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New Zealand win Sentul sprint race

Jonny Reid has taken New Zealand's first ever A1GP victory in the sprint race at Sentul

The black car made a strong start and controlled the race, and Reid's only threat came in the closing laps as Mexico's Salvador Duran closed to within a second of the leader.

Robbie Kerr was a lonely third for Great Britain, after the front row man lost out to Duran and Phil Giebler at the start.

Kerr passed the American for third early in the race, which relieved the pressure he was under from Nico Hulkenberg in the German car.

Hulkenberg's attack of Giebler ended up costing him fifth place to Ryan Briscoe, but the Aussie then handed the place back with his own failed attack on Giebler on the final lap.

Reigning champions France were unable to repeat their sprint race victory from last year, as Nicolas Lapierre had to make do with no points for seventh place.

Last year's feature race winner Sean McIntosh also struggled in eighth place for Canada, while South Africa's Alan van der Merwe finished ninth in his first race for more than two years.

Local driver Ananda Mikola had an eventful race on his way to 14th place. The Indonesian eventually lost out to Jeroen Bleekemolen after a frantic battle with the Dutch car.

Pos  Team            Driver            Time
 1.  New Zealand     Jonny Reid        19:41.054  
 2.  Mexico          Salvador Duran    +   0.738
 3.  Great Britain   Robbie Kerr       +   3.463
 4.  USA             Philip Giebler    +   9.080
 5.  Germany         Nico Hulkenberg   +  10.000
 6.  Australia       Ryan Briscoe      +  10.637
 7.  France          Nicolas Lapierre  +  12.003
 8.  Canada          Sean McIntosh     +  14.366
 9.  South Africa    A. van der Merwe  +  15.989
10.  Switzerland     Neel Jani         +  17.633
11.  Italy           Enrico Toccacelo  +  18.901
12.  Malaysia        Alex Yoong        +  23.670
13.  Netherlands     J. Bleekemolen    +  24.148
14.  Indonesia       Ananda Mikola     +  25.978
15.  Brazil          Tuka Rocha        +  36.060  
16.  Czech Republic  Jaroslav Janis    +  36.781
17.  Ireland         Richard Lyons     +  37.195
18.  India           Armaan Ebrahim    +  44.582
19.  Lebanon         Basil Shaaban     +  44.997
20.  Pakistan        Nur Ali           +1:21.691  
21.  China           Ho-Pin Tung       +  4 laps

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