Zaugg takes dominant win

Problems hit two of the most fancied runners and title protagonists before the race even began.

Team New Zealand's Jonny Reid was forced to start from pitlane after stalling en route to the grid, while Loic Duval (Team France) stalled at the beginning of the warm-up lap and continued to be plagued by a clutch problem for the rest of the day.

That allowed Neel Jani (Team Switzerland) to move into the early lead ahead of Robbie Kerr (Team Great Britain) and Zaugg. That's the way it stayed until the first round of pitstops.

After Jani and Kerr pitted, Zaugg stayed out much longer on his first set of tyres. This set up his victory, as for these few laps he absolutely flew. There was little doubt he would emerge in front after his stop and that proved to be the case.

Neither Jani nor Kerr had an answer for the rest of the race either. Zaugg controlled the pace, keeping the lead around the 10-second mark all the way and negotiating the second round of stops with little trouble.

Kerr occasionally pressured Jani, but gradually dropped back as the race went on. After a brief off-track moment early in his second stint he didn't pose a major threat.

Team Brazil's Sergio Jimenez ran a consistent fourth throughout the race and finished there. Duval's race ended in retirement after a clash with Jonathan Summerton as he tried to work his way through the field, while Reid could only recover to ninth.

The bad results for France and New Zealand were good news for Switzerland and anyone promoting the four remaining events, as it served to close up the championship once again following a couple of bad races for Jani.

France and New Zealand are now tied at the top, with Switzerland just three points behind.

Pos  Driver           Team            Time
 1.  Adrian Zaugg     South Africa    1h12:00.930
 2.  Neel Jani        Switzerland     +    19.560
 3.  Robbie Kerr      Great Britain   +    25.194
 4.  Sergio Jimenez   Brazil          +    42.770
 5.  John Martin      Australia       +  1'08.647
 6.  Robert Wickens   Canada          +  1'10.321
 7.  M.Ammermuller    Germany         +  1'16.299
 8.  J.Bleekemolen    Netherlands     +  1'17.155
 9.  Jonny Reid       New Zealand     +  1'22.447
10.  Cheng Cong Fu    China           +  1'33.913
11.  N.Karthikeyan    India           +  1'35.414
12.  Adam Khan        Pakistan        +  1'39.496
13.  Adam Carroll     Ireland         +    1 Lap
14.  Edoardo Piscopo  Italy           +    1 Lap
15.  Tomas Enge       Czech Republic  +    1 Lap
16.  Joao Urbano      Portugal        +    1 Lap
17.  Fairuz Fauzy     Malaysia        +    1 Lap
18.  David Garza      Mexico          +    1 Lap
19.  Chris Alajajian  Lebanon         +    2 Laps
20.  Satrio Hermanto  Indonesia       +    3 Laps
21.  Loic Duval       France          +   11 Laps
22.  J.Summerton      USA             +   22 Laps