Multi-car crash halts Verstappen’s Nurburgring race

NLS4 – the most recent Nurburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS) race that includes Max Verstappen – has been “suspended until further notice” as a result of a multi-car incident after lower than half an hour of racing.

Saturday’s Nordschleife occasion had solely been operating for 2 laps when the four-hour race was red-flagged.

It emerged this was as a result of a multi-car pile-up on the Steilstrecke part of the Nordschleife, which officers stated concerned seven automobiles.

The race clock continued to tick down till the purple flag earlier than race management issued the “suspended until further notice” message over an hour into the stoppage with an announcement from the organizers then saying that “rescue operations for several injured drivers are currently in full swing.”

It’s unclear whether or not the NLS4 race will restart. Verstappen’s team-mate Lucas Auer had taken the beginning and was operating ninth on the time of the incident, by which their automobile was not concerned. The intention was that Verstappen would drive the second a part of the afternoon-into-evening race to get expertise of the observe and automobiles after darkish forward of his Nurburgring 24 Hours bid subsequent month.

A lot of undamaged automobiles had been caught on observe behind the incident, however started returning to the pits nearly an hour and a half into the stoppage.

Another race within the sequence with the identical crew and drivers – NLS5 – is scheduled to happen on Sunday afternoon.