Audi #33 is parked against the barriers and back on it's way. Benjaime Goethe at the controls, from Denmark, sharing with Rik Breukers, and Brit Stuart Hall. #33 gets pinged with a drive through for speeding in the lane. Benji! Don't speed in the lane, sunshine! Daniel Keilwitz has the wheel of the Rinaldi Racing Ferrari, car #488. The racing line is fully dry now. The Porsche is cartching the Ferrari. We have been under a prolonged Full Course Yellow and a safety car. We have seen pit stops for Rowe Racing and their Porsche. We saw one of the Lamborghini's off the road. Can't remember which one it was. It was either a Silver, Pro Am, or Am level car. I can't say for sure which. We have also seen the safety car.
We shoudl be back to racing here shortly. I stepped away, to grab a cup of tea. Safety car in this lap. Rowe Racinbg's team boss says the team has made a very good decision and made the right move to take the lead of the motor race. Rowe Racing has planned things out very well for what they want to do. The lights are indeed still flashing on the safety car as Nick Tandy is warming his tires and we should be racing again soon. In Full Course Yellow, they are at 80 kilometers. Under a safety car they are doing 180 kilometers an hour to build pressure and temperature back into the tires.
Lights off on the safety car this time. Here we go. We are going back to green. Nick Tandy has a long queue behind him and he can use clear track for three laps at least as we are back under green. Rowe Racing, if Nick Tandy can move away, they could win this thing. Nick Tandy is flying. Second spot, is the #63 Lamborghini, Dennis Lind at the controls. Matt Campbell has taken over Porsche #12 from Matthieu Jaminet. James Calado is coming up as well, in fourth position. Jordan Pepper has moved up to sixth place. Actually, the technical stops that have happened, put these boys right back into contention.
That is what yours truly was going to mention as they move through Rivage (Bruxelles), and into Piff Paff, (Fangnes). Plenty more yet to unfold. Tandy is being reeled in by Dennis Lind. Dennis Lind is just a second behind Nick Tandy. Lind is coming, and fast. The Porsche can go longer on fuel than does the Lamborghini. The Lamborghini is the second car in the picture, with eight hours and 21 minutes on the board. Well, 8 hours and 20 to go. The #129 Raton Racing Lamborghini brought out the most recent yellow flag, after leading in Am. Christoph Lenz of Denmark, Michael Petit of France, Stefano Constantini of Italy, and Lucas Ayrton Mauron of Switzerland, sharing that car.
Calado is pressing Matty Campbell as well, look. He moves up the inside and forces the issue. The KCMG Porsche is also there, Michael Christensen driving, in a car that is several laps down. What will the stewards have to say? The #22 Frikadeli Porsche is also in that scrap. Calado was legally on the road. Nick Tandy fights for the lead. Dennis Lind is still leading I believe. They've both run 2:19 laps. The best laps have been in the 2:18 range. Lamborghini and Porsche are moving ahead. Tandy knows the places where he has to go quicker than the Lamborghini as Jordan Pepper is pressing his way through traffic.
Maro Engel is ahead of Pepper for position. Yikes. That's amazing stuff. He's been relatively anonymous since daylight yesterday. If I am driving the Bentley, I can't go quick enough and will sail off the road. Pepper is following an Audi. The Mercedes, with Maro Engel at the controls is right in there as well, look. Audi and Porsche are ahead too. Maro Engel has traffic up the hill. There is a slow Aston Martin as well. The #47 Kevin Estre, Michael Christensen Porsche, running 24th overall. It is a game of snakes and ladders in traffic (chutes and ladders as it were). Jordan Pepper has been absolutely flying. Nick Tandy is messing with Dennis Lind's mind even though the Lambo is quicker.
Jordan Pepper into the pit lane for fuel and tires and Pepper will stay in the car. Nick Tandy has just run the best lap. Marcos Gomes and Dennis Marschall have set some good times as well. A drying track is really starting to come into play here at Spa. Wow. Nick Tandy was flat out. The revs drop due to the compression up the hill. That was pinned, completely. Wow. Dennis Lind, too, is booking it. They are at maximum pace. Just amazing. Tandy is the guinea pig having to suss out what is going on and push, push, push. Wowsers.
Rain is coming. Some of these chaps have come out of the lane with full fuel and new boots. But everyone is starting to slow up. Is there rain coming? Crhis Froggatt and Jonny Adam are pressing hard. Adam can't answer even though he is flashing the lights. Massive sparks under the car behind them. There's a fdront engine car with the floor dragging. It's the #89 Mercedes from AKKA ASP. That's the #5 actually, the Gabriele Piana Pro Am leading car. Piana is slowing! Piana is in trouble! The Silvwer leader is scraping into the lane with a busted exhaaust. Jonny Adam is in the lane.
Full Course Yellow as well. Alex MacDowall stays out on track. Car #35 has hit the tires at the Bus Stop, the second Walkenhorst BMW. Martin Tomczyk has just piled intop the barrier at Blanchimont. He's out opf the car and this is a Full Course Yellow and the safety car is dispatched as well. What a mess! That whole nose is off the #35 BMW M6 GT3. Jeepers creepers! Just over eight hours remaining on the board. If you pit, you will have to give up track position. Everyone apart from Nick Tandy is on the same amount of fuel.
The Lamborghini may come in. How much fuel is left in the tank? This will take a while to get cleaned up. The car has to be recovered. It is daylight. It's almost 8AM in Belgium. The sky is turning blue. Hats off to the marshals. You've done tons. Many are from the United Kingdom and there are probably Belgian marshals there, too. Class leaders hit the lane. We wait for Chris Froggatt. Who will be in car #93. It's Eddie Cheever III. The #35 is completely destroyed! Yikes! How did he crash that thing? Slicks going on the Sky Ferrari and Gabriele Piana still in the lane.
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