Nick Catsburg (NL) wins 24 hours of Spa with BMW Z4

Posted on 26-07-2015 at 19:29 by Dizono – 23 Comments”

Even more Dutch success today, because it was Nick Catsburg that his BMW this afternoon, after 536 laps across the finish line first sent.

Catsburg sharing this BMW Z4 of Markus Palttala and Lucas Luhr. However, it was the Dutchman that the difference knew to do and finally this morning the Audi R8 of Ortelli voorbijstak and immediately a big lead built up. Thus he gave BMW its first victory at the 24 hours of Spa since 1998. Catsburg drives except in the Blancpain series in the Pirelli World Series. In addition, he recently released his debut in the WTCC in a Lada Vesta.

This year was the race part of the Blancpain-series, which in addition to Audi and BMW also Mercedes, Ferrari, Aston-Martin, Lamborghini and Bentley in germination. Not only visually a very appealing series, to action not a fault.