Karthikeyan finishes 10th in A1 Grand Prix

Chengdu (China), Nov 9 (IANS) Narain Karthikeyan of Team India finished 10th in both sprint and features at the A1 Grand Prix motorsport race here Sunday.

Adam Carroll drove a faultless race to take A1 Team Ireland's second series victory in the sprint race. On his A1 Team Netherlands debut, Robert Doornbos came home a comfortable second, while Danny Watts held off a fierce challenge from Switzerland's Neel Jani to claim the final podium position for A1 Team Great Britain.

Filipe Albuquerque claimed A1 Team Portugal's maiden victory in the A1GP when he won the feature race.

Portugal took the lead after the first round of pit stops and held off the charge from Carroll in the closing stages. Watts took the final podium position after starting on pole but dropping back after his two mandatory pit stops.