Results: 24 hours of Spa-Francorchamps 2014

Posted on 27-07-2014 at 18:00 by sir_smokalot – 18 Comments”

Not only in Formula 1 today was raced, in a considerable period of time surrounding it was at Spa-Francorchamps 24-uursrace moved. It was debilitation full of nasty incidents.

The early stages of the race in the Blancpain Endurance Series was marred by a considerable number of successes: within a half hour, there were 3 heavy crashes. Vatsislav Maleev arranged with his SMP Ferrari 458 for the first safetycar. This was not the job or it went wrong again: Tim Mullen wrote on mercilessly hard way in his McLaren. The MP4-12C was only the monocoque is still about, and at first glance, it looked serious for Mullen. According to a statement from McLaren, he was happy in the consciousness when he went to the hospital was discharged.

After Mullen was the Karim A Ojjeh who are the McLaren of the track and shoved. That we haven’t finished with the misery proved to be the fourth big hit, after only a little more than 3 hours drive: at the top of Eau Rouge, spun off a Ferrari, this had a chain reaction to a result where 4 cars were written off, including the Mercedes SLS AMG GT3. McLaren wrote in this crash was his third car.

In all of this botsgeweld knew Audi out of trouble to keep it occupied in the early phase of the post 1 t/m 4. A win you get in such a marathonrace, however, not in the laps. After some time, the Z4 of BMW Sports Trophy Team Marc VDS at the door knocking.

Code Red

After another heavy wow, 5.5 hours of the race gave the raceleiding code red. All the cars were stopped on the track. Markus Mahi (Ferrari #111 – Kessel Racing) was after a crash with the 458 of Vadim Kogay with the traumaheli disposed of.

Fortunately for everyone took place the last three quarters of the race without major incidents. Like I said, the battle was between Audi and BMW, and was ultimately in favor of the Audi decides. The #1 R8 LMS of Laurens Vanthoor, Markus Winkelhock and Rene Rast finished 7 seconds for the Z4-stalker. The #3 R8 LMS of Christopher Mies, Frank Stippler and James Nash made the podium complete.

Best was Dutch Yelmer Buurman: he was 11th with a SLS AMG GT3. The top 10:

1 Rast/Vanthoor/Winkelhock (Audi R8 LMS ultra) 527 laps
2 Luhr/Werner/Palttala (BMW Z4) + 7.077 s
3 Mies/Nash/Stippler (Audi R8 LMS ultra) – 1 lap
4 Guilvert/Ortelli/Sandström (Audi R8 LMS ultra) – 2 laps
5 Buhk/Götz/Jaafar (Mercedes SLS AMG) – 4 laps
6 Hommerson/Machiels/Bertolini/Cioci (Ferrari 458) – 7 laps
7 Smith/mccaig’s/Bryant/Sims (BMW Z4) – 7 laps
8 Wyatt/Rugolo/Lowndes/Piccini (Ferrari 458) – 8 laps
9 Schneider/Primat/Verdonck (Mercedes SLS AMG) – 9 laps
10 Abra/Osborne/Poole/Turner (Aston Martin Vantage) – 10 laps

Thanks to jrk68 us during the race several times on the height, loved the developments.