In a nail-biting finish to the Feature race at the A1GP Mexico City, Mexico, A1 Team Great Britain took its maiden victory of the series with the USA finishing in their best ever position less than seven tenths of a second behind. South Africa took the final step on the podium claiming the spot with a sound pit stop strategy and defending well for the second half of the race.

As the lights went out and the cars left the grid, it was Great Britain's Oliver Jarvis that came off best, storming ahead of the pack into turn one. The USA with Jonathan Summerton back behind the wheel after the crash that saw him retire early from the Durban race, tucked in behind. Pole-sitter Malaysia was slow off the start line, instantly dropping down to seventh as China, Italy, South Africa and the Netherlands all slipped ahead.

The bad luck France suffered this morning continued into the Feature race as an impact in the starting scrum damaged the car and forced the team to pit for a new nose cone and front wing at the end of the first lap. As the rest of the field fell into position, Italy overtook China for third, Malaysia began to recover from their starting, mistakes overtaking the Netherlands for sixth, and Portugal took Australia for ninth and then began a charge up the field.

Portugal, having only rejoined the series in Durban, fought strongly putting aggressive manoeuvres on the competition that even the most experienced of drivers failed to defend against. Starting the fourth lap, Parente overtook home nation Mexico for eighth before making an impressive move on the outside of the Netherlands one lap later for seventh.

Further down the field, Brazil's Bruno Junqueira, starting from 20th on the grid after the Sprint race incident, made his first aggressive manoeuvre of the race, challenging India's Narain Karthikeyan. Unfortunately for Brazil, the move did not pay off and, as Junqueira struggled to control the car, Germany and Ireland made their way through to 16th and 18th respectively.

As the pit window opened on lap eight, the teams prepared for their mandatory stop, with race leader Great Britain the first to pit. A smooth stop from the team saw the red, white and blue car re-join the race after 38.9 seconds, a strong stop that was to help maintain Jarvis' position at the front of the race. Unfortunately the same could not be said for the Netherlands as the car stalled, dropping the team to the back of the pack.

For host nation Mexico, the weekend was to end in further disappointment after their Sprint race collision, with Durban heading into the pits for a second time on lap 14. Unfortunately for the home crowd, this was to be the end of Mexico's race as a fuel pump problem forced the team into retirement. The team salvaged something from the weekend, scoring the bonus point for the fastest lap of the race in this morning's Sprint race and getting the car repaired to return to the track for a lap of honour after the race.

The pit stops continued with the race lead changing from USA to Portugal to Canada before the last two pitted on lap 17 putting GBR back in front, ahead of the USA and Ireland, the only team on the track still to pit. With all the stops taken by the end of the 19th lap, the race began to settle with Great Britain leading the USA, South Africa, Italy, Malaysia, Portugal, New Zealand and Australia.

New Zealand's Jonny Reid fought to climb up the points throughout the afternoon, aiming to close the gap on Germany and leave the championship title open for another race. His most impressive manoeuvre was as Malaysia, Portugal and the Black Beauty stormed up to lap Pakistan's Nur Ali on lap 26, overtaking Portugal and putting pressure on Malaysia in one move.