“Then I was stuck behind France, so I was a little bit worried we wouldn't even get a podium in the last race, but our second pit-stop was great and I could put in some amazing laps which were really good for us and allowed us to catch Germany. They then had a tyre puncture, so we got by them pretty easily, and there it was – my P3.
“[Cheng] was really quick, and I was a little bit worried at some stages, but I knew from being behind France that it was very hard to overtake, and I knew where he might try as I had spent half my race behind him. That meant I could defend well.
“I wanted at least a podium, so I was happy with that. Unfortunately we couldn't fight for the win, but it was still a good end for me.”
Jani triumphed four times in 2007/08, and finished in the points on 13 further occasions, in so doing leading Switzerland to the crown it had coveted but missed out on during the nation vs nation series' inaugural season back in 2005/06. More than just that, he set six pole positions
en route, and some spectacular donuts on his slowing-down lap afterwards were a final release after a hard-fought campaign, but one which ended with the rightful winner.
“Doing the donuts was great!” the man from Rorschach enthused. “I had told my mechanics before that I would try to break the driveshaft, and I achieved it! I think it was great for the crowd just to do the donuts and everything. Unfortunately I couldn't finish my [celebration] lap, but it was great to jump on Robbie's car and get back to the pits.
“Looking back, we had some ups, we had some downs, we had some discussions with race control and with some other competitors, but we qualified so well so many times and were always in the top three. Many times we were fighting for the win, and the nicest thing is we had the speed and were overall the quickest. That's nice to know.
“It was what we wanted and what we worked for all year-long, and we got it.”
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![Great Britain's Robbie Kerr [left] and Switzerland's Neel Jani celebrate after the 2007/08 A1GP feature race at Eastern Creek [pic credit: A1GP Media]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/405453.jpg)
