Germany win Eastern Creek sprint
Nico Hulkenberg dominated the A1GP sprint race in Eastern Creek to wrap up Team Germany's fifth win of the season
Hulkenberg quickly built up a four-second lead before his advantage was levelled out by a safety car period mid-way through after Team Lebanon's Alex Khateeb shunted. But Hulkenberg made the perfect restart and pulled away to a comfortable win.
At the first start Robbie Kerr got away well and put Team New Zealand's Jonny Reid under pressure. The next time around the Brit pulled a great move around the outside of turns two and three.
But it wasn't to be Kerr's day and a left front puncture allowed Reid back through at the restart and eventually forced the Brit out.
This handed third place to Team France's Loic Duval, while Sebastien Buemi claimed fourth for Team Switzerland. Jeroen Bleekemolen made a strong start to grab sixth at the start, which became fifth when Kerr retired.
But he and sixth-place finisher Ho-Pin Tung are under investigation for their moves at the start, so their points places remain provisional.
Pos Team Driver Time 1. Germany Nico Hulkenberg 20:13.223 2. New Zealand Jonny Reid + 2.154 3. France Loic Duval + 7.831 4. Switzerland Sebastien Buemi + 10.885 5. Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen + 12.137 6. China Ho-Pin Tung + 13.092 7. Malaysia Alex Yoong + 13.548 8. USA Philip Giebler + 14.254 9. Czech Republic Tomas Enge + 14.929 10. Ireland Richard Lyons + 15.874 11. Mexico Salvador Duran + 16.336 12. Singapore Christian Murchison + 16.764 13. Canada James Hinchcliffe + 17.611 14. Australia Karl Reindler + 17.696 15. Italy Enrico Toccacelo + 19.424 16. South Africa Alan van der Merwe + 19.814 17. Indonesia Ananda Mikola + 20.551 18. India Parthiva Sureshwaren + 29.228 19. Great Britain Robbie Kerr + 1 lap 20. Pakistan Nur Ali + 2 laps 21. Brazil Tuka Rocha + 3 laps 22. Lebanon Alex Khateeb + 9 laps
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