Headlining at the Belgian circuit in build up to the Spa 24 hours, forty-four suitably driven GT4 crews will be racing what will be their third round of the season after its season opener from Paul Ricard in mid-April before moving onto the coastal dunes circuit of Zandvoort last time out in mid-May.
The French based Mirage Racing team will be back again with their two Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 Evo’s of both Ruben Del Sarte, Roberto Faria within the #5 silver class entry as well as Stanislav Safronov and Aleksandr Vaintrub within their #7 Pro-Am entry.
The latter pairing will be continuing from the parallel FFSA GT4 Pro-Am commitments that ran at the Spa circuit only last weekend in build up to the SRO’s annual Speedweek programme of racing.
Joining them will be the two AMR Vantage GT4 Evo’s from the Swiss based with both Baudouin Detout/Clement Seyler and David Kullmann/Will Orton paring up again within their respective #39 and #74 silver class entries.
Last time out in the Netherlands, it was an event worth attending for the #7 Mirage Racing Pro-Am pairing after their secured both a P2 and P3 class finishes at the end of those two, hour long races whilst the three silver class pairing again struggled within their ever-competitive class to finish no higher than P7 for the #5 crew in race one.
The championship positions for all crews is reflective of that situation with #7 holding P2 within their table albeit with less than half the points of the so far domineering Porsche crew in front. Within the silver class, you must scroll all the way down to P10 to find the first of the AMR pairings with (surprisingly) that being both Detout and Seyler in that position over and above seemingly more abled crews.
Fitting in and around the Spa 24, the “race weekend” gets underway on Tuesday with private testing before Free Practice and Pre-Qualifying on Thursday before both Qualifying sessions and race 1 on Friday with race 2 just ahead of the start to the 24 hour on Saturday morning.
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