Oliver Jarvis took Team GBR’s first A1GP victory in Mexico yesterday despite a tense final lap under pressure from Team USA’s Jonathan Summerton. The British driver took the lead at the start and only Summerton ever mounted a serious challenge. Adrian Zaugg took a comfortable third for South Africa, ahead of Italy’s Enrico Toccacelo.

The feature race was relatively clean, after an incident-filled first lap in the sprint race which saw Mexico’s Salvador Duran and Brazil’s Bruno Junqueira come together, sending Junqueira into the side of Germany’s Christian Vietoris on his A1GP début. Despite starting at the back of the grid for the feature race thanks to that incident, the German driver managed to finish 9th. The sprint race was won by Team Malaysia’s Alex Yoong.

I was impressed with Oliver Jarvis’s drive: he looked cool and composed even under pressure from Summerton, when it would have been easy to throw away the victory. Summerton was very impressive, and his pace in the last few laps of what must been a tiring race was superb. Alvaro Parente drove a typically gutsy race and probably deserved better than 7th. Vietoris really impressed me: I expected his pace to drop off significantly or for him to make a silly error and throw the car into the scenery later in the race given his youth and lack of experience but he kept it together and made it to the flag.

Some fantastic racing yesterday - race of the season so far in my opinion. In fact, the only thing that spoiled it for me was the charisma-free zone that is Mike Conway (reigning British F3 champion) in the Sky Sports studio.