NZ win, as Germany take title

Reid feared that he wouldn't even take the start, after two bolts sheared off his gearbox and caused a leak on his reconnaissance laps. A quick fix gave the team plenty to worry about throughout the 38-lap race.

Despite that, Reid was able to hustle sprint race winner Kerr from the start - although he failed to pass the Team GB car from two early safety car restarts.

At the start of lap 16, Reid got a great run into Turn 1. Kerr held on around the outside of the looping corner, but eventually had to cede the place.

A third safety car period gave Kerr renewed hope that he might be able to take back the lead. But instead, he found himself defending against Hulkenberg.

Kerr brushed off the German's challenge and made it home safely in second place. Hulkenberg only needed to finish ninth to put the title out of New Zealand's reach and he settled for a podium finish.

Hulkenberg said: "Winning championships is always a great thing and means a lot. But I'm a bit sad because I would have liked to have done it with another win. I just don't like it when we are consistently too slow, as we have been this weekend."

Jonathan Summerton starred for Team USA before causing the final safety car period with a spin. His misfortune benefited the Dutch car of Renger van der Zande, who rose from ninth on the grid to fourth.

There was joy for Team Ireland after a terrible weekend. The team, joined by Manor Motorsport boss John Booth as engineer this weekend, were well off the pace with their car throughout practice and qualifying, and switched to a spare car for race day.

It paid off as Richard Lyons sliced through the field from 12th on the grid, his finishing position in the sprint, to a feature race fifth place. It was the team's best finish of a tough season.

Canada's Sean McIntosh made up for his sprint race disappointment with sixth place, ahead of Italy, France, Switzerland -who were delayed by a poor pitstop - and the Czech Republic.

Pos  Driver            Team            Time
 1.  Jonny Reid        New Zealand     1h 8:13.498
 2.  Robbie Kerr       Great Britain   +     1.567
 3.  N.Hulkenberg      Germany         +     3.185
 4.  R.van der Zande   Netherlands     +     5.661
 5.  Richard Lyons     Ireland         +    10.381
 6.  Sean McIntosh     Canada          +    12.298
 7.  Enrico Toccacelo  Italy           +    13.171
 8.  Jean-Karl Vernay  France          +    14.943
 9.  Sebastien Buemi   Switzerland     +    15.263
10.  Filip Salaquarda  Czech Republic  +    21.785
11.  Alex Yoong        Malaysia        +    22.331
12.  A.van der Merwe   South Africa    +    25.714
13.  Joao Urbano       Portugal        +    28.900
14.  Allam Khodair     Lebanon         +    29.276
15.  Cheng Cong Fu     China           +    30.395
16.  Ananda Mikola     Indonesia       +    49.698
17.  N.Karthikeyan     India           +    54.586
18.  Nur Ali           Pakistan        +    2 Laps
19.  Vitor Meira       Brazil          +    4 Laps
20.  J.Summerton       USA             +   14 Laps
21.  Ian Dyk           Australia       +   21 Laps
22.  Sergio Perez      Mexico          +   36 Laps