Wickens continued to pile the pressure on the race leader, as the Toronto native began to scent a double victory from the weekend, whilst only slightly behind Duval was starting to hound Jarvis for third place. Further back still Cheng was the main man on the move, as the promising young Chinese star successfully attacked first Italian Edoardo Piscopo and then, a couple of laps later, Brazil's Bruno Junqueira, who would subsequently be shown a warning flag.
The top three came into the pits
en masse second time around, with Duval again staying out longer in an effort to make up ground. Though he would only remain on-track one lap longer this time, it was enough to hoist the 25-year-old – making what is almost certainly his final A1GP appearance of the 2007/08 campaign – up past Jarvis, who overshot the hairpin in an attempt to regain the position.
On lap 39, though – with nine tours remaining, just half a second separating the two leaders and France and Great Britain in close attendance behind – high drama struck once more. Wickens spun on the exit of turn one, and in trying to rejoin slammed into the unsighted Jarvis, putting both men out on the spot and elevating France up into second place.
The safety car left the pits for a third time, but immediately upon its returning to the pit-lane anarchy reigned again, as fans' favourite Zaugg – who had made strong progress up the order following his earlier delay to move past both Italy and Brazil – attempted an overly-ambitious manoeuvre into turn one, out-braked himself and careered into the unfortunate Jeroen Bleekemolen, who had similarly been rear-ended by Ammermüller at the end of the sprint race. Five cars were implicated in the ensuing mêlée.
“I didn't pay enough attention to warming the brakes behind the safety car,” a repentant Zaugg rued afterwards. “I went down the inside, but I had never tried that before and it was very slippery. I'm very sorry for Holland – I should have known better.”
![[L-R] Filipe Albuquerque, Neel Jani and Loic Duval on the 2008 A1GP feature race podium in Durban [pic credit: A1GP Media]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/409775.jpg)
