Great Britain Celebrates First A1GP Victory in Mexico City

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Great Britain Celebrates First A1GP Victory in Mexico City


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Mexico City
Mar 26, 2007

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Oliver Jarvis led A1 Team Great Britain to its first ever A1GP World Cup of Motorsport victory on Sunday with a commanding performance in Round 9’s Feature race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriquez in Mexico City. The 23-year-old from Cambridgeshire led all but eight laps in this afternoon’s 45-lap main event to follow up his second place Sprint race podium from the morning with the sweet taste of victory in the Feature.

Sunday morning’s 20-minute Sprint race saw Jarvis keep pace with pole-sitter Alex Yoong for Malaysia as they charged to the green flag from a creeping rolling start. Stealing second from Germany, Oliver left a scene of carnage firmly in his mirrors as the home-favorite, Mexico’s Salvador Duran, tagged Brazilian Champ Car veteran Bruno Junqueira into a heart-stopping sideways spin.

While the expected Safety Car period failed to materialize, Jarvis concentrated on giving chase to Yoong ahead. Narrowing the gap to the ex-Formula One racer to 1.4 seconds on lap eight, both Yoong and Jarvis settled for securing front-row Feature starts, the Malaysian taking the chequered flag four laps later ahead of his British rival with Australia’s Ian Dyk rounding out the Sprint race podium.


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