The second semi-final hinged on a major error from Coanda’s Mack Bakkum, who missed his braking point into Turn One by more than a couple of car lengths and collected Toman and Kevin Siggy (Redline). That caused a knock-on collision that resulted in Toman facing the wrong way and ultimately eliminated – along with Bakkum who picked up a penalty as a result. Yuri Kasdorp (Mouz) would win the race, just ahead of Pejic.
Job then upset the form book in the final, by securing pole position – by less than a hundredth of a second – from Pejic, but then he too was hit by a false start penalty after clearly jumping the gun. That gifted the lead to Pejic, with Baldwin and Bennett right behind him.
Despite Bennett’s Nürburgring expertise – four wins in five races before now – he wasn’t able to get past Baldwin who was running a rear-gunner team race for Pejic ahead, with Jajovski also lurking to pounce on any errors.
The two Mercedes came home as they started to take the team’s first win of the season and the first team one-two for anyone. In the championship standings, Bennett’s podium is enough to vault him into the championship lead, by ten points from Toman, while his Team Redline outfit also overhauls R8G to lead by just four points.