France wins Indonesian sprint race

Nicolas Lapierre, who had qualified second, dived down the inside of pole man Robbie Kerr into the first corner of the second lap. The Frenchman made the move stick and was quickly able to pull away from the Team GBR driver on the way to a seven-second victory.

Lapierrre said: "We worked hard on the car in the warm-up and we knew we had to take advantage early on. I pushed hard at the beginning and was able to overtake Robbie.

"I had a good balance to the end and my life was made a little bit easier because Robbie had to defend his position."

Kerr had his mirrors full of Team Mexico's Salvador Duran for the remainder of the race, but his fifth second place of the A1 GP season was never under threat.

Malaysia's Alex Yoong claimed his best result of the season with fourth after moving past Neel Jani's Swiss entry on lap nine. Jani, who had briefly challenged Lapierre for second at the start, ended up fifth.

Sixth place went to Ireland's Ralph Firman, who finished just seven tenths ahead of Jos Verstappen after another storming race from the Dutchman. Kiwi Matt Halliday ended up eighth.

Pos  Driver            Country         Time
 1.  Nicolas Lapierre  France          24:03.360
 2.  Robbie Kerr       Great Britain   +   6.981
 3.  Salvador Duran    Mexico          +   8.027
 4.  Alex Yoong        Malaysia        +  11.322
 5.  Neel Jani         Switzerland     +  12.860
 6.  Ralph Firman      Ireland         +  13.734
 7.  Jos Verstappen    Netherlands     +  14.504
 8.  Matt Halliday     New Zealand     +  16.309
 9.  Hayanari Shimoda  Japan           +  18.714
10.  Tomas Enge        Czech Republic  +  23.122
11.  Ananda Mikola     Indonesia       +  23.306
12.  Timo Scheider     Germany         +  24.401
13.  Mathias Lauda     Austria         +  29.522
14.  Max Businelli     Italy           +  32.187
15.  Philip Giebler    USA             +  36.395
16.  Marcus Marshall   Australia       +  37.957
17.  Basil Shabaan     Lebanon         +  45.185
18.  Armaan Ebrahim    India           +1:00.289
19.  Alvaro Parente    Portugal        +3:19.834
20.  C. Fittipaldi     Brazil          +  1 Lap
21.  Stephen Simpson   South Africa    +  3 Laps
22.  Tengyi Jiang      China           + 13 Laps
23.  Sean McIntosh     Canada          + 17 Laps