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Malaysia Take First Victory in New Season |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
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1 Team
Malaysia has won the first race of the 2008/09 A1GP World Cup of
Motorsport season at Circuit Park Zandvoort in The Netherlands. In a
rain-soaked Sprint race, Fairuz Fauzy came from fourth on the grid to
take the team’s first victory in 27 races.
After
initially taking the lead from The Netherlands, Earl Bamber put in a
great drive on his race debut for A1 Team New Zealand to take second
place with Loic Duval storming through from 11th on the grid to take
the final podium position for A1 Team France. Pole-sitter Jeroen
Bleekemolen struggled in the extremely tricky conditions finishing
fourth as the red flag came out to end the race, with positions
classified after 10 laps.
Sprint race results
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Pos
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Driver
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A1 Team
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Laps
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Time
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Gap First
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1
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Fairuz FAUZY
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MALAYSIA
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10
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19:44.533
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-
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2
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Earl BAMBER
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NEW ZEALAND
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10
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19:48.007
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3.474
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3
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Loic DUVAL
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FRANCE
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10
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19:50.803
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6.27
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4
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Jeroen BLEEKEMOLEN
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NETHERLANDS
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10
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19:57.966
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13.433
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5
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Neel JANI
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SWITZERLAND
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10
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20:01.429
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16.896
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6
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Adrian ZAUGG
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SOUTH AFRICA
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10
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20:05.458
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20.925
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7
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Fabio ONIDI
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ITALY
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10
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20:06.747
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22.214
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8
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Charlie KIMBALL
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USA
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10
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20:08.683
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24.15
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9
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Filipe ALBUQUERQUE
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PORTUGAL
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10
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20:13.960
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29.427
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10
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Daniel MORAD
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LEBANON
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10
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20:23.462
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38.929
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11
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John MARTIN
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AUSTRALIA
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10
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21:12.004
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+1:27.471
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12
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Ho Pin TUNG
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CHINA
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9
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18:09.652
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1 Lap
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13
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Felipe GUIMARAES
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BRAZIL
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9
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19:24.409
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1 Lap
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14
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Jin Woo HWANG
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KOREA
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3
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07:27.249
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7 Laps
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15
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Satrio HERMANTO
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INDONESIA
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2
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05:27.400
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8 Laps
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16
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Adam CARROLL
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IRELAND
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2
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05:58.094
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8 Laps
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17
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Clivio PICCIONE
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MONACO
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1
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02:48.422
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9 Laps
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Fastest lap: A1 Team France set the fastest lap (1m45.939s) of the Sprint race with a speed of 157.2 kph on lap six.
Ends.
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