Jani wins Taupo feature race

After a brilliant start from fifth, Jani had been running second behind Ireland's Adam Carroll until the pair made the second and final of their compulsory stops.

Both pitted on the same lap and the Irish crew was able to release Carroll into the lead, only for the car to suffer a problem with its anti-stall and stop momentarily in the pitroad.

Ironically, it stopped right beside the Swiss pit crew, who were just completing their own stop, and by the time Carroll had got his car moving again Jani had already gone past.

The Swiss team's position became even stronger when Jani was able to rejoin just ahead of a group of midfielders, leaving Carroll to find a way through the traffic before being able to attempt a chase.

A late safety car period prompted by the beached Indonesia car gave Carroll some hope, but Jani was able to hold his lead at the restart and won by just over a second.

Portugal's Filipe Albuquerque was third after capitalising on a bad start by Robert Doornbos in the Netherlands car, leaving the Dutchman back in sixth behind Australia's John Martin.

France's Loic Duval and the USA's Marco Andretti completed the points, although the latter was fortunate to escape a penalty for crossing the white line on the pit exit following his second stop.

Pos  Driver            Team           Time
 1.  Neel Jani         Switzerland    1:06:19.574
 2.  Adam Carroll      Ireland        +     1.047
 3.  F. Albuquerque    Portugal       +     2.379
 4.  John Martin       Australia      +    10.593
 5.  Robert Doornbos   Netherlands    +    14.402
 6.  Loic Duval        France         +    17.423
 7.  N. Karthikeyan    India          +    20.215
 8.  Marco Andretti    USA            +    20.799
 9.  Edoardo Piscopo   Italy          +    23.156
10.  Adrian Zaugg      South Africa   +    23.347
11.  Fairuz Fauzy      Malaysia       +    26.832
12.  Felipe Guimaraes  Brazil         +    1 lap
13.  Dan Clarke        Great Britain  +    1 lap
14.  C. van der Drift  New Zealand    +    1 lap
15.  Cheng Cong Fu     China          +    1 lap
16.  Salvador Duran    Mexico         +    7 laps
17.  Satrio Hermanto   Indonesia      +    8 laps
18.  Clivio Piccione   Monaco         +   17 laps
19.  Daniel Morad      Lebanon        +   49 laps