South Africa, with Adrian Zaugg at the wheel of Vulindlela, bounced back from a disappointing qualifying yesterday to finish a fighting fifth after starting yesterday's feature race in the third round of the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport in 16th place.

Ireland became the first two-time winner this season when Adam Carroll took a commanding victory in the 70-minute 34-lap race ahead of Portugal (Filipe Albuquerque), USA (Marco Andretti), Australia (John Martin) and South Africa.

Earlier, Switzerland (Neel Jani) became the fifth different winner in five races to win the sprint race. It was reigning champions Switzerland's third successive sprint race win in Malaysia. France (Loic Duval) was second ahead of New Zealand (Earl Bamber). South Africa finished ninth and one position out of the points after improving from 11th on the grid.

Adrian Zaugg survived an incident with Malaysia's Fairuz Fauzy on lap two, which saw the two cars make contact as Zaugg attempted to repass Fauzy following a successful overtaking manoeuvre by the Malaysian at the end of the pit straight on lap one.

The South African made the move stick and Fauzy was forced into the pits with a flat tyre.

South Africa was up to eighth and in the points when the cars came in for the mandatory pit stop, but a quicker pit stop by Australia saw South Africa's traditional rugby and cricket rivals demote Zaugg to ninth.

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