Home hero CongFu Cheng was another to make a scintillating getaway when the lights went out, gaining a staggering five places from his lowly 15th grid slot. Though the 23-year-old looked like finding a way past Robbie Kerr in the race's closing laps too, he was ultimately forced to settle for tenth behind the Briton and with it the final championship point.
Reid, meanwhile, clashed with Jonathan Summerton at the rolling start, after the pair had lined up alongside each other on the third row of the grid. The contact sent
Black Beauty into a spin and out of contention, whilst Summerton who injured his hand when his steering wheel kicked back in the impact was able to limp back to the pit-lane in the We The People' car, where he too was forced into an early bath. Amazingly the rest of the field managed to avoid the incident.
It's a great start to the day, enthused Jani, who now intends to put the destiny of the crown beyond all doubt in the longer, 70-minute feature outing. I hope I can do it again in the second race, and if we are lucky we can even get the championship.
I tried to quickly get some distance between me and the other guys behind so I would have a calm race. I still had to push to try and get the quickest lap, though; Robert [Wickens] had it once off me so I had to push again, and I had to fight a little bit with the car. We can still improve it and hopefully be even quicker. I hope Jonathan [Summerton] is ok and can come back for the second race.
I think being on the inside at the rolling start here is a big benefit, because it's such a long corner, added Wickens, who has almost single-handedly vaulted Canada up the pecking order in his 13 race starts this season. I got a good reaction time to when Neel decided to go and I had a little bit of luck when Portugal got on the limiter a little bit, so it think I lucked out ok and I was just happy to make it to the first corner.
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