Marco Andretti Does His Best Vitor Meira Impression

For those who wonder what the value in staying up till 4a.m. is, it's watching what was basically the final race of the year until the end of January and not being disappointed by A1GP in Sepang, Malaysia. For those who caught up on sleep here's a few things missed:

Most Notable of the night; Marco in the Team USA car does his best Vitor Meira impression launching his car over Team India's Narain Karthikeyan at the rolling start of the Sprint Race.

Unfortunately there are not many good still shots of this available just yet, but FORTUNATELY THERE IS VIDEO Just click 'Sepang Sprint Race' and watch what still really hasn't been explained by anyone and is most likely just a random racing incident. Was India going too slow? was the field going too slow? Did Marco go too soon? IF so why did Team Brazil/Felipe Guimaraes follow Marco right over India as well as if Brazil was hot on the pedal too.

What is actually impressive about it is that all 3 drivers are still ok with each other, none of them are mad screaming etc. or blaming each other; they very quickly realize it was a combination of misunderstanding where the field started to go but breaked and that didn't come to the back of the field in time but MArco was still apologetic anyway and also thankful as...

What came next was the more amazing part; real comradarie as all teams in the paddock helped out donating whatever parts (Korea even donating an entire rear wing to Team USA) they could to Brazil, India and USA allowing them to not only race in the main Feature race but allowing Marco to take Team USA to its first podium finish of the season, where he then struggled to pop his champagne bottle (not kidding watch the hilarious video), and took Team USA up 3 spots in points as well as Brazil turning around for the 7th place finish and some much useful points.

Oddly enough this may not have been the weirdest part of the race. While in 3rd place in the feature race, suddenly on lap 17 Malysia's Fairuz Fauzy came into the pits. What made it weird was that his team had no idea that he was or why he came in. He essntially lost 10 positions because of this eventually battling back to gain a few, but what caused it. Someone came on his radio and said it was time to pit... apparently he picked up another team's transmission somehow and the series is still trying to figure out how it happpened...

Other than that, race team's nationwide might want to check into Ireland's Adam Carroll who absolutely dominated the feature race winning by over a 10 second margin for his second win of the year. If you missed it just head over to the A1GP website where you can see good video recaps of both races, plenty of good racing going on all over the grid, and now the painful winter...

Next Up a long time away... is a great double header weekend: 24 Hours of Daytona on January 24th into 25th, and A1GP on January 25th in New Zealand (though being in New Zealand it will technically run in the middle of the night during Daytona) hope you can hold up until then...