Staged?..I'm not sure but most of the racing looked like they were going balls to the wall..
On the first lap the lude almost went off (in the corck screw section at the beginning) to keep ahead of the other guys..
And if thats staged why would they let the lude pull out a second over the others and then ditch in the grass?..Oh , I guess "they" told him:"hey man you have to let the others go by, now ditch it...."
I think thats a little unlikely...
Plus...all the cars there are pretty evenly mached allready, I don't think that they would have to "stage" a close race...