A1GP Canada Awarded Sprint Race Podium, France Promoted to Second in Feature Race

Malaysia - Confirmed Sprint and Feature race results

Sprint race
As a result of Germany being demoted to 16th place due to causing an avoidable collision during this morning's Sprint race, Canadian rookie Robert Wickens has scored the team's first podium finish since Brno last season and notched up a valuable 10 points for his country, moving Canada into 12th place in the championship.

Home nation Malaysia scored its first two points by default this morning after Germany's demotion and A1 Team Netherlands' 25-second penalty for a false start in the Sprint race. The penalty dropped them from eighth to 18th in the final Sprint race classification, stripping the team of the three points it had scored. The penalty also meant that Ireland and Italy received an additional two points each.

Feature race
A1 Teams Brazil and Great Britain have both been hit with a two second penalty for gaining an unfair advantage in the pit lane during the first mandatory stop in this afternoon's Feature race, promoting France to second place, USA to tenth and Mexico to 11th.

Germany was penalised with the equivalent time of a drive through penalty for causing an avoidable collision with Great Britain on lap 19 and following a further avoidable collision with the Czech Republic on lap 28, Germany was excluded from the final Feature race results.

Switzerland now leads the championship on 61 points, eight ahead of second-placed France on 53, followed by New Zealand in third on 46.

Sprint race results

Pos

Driver

A1 Team

Laps

Time

Gap First

1

Neel JANI

SWITZERLAND

10

18:20.910

-

2

Loic DUVAL

FRANCE

10

18:24.702

+3.792

3

Robert WICKENS

CANADA

10

18:34.037

+13.127

4

Sergio JIMENEZ

BRAZIL

10

18:34.647

+13.737

5

Jonny REID

NEW ZEALAND

10

18:35.386

+14.476

6

Oliver JARVIS

GREAT BRITAIN

10

18:35.847

+14.937

7

Adam CARROLL

IRELAND

10

18:40.589

+19.679

8

Enrico TOCCACELO

ITALY

10

18:44.131

+23.221

9

Alex YOONG

MALAYSIA

10

18:44.497

+23.587

10

Adrian ZAUGG

SOUTH AFRICA

10

18:46.015

+25.105

11

Narain KARTHIKEYAN

INDIA

10

18:46.114

+25.204

12

Jonathan SUMMERTON

USA

10

18:47.437

+26.527

13

Joao URBANO

PORTUGAL

10

18:48.682

+27.772

14

Chris ALAJAJIAN

LEBANON

10

18:55.031

+34.121

15

Erik JANIS

CZECH REPUBLIC

10

18:57.238

+36.328

16

Michael AMMERMÜLLER

GERMANY

10

18:57.845

+36.935

17

Adam KHAN

PAKISTAN

10

18:58.456

+37.546

18

Satrio HERMANTO

INDONESIA

10

19:05.30

+44.820

19

Michel JOURDAIN

MEXICO

10

19:08.326

+47.416

20

Jeroen BLEEKEMOLEN

NETHERLANDS

10

19:18.237

+57.327

21

Congfu CHENG

CHINA

1

02:08.009

9 Laps

22

Ian DYK

AUSTRALIA

0

 

10 Laps

Feature race results

Pos

Driver

A1 Team

Laps

Time

Gap First

1

Neel JANI

SWITZERLAND

35

1:08:13.459

-

2

Loic DUVAL

FRANCE

35

1:08:22.387

8.928

3

Sergio JIMENEZ

BRAZIL

35

1:08:23.873

8.414

4

Jeroen BLEEKEMOLEN

NETHERLANDS

35

1:08:24.681

11.222

5

Congfu CHENG

CHINA

35

1:08:30.813

17.354

6

Narain KARTHIKEYAN

INDIA

35

1:08:31.053

17.594

7

Adam CARROLL

IRELAND

35

1:08:32.831

19.372

8

Jonny REID

NEW ZEALAND

35

1:08:33.856

20.397

9

Ian DYK

AUSTRALIA

35

1:08:57.753

44.294

10

Jonathan SUMMERTON

USA

35

1:08:58.008

44.549

11

Michel JOURDAIN

MEXICO

35

1:08:58.174

44.715

12

Oliver JARVIS

GREAT BRITAIN

35

1:08:59.818

44.359

13

Alex YOONG

MALAYSIA

35

1:09:02.254

48.795

14

Adam KHAN

PAKISTAN

35

1:09:10.336

56.877

15

Erik JANIS

CZECH REPUBLIC

35

1:09:11.778

58.319

16

Satrio HERMANTO

INDONESIA

35

1:09:34.365

+1:20.906

17

Chris ALAJAJIAN

LEBANON

26

0:53:00.577

9 Laps

18

Enrico TOCCACELO

ITALY

17

0:34:54.917

18 Laps

19

Adrian ZAUGG

SOUTH AFRICA

7

0:13:18.875

28 Laps

20

Robert WICKENS

CANADA

7

0:13:29.020

28 Laps

21

Joao URBANO

PORTUGAL

0

 

35 Laps

22

Michael AMMERMÜLLER

GERMANY

Disqualified

2007/08 A1GP World Cup of Motorsport points standings

Pos

A1 Team

Points

1

SWITZERLAND

61

2

FRANCE

53

3

NEW ZEALAND

46

4

NETHERLANDS

39

5

SOUTH AFRICA

37

6

GREAT BRITAIN

36

7

IRELAND

31

8

BRAZIL

22

9

MEXICO

17

10

CHINA

16

11

GERMANY

14

12

CANADA

10

13

INDIA

8

14

ITALY

4

15

PORTUGAL

2

16

AUSTRALIA

2

17

MALAYSIA

2

18

USA

1

19

CZECH REPUBLIC

1

Fastest lap: A1 Team Switzerland set the fastest lap in both the Sprint and Feature races gaining two bonus points for its efforts. On lap 10 of the Sprint race, Neel Jani clocked a time of 1.49.221 going on to set a time of 1.49.260 on lap 25 of the Feature race.

Next race: A1GP Zhuhai, China, 14-16 December 2007