A1 Grand Prix gained its tenth different winner on Sunday when Team Germany's Niko Hulkenberg charged to a dramatic feature race victory at Zandvoort in one of A1's most exciting races yet.
If the season opening A1 Grand Prix sprint race failed to ignite much excitement from the massive Zandvoort crowd then the feature race more than made up for it with almost non-stop action from start to finish and more than half a dozen potential winners.
The drama started before the lights went out when Team Switzerland's Sebastien Buemi failed to get away on the warm-up lap, causing a minor traffic jam that resulted in Team Malaysia's Alex Yoong clattering over the right rear corner of the Swiss entry. Undamaged by the clash Buemi was able to engage a gear and get away on the warm-up lap, although a subsequent jump start from the rear of the grid would add to his early race woes.
Yoong meanwhile bent something in the left rear suspension assembly on his machine and the Malaysia crew spent four laps repairing the damage before Yoong could start the race. Yoong would go on to set the fastest lap of the race but was unable to reduce the four lap deficit.
When the lights finally went out, polesitter and sprint race winner Adrian Zaugg failed to get away cleanly and was swamped in the Team South Africa entry as outside front row starter Salvador Duran forged ahead in the Team Mexico machine. Team France's Nicolas Lapierre slotted into second place as Zaugg's race came to an early end when he slid wide into the tyre barriers at turn three.
Mexico's lead lasted but one full tour of the 2.6-mile, 12 turn Zandvoort circuit before a mistake by Duran going into Tarzan allowed France to sneak through. On the following lap Hulkenberg in the German entry and a fast starting Darren Manning in the Team Great Britain car also got past Duran for second and third places while Lapierre and defending A1 champions France sailed into a big lead.
![Nico Hulkenberg (GER) - A1 Team Germany - A1 Team Netherlands [pic credit: A1GP media]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/271248.jpg)
