Then, only moments after Reid's misfortune, sprint race winner Loïc Duval encountered a clutch problem that led to him stalling the French car on the formation lap and forcing the 25-year-old to start the race from the back of the grid, potentially putting both title rivals immediately out of contention.
Whilst Reid would go on to take the chequered flag a lowly ninth to at least salvage a couple of – potentially crucial – points, Duval made steady progress and by lap 16 had caught the USA's Jonathan Summerton and Canada's Robert Wickens for sixth place. In an ambitious move four laps later, the Chartres-born ace snuck down the inside of the ‘We The People' entry, forcing Summerton to run off the track and ultimately ending his race.
A drive-through penalty for causing an avoidable collision was the result, but in any case all would eventually come to nothing as the clutch issue reared its ugly head again during his second compulsory pit-stop on lap 31, bringing a premature end to France's charge and dashing any hopes of a dream double victory for the inaugural series champions on what may have been Duval's A1GP swansong.
That handed a lifeline to Jani, who needed to score heavily after throwing away eleven points in the sprint race when he had run wide with just two laps to go. His second place in the feature event kept Switzerland well in the title chase, just three points adrift of new joint leaders New Zealand and France.
“I had a bad take-off,” the former Champ car front-runner admitted, “but the second part of my start was good. As the cars were rolling down I had to have my foot on the brake, as I didn't want to have the same mistake I had at the last race when I was penalised for making a false start. It was still enough to be P1 into the first lap and I could just keep that position with more-or-less the same pace as the guys behind me.
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