WRT now in the pit lane for their five-minute technical pit stop going for the brake change. They had a shocker in WEC with the Hypercars and the GT3's and their Le Mans 24 Hour race was awful. Vincent Vosse stalking around the garage wearing his flat hat. The #130 Mercedes is doing their technical stop, and you don't need to do a brake change. I don't think the BMW Team WRT car did a brake change or not. WRT are very happy, but it is so hard to predict a lap time and we have had boatloads of safety car. The rain is coming back in, and the lap times are all over the shop. Full Course Yellow to rescue Chandler Hull of course. A few more stops and there is a brake change on the pit apron for the #88 Tresor Attempto Audi. Nicky Catsburg has pitted for the technical stop and brake change for the #4 CrowdStrike Riley Motorsports Mercedes, George Kurtz, Colin Braun, Ian James, and Nicky Catsburg.
Track limits, the slate has been wiped clean for the second half of the race. Resets every six hours. Six offenses in six hours earns a penalty that get larger and larger. It is easy in the wet to get stabbed by Damocles' sword. Christopher Haase and Attempto Racing Audi to the top of the shop. Mosca second, Hofer third and Davide Rigon in fourth spot. #130 of Dani Juncadella is finished with the technical pit stop and they are having a slight issue and now they are down off the air jacks and away. Half a dozen cars have done five-minute stops. I would serve my technical pit stop now under the safety car.
You can start a pit stop under safety car. The wave by procedure has begun. The team must tell their drivers, if they are eligible. You are eligible for a wave by if you are behind the safety car but ahead of your class leader. Wave by completed. Pit lane now open. Other cars can come in and serve their technical pit stops. The safety car leading the field out of Courbe Paul Frere with the original circuit going through the neighboring valley back in the old days from 1924-1978. The wave by has been completed. There's a lot of raindrops on the camera lenses and we will not have points until the checkered flag waves and we will be done.
Safety Car in this lap. WRT BMW #32 did do a brake change. Their technical was not just cleaning and housekeeping. Safety Car lights out. We are getting back to green and we will have proper light coming in half an hour. We have had a very cloudy, rainy night. It is always darkest just before dawn breaks. Green flag. Green flag. Christopher Haase now leads the motor race. 14 cautions, only three are full course yellow. Car #32, Sheldon van der Linde, Full Course Yellow speed under investigationby the stewards. Oh boy. You are set to 80 clicks maximum. 50 miles an hour. The #90 Mad Panda Motorsports Mercedes is also under investigation for Full Course Yellow speed.
In half an hour we will see sunrise. But there is more rain coming from 5AM-11AM. The record is stuck. Don't scratch it. Please move the needle. Car #32 has tumbled down the order and Christopher Haase is the new race leader. Oh boy. 12 hours and five minutes now on the board. Uh oh. One of the Mercedes spins and gets going again. I wonder who it was. Is that the #2 GetSpeed entry? It was the sister #3 GetSpeed car. I see. Christopher Haase leads Tomaso Mosca, and Alexey Nesov now at the controls of the #66 Attempto Audi. Perhaps the BMW came in too late? Sadly, I don't have the mathematical wherewithal to give you all the points tables right now.
BMW #32 is now down in 16th place, and we'll have to get to the bottom of this thing. Almost halfway through the 13th hour. Did #32 think they still led at 12 hours when they pitted? Yes, according to the team. Other teams will be taking their techical stops in the next nine-and-a-half-hour window until 7:30 A.M. Sunday morning Central Standard Time, 2:30 P.M. Belgian Time, I think. Whoops! Who has spun? It is Lucas Auer in that checkered #48 Mann Filter Mercedes. Lucas Auer, out of La Source, he had argy bargy with an AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3. Full Course Yellow in ten seconds. That is the #74 Kessel Racing Ferrari.
