24H Spa: Audi wins ahead of BMW

Audi seemed to be in difficulty after the crash of its two R8 LMS (retirement for the #99 of Basseng-Haase-Stippler and faulty gearbox for the #98 of Fässler-Piccini-Ropckenfeller). But the No. 8 R33 LMS driven by Mattias Ekström, Greg Franchi and Timo Scheider retained the lead of the race to win at the end of the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.

BMW places the #76 of Dirk Werner, Edward Sandström and Claudia Hürtgen (Need For Speed ​​Team Schubert) in second place after the Ferrari No. 2 of Bartels-Bertolini-Hommerson-Machiels (Vita4One) was excluded from the race for not having complied with a drive-through on time.

Mercedes takes the last step of the podium with the #35 SLS AMG of Kenneth Hayer, Thomas Jäger and Stéphane Lomeret. L?Aston Martin #4 of Makowiecki-Moser-Dusseldorp was in third position with three hours to go, but the Hexis AMR crew fell down the standings after damaging the British car?s steering during a collision with the Audi No. 23 (Dean-Broxn-Herbert-Johansson).

The #32 Audi of Albuquerque-Longin-Ortelli (Team WRT) failed to reach the podium in front of the #29 Ferrari of Bobbi-Kechele-Petrobelli (Vita4One).

Find the report of the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps by our special correspondent in the next issue of AUTOhebdo, on sale from Wednesday.