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<\/p>\nNordschleife regular Juha Miettinen has died after a seven-car incident at the Nurburgring.<\/p>\n
The latest Nurburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS) race – receiving widespread coverage because of Max Verstappen\u2019s participation – was red-flagged around 25 minutes into the planned four hours.<\/p>\n
NLS races are very rarely red-flagged for anything other than weather reasons or if there are safety concerns. And it soon emerged that the stoppage was due to a seven-car incident.<\/p>\n
That red flag turned into a suspension around an hour later, before a press conference was called at 8pm local time, three hours after the initial stoppage.<\/p>\n
It was there that the death of experienced driver Miettinen was announced and that Saturday\u2019s race would not resume.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite the immediate arrival of emergency services, the paramedics were unable to save the driver involved, Juha Miettinen (BMW 325i, #121); the driver died in the medical centre after all attempts at resuscitation proved unsuccessful,\u201d a statement read.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other six drivers involved were taken to the medical centre and nearby hospitals for precautionary examinations. None of the injured are in a life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe race will not resume on Saturday evening. The thoughts of everyone involved in the 24 Hours of N\u00fcrburgring are with the bereaved family of Juha Miettinen.<\/p>\n
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\u201cA minute’s silence will be held in memory of the late motorsport competitor during the grid formation for Sunday’s race at 13:00.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the first driver fatality during a race on the Nordschleife since German Wolf Silvester died during a race in June 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The drivers and teams are set to return to action on Sunday for NLS5, the last major Nurburgring race before the Nurburgring 24 Hours on May 16-17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nordschleife regular Juha Miettinen has died after a seven-car incident at the Nurburgring. The latest Nurburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-615639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}