Reid takes dominant sprint race win

The driver of 'Black Beauty' led the full race distance after making sure he kept ahead of Adrian Zaugg (Team South Africa) at the first corner.

Zaugg struggled for pace from the start, and only just survived a sustained first-lap attack from Christian Vietoris (Team Germany) before a brief safety car period caused by a clash between Neel Jani (Team Switzerland) and Alex Yoong (Team Malaysia).

After the lap four restart, the determined Vietoris found a way into second when Zaugg ran wide at the first corner on lap six. Vietoris then set off after Reid, but after closing to within a second he was unable to put any further pressure on the home driver.

Loic Duval (Team France) later passed Zaugg as well to take the final podium spot. Zaugg came home fourth ahead of Jeroen Bleekemolen (Team Netherlands) and Adam Carroll (Team Ireland).

The retirement of points leader Jani and Reid's win have had a dramatic effect on the championship standings. Jani is now just five points clear of Reid going into this afternoon's feature race.

Pos  Driver           Team             Time/Gap
 1.  Jonny Reid       New Zealand      19:25.408
 2.  C.Vietoris       Germany          +   3.192
 3.  Loic Duval       France           +   4.899
 4.  Adrian Zaugg     South Africa     +   7.823
 5.  J.Bleekemolen    Netherlands      +   9.581
 6.  Adam Carroll     Ireland          +  10.912
 7.  J.Summerton      USA              +  11.417
 8.  Joao Urbano      Portugal         +  13.315
 9.  John Martin      Australia        +  15.580
10.  N.Karthikeyan    India            +  22.968
11.  Adam Khan        Pakistan         +  25.773
12.  Edoardo Piscopo  Italy            +  26.048
13.  Sergio Jimenez   Brazil           +  26.541
14.  Cheng Cong Fu    China            +  26.773
15.  Chris Alajajian  Lebanon          +  29.483
16.  Satrio Hermanto  Indonesia        +  31.107
17.  David Garza      Mexico           +  31.349
18.  Robert Wickens   Canada           +  3 Laps
19.  Tomas Enge       Czech Republic   +  4 Laps
20.  Robbie Kerr      Great Britain    +  5 Laps
21.  Alex Yoong       Malaysia         + 14 Laps
22.  Neel Jani        Switzerland      + 14 Laps