Fresh from having scored New Zealand's first win in the sprint event, Jonny Reid doubled up at Sentul with victory in the feature race, albeit only after overcoming a sodden start, a drying track and a dramatic two-lap shootout in the final stages.
Capturing the maximum 16 points for victory in both races, Reid's feature glory was far from as easy as his lights-to-flag triumph in the sprint race, the Japanese F3 driver instead having to embark on a topsy-turvy race that seemed to switch in favour of both New Zealand and Germany throughout the 47-laps.
Having seen the race brought forward to avoid heavy forecasted afternoon showers, it was then delayed back to its original time when a shower in the morning forced organisers to revert back to the old strategy.
With each team starting on wet tyres, it did not take long for Niko Hulkenberg to remind everyone of his undoubted pace in the wet, the German streaking into an early lead from fifth on the grid just as he had done at Malaysia.
Belting out numerous quick laps, Hulkenberg raced away from Reid, who was holding sway from Mexico and Great Britain initially, while Alan van der Merwe had made a superb start from eight for South Africa to be running as high as fifth overall.
The turning point came at around the twenty lap mark though when the track began to produce a dry line just as pit stops were beginning to be made.
With teams watching the first drivers to pit for slick tyres carefully, it was not long until the whole field had dived into the pit lane to take on new rubber.
The switch to dry tyres, and seemingly a quick alteration of his set-up, duly prompted a marvellous comeback by Reid, who managed to reduce a 13 seconds gap down to barely anything in six laps as Hulkenberg began to look fallible in the ever improving conditions.
Up to the tail of the German car by lap 26, Reid wasted no time in making his advantage count, slipping past the ailing Hulkenberg to sprint into the lead.
![Jonny Reid (NZL) - A1 Team New Zealand [Pic credit: A1GP Media]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/283208.jpg)
