Despite starting the weekend saw the #11 car of Philipp Sager and Valentin Hasse-Clot looking racey within the earlier sessions with the venerable Austrian racer the first to fit slicks within his own bronze driver session on Friday.
Qualifying eventually saw Sager hold the top position in class within their fifteen-minute session to eventually lose out to a last lap dash from the Iron Dames Porsche to apparently claim a P2 starting position to yesterday’s race.
However, the post session scrutineering found the car to be outside of its homologation in terms of ride height so that all of its lap times within Qualifying deleted to leave the #11 car starting from the rear of the forty-three strong grid.
With Hasse-Clot going against the grain and starting the race for the team, that saw the #11 car quickly move up to second in class to then pit for a strategic driver change just as a Full Course Yellow came into effect on track at the end of twenty minutes of racing.
During that stop, the car was also noted to have had a wheel change completed whilst it was being refuelled for which the car would receive two ten second penalties before failing to complete those penalties correctly for which they were penalised with a further twenty second penalty apiece!
From that point on, the penultimate round to the season became just a formality as Sager eventually swapped out again with Hasse-Clot for the Frenchman to complete his mandatory forty-five-minute minimum drive time to end the day P6 and last in class togther with any remaining championship aspirations.
If that wasn't enough, there was to be further salt rubbed into the wounds as Sager later failed to attend a hearing with the race Stewards for which Sager would receive a financial penalty suspended until the end of the season that concludes in Portimao in a month’s time.