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Bleekemolen dominates sprint race

Jeroen Bleekemolen scored a dominant victory for the Netherlands in the A1GP sprint race at Kyalami on Sunday morning

The Dutch driver blasted into a lead of more than four seconds in the first few laps before pitting as soon as the window opened at the end of lap four, and he then kept his head as Portugal's Filipe Albuquerque made some inroads into his lead in the closing stages.

Albuquerque climbed ahead of Switzerland's Neel Jani in the pits, as the reigning champion struggled to get his car away from his stop.

That left Bleekemolen with a lead of more than six seconds, and while Albuquerque managed to get a couple of those seconds back, he was unable to get close enough to challenge the leader.

Jani, who had passed the Portuguese car at the start, held on to third, while Ireland's Adam Carroll snatched fourth from Monaco's Clivio Piccione on the final lap.

Behind them, Narain Karthikeyan settled for sixth with India, after initially climbing as high as fourth at the start. However, he was unable to fend off the challenge of Piccione and Carroll before the pitstops.

Home driver Adrian Zaugg scored points for South Africa with seventh place, while Earl Bamber (New Zealand) climbed from 11th to eighth during the stops to take the final point.

Pos  Driver               Team           Time
 1.  Jeroen Bleekemolen   Netherlands    21:35.105
 2.  Filipe Albuquerque   Portugal       +   4.407
 3.  Neel Jani            Switzerland    +  10.600
 4.  Adam Carroll         Ireland        +  12.925
 5.  Clivio Piccione      Monaco         +  14.363
 6.  Narain Karthikeyan   India          +  18.474
 7.  Adrian Zaugg         South Africa   +  21.178
 8.  Earl Bamber          New Zealand    +  26.539
 9.  Fairuz Fauzy         Malaysia       +  26.925
10.  Nicolas Prost        France         +  28.101
11.  Edoardo Piscopo      Italy          +  32.081
12.  John Martin          Australia      +  34.474
13.  Ho-Pin Tung          China          +  37.804
14.  Michael Ammermuller  Germany        +  39.068
15.  Felipe Guimaraes     Brazil         +  39.717
16.  Salvador Duran       Mexico         +  45.006
17.  Marco Andretti       USA            +  55.636
18.  Zahir Ali            Indonesia      +1:17.724

Retirements:

     Driver               Team           Laps
     Danny Watts          Great Britain  9
     Daniel Morad         Lebanon        6

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