FIA GT Championship

FIA GT Spa 24: Race Hour 4

© Planetlemans – Marcel ten Caat

And into the fourth hour of the race we go. Carsport Holland has taken a huge lead after 3 hours, but still 21 hours to go. Ortelli is leading GT2. There are three Corvettes in the top 5 at the moment. The skies are grey at the moment, but is still dry
19:00- There is an extraction vehicle on the track at the moment, probably on its way to one of the yellow flag zones.

19:03- Safety Car!!! Chris Niarchos (nr 63 Ecosse Ferrari) has has a coming together with a Porsche 997 going through the downhill turn towards Pouhon.

19:12- Green flag! Niarchos did not collide with the Porsche. He went off by himself. The stranden car was the nr 107 Porsche 996 of AB Motorsport.

19:13- Easy race Ferrari nr 70 suffers a puncture and nearly causes a mess in the Bus Stop. He gets into the box.

19:15- The Carsport Holland Corvette is in the middle of heavy traffic. In the Bus Stop the nr 2 Vitaphone Maserati takes a wide line and unlaps itself again.

19:16- Ryan Sharp in the Jetalliance DBR9 has also managed to get ahead of the nr 5 Carsport Corvette. Sharp continues his move and laps the Vitaphone Maserati MC12 nr 2 in La Source.

19:17- 10 second Stop & Go for the nr 201 JMB Racing Ferrari 430 GT2

19:19- Kumpen, currently leading, is several seconds a lap quicker than the rest now. He must be running on fumes as he did not make his fourth pit stop yet.

19:24- Anthony Kumpen sets the fastest lap of the race so far. A 2:16.784!

19:27- Eric van de Poele has spun his Maserati MC12 going into Les Combes after being overtaken by the Carsport Holland Corvette C6-R. He managed to avoid the barriers and continues.

19:34- The nr 78 JMB Racing Ferrari 430 GT2 spun near Rivage. A strange place to park a car, but Alain van den Hove managed to do it.

19:38- One minute stop&go penalty for the nr 63 Scuderia Ecosse Ferrari 430 GT2.

19:47- Kumpen is still leading. He currently has 33 seconds over the Jetalliance Racing DBR9. Kumpen is the only one in the top three that has not made a fourth stop yet. After four pitstops Marc Lieb leads the GT2 class in the Porsche 997.

19:53- Once again the nr 28 Reiter Engineering is pushed down the pit entry by the officials.