A first corner pile-up and a slew of multi-car incidents in a race punctuated by four separate safety car periods meant only 11 out of 27 cars were able to reach the chequered flag after nearly an hour of racing at the Nuremberg-based street circuit. Even those cars that could make it to the finish were carrying visible damage, such was the chaos that ensued in Saturday’s opening encounter.
So, it was somewhat surprising that 25 cars were able to make it to the starting grid less than 24 hours later for the second half of the double header, with only Esteban Muth’s Walkenhorst BMW and Franck Perera’s Grasser Racing Lamborghini forced to miss the race.
