Nick Cassidy has won the first ever SUPER GT x DTM Dream Race, winning from pole position as SUPER GT runners took the first five positions.
Cassidy started from pole in the #37 Lexus KeePer TOM's LC500 and held off pressure from Koudai Tsukakoshi's Keihin Real Racing Honda NSX-GT after a late safety car to win the race. That safety car was caused by the Calsonic Nissan GT-R of Daiki Sasaki, which came to a halt on the main straight, parking it at the pit lane exit.
Naoki Yamamoto completed the podium in the Team Kunimitsu Honda, while the top five was completed by newly crowned SUPER GT champion Kenta Yamashita in fourth and Sho Tsubio in fifth
Benoit Treluyer finished as the best DTM driver after a late race charge, taking sixth place. The Frenchman beat out out Rene Rast who finished eighth, with only Yuhi Sekuguchi's Lexus between them.
While Treluyer and Rast both finished in the top ten, the rest of the DTM runners struggled more. Mike Rockenfeller finished fourteenth ahead of BMW's Kamui Kobayashi, making him the highest finishing BMW driver.
Marco Wittmann finished down in eighteenth place. Alex Zanardi retired with mechanical gremlins, while Loic Duval never even made the start. The Frenchman crashed his Audi RS5 DTM on his way to the grid, and the car was too heavily damaged to continue.
