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Brazil happy with two points

Bruno Junqueira scored two points for A1 Team Brasil in today's Feature race in Durban, South Africa in round seven of the 2007/08 A1GP World Cup of Motorsport. The points came as a welcome relief to the team after a frustrating day in which podiums had been targeted. 

The Sprint race ended in disaster for Team Brasil after nine laps. After scoring the team's first front row start in over fifty races, Bruno began the race well, keeping out of trouble at the rolling start, albeit falling to fourth behind teams Canada, Great Britain and Switzerland. However, he ran into the back of Switzerland as Neel Jani went slowly into the hairpin on lap two and was forced into the pits on lap five for a new front wing after being passed by several teams. 

A1 Team Brasil is now 11th in the championship with 40 points with the next race taking place in Mexico City on Sunday 16 March. 

Bruno Junqueira commented, "It's been a very difficult day. The only good thing that came out of the weekend is that we proved with everything in order we can be very fast, like in qualifying and in the sprint race before the wing broke. We have the pace to win, but unfortunately things just didn't go our way today." 

Emerson Fittipaldi, Team Principal added, "It was a very frustrating day for us. Bruno did a really good job in qualifying and then the result in the Sprint race was very disappointing. The front wing was damaged so we changed the nose then I think he was too aggressive on the chicane and he broke the wing and crashed. We then had to use the spare car for the Feature race and the team did a good job to get the car ready in a short time, but we didn't have our car with our set-up. So we were losing performance and we were a second off the pace. On the last restart in the Feature race it was another mistake. Everyone slowed down because of the South Africa crash and Bruno hit the back of Italy. Now we have to go to Mexico to recover."

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