As the lights went off Valsecchi was very slow away but fortunately all the drivers managed to miss him however, as the cars entered Ste Devote, there was contact between several cars but both Racing Engineering cars were safely through. As the cars ascended the hill at Beau Rivage Cecotto spun just in front of Berthon but the young Frenchman avoided contact then, just behind, several other cars spun and collided with each other causing the immediate deployment of the Safety Car.

The Safety Car returned to the pits on lap 4 and the race resumed with Nathanaël Berthon in 8th and Fabio Leimer just behind in 9th. Berthon was chasing Razia hard with Leimer just head of Gutierrez.

On lap 9 Leimer’s disappointing Monaco weekend continued when he made contact with a barrier and had to pit and the damage to his car forced him to retire.

Berthon was now up to 7th as Calado pitted and the young Frenchman was just 0.3 seconds behind Razia and a similar gap ahead of Gutierrez. By lap 16 Berthon was now involved in a tough battle with Gutierrez which had allowed Razia to pull away slightly as the Racing Engineering driver concentrated on not making any mistakes.

As the race entered the final 10 laps Berthon had gradually moved away from Gutierrez and the gap was now 1.5 seconds. Then, with 5 laps to go Razia put in a slow lap and Berthon immediately closed in to within 0.8 seconds. Although he continued to push hard there wasn’t enough time left to push Razia into a mistake and Berthon had settle for 7th at the chequered flag.