Pit stop time is coming closer and closer for many of these teams. Davide Rigon is less than a second behind Marco Sorensen and now David Pittard is running well aboard the #34 Walkenhorst Motorsports Aston Martin. Second guessing the weather, and we have had tons of interruptions throughout with the safety cars and the Full Course Yellow procedures. So many cars on the lead lap. Walkenhorst new to Aston Martin and things are fitting together very well in an Aston Martin for one of their drivers, for Henrique Chaves. The drivability of the car is very important. Davide Rigon in the pit lane for an unscheduled pit stop because his stint isn't quite done. Arjun Maini is in the lane and we were watching a battle, a four-way battle. Ellis, van der Linde, Feller and Pittard I think and Jaminet is way up the order.
Aston Martin have been chasing BMW for hours on end. It is a cat and mouse game between BMW and Aston Martin. Farfus and Sorensen run 1-2 and both are turning the wick up. These two brands did not feature too much in qualifying or in Super Pole. It is now dry. I don't think we need to be worried about the rain. Matthieu Jaminet needs to be in the lane now or he will be in boiling hot water and have to serve a drive through penalty. I wonder if he is trying to get on terms with both Farfus and Sorensen.
Jaminet has done 66 minutes, and he will be out of time. This is the SSR Herberth car and I think there might be a radio problem. Maybe Matthieu Jaminet cannot hear the team. When he gets to the start/finish line he'll be out of time. He comes out of Les Combes. He may have to serve a drive through penalty. Pit stop time for Nicki Thiim to take over the #007 Comtoyou Racing Aston Martin. New boots, and full load of fuel. Comtoyou made their name in Fun Cup, then touring cars, and then, GT3 racing.
Dan Harper will be challenging Nikki Thiim, and now the Ferrari #51 of Alessandro Pier Guidi zooms into the lead of the motor race throug Brussels corner and Davide Rigon, no, Alessnadro Pier Guidi, and now, Jaminet is late, 68 minutes in his stint. Pier Guidi really giving Nikki Thiim all he can handle. Matthieu Jaminet serving his penalty for the elongated stint time. That's a major shame, and he'll perhaps lose a whole lap, potentially. Now, the #57 Mercedes passes Max Hofer. Hofer and Colin Caresani, the Dutchman, both pit as well.
Some drives are cutting it very fine to get it to the limit on stint length. New boots and fuel for Sheldon van der Linde who is in attack mode in the #32 Team WRT BMW M4 GT3. Philipp Ellis leads the Gold division. Dan Harper is told to stick with the Aston Matin and in this replay, through Bruxelles, it was just hard racing between Thiim and Harper. Thiim matcheds Pier Guidi in sector one. David Pittard is having trouble with the air jacks on that Aston Martin. They need to do something with a hydraulic jack. Maybe the air jack is low on pressure. Alessandro Pier Guidi has run 383 laps, 1,667 miles.
Marco Mapelli is the race leader and Christopher Haase could have a possibility of moving up. I think Ross Gunn took over the Aston Martin. Mapelli now has the CrowdStrike Fastest Lap of the motor race thus far. Casper Stevenson leads the Bronze Cup class in another Barwell Motorsports Lamborghini, the #72 and he could lose a place, lose the lead, to Alexey Nesov. Car #46 penalized for an unsafe rejoin onto the circuit, Valentino Rossi might just be the culprit. A ten second stop and go penalty. That will be costly.
The #100 Alex Buncombe McLaren is taking the five-minute technical pit stop, although it is very late to get it finished. The #46 Team WRT BMW M4 GT3 is in the pit lane right now. More penalties I believe for the Sven Mueller Porsche I want to say. The Ferrari has really come out of all the pit and penalty confusion looking pretty good with their pit work with three and a half hours remaining. Sven Mueller had a repair on the Porsche and it s running well as the #3 car of Aron Walker has done well and now, the #63 Lamborghini is geting back out there.
We could be seeing dark clouds in the sky again. I wonder if there will be rain. The Rutronik Porsche team is c Cleaning the radiator out with the compressed airine getting into the system. That is the #96 Rutronik Racing Porsche 911 GT3R. No investigation from RaceControl over the #92 SSR Herbeth Porsche. A battle for sixth between Christopher Haase, Ross Gunn, and Sheldon van der Linde. Has Sheldon van der Linde got a run into the final chicane? I don't know. He had a head of steam through Paul Frere curve.
Phillip Ellis is doing a great job leading by eight seconds in the Gold Cup, the #777 car for Al Manar Racing ahead of the #77 Haupt Racing Mercedes. We have 40 cars still in the race. Alex Buncombe and the RJN McLaren team are still working on the car. 26 cars have retired of the 66 starters. One of the Mercedes' looks disheveled from contact. The #163 Lamborghini and the leading Ferrari, they look immaculuate currently. The splitter I think is disheveled on Ellis' Mercedes, the little winglet, the turning vane.
The #3 Mercedes' front grille is littered with grass as well. Aaron Walker is leading in the Silver Cup class in one of the other GetSpeed Mercedes'. Theo Nouet is closing on Cesar Gazeau as well. Dinamic vs. Boutsen VDS. Last night's rain, safety cars and so forth were unbelievable! There is a calm that has fallen over this race, with a good pace from all of the top six or seven contenders. Everyone must be saving everything up. 400 laps x 7 kilometers is 2,800 kilometers. 400 laps, 1,741 miles. With the gravel being spat upwards onto the windscreens, many of the cars have their windscreens damaged.
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