Why do we love A1GP so much?

Anyone watching the South Africa GP today knows why — awesome racing!

On the first lap you can’t win a race but you can lose it — A1Team Ireland know this as they are out.

Then a couple of laps later A1Team New Zealand was nudged off the track and out by Malaysia and at the same time A1Team Mexico nudged France up the back.

It seems as though A1Team Malaysia had run into Irelands offside rear tyre before Malaysia hit New Zealand.

All through the field there were cars competing for position.

First pits stop saw a very long stop for leader A1Team Monaco [15.9] then A1Team Germany arrived in pit box as A1Team Australia was about to leave and the Australian car stalled and wouldn’t restart.

The leaders after first pit stop were A1Teams SUI, MON, BRA, NED, GBR, POR, RSA, GER, LEB, USA.

Lap 15 and A1Team.RSA is out cruising back to pits with gearbox or electrical problems.

This is the first time that the ‘powered by Ferrari’ car is showing its potential. Overtaking at speed everywhere on track.

Lap 20 and the leaders are A1Teams SUI, MON, BRA, NED, GBR, POR, LEB, GER, INA and CHN.

Lap 23 and A1Team Monaco run wide and Brazil swept past up into 2nd.

After second pits stop window the leaders are A1Teams SUI, BRA, MON, NED, POR, GBR, LEB, USA, INA and ITA with 12 laps to go.

Gaps are wider now 9.7, 8.2, 2.2, 1.1, 6.7, 5.1, 11.7, 10.2, 1.1

With 6 laps to go A1Team Malaysia using up their powerboosts on one lap grab the fastest lap at 1:28.306 although they are 19 laps down.

Congratulations to A1Team Switzerland!

Pos	A1 Team	Driver	Laps	Time	Gap
1	Switzerland	Neel Jani	40	1:02′24.617
2	Brazil	Felipe Guimarães	40	1:02′37.793	13.176
3	Monaco	Clivio Piccione	40	1:02′38.810	14.193
4	Netherlands	Jeroen Bleekemolen	40	1:02′41.641	17.024
5	Portugal	Filipe Albuquerque	40	1:02′42.612	17.995
6	Lebanon	Daniel Morad	40	1:02′55.827	31.210
7	Great Britain	Danny Watts	40	1:02′58.945	34.328
8	USA	Marco Andretti	40	1:03′23.617	59.000
9	Indonesia	Zahir Ali	40	1:03′28.612	1′03.995
10	Italy	Edoardo Piscopo	40	1:03′29.473	1′04.856
11	Germany	Michael Ammermüller	40	1:03′33.220	1′08.603
12	India	Narain Karthikeyan	40	1:03′33.767	1′09.150
13	Australia	John Martin	40	1:03′45.162	1′20.545
14	China	Ho-Pin Tung	22	39′35.335	18 laps
15	Malaysia	Fairuz Fauzy	17	57′24.109	23 laps
16	South Africa	Adrian Zaugg	15	24′11.627	25 laps
17	New Zealand	Earl Bamber	3	4′49.816	37 laps
18	France	Nicolas Prost	3	4′55.939	37 laps
19	Mexico	Salvador Durán	3	4′57.129	37 laps
20	Ireland	Adam Carroll	0		40 laps