Delayed satisfaction for Loris Hezemans and Boris Said: The Corvette duo moved up two places from twelfth to tenth after the race stewards imposed a number of penalties for transgressions during the second of the two races on the Lausitzring weekend. Their promotion to P10 means that the Dutchman and his Callaway Competition team-mate from the USA have now notched up their first championship point of the season.

The bitterest disappointment will have been felt by Markus Pommer and Markus Winkelhock who thought that they had finished ninth in their Montaplast by Land-Motorsport Audi R8 LMS. Due to a contravention of pit stop regulations, they were handed a drive-through penalty, subsequently converted into 30 seconds added to their finishing time. This equated to P13, which puts the duo outside the points-scoring positions.

The same fate befell the Mercedes-AMG GT3 pairing of Nikolaj Rogivue and Nicolai Sylvest (both AMG team Zakspeed) and Christer Jöns and Daniel Abt (both Bentley Team ABT) in a Bentley Continental GT3 who were demoted from eleventh to 14th and from 14th to 17th respectively. One further ruling by the race stewards having no effect on the Top Ten positions was the 40-second penalty imposed on the Audi R8 LMS of Peter Hoevenaars and Frédéric Vervisch (both Montaplast by Land-Motorsport) for exiting the pits too soon.

The repercussions of two other penalties will be felt on the next race weekend: Lamborghini driver Florian Spengler (Bonaldi Motorsport) and Porsche man Christopher Zanella (bigFM Racing Team Schütz Motorsport) will be demoted by three grid positions on their next appearance for avoidable collisions during the second race at the Lausitzring.