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France score double in Australia

November 06, 2005 16:32 IST

French driver Nicolas LaPierre won both races in the Australian round of the A1 Grand Prix series at Eastern Creek on Sunday.

LaPierre took the chequered flag after starting from pole position in the 30-km sprint race from Portugal's Alvaro Parente and Brazilian Nelson Piquet junior.

The Frenchman then won a drama-filled feature event from Britain's Robbie Kerr and Switzerland's Neel Jani. The race was stopped several times because of a series of high-speed crashes.

The double victory took France to 71 points at the top of the standings. Brazil were second with 52 and Switzerland third on 47.

Feature Race Results:

Pos. A1 Team Driver Time
1 France Nicolas Lapierre 1.00.54.068
2 Great Britain Robbie Kerr 1.00.56.547
3 Switzerland Neel Jani 1.00.57.086
4 Netherlands Jos Verstappen 1.00.57.593
5 Malaysia Alex Yoong 1.00.58.955
6 Australia Will Davison 1.00.59.499
7 Portugal Alvaro Parente 1.01.00.070
8 New Zealand Jonny Reid 1.01.02.989
9 Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr 1.01.03.108
10 USA Bryan Herta 1.01.03.896
11 Pakistan Adam Khan 1.01.05.010
12 Lebanon Basil Shaaban 1.01.07.071
13 India Armaan Ebrahim 1.01.08.343
14 Ireland Michael Devaney 1.01.26.140
15 Canada Sean McIntosh 26 laps
16 Japan Hayanari Shimoda 25 laps
17 China Tengyi Jiang 22 laps
18 Austria Mathias Lauda 17 laps
19 Czech Republic Tomas Enge 17 laps
20 Russia Roman Rusinov 7 laps
21 Mexico Salvador Duran 7 laps
22 Germany Adrian Sutil 7 laps
23 Italy Enrico Toccacelo 6 laps
24 South Africa Stephen Simpson 1 lap

 

Sprint Race Results:

Pos. A1 Team Driver Time
1 France Nicolas Lapierre 30.32.582
2 Portugal Alvaro Parente 30.41.281
3 Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr 30.41.677
4 Ireland Michael Devaney 30.45.067
5 Great Britain Robbie Kerr 30.50.055
6 Switzerland Neel Jani 30.52.566
7 Netherlands Jos Verstappen 30.57.138
8 Malaysia Alex Yoong 30.59.418
9 Canada Sean McIntosh 31.00.468
10 Italy Enrico Toccacelo 31.02.402
11 Australia Will Davison 31.03.008
12 Pakistan Adam Khan 31.10.694
13 Russia Roman Rusinov 31.11.600
14 New Zealand Jonny Reid 31.12.646
15 USA Bryan Herta 31.22.492
16 China Tengyi Jiang 31.23.701
17 India Armaan Ebrahim 31.25.335
18 Japan Hayanari Shimoda 18 laps
19 Austria Mathias Lauda 18 laps
20 Lebanon Basil Shaaban 11 laps
21 South Africa Stephen Simpson 8 laps
22 Mexico Salvador Duran 3 laps
23 Germany Adrian Sutil 3 laps
24 Czech Republic Tomas Enge 0 laps

Source: REUTERS
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