Yoong Maintains Point Scoring Streak in Dubai's Sprint Race
Despite Nearly Taken Out By Germany
After qualifying 8th on the grid at the A1 Grand Prix Dubai round, A1 Team Malaysia's Alex Yoong made a good getaway in the Sprint race rolling start and was on the inside line of turn 2 with a chance to move to 6th. But Germany's Adrian Sutil drove him off the track and Alex dropped to 11th.
He made up one position to 10th and had an interesting race fighting on and off battles with Netherlands' Jos Verstappen throughout the 15 lap race.
Alex even had a chance for 9th after Great Britain's Robbie Kerr dropped from 4th after a spin into Alex's clutches.
In the end Alex defended well to grab the final point for 10th at the chequered flag to push Netherlands to 7th in the championship.
Malaysia is now 6th in the championship instead of joint 6th with the Netherlands before the Sprint race in Dubai.
Alex has now scored points for Malaysia in every A1GP race he took part for Malaysia bar one.
Max Revson
rd. 6 dubai - sprint race lap by lap
lap1: malaysia started well to go 7th but germany moved out and made coontact with malaysia...alex dropped to 11th...indonesia had a fantastic start to move up to 8th as was netherlands who slotted in behind alex...(lib had crashed out going to the grid earlier)...
lap2: 1st sui, 2nd irl, 3rd.gbr, 4th fra, 5th cze...mal 10th.
lap3: netherlands' jos pressures alex of malaysia...fra takes gbr for 3rd...top 10 are sui, irl, fra, gbr, ita, cze, can, ina, por & mal...ned 11th.
lap6: gbr spun and dropped to 9th from 4th...
lap7: fra pressures ire...top 10 now are: sui, ire, fra, ita, cze, can, ina, por, gbr and mal...gbr, mal and ned are close together...
lap9: good battles all round between ire and fra, between usa and rsa as well as amongst gbr, mal and ned....mex and aut also battle closely..
lap10: aus into pits...with probably gear problem...cars out of race are ger and bra...
lap12: mal's alex hounding gbr after pulling a gap from ned...alex made a half move on gbr which didn't come off and dropped back into the clutches of ned's jos...top 10 remains unchanged...
lap14: sui's gap to second car ire is now 4.6s with 1 laps to go...fra spins! fra drops to 7th...
lap15: top3: drama in the last lap as ita and cze both take ire!
chequered flag: sui breaks fra's stranglehold and wins from ita and cze in 3rd...ire 4th with can 5th, ina 6th, fra 7th, por 8th, gbr 9th and mal held on to the final point for 10th...the rest finished as follows: 11th ned, 12th rsa, 13th usa, 14th jpn, 15th nzl, 16th pak, 17th aut, 18th mex, 19th chn, 20th ind and 21st aus. lib, ger and bra dnfs.
After qualifying 8th on the grid at the A1 Grand Prix Dubai round, A1 Team Malaysia's Alex Yoong made a good getaway in the Sprint race rolling start and was on the inside line of turn 2 with a chance to move to 6th. But Germany's Adrian Sutil drove him off the track and Alex dropped to 11th.
He made up one position to 10th and had an interesting race fighting on and off battles with Netherlands' Jos Verstappen throughout the 15 lap race.
Alex even had a chance for 9th after Great Britain's Robbie Kerr dropped from 4th after a spin into Alex's clutches.
In the end Alex defended well to grab the final point for 10th at the chequered flag to push Netherlands to 7th in the championship.
Malaysia is now 6th in the championship instead of joint 6th with the Netherlands before the Sprint race in Dubai.
Alex has now scored points for Malaysia in every A1GP race he took part for Malaysia bar one.
Max Revson
rd. 6 dubai - sprint race lap by lap
lap1: malaysia started well to go 7th but germany moved out and made coontact with malaysia...alex dropped to 11th...indonesia had a fantastic start to move up to 8th as was netherlands who slotted in behind alex...(lib had crashed out going to the grid earlier)...
lap2: 1st sui, 2nd irl, 3rd.gbr, 4th fra, 5th cze...mal 10th.
lap3: netherlands' jos pressures alex of malaysia...fra takes gbr for 3rd...top 10 are sui, irl, fra, gbr, ita, cze, can, ina, por & mal...ned 11th.
lap6: gbr spun and dropped to 9th from 4th...
lap7: fra pressures ire...top 10 now are: sui, ire, fra, ita, cze, can, ina, por, gbr and mal...gbr, mal and ned are close together...
lap9: good battles all round between ire and fra, between usa and rsa as well as amongst gbr, mal and ned....mex and aut also battle closely..
lap10: aus into pits...with probably gear problem...cars out of race are ger and bra...
lap12: mal's alex hounding gbr after pulling a gap from ned...alex made a half move on gbr which didn't come off and dropped back into the clutches of ned's jos...top 10 remains unchanged...
lap14: sui's gap to second car ire is now 4.6s with 1 laps to go...fra spins! fra drops to 7th...
lap15: top3: drama in the last lap as ita and cze both take ire!
chequered flag: sui breaks fra's stranglehold and wins from ita and cze in 3rd...ire 4th with can 5th, ina 6th, fra 7th, por 8th, gbr 9th and mal held on to the final point for 10th...the rest finished as follows: 11th ned, 12th rsa, 13th usa, 14th jpn, 15th nzl, 16th pak, 17th aut, 18th mex, 19th chn, 20th ind and 21st aus. lib, ger and bra dnfs.
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