Perth driver Daniel Ricciardo has won the support race in Monaco for the second straight year just hours before the Formula One Grand Prix.
Adding extra horsepower to his claim for an F1 race drive next year, Ricciardo, 21, repeated his victory of a year ago in the 30-lap World Series by Renault race on the street circuit.
Ricciardo is already the reserve driver for F1 world champion team Red Bull Racing and its secondary team Toro Rosso, for which he drives in Friday morning practice at GPs.
So ricciardo is setting a place for him as future Red Bull F1 driver.
Racing in the Renault series for Czech-owned team ISR this season, Ricciardo beat Canadian Robert Wickens by 0.403 seconds.
Wickens was driving for British team Carlin Motorsport, for which Ricciardo won the 2009 British Formula Three Championship.
Last year Ricciardo was a narrow runner-up in the Renault series in his debut season for French team Tech 1 and he is now the first driver in the category to twice win the prestigious Monaco race.
New Zealander Brendon Hartley was third in Sunday's race for a new team in the series, Charouz, while series leader, Frenchman Jean-Eric Vergne, was only 12th.
Ricciardo and Vergne are members of Red Bull's elite junior driver development squad, while Wickens and Hartley have been dropped from that squad.
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