On 26 September, an article on the official A1GP website, detailed that a full grid of cars would not be on track at Zandvoort for the race weekend, due to the build schedule delay.

[1] It was subsequently confirmed that a maximum of eighteen teams will be racing – Canada, Germany (Michael Ammermüller), Great Britain (Danny Watts), India (Narain Karthikeyan) and Mexico (Davíd Garza Pérez) will thus make their season debut at the second round in China.

[2] Germany (Michael Ammermüller) did not, in fact, debut until round 5 in South Africa, while Canada did not appear all season.

On Lap 3, Adam Carroll spun at the final corner and was hit by Clivio Piccione, forcing both of their retirements.

On Lap 5, Neel Jani pulled into the pits and retires, while Adam Carroll spun out at Turn 6.

After the first set of pit-stops, France (Loïc Duval) led from New Zealand (Earl Bamber) and Portugal (Filipe Albuquerque).

A lot of action took place on Laps 16–17: Jeroen Bleekemolen pulled into the pits with a steering wheel problem; Indonesia (Satrio Hermanto) crashed out; Korea (Hwang Jin-Woo) spun and rejoined; and Portugal (Filipe Albuquerque) spun and crashed in the final turn.

Meanwhile, Netherlands (Jeroen Bleekemolen) were having gearshifting problems and lost a place to USA (Charlie Kimball).

Two laps later the time expired, and France (Loïc Duval) took the chequered flag behind the safety car, ahead of Malaysia (Fairuz Fauzy), and New Zealand (Earl Bamber).

[16] However, they kept running the car with same insistence written in not English but Korean (Hangul) during the race weekend.