Narain Karthikeyan ran an impressive race as A1 Team India recorded its best performance of the season so far finishing sixth at Sepang and gaining five more points in the Feature Race on Sunday.
Armaan Ebrahim won the first round of Formula Renault V6 championship at tricky Sepang track in Malaysia.
Force India drivers Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrian Sutil are confident of a better finish at Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix.
McLaren boss Ron Dennis shrugged off a frustrating Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday and said the team's pace could not be fairly evaluated until after the fourth race of the season. McLaren started the year on a high note, Lewis Hamilton winning the opening race in Melbourne with team mate Heikki Kovalainen in fifth, but the pair could not match the Ferraris at Sepang after being penalised five places in qualifying.
Force India test driver Vitantonio Liuzzi will race for Team Italy in the Portugal leg of the A1 GP World Cup of Motorsport over the Easter weekend. A1 Team Italy pulled off a coup of sorts by signing Liuzzi, who is itching to get back to racing again.
After an inconsistent morning session where he finished 19th on the timesheet, Fisichella looked far more impressive in the afternoon and despite being slowed down by Toyota's Timo Glock, the Italian lapped in 1m 36.756s to finish 9th among 21 drivers.
Formula One front-runner Lewis Hamilton is eyeing a second straight win at the Malaysian Grand Prix this Sunday while faltering Ferrari seek a fresh start.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa took pole position for the Malaysian Grand Prix with a scorching last lap in Saturday's qualifying.
His final margin of victory over second placed James Winslow was a whopping 31 seconds.
Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix was a vindication for Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and, above all, McLaren.
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Armaan Ebrahim collided with Pakistani driver Adam Khan in the Feature Race
The Indian driver moved to second place in the Asia Formula Renault V6 motorsports championship after races in Kuala Lumpur this weekend.
Fernando Alonso put Renault on pole position for Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix.
Karun Chandok will drive for Korea-based E-Rain Racing in the Formula Asia Renault V6 series
Italy's Jarno Trulli topped the timesheets for Toyota in Saturday's final Malaysian Grand Prix practice as championship leader Giancarlo Fisichella spun his Renault into the gravel.
The 15-year old Indian Formula BMW junior and rookie astounded the Asian racing fraternity with a brilliant victory in Round 4 of Formula BMW Asia.
McLaren's Fernando Alonso put in a day's work in the team's Formula One simulator on Wednesday ahead of his expected return to the racetrack in Malaysia next week after his crash in pre-season testing.
Ferrari, winners of 15 of last year's 18 races, have now gone three Grands Prix without a win
The Indian ace clocked 1 minute, 40.375 seconds in the morning but improved to 1:38.855 in the afternoon session ahead of the Malaysian Grand Prix.
Ferrari's Formula One champion posted the fastest time in Saturday's final practice for the Malaysian Grand Prix.
The Finn was running third when he was forced out of the Malaysian Grand Prix with transmission failure on lap 40.
The German did a blistering lap in the first qualifying session for Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix.
Williams have appointed experienced German racer Adrian Sutil as reserve driver for the season, the Formula One team said on Thursday.
McLaren's Fernando Alonso has been cleared to travel to Malaysia.
A Ferrari victory was the shot in the arm that Formula One needed.
World champion Lewis Hamilton splashed through the puddles at a rain-soaked Sepang International Circuit to secure pole position for Mercedes in a hectic Malaysian Grand Prix qualifying session on Saturday.
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Sebastian Vettel will drop three places in next week's Japanese Grand Prix as punishment for tipping championship leader Nico Rosberg into a spin at the start of Sunday's Formula One race in Malaysia.
McLaren's Fernando Alonso is set to start Sunday's Formula One Malaysian Grand Prix from the back of the grid as he tries out an upgraded Honda power unit in practice on Friday.
Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes stormed to pole position with a scorching lap in qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix as title rival Sebastian Vettel was left stranded in the garage and will start dead last.
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