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A1GP team Germany win again in Australia
Monday, February 05, 2007 12:42 [IST]

London: A1GP team Germany won their fourth feature race of the season as Nico Hulkenberg dominated events in Sydney Australia over the weekend with Team New Zealand coming in a close second.

Race winner Hulkenberg said,"It was a difficult race, maybe it didn't look like it but when I was ahead of Jonny (Reid) after the pit stops he was always just behind me so I could not make any mistakes. But what can I say, two perfect weekends in a row, it is just I like the chair in the middle here at the press conference too much."

New Zealand’s Jonny Reid said,"I pushed and pushed but we had nothing left as the car was not so good in the race. There is another small change that we could work on to fix that for next time, but once you are out there you are battling with the race car and that is what you have got."

However, the surprise of the race was Team China who secured their first ever podium finish at an A1GP event, finishing the Sydney Feature race in third place - narrowly squeezing out fourth placed team Netherlands.

China’s Ho-Pin Tung, provided a sensational overtaking manoeuvre on the bright orange car of Team Netherlands on lap 22 that finally secured China’s podium finish, taking them on the outside of turn one in front of the packed out grandstands.

"I have just seen Steven our press manager cheering on the phone and screaming, so I think probably it will be a really big thing in China. I think on the TV maybe it looked a bit braver when I overtook the Netherlands than it was in reality," he said afterwards.

"I just had a very good tow down the main straight and I overtook him on the outside. I used my PowerBoost to get a really good tow, moved to the outside and could carry more speed into the corner where he had to lift as he had to defend his position."

The race was not without further incident and drama however, as drivers jostled for position a collision between Canada and Singapore saw both cars leave the track with the Canadian car barrel-rolling and landed upside down in the dirt at turn four, fortunately, James Hinchcliffe was able to walk away unhurt.

Team South Africa ran over the back of Pakistan, spinning into the dirt at turn eight taking both cars out of the race.

Yet another collision saw the Irish team tag the Swiss, pushing the car off the track and into the pit lane.

After seven races Team Germany currently head up the leader board with New Zealand and France some way off but still in touch with another four races remaining.


AFP
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