Formula 2 driver Drugovich in the #70 Realteam Hydrogen Redline led the 50-car and 200-driver field away from pole position, having seen team-mate Rietveld top qualifying the day before, just two thousand of a second ahead of the #123 Team Redline entry driven by Max Verstappen.
In GTE, it was Red Bull Racing Esports in the Corvette on pole position after a scintillating lap by Scuderia AlphaTauri F1 Esports incumbent Sebastian Job.
Ahead of the race starting, there were six-minute pitlane penalties handed out to the GTE pole-sitting #111, the #56 Team Project 1 x BPM Porsche and the #5 Williams Esports LMP for not fielding the requisite number of ‘pro’ classified drivers.
Sadly for the #31 W Series BMW GTE entry, it suffered from a hardware issue during the electric-hydrogen LMPH2G-led formation lap and retired before the start.
Drama throughout prototype field
While Drugovich completed the first two corners of the race in the lead, heading the field was short-lived…
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