Jani takes feature win and points lead

The reigning champions followed pole-sitters Monaco in the early stages of the race, as the pair got a long way ahead of the field while several incidents went on behind.

Jani then took advantage of a slow first pit stop for Monaco driver Clivio Piccione to pick up a lead he wouldn't lose. As the ninth win of his A1GP career, the result means Jani now shares the honour of being the series' most successful driver with Nico Hulkenberg, who led Germany to the 2006/7 title.

Brazil's Felipe Guimaraes took second place despite a fuel pressure problem late in the race, while Piccione eventually had to settle for third after a slow middle stint that cost him second place to the Brazilian.

Sprint race winner Jeroen Bleekemolen came through from ninth on the grid to take fourth for the Netherlands, while the man who followed him home in the morning - Portugal's Filipe Albuquerque - was behind him again in fifth, after charging from the back of the grid when his car struggled off the line.

Daniel Morad was another driver to come through from the back to take sixth place - only the second time that Lebanon have scored points in A1GP.

Morad passed Danny Watts in the late stages of the race, meaning the British driver had to settle for seventh after a difficult weekend for his team.

Several drivers had their races ended early on after taking promising grid positions. New Zealand's Earl Bamber and Malaysia's Fairuz Fauzy collided under braking towards the end of the lap, while Fauzy had already clipped Adam Carroll when the Irish car tried to pass him on the outside of a fast right hander.

That contact put Carroll out of the race, and cost Ireland the championship lead, while another front-runner early on - Australia's John Martin - had his race ruined when he stalled in the pits.

Pos  Driver               Team           Time
 1.  Neel Jani            Switzerland    1h02:24.617
 2.  Felipe Guimaraes     Brazil          +   13.176
 3.  Clivio Piccione      Monaco          +   14.193
 4.  Jeroen Bleekemolen   Netherlands     +   17.024
 5.  Filipe Albuquerque   Portugal        +   17.995
 6.  Daniel Morad         Lebanon         +   31.210
 7.  Danny Watts          Great Britain   +   34.328
 8.  Marco Andretti       USA             +   59.000
 9.  Zahir Ali            Indonesia       + 1:03.995
10.  Edoardo Piscopo      Italy           + 1:04.856
11.  Michael Ammermuller  Germany         + 1:08.603
12.  Narain Karthikeyan   India           + 1:09.150
13.  John Martin          Australia       + 1:20.545

Retirements:
     Driver               Team           Laps
     Ho-Pin Tung          China          22
     Fairuz Fauzy         Malaysia       17
     Adrian Zaugg         South Africa   15
     Earl Bamber          New Zealand    3
     Nicolas Prost        France         3
     Salvador Duran       Mexico         3
     Adam Carroll         Ireland        0