Canada's Wickens wins Durban sprint

The teenager made a solid start from pole, but was able to establish a big early lead after New Zealand's Jonny Reid tagged GB's Oliver Jarvis at the first corner, forcing the chasing pack to stamp hard on the brakes.

Jarvis gave chase, but his mirrors were full of Neel Jani's Team Switzerland car, and Wickens stretched his lead past five seconds. But this was all reduced to nought after Bruno Junqueira launched his Brazil car over the kerbs at the chicane and into the wall.

The race restarted with just two laps to go, but Wickens made a textbook restart.

Any hopes of a last lap showdown vanished after Michael Ammermuller's Germany car tagged the back of Holland's Jeroen Bleekemolen on the entry to the fast final right-hander. Both cars spun, and even though Bleekemolen somehow missed the wall, the red flag was thrown.

Jarvis took second, with Jani third and Franky Cheng taking an excellent fourth for Team China.

Bleekemolen and Ammermuller were classified fifth and sixth, ahead of Australia's John Martin.

Filipe Albuquerque finished a great eighth on his debut for Portugal, followed by David Garza (Mexico) and Fairuz Fauzy (Malaysia).

Provisional results:

Pos  Driver                Team            Time
 1.  Robert Wickens        Canada          15:28.156
 2.  Oliver Jarvis         Great Britain    +  0.990
 3.  Neel Jani             Switzerland      +  1.742
 4.  Cheng Cong Fu         China            +  2.248
 5.  Jeroen Bleekemolen    Netherlands      +  3.477
 6.  Michael Ammermuller   Germany          +  4.602
 7.  John Martin           Australia        +  5.337
 8.  Felipe Albuquerque    Portugal         +  6.449
 9.  David Garza           Mexico           +  8.343
10.  Fairuz Fauzy          Malaysia         +  8.931
11.  Jonathan Summerton    USA              + 10.270
12.  Loic Duval            France           + 11.067
13.  Adam Khan             Pakistan         + 11.625
14.  Adrian Zaugg          South Africa     + 12.074
15.  Edoardo Piscopo       Italy            + 12.715
16.  Adam Carroll          Ireland          + 13.143
17.  Satrio Hermanto       Indonesia        + 14.579
18.  Parthiva Sureshwaren  India            + 15.375
19.  Josef Kral            Czech Republic   + 24.147
20.  Khalil Beschir        Lebanon          + 30.280
21.  Jonny Reid            New Zealand      + 46.100
22.  Bruno Junqueira       Brazil           + 3 laps