Narain Karthikeyan secured India's second World Cup of Motorsport triumph in the feature race at
Brands Hatch, in the process denying Robbie Kerr a dream double for the second year in succession and seeing Great Britain once again fall just one point short of overhauling New Zealand for the runner-up spot in the final title chase.
Newly-crowned A1GP champion Neel Jani came home third – celebrating his earlier success in fine style – and both he and Kerr brought the curtain down on the nation vs nation series' third campaign by performing donuts for the crowd after the chequered flag had fallen. With the Swiss ace achieving his promised aim of breaking his driveshaft in the process, he was given a lift back to the pits by his British rival, conjuring up memories of Jean Alesi and
Michael Schumacher at Montreal in 1995, or
Ayrton Senna and fellow Brands Hatch hero
Nigel Mansell at
Silverstone four years earlier still.
As the action had got underway, Karthikeyan held onto his pole advantage when the lights went out, as Kerr slotted neatly into second behind and Adam Carroll repeated his lightning getaway from the earlier sprint outing to charge past Jani for third place before the drivers had reached Paddock Hill Bend.
A racy-looking Kerr then attempted to go all the way around the outside of Karthikeyan at Graham Hill Bend, but as the Indian ran him wide the sprint race-winner found himself under close interrogation from Carroll, who similarly had a look for second place heading down Cooper Straight.
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