A1 Team India took part in a spectacular season finale at the Brands Hatch circuit in the UK today, with former F1 racer Narain Karthikeyan behind the wheel. Karthikeyan drove a fantastic Feature race to take India from seventh to fourth place and secure his country’s best ever finish in the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport. In a close battle with A1 Team Italy, just three tenths of a second separated Karthikeyan from a third place finish after 70 minutes of racing. Karthikeyan finished seventh in the earlier Sprint race.
The team qualified fifth for the 20 minute Sprint race and Karthikeyan took his place between Italy and Malaysia for the rolling start. As the 22 cars thundered down the start/finish line to start the first lap, Karthikeyan was caught out and lost two places to Malaysia and the Netherlands. With the race consisting of just 15 laps, the team had little opportunity to make upthe position, despite looking considerably faster than the orange Dutch car. Karthikeyan went on to cross the line in seventh, just one place out of the points.
Taking his finishing position from the Sprint race as his starting position for the Feature racegrid, Karthikeyan lined up seventh for the 70 minute race. The Indian car had a good start off the line, and was running alongside the Dutch car into the first corner with the Irish car close behind. As the cars entered the narrow right hand bend, Karthikeyan ran out of room and hadto slot in behind the Netherlands and Ireland, in seventh place.
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