A1GP Mexico: Malaysia 7th In Sprint Race

And Moves Up From 9th To 7th In Championship

Lap By Lap Report:

lap1: green flag...clean start for all...but 3/4 way done and a crash between ireland and mex pulled out the safety car...mal 8th...ita made up a place on rsa to 3rd...

lap2: por pits with mechanical problems...top 10 are fra, sui, ita, rsa, usa, cze, ned, mal, ger and mal...

lap3: jap crashed into another car under safety car and flips!!...debris all over, driver crawled out and ok...it was nzl whom jap clipped and nzl pits...

lap6: green flag and racing...ned and cze touched...ned takes cze for 5th...

lap7: usa passed rsa... so do cze and mal who moved up to 6th and 7th respectively...

lap8: rsa pits with problems...ned pressuring usa...ned passes usa to 4th...

lap9: top 10 are fra, sui, ita, ned, usa, cze, mal, ger, bra and can...

lap10: gap grown between cze in 6th and mal in 7th...cze takes usa for 5th...

lap 12: mal holds on to 7th under pressure from ger...top 10 are fra, sui, ita, ned, cze, usa, mal, ger, bra and gbr...

lap14: mal defends it's 7th as the pace is not there to catch usa in 6th...gbr tried a move on bra and touched...body parts flying but both stayed on track...

lap15: top10 are now fra, sui, ita, ned, cze, usa, mal, ger, can and aut...

lap16: ned now closes on ita with 4 laps to go...mal still 7th as ger cannot take advantage...

lap 17: top 10 remains the same...ita has responded to ned attack and reopen a gap...

lap18: chequered flag! fra takes win from sui, with ita 3rd, ned 4th, cze 5th, usa 6th, mal 7th, ger 8th, can 9th and aut rounding up the top 10...other positions are gbr 11th ina 12th, lib 13th, bra 14th, chn 15th and aus in 16th...

Malaysia gains 4 points in the championship for the seventh position in the Sprint race and thus leapfrogs Portugal and Ireland to 7th in the inaugural A1 Grand Prix championship.

Malaysia will start the 36 lap Feature race 7th on the grid in an hour's time.

Max Revson