Following its victory in the Total 24 Hours of Spa in July, Audi is travelling to America as the leader of the manufacturers’ standings of the Intercontinental GT Challenge. Three customer teams are competing with the Audi R8 LMS in the Mazda Raceway California 8 Hours.
K-PAX Racing announced that it will compete in the upcoming Intercontinental GT Challenge California 8 Hours. The team entered its #9 McLaren 650S GT3 car, which won the Pirelli World Challenge in 2016.
CBS Sports Network will televise the third round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge, the Mazda Raceway California 8 Hours, for GT3 and GT4 sports cars scheduled on Sunday, Oct. 15, it was announced today.
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For the fourth time, after earlier success in 2011, 2012 and 2014, an Audi was the first car across the line in the Total 24 Hours of Spa, the world’s biggest GT3 race and the undisputed season highlight of the Blancpain GT Series. After 546 laps of the 7.004 kilometres long Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, German driver Christopher Haase drove the #25 Audi Sport Team Saintéloc Audi R8 LMS across the finish line to secure victory for himself and team-mates Markus Winkelhock (GER) and Jules Gounon (FRA).
For the fourth time after earlier success in 2011, 2012 and 2014, an Audi was first across the line in the Total 24 Hours of Spa, the world’s biggest GT3 race and the undisputed season highlight of the Blancpain GT Series and the Intercontinental GT Challenge. After 546 laps of the 7.004 kilometres long Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, German Christopher Haase drove the #25 Audi Sport Team Saintéloc Audi R8 LMS across the finish line to secure victory for himself and team-mates Markus Winkelhock (GER) and Jules Gounon (FRA).
At 05:40 this morning, Sunday July 30th, the #77 Lamborghini Huracan GT3, entered by Barwell Motorsport and driven by Adrian Amstutz, was involved in a collision with the #11 Kessel Racing Ferrari 488 GT3 of Matteo Cressoni, further to a spin in the Stavelot corner. After the heavy collision, the Lamborghini caught fire. The marshals at post T15B, the extrication team, the medical service and the fire service all reacted efficiently and with great speed.
With four and a half hours remaining in the Total 24 Hours, there are still eight cars from six different brands on the lead lap, so it is almost impossible to make any predictions about who will win the 69th running of the classic Belgian endurance race. At noon, the #90 Akka ASP Mercedes is in the lead from a pair of Audis: the #1 Audi Sport Team WRT car and the #25 Audi Sport Team Saintéloc entry.
At 7 am, with the sun just coming up from behind the hills of the Ardennes over the circuit of Spa-Francorchamps, the #1 Audi Sport Team WRT Audi is leading in the Total 24 Hours of Spa, having taken over first place as the #85 HTP Motorsport Mercedes came in for its mandatory five minutes’ technical pit stop as the last one from the front runners. The #90 AKKA ASP Mercedes is now second, with the #98 ROWE Racing BMW third.
At midnight, with seven and a half hours completed in the Total 24 Hours of Spa, the #8 Bentley Team M-Sport is leading from the #2 Audi Sport Team WRT Audi and the #63 GRT Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini. Different pit stop sequences lead to several lead changes, with cars from six different brands in the top seven, all on the lead lap.
