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TEAM INDIA BAGS ITS FIRST EVER A1 GRAND PRIX VICTORY

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Narain Karthikeyan led Team India to the country's first ever victory in the Al Grand Prix by winning the feature race in Zhuhai, China, on Sunday. Karthikeyan staved off a tough challenge from Team New Zealand and cleared the finish line just about a second before his nearest rival. Though the win gives India 19 points, the team with a total of 27 points is not among the top contenders. Karthikeyan has had several setbacks recently starting with losing his position as a test driver with the Williams Formula One (Fl) team and struggling at the A1 circuit with mechanical problems in the qualifying races. "We weren't doing well in the qualifying. So we changed the qualifying set up for this race. I am glad it helped," Karthikeyan told . India started third in the feature race but New Zealand used two power boosts a special facility that allows drivers to gain an extra 30bhp speed for a few seconds in the last four or five laps. This reduced the gap to 6/10th of a

Formula 1 race track to come up in Noida

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Formula One motor racing will arrive in India in 2010 . Delhi based infrastructure major JP Associates has won an exclusive 10-year contract to host the premier race in Greater Noida. Manoj Gaur, managing director of JP Associates, confirmed this to the Hindustan Times and added that his group signed the agreement with Fl boss Bernie Ecclestone last week. He refused to divulge details of the deal. The race track to be developed by the JP group, will be near the proposed Greater Noida airport about 50 km from Delhi. The Noida authority has already given in principle approval for the site, sources said. The Rs 1,500-crore project will be spread over around 350 acres land. Enthusiasm in FI has been the on the rise in India ever since Narain Karthikeyan debuted at the FI circuit for Team Jordan. On Tuesday, another young star, Karun Chandhok , tested for Red Bull at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona. Fl track designer Hermann Tilke had recently visited Delhi to work out a possible ro