Liverpool’s Superleague Formula ace James Walker secured a top 10 finish in the first race at Brands Hatch on Sunday.
After a frustrating round of qualifying on Saturday, Walker rose to the occasion in front of a good home support and gave it everything he had.
Meanwhile, John Martin helped Beijing Guoan to win the first race after he held off Craig Dolby of Tottenham.
Unfortunately race two was marred by a major incident when Olympiacos driver Chris van der Drift suffered a massive accident while challenging for fifth place in the closing stages.
The young New Zealander had driven superbly to climb from 12th on the grid to sixth, but as he hit his push-to-pass button on the back straight to move further up the order he went over the right-rear wheel of Julien Jousse's AS Roma car and flipped through the air.
As the medics attended to him and he was taken to hospital with a suspected broken leg, Karthikeyan became the 11th different winner in 14 feature races when he was declared the victor after an excellent drive from pole position.
In the third and big money race, race one winner Martin of Beijing Guoan netted the €100,000 by winning the five-lap dash-for-the-cash Super Final.
Walker remains in 11th place in the overall standings and he will be improving to improve on that when Superleague Formula heads to Italy on September 4/5.
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