Malaysia takes the lead

The first race did not hold any twists and turns, since Adam Carroll led all 18 laps of the sprint race after starting from pole position. Nothing to report during this first round therefore, except the abandonment of Brazil and the spin of China. Carroll won the race ahead of Robert Doornbos and Danny Watts, who started from pole for the long race.

Doornbos made his first participation in A1GP here. Thanks to his talent and experience, the Dutchman had a superb race where he occupied second place from start to finish.

Behind, the duel was much closer for third place, between Danny Watts, who also started, and the Swiss Neel Jani, reigning champion. The latter came back on Watts at the end of the race, after having overtaken the Portuguese Filipe Albuquerque, but the Briton resisted perfectly and managed to keep the last step of the podium.

Further back, Adrian Zaugg for South Africa finished fifth, ahead of Albuquerque and Chris van der Drift for New Zealand. For their first tenures, Nicolas Cheers took eighth place and Marco Andretti finished a modest fifteenth.

During the second race of the weekend, Portugal won, ahead of Ireland and Great Britain.

Filipe Albuquerque took the lead by refueling later than his opponents and then widened the gap. The Portuguese ultimately lost his entire lead when the safety car entered the track, following Nicolas Prost's accident.

Indeed, the Frenchman left the track wanting to overtake the Australian John Martin on the outside, on the dirty trajectory of the track. He lost control of his car, spun and ended up in the gravel.

Back on track thanks to this interruption, Carroll became more and more threatening against Albuquerque at the end of the race but never found the opening. In the end, the Portuguese won ahead of the Irishman and Danny Watts.

Neel Jani once again finished in fourth position, ahead of Fairuz Fauzy, John Martin and Clivio Piccione. After a difficult first race, Marco Andretti finished eighth.

Robert Doornbos, for his part, had a second race that was less brilliant than the first, since after stalling on the starting grid he only finished in 16th place at the finish.

Malaysia therefore takes the lead in the ranking with 28 points in total, at the expense of France which therefore finds itself second in the same way as Ireland, with 23 points each. New Zealand and the Netherlands follow tied with 20 points, ahead of Portugal, Switzerland, Great Britain, Australia and South Africa.