ADAC Zurich 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2016

We are watching one.
There's still too much standing water to be considered fully safe. The rain might keep up but in the last ten minutes the spray has reduced considerably.
 
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Care to give examples of recent races that could've gone ahead safely but didn't? There's no spectacle in seeing cars not able to get around a track - before the red flag we had about 20 cars pirouetting at crawling pace.

Weren't all those cars crashing earlier caught off guard on the wrong tyres? I don't think the current conditions look like something rain tyres and proficient drivers can't handle. They are racing now and nothing significant seems to have changed since the safety car laps. That's one example I can give.
 
Weren't all those cars crashing earlier caught off guard on the wrong tyres? I don't think the current conditions look like something rain tyres and proficient drivers can't handle.
They were indeed, but all the call to start it about half an hour ago would've resulted in the same thing. There's still a considerable amount of spray but the laps behind the safety car really cleared a lot of the standing water.

The M6 looks really planted in the wet. I don't see the overall order shaking up much but a good stint now could really benefit some teams.
 
People seeen to surge to the front then lose pace, the #18 BMW did, the #2 Audi did and now the #22 BMW is falling back towards the Merc.
 
That N°2 Audi drove the first lap after the restart like it was the last lap of the race. Dive-bombed 2 cars in one corner in the GP circuit, same thing at Aremberg, with quite a lot of contact against a Mercedes. Recovered from 9th to 2nd in one lap, then out-brake itself into the first corner while attacking the leader BMW, on the outside, with 2 wheels on the grass.
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I shot the start from Brunnchen and made it up to Wippermann before the heavens opened. Caught out in the hail storm for an hour before finally making it back inside. Sat up in the media centre airing out two dead cameras.

This shouldn't be happening. Every journo I speak to is saying this is crazy and even Audi are predicting an inch of rain very, very soon.
 
That WRX is going to be leading for a long time, its pace is really very good. Only 20s a lap or so slower then the top teams at the moment.
 
It's not leading, the timing system got a bit messed up on the restart.

Well technically it's not but until it gets lapped by the true leaders it counts as the leader due to 'first over the line' being the only measurement at the 'Ring. Hence it being on top over half the lap every time.
 
I'd be shocked if a Mercedes doesn't win this, they look absolutely dominant. The BMW's can't sustain the same pace over a stint, and Audi is just a bit off the pace.
 
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