Many lead changes, a few offs, and good weather mark the 75th running of the Spa 24
feature exotic prototypes along with race-prepped sports cars, the Fanatec GT World Challenge features GT3 cars only. This year’s CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa featured every supercar you ever wanted to have in your garage, or at least on a poster. The grid was plastered with just about every cool car made today: Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3, Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO II, BMW M4 GT3, Ferrari 296 GT3, Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2, McLaren 720S GT3 EVO, Mercedes-AMG GT3, and Porsche 911 GT3 R .
The win for the M4 GT4 came under warm temps of 68 degrees F at the end and, surprisingly, none of the rain that had disrupted qualifying, scrambling the order all up and down the 70-car grid. The Rowe team therefore qualified 26hour. Driver Philipp Eng was behind the wheel for the long final stint, taking over the car after stints by co-drivers Nick Yelloly and Marco Wittmann. Eng stretched his lead to a steady 11 seconds over the field after the last of nine full-course yellows.
“It feels incredible,” Eng said when he got out of the car. “It was such a roller coaster, this race, for us. We were let down at one point . Everybody was down and sad. But what Rowe Racing and BMW Motorsport stand for is dedication. We never give up. And we always continue to chase our dream, which is a victory here in the best GT3 race in the world.”Second place went to the Auto Sport Promotion Mercedes-AMG GT driven by Raffale Marciello, Jules Gounon, and Timur Boguslavskiy.
The weekend was marred by the death of a young Belgian driver and F1 aspirant in a multi-car crash in wet conditions with limited visibility Saturday morning, hours before the main race started. 18-year-old Dilano van t’ Hoff was killed during a high-speed accident in wet conditions during a Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine race on Saturday morning.
“But most of all was a very sad day and the last few days,” said Eng. “My condolences, deepest condolences go out to Dilano's family. It was a horrible accident. We all think about him and I want to dedicate this victory to him.”Mark Vaughn grew up in a Ford family and spent many hours holding a trouble light over a straight-six miraculously fed by a single-barrel carburetor while his father cursed Ford, all its products and everyone who ever worked there.
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