain the lead at the start, he slowly pulled away from Nilsson, Hirrle and Puumalainen. The mid-field was tightly bunched together, with Ward-F1 driver Lee Morris struggling and holding the pack up. They were slowly pulling away from Blair Disley who was holding up Mark Aalberts. Lee Morris retired in the opening few laps after a few mistakes, the Britain finally hit the wall, losing his front wing and retiring, a few laps later, Aalberts clipped the inside wall on the penultimate corner, losing his front wing and also retiring.
It became apparent that the whole field was split between strategy; the whole Twister team went on a 1 stop bar Fredrik Nilsson. Similar story with the Precision drivers, where Cyril Werdmuller and Mikko Puumalainen opted for a 1 stop stratergy, wheras Huis and Hirrle opted for a 2 stop strategy. It might have worked for Puumalainen, who inherited the lead briefly, and also later on in the race took 2nd for a few laps until Nilsson and Hirrle passed him. Further down the field, Lapchin was able to make his 2 stop strategy pay off, passing Patel, De Matos, Saxén and Room, but the ATR driver nullified his hard work with a retirement in the closing stages of the race.
The last 10 laps of the race saw Patel considerably drop pace, it became apparent after the race the 2FAST4U Twister-Racing driver was forced to protect his brakes. This allowed Martin Gosbee to close up and attempt to pass Patel, but he was unable to pass the Britain. On the final lap, both Patel lost his front left brake, and Gosbee was unable to make 25 laps on the Soft tyres last.
Bono Huis made his 2 stop stratergy work, winning the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix by over half a minute to Fredrik Nilsson who came ontop in the battle between Hirrle. Puumalainen dropped 10 seconds to the pair in front, finishing a comfortable 4th ahead of Werdmuller, Room, Saxén, De Matos. The four drivers were separated by just 7 seconds. Patel and Gosbee rounded out the points paying positions.