A1 GRAND PRIX OF NATIONS, DUBAI, UAE source: a1gp.com SPRINT RACE RESULTS A1 Team Switzerland took their first win of the season, ending France's eight race run and putting them on pole for this afternoon's Feature race. Driver Neel Jani was joined on the podium by Italy and the Czech Republic who benefited from an unusual mistake by the French team which saw Nicolas Lapierre slip down to finish in seventh. Winning his first A1 Grand Prix race Neel Jani said: 'It was a great result, but the big race is to come, it's not over yet. I managed to get a really good start.' Asked if he thought he could continue the tradition of winning the Feature as well as the Sprint race, Jani commented: 'Of course I hope we can win, I'll try my best and see what the outcome is'. It was another action-packed start for an A1 Grand Prix race with pole-sitter A1 Team Switzerland leading into the first corner. Following was A1 Team Ireland, A1 Team Brazil and A1 Team Great Britain with France in a very unfamiliar fifth having gone wide and lost ground. Not everyone made the first corner cleanly with the first casualty being A1 Team Germany who had to pit at the end of lap one for a new nose cone. The battle of the opening lap was between Brazil and Great Britain and by the end of the lap it was Britain's Robbie Kerr who was in third. On lap two the challenge from Brazil finished when Nelson Piquet Jr parked his car on the side of the track so implementing A1 Recovery for the very first time. This ground- breaking helicopter recovery service was given the green light by the FIA for A1GP to use it for the first time in Dubai. A1 Teams Malaysia and Netherlands started a race long battle with Holland's Jos Verstappen moving from nineteenth on the starting grid to twelfth at the end of lap one. Despite the Dutch driver's best efforts there was no way he could overtake Malaysia but was less than a second behind at the end of the 15 lap race. There were the usual wheel to wheel battles all the way down the field with New Zealand trying everything to get by South Africa on lap two. However, A1 Team France had a much easier time on lap four and was able to cruise by the Great Britain car relatively easily and take third place.
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