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A1 Team France confirms Prost for Gauteng

A1 Team France has made the surprise announcement that Nicolas Prost will be racing in next weekend's A1GP Gauteng, instead of Loic Duval. It will be the 27-year-old's second ever full race meeting following his run in Chengdu earlier this season. There he finished eighth in the Sprint race and was running seventh in the Feature until spinning out trying to pass Australia's John Martin.

"I'm really looking forward to racing in Kyalami, but I know it will be difficult because the level of competition between the top six or seven guys is really high", Prost told A1GP.com. "I still need to learn a little bit, however, but if I can get the pace we can fight up front. I have been following very precisely what the team have been doing with Loic and all the new set-ups he has been working on, so it is the right time for more races and I'm feeling pretty confident."

Interestingly, the announcement means that Prost will race at the same venue where his father, Alain, famously won the last Formula One South African Grand Prix, back in 1993. "It's difficult for me because everywhere I race my Dad seemed to win there sometime," Prost added in good humour. "I'm really used to that feeling. It's nothing new. If I go to Magny Cours, or wherever, people go 'Hey do you remember that your Dad…' and I'm quickly like 'Yes, I remember what my Dad did…'"

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