Spa 24 hour GT race

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7.004 km circuit of Spa Francorchamps in Belgium

The 61st edition of the Total 24 Hours of Spa. Total first sponsored the race last year and the endurance race has been on the FIA GT Championship's schedule since 2001. Michelin, Pirelli, and Dunlop are competing this year. The past two years have seen GT1 battles go down to the wire.

Race to start at 16:00 (noon for ET ? as they are 6 hours ahead)

Current local time in Brussels - Belgium

Live video

gt1live.tv

Live timing

LiveTimingGt

Patrick Long will race in his fourth 24 hour race with both Richard Lietz and Raymond Narac with the # 76 IMSA Performance Matmut Porsche. The three won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2007. They raced at Spa last year and at Le Mans this year. The team will debut the new 4.0 liter engine.

picture of new engine

Welcome to Patrick Long Motorsport

Richard Lietz - Home

French GT2 team from the Le Mans Series

Entry list with pictures

Planetlemans.com | FIA GT - 2008 Total 24 Hours of Spa Entry List

Proximus 24 hours - Official site

http://www.fiagt.com/

Circuit de Spa Francorchamps

Complete news

Motorsport.com: News channel

Pictures

Motorsport.com: Photos channel

24H Spa : Les photos de la première séance. - Endurance Info - Endurance Info WebSite

Testing from last month

YouTube - TOTAL Spa 24 Hours 2008: Testday

GT1 preview

Planetlemans.com | The Planetlemans Spa 24 Hours GT1 preview

GT2 preview

Planetlemans.com | The Planetlemans Spa 24 Hours GT2 preview

My choices for the race:

GT1: # 7 Saleen S7R of Larbre Competition (2001-02 winners with a Viper GTS-R) with Michelin tires. Drivers Pedro Lamy, Vincent Vosse, Greg Franchi, and Steve Zacchia.

LARBRE COMPETITION

GT2: # 77 Ferrari F430 GTC of BMS Scuderia Italia (2007 GT2 winner with Porsche) with Pirelli tires. Drivers Paolo Ruberti, Matteo Malucelli, Joel Camathias, and Davide Rigon.

BMS Scuderia Italia

G2 class is for non-homologated GT1/GT2 cars while G3 is for GT3 cars from the FIA GT3 Championship.

G2: # 102 Porsche 996 GT2-R of McDonald's Racing with Michelin tires. Drivers Wolfgang Kaufmann, Aliaksandr Talkanitsa, Philippe Ullman, and Kenneth Heyer.

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G3: # 112 Ferrari F430 GT3 of AS Events with Pirelli tires. Drivers Christopher Campbell, François Jakubowski, Mathieu Zangarelli, and Ange Barde.

Coupe du Roi is a relay race. A team has three cars and each car runs 8 hours. JMB Racing is the only team in it this year with Ferraris.

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Steve Zacchia crashes pole-sitting # 7 Larbre Saleen S7R

Planetlemans.com | Total 24 Hours of Spa: Warm Up Report

Updates

Planetlemans.com | Total 24 Hours of Spa: LIVE at Planetlemans - 1

I've changed my GT1 pick to the # 6 Chevrolet Corvette C6.R of Phoenix Carsport with drivers Mike Hezemans, Marcel Fässler, Jean-Denis Deletraz, Fabrizio Gollin and Michelin tires. The same drivers and car won last year's endurance race.

http://www.fiagt.com/newsitem.php?key=1347

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Around 7 1/2 hours left

# 1 Maserati MC12 in the lead with Matteo Malucelli at the wheel of the # 77 BMS Scuderia Italia Ferrari leading in GT2

Corvette Motorsport

Planetlemans.com | Total 24 Hours of Spa: LIVE at Planetlemans - 9

[DRM]

Rickcoin, 'REALLY appreciate you posting all the info and links for live feeds and real time updates. 'Vast majority of folks on this forum aren't interested in FIA sports car endurance racing, because BMW isn't represented (shame on BMW for not fielding a car in ANY class) in this prestigious racing series.

Those Maserati's are simply incredible. I, for one, enjoy watching all marques compete in various road racing championships. BMW got their azz handed to them AGAIN in F1 today. 'Hope next years M3 GTR is at least competitive in ALMS; and whatever other series they decide to contest.

But I'm not holding my breath.

[BuzzedHornet]

DRM,

With Rahal leading the way, I think the M3GTR has a nice chance of coming out of the gates fast. We'll see.

Rob