The long-distance classic took off under tricky conditions, with rain setting in during the warm-up lap on the 25.378-kilometre combination of the shortened Grand Prix circuit and the historic Nordschleife.
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00:00This track is really special, I mean, it's 25 kilometers long, so you never have the
00:10same conditions every lap or every corner.
00:12There's so many corners also where we have rivers, so a lot of water go over the track.
00:17We have different types of tarmac, so some areas have new tarmac, some areas have really
00:23old tarmac, also with a lot of bindings.
00:25For us drivers in the wet, it can be very slippery.
00:31This track is never consistent, so you can be at the start-finish, you have heavily rain,
00:35and then you drive four minutes, you're in the middle of the Nordschleife somewhere,
00:40and then suddenly there's only a little bit of rain, or even drying up, so this makes
00:44it very difficult in the wet conditions to always take the right decisions.