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Marcel ten Caat

Marcel ten Caat has written 952 posts for Planetlemans.com

Total 24 Hours of Spa: LIVE at Planetlemans - 3

Four hours completed now. Phoenix #6 is still in the lead in GT1, followed by the two Vitaphone MC12’s, Pierguidi in front of sarrazin. GT2 is led by Malucelli in the BMS Ferrari, followed by Collard and Bruni […]

Total 24 Hours of Spa: LIVE at Planetlemans - 2

Two hours completed, the Phoenix Corvette has a clear lead. The GT2 battle could become more interesting as they are still very close to each other. With the track wet after it started raining just before the two hour mark it will be tricky. Back to the action now[…]

Total 24 Hours of Spa: LIVE at Planetlemans - 1

It is time to get our focus on the first two hours of the Total 24 Hours of Spa. The skies over the Belgian track are grey at the moment and the first spats of rain have come down in the paddock area. At the moment the cars are being lined up on the grid, waiting for the pace car lap before going green. After the retirement of the Larbre Saleen the number 6 Phoenix Carsport Corvette is on pole position[…]

Total 24 Hours of Spa: Warm Up Report

There was good and bad news during the warm up session today. Good things were the weather, as the sun was still shining brightly, and the return of the Selleslagh Racing Team Corvette after its crash in the first qualifying session. Unfortunately at the very end of the session the Larbre Saleen went off heavily at Eau Rouge[…]

News from the annual SRO Spa press conference

As usual the SRO had its annual press conference with Stéphane Ratel this afternoon at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit. After months of speculation Ratel talked about the current status of the SRO series, the near future and of course the much anticipated GT1 World Championship and GT2 European Championship[…]

Total 24 Hours of Spa: Qualifying 3 Report

The third and final qualifying session for this weekend’s Total 24 Hours of Spa took place between 12:50 and 13:35 today. Cloudy skies greeted the FIA GT drivers today as the teams went out to try and beat the pole time of 2:14.581 set by Jetalliance Racing’s Karl Wendlinger last night[…]

Total 24 Hours of Spa: Qualifying 2 Report

The second qualifying session did not bring any changes to the provisional pole position of the Jetalliance Racing Team Aston Martin. Even though the team was not the fastest in Q2 the lap times were much slower than in the first session[…]

Total 24 Hours of Spa: Qualifying 1 Report

Jetalliance Racing is on provisional pole position for the Total 24 Hours of Spa after setting the fastest lap time in the first qualifying session of the day. Karl Wendlinger was the quickest driver before the session was marred by a lenghty red flag period after Christophe Bouchut went off heavily at Blanchimont[…]

Total 24 Hours of Spa: Pre-Qualifying Report

During Pre-Qualifying the Corvette teams restored the order at Spa-Francorchamps. After being beaten by the Larbre Saleen in free practice the Corvettes were first and second in the second session of the day. The sun was still out, but temperatures had gone down a bit in this session.[…]

Total 24 Hours of Spa: Free Practice Report

Under a clear blue sky and the temperature around 30 degrees centigrade the first free practice of the Total 24 Hours of Spa took place. The session was supposed to last 90 minutes but was cut short by two red flags. At the end of the session there was a surprise in first place.[…]

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