Nurburgring Auto GP: Tamas Pal Kiss stripped of race one win

Kiss, who celebrated victory on the podium after most of his major rivals received drive-through penalties for the same offence during the race, was demoted shortly after post-race formalities.

The 25-second penalty means victory in fact goes to Kimiya Sato (pictured), ahead of Kevin Giovesi and Markus Pommer.

Kiss has been reclassified fourth following the correction, regaining one place thanks to Francesco Dracone also getting penalised post-race which means Sato stretches his championship lead over Kiss after all.

His lead is now 58 points, and maintaining that after race two would easily be enough to seal the title with the Estoril finale still to come.

Kiss will need to reduce Sato's lead by nine points in race two to keep the title race alive. He will start the reverse-grid second encounter fourth, with Sato lining up eighth.

Revised results - 27 laps:

Pos  Driver              Team               Time/Gap
 1.  Kimiya Sato         Euronova         37m06.445s
 2.  Kevin Giovesi       FMS                 +7.854s
 3.  Markus Pommer       Super Nova          +9.425s
 4.  Tamas Pal Kiss      Virtuosi UK        +15.402s
 5.  Andrea Roda         Virtuosi UK        +37.270s
 6.  Michela Cerruti     Super Nova         +37.532s
 7.  Yoshitaka Kuroda    Euronova           +43.222s
 8.  Francesco Dracone   Super Nova         +58.309s
 9.  Michele La Rosa     MLR 71/Euronova  +1m01.921s

Retirements:

     Giuseppe Cipriani   Ibiza                8 laps
     Salvatore de Plano  FMS                  0 laps