Enge wins the season finale
Tomas Enge won the final A1 Grand Prix race of the season for the Czech Republic, due to a superb start and great pit work by his team
Enge made a perfect start to the Feature Race when the red lights went out, moving up from seventh on the grid to fourth by the end of the first lap, and then moved up to second, when the entire field went into the pits on the third lap due to a safety car period.
When racing resumed, Enge made passed Team Malaysia's sprint race winner Alex Yoong around the outside of the tricky Turn 1 to take the lead. From that point on, Enge pulled away from Yoong to win by nearly seven seconds at the chequered flag.
The former IRL racer's maiden victory in the series means that the Czech Republic becomes the eighth nation to win a race in the inaugural season of the World Cup of Motorsport.
Yoong, having taken his first victory in the series earlier in the day by winning the sprint race, was elated with second place, which moved his team into fifth in the final championship standing.
Ryan Briscoe secured his best finish since joining A1 Grand Prix at Laguna Seca last month, taking the final podium position for Team Australia.
Briscoe comfortably beat arch-rival New Zealand to the podium, having a 16-second advantage over Matt Halliday at the chequered flag.
Team Pakistan scored their best finish of the season and their first points since the opening round at Brands Hatch with fifth place. Adam Kahn also benefited from slick pit-work during the safety car period to move up the order.
Nicolas Lapierre put in a superb comeback drive for Team France, after leaving the pits last because of a sticking left-rear wheel. He passed Canada's Patrick Carpentier on the penultimate lap. Carpentier finished seventh.
Sprint Race top-five finishers Michael Devaney and Ananda Mikola were involved in a huge smash on the second lap, which caused the safety car period that helped Enge leap up the order.
Devaney's Irish car went into the sweeping Turn 7 fractionally infront of Mikola's Indonesia's car. However, Mikola appeared to understeer slightly while running alongside and hit Devaney.
Mikola's front-left hit Devaney's right-rear wheel sending the Irishman into a series of rolls through the gravel trap. Both got out their cars uninjured although they then gestured at each other strongly when they got out of the cars.
Sprint race podium finishers Darren Manning and Salvador Duran had their chances of victory effectively ended when they were awarded drive-through penalties for jump starts. Duran's Mexico entry fared better, finishing eighth, with Manning coming home 15th.
Pos Driver Team Time 1. Tomas Enge Czech Republic 59:23.250 2. Alex Yoong Malaysia + 6.721 3. Ryan Briscoe Australia + 9.853 4. Matt Halliday New Zealand + 26.466 5. Adam Khan Pakistan + 28.183 6. Alexandre Premat France + 31.432 7. Patrick Carpentier Canada + 33.457 8. Salvador Duran Mexico + 34.415 9. Enrico Toccacelo Italy + 48.375 10. Philip Giebler USA + 51.331 11. Graham Rahal Lebanon +1:01.653 12. Cesar Campanico Portugal +1:06.925 13. Mathias Lauda Austria +1:07.420 14. Stephen Simpson South Africa +1:07.840 15. Darren Manning Great Britain +1:09.922 16. Qinghua Ma China +1:17.354 17. Jos Verstappen Netherlands +1:44.475 18. Sebastian Stahl Germany +1:49.994 19. C. Fittipaldi Brazil + 2 Laps 20. Giorgio Mondini Switzerland + 23 Laps 21. Ananda Mikola Indonesia + 29 Laps 22. Michael Devaney Ireland + 29 Laps Fastest lap: Duran, 1:52.546 on lap 30 FINAL CHAMPIONSHIP STANDING: 1. France 172 2. Switzerland 121 3. Great Britain 97 4. New Zealand 77 5. Malaysia 74 6. Brazil 71 7. Netherlands 69 8. Ireland 68 9. Portugal 66 10. Canada 59 11. Mexico 59 12. Czech Republic 56 13. Australia 51 14. Italy 46 15. Germany 38 16. USA 23 17. South Africa 20 18. Indonesia 16 19 Austria 14 20 Pakistan 10 21 Japan 8 22 China 6
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