No wave by. No. It wasn't #74. It was David Vidales in the #71 AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3. This is the car he shares with Thomas Neubauer and Vincent Abril and I think Vidales is stopped and has a lot of trouble and I don't know if he and his teammates will continue. Contact between #71, #93, and #48 noted, and the #93 Sky Tempesta Racing Ferrari was also caught in that little shemozzle as Karel Basz hits the pit lane for a driver change? I think it is. A technical stop now happening for Mad Panda Motorsports to do a brake change and check the car. Maybe a ground up restoration.
The #48 Mercedes is being rescued as they fly Plummet Airways down the order and now, Lilou Wadoux also was clattered into, and the Ferrari clattered into the Mercedes and into Lilou Wadoux! That is a two-point cue ball, cannon. Good gravy. The Mercedes is on the flatbed. Game over. That's an official retirement. Done and gone. Write the X with the marker. Mad Panda Motorsports back onto the pit apron. No wave by at Full Course Yellow. No wave by this time. Ferrari #51 in and so is the #163 Lamborghini with Franck Perera I believe, getting in, or Marco Mapelli possibly.
Maxime Martin has taken over the #46 Team WRT BMW with Maxime Martin taking over the car. The #64 Ford Mustang GT3 from Proton Competition has the brake fluid topped up, Dennis Olsen at the wheel of it. The dear decklid was too vulnerable at high speeds and so they were redesigned to stay on the car. I think they are using brake blanking or doing damage repairs. Slow, cold lapping behind the safety car would necessitate that. Such a shame to see the #48 garage as they are cleaning out the garage. They are always frontrunners here, at the Nurburgring, and so on. Not tonight, Josephine. Pure Racing have done their technical pit stop.
Vincent Vosse believes they got the pnts at WRT. Laurent, the strategist at Tresor Attempto thinks they got the points. Who got them? One of the windward drivers is doing rowing exercises with a hand and neck support system. Two points have possibly gone to Attempto Racing. Now, it is time for watter bottle juggling. Well, well. The race leader has been in for the technical stop and now we are behind the safety car. David Vidales came into the pit lane. Ferrari #52 now leads the motor race. The skies are certainly beginning to lighten. Safety Car in this lap. We are ending our 12th safety car period.
Total caution time, five hours and 18 minutes. Ferrari #74, ten second time penalty for a pit lane infringement. Augusto Farfus has dropped to 22nd place in the #998 BMW M4 GT3 and they have accomplished their technical pit stop. Marco Sorensen has not found a dry line yet. Are they close to the pit window? Green flag. We are back to racing here at the 24 Hours of Spa. Marco Sorensen eight seconds behind in the queue. Maxi Gotz is up the exhaust of the Aston Martin. Tomaso Mosca gets the break and needs to do his technical pit stop. Sorensen and Goetz are driving through the gloom. Dennis Olsen in the #64 Ford Mustang GT3 is a lap behind.
Maxi Gotz in the #9 Mercedes is ahead of the Aston Martin I believe. That was not Gotz. That is the #16 Uno Racing by Landgraf Mercedes. Mosca in the #52 AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3. Passing cars that are identical like GT3 cars is so difficult. In front of the #7 Aston Martin are a couple other cars as Tomaso Mosca has cleared the #30 Oman Racing BMW M4 GT3. That is Jens Klingman, Ahmad Al Harthy, Sam De Haan, and Calan Williams. Franck Perera is now in tenth spot inthe pole sitting Lamborghini that Jordan Pepper has been driving. They have had a nightmare race with two fuel rig issues.
Pepper says he has done one of the craziest stints ever but aquaplaning at 270 kilometers an hour is very treacherous. The sun is starting to come up. The team is executing perfectly, and the Lamborghini is executing fabulously. The rain has been continual since 11PM last night. Marco Sorensen now second, 13 and a half seconds down on Tomaso Mosca. Marco Sorensen spent loads of time trying to pass Calan Williams. Davide Rigon has very blurry vision ahead and must be very cautious and not run over the curbs on the outside because it is slippery and there's track limits penalty possibilities. Mosca leads Sorensen by 13.4 seconds.
The gap is 14.3 seconds between Mosca and Sorensen.
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