Sprint race: Malaysia wins, Jos retires

Published on 03 April 2006 by Thorsten Hendriks

The advantages of a circuit designed by Hermann Tilke were visible. Overtaking is possible but only with the right braking manouvre. You will be punished if you make a mistake and a faster car had the preference over a good driver at this particular circuit.

After a careful but good start Jos was able to keep hold of place six. In lap seven he was overtaken by Team Indonesia but Jos re-took his positin in the next corner. In lap ten Ananda Mikola did it again and drove away from Jos, making it clear that he had a faster car.

In lap 11 the car nearly grinds to a halt and for Jos there was nothing else to do than to return to the pit.

Malaysia managed to win the sprint race with a 10 second lead over Team Great Britain and Team Mexico.

 1 MALAYSIA         28:17.807 
 2 GREAT BRITAIN    28:27.648 
 3 MEXICO           28:28.224 
 4 IRELAND          28:31.712 
 5 INDONESIA        28:36.978 
 6 CZECH REPUBLIC   28:38.622 
 7 FRANCE           28:43.148 
 8 NEW ZEALAND      28:43.546 
 9 AUSTRALIA        28:44.477 
10 BRAZIL           28:51.550 
11 SOUTH AFRICA     28:51.661 
12 PAKISTAN         28:52.011 
13 PORTUGAL         28:54.155 
14 USA              28:55.382 
15 GERMANY          28:59.296 
16 ITALY            29:02.699 
17 CHINA            29:18.770 
18 LEBANON          28:25.661 
19 NETHERLANDS      23:35.077   3 Laps 
20 AUSTRIA          10:15.607  10 Laps 
21 CANADA            2:54.882  14 Laps 
22 SWITZERLAND       3:39.185  14 Laps 

Thorsten Hendriks