Team France lose point in penalty
A1 Team Frace were demoted from seventh to eighth place in the feature race at Durban, South Africa, today after Alexandre Premat's car was given a 25 seconds penalty
A1 Grand Prix officials said A1 France were penalised for taking a drive-through penalty during one of the safety car periods.
The original drive-through penalty was given as a result of two engineers working on one tyre during their compulsory pitstop, which was taken at the end of lap two in today's feature race.
The altered results move Team Austria's Mathias Lauda to seventh place.
CLASSIFICATION (official): Pos Driver Country Time 1. Jos Verstappen Netherlands 1h 00:46.099 2. Neel Jani Switzerland + 1.774 3. Alvaro Parente Portugal + 1.965 4. Matt Halliday New Zealand + 4.352 5. Stephen Simpson South Africa + 9.433 6. M. Busnelli Italy + 10.735 7. Mathias Lauda Austria + 30.123 8. Alexandre Premat France + 37.217 9. Nelson Piquet Jr Brazil + 1:03.631 10. Sean Mcintosh Canada + 4 Laps 11. Timo Scheider Germany + 5 Laps 12. Tengyi Jiang China + 5 Laps 13. Enrico Toccacelo Pakistan + 9 Laps 14. David Martinez Mexico + 10 Laps 15. Basil Shaaban Lebanon + 13 Laps 16. Alex Yoong Malaysia + 15 Laps 17. Ralph Firman Ireland + 26 Laps 18. Armaan Ebrahim India + 30 Laps 19. Ananda Mikola Indonesia + 30 Laps 20. Robbie Kerr Great Britain + 31 Laps 21. Tomas Enge Czech Republic + 33 Laps 22. Will Davison Australia + 38 Laps 23. Philip Giebler USA + 38 Laps Fastest lap: Nelson Piquet Jr, 1:18.178 on lap 39 CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS (official): Pos Country Points 1. France 119 2. Switzerland 92 3. Brazil 63 4. Great Britain 58 5. New Zealand 54 6. Portugal 50 7. Ireland 44 8. Netherlands 44 9. Malaysia 33 10. Canada 32 11. Czech Republic 30 12. Australia 29 13. Italy 26 14. Mexico 20 15. South Africa 20 16. Germany 15 17. USA 13 18. Indonesia 10 19. Austria 9 20. China 6 21. Japan 6 22. Pakistan 4
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