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Germany take first win of season

Michael Ammermuller took his maiden A1GP victory and the first win of the season for Team Germany in the Sprint race at Zhuhai

The German driver held off a race-long challenge from Switzerland's Neel Jani, who eventually settled for second place after he earned the extra point for fastest lap.

While the front two pulled away, Franky Cheng pulled off one of the few clean overtaking moves in the race when he snatched third place from Adam Carroll's Irish car on lap 10.

Cheng held on to take his first podium in the series, and a great result for the Chinese team on home soil.

Carroll had to settle for fifth ahead of a fast-starting Tomas Enge, who spent the majority of the race fighting to keep Oliver Jarvis and several other cars at bay.

The battle for the final point was fierce from the start of the race, as Canada and New Zealand fought over 10th place once South Africa, Brazil and Australia had all been caught up in a first lap accident.

Jonny Reid eventually took the place from Robert Wickens at the hairpin, but the two cars made contact, forcing the Canadian car into a spin which dropped Wickens down to 15th.

Pos   Driver            Team             Time
 1.   M.Ammermuller     Germany          20:31.432
 2.   Neel Jani         Switzerland         +0.601
 3.   Cheng Cong Fu     China               +4.632
 4.   Adam Carroll      Ireland             +6.707
 5.   Tomas Enge        Czech Republic      +7.386
 6.   Oliver Jarvis     Great Britain       +7.865
 7.   N.Karthikeyan     India               +8.661
 8.   Loic Duval        France              +9.033
 9.   J.Bleekemolen     Netherlands         +9.650
10.   Jonny Reid        New Zealand        +12.992
11.   Edoardo Piscopo   Italy              +14.709
12.   J.Summerton       USA                +16.895
13.   Ian Dyk           Australia          +17.169
14.   Adam Khan         Pakistan           +20.944
15.   Robert Wickens    Canada             +21.784
16.   David Garza       Mexico             +23.388
17.   Satrio Hermanto   Indonesia          +23.792
18.   Sergio Jimenez    Brazil              +1 lap

Retirements

      Joao Urbano       Portugal           10 laps
      Adrian Zaugg      South Africa         1 lap
      Alex Yoong        Malaysia             1 lap
      Chris Alajajian   Lebanon             0 laps

Fastest lap: Jani, 1:24.418 on lap 11

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