2015 24 Hours of Spa (25 & 26 July)

StanV · PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 9:29 pm

I'd made a tast OP, before something weird happened and everything got erased. This one is less tast because I couldn't be effed anymore

TIMING (CET)
CLICKY CLICKY

Start is at 4.30PM CET (so that the finish doesn't clash with the finish of the Hungarian GP)

LIVE TIMING
http://www.blancpain-gt-series.com/live#live-timing

STREAMS & TV COVERAGE (CET)
Official stream: http://www.blancpain-gt-series.com/live
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/gt1world;
Nismo: TBA?

Quote:

Friday 24 July:
18h50 - 19h10 (Superpole)

Saturday 25 July:
16h - 20h
20h30 - 23h

Sunday 26 July:
8h - 12h
13h - 17h

Full TV schedules: http://www.blancpain-gt-series.com/imag ... of_Spa.jpg

WEATHER RADAR
http://www.meteovista.be/Europa/Belgie/ ... ps/4055571

ENTRY LIST as of 22 July (58 cars)
http://www.24hoursofspa.com/en/entry-list

Cars to keep an eye on:
Pro
#1 Audi Sport Team WRT - René Rast/Laurens Vanthoor/Markus Winkelhock - Audi R8 LMS
#2 Audi Sport Team WRT - Frank Stippler/Stéphane Ortelli/Nico Müller - Audi R8 LMS
#3 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT - Robin Frijns/Jean-Karl Vernay/Stéphane Richelmi - Audi R8 LMS Ultra
#5 Audi Sport Team Phoenix - Christian Mamerow/Christopher Mies/Nicki Thiim - Audi R8 LMS
#6 Audi Sport Team Phoenix - Marcel Fässler/André Lotterer/Mike Rockenfeller - Audi R8 LMS
#7 M-Sport Bentley - Andy Meyrick/Guy Smith/Steven Kane - Bentley Continental GT3
#8 M-Sport Bentley - Maximilian Buhk/Maxime Soulet/Andy Soucek - Bentley Continental GT3
#9 ROAL Motorsport - Alex Zanardi/Bruno Spengler/Timo Glock - BMW Z4
#23 Nissan GT Academy Team RJN - Katsumasa Chiyo/Wolfgang Reip/Alex Buncombe - Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3
#29 Black Falcon - Nico Verdonck/Adam Christodoulou/Andreas Simonsen - Mercedes SLS AMG GT3
#35 Saintéloc - Grégory Guilvert/Edward Sandström/Marc Basseng - Audi R8 LMS Ultra
#45 BMW Sports Trophy Team Marc VDS - Maxime Martin/Augusto Farfus/Dirk Werner - BMW Z4
#46 BMW Sports Trophy Team Marc VDS - Markus Palttala/Nick Catsburg/Lucas Luhr - BMW Z4
#58 Von Ryan Racing - Shane van Gisbergen/Rob Bell/Kevin Estre - McLaren 650 S GT3
#59 Von Ryan Racing - Bruno Senna/Adrian Quaife-Hobbs/Alvaro Parente - McLaren 650 S GT3
#75 ISR - Filip Salaquarda/Marco Bonanomi/Fred Vervisch - Audi R8 LMS Ultra
#84 Bentley Team HTP - Harold Primat/Vincent Abril/Mike Parisy - Bentley Continental GT3
#99 ROWE Racing - Nico Bastian/Stef Dusseldorp/Daniel Juncadella - Mercedes SLS AMG GT3

Pro-Am
#18 Black Falcon - Bernd Schneider/Maro Engel/Oliver Morley/Sean Johnston - Mercedes SLS AMG GT3
#22 Nissan GT Academy Team RJN - Ricardo Sanchez/Gaetan Paletou/Florian Strauss/Olivier Pla - Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3
#32 Leonard Motorsport AMR - Stuart Leonard/Michael Meadows/Stefan Mücke/Tom Onslow-Cole - Aston Martin Vantage GT3
#47 AF Corse - Stéphane Lemeret/Alessandro Pier Guidi/Gianmaria Bruni/Pasin Lathouras - Ferrari 458 Italia
#52 AF Corse - Cedric Sbirrazzuoli/Raffaelle Gianmaria/Toni Vilander/Adrien de Leener - Ferrari 458 Italia
#70 GT Russian Team - Christophe Bouchut/Kenneth Heyer/Jan Seyffarth/Alexey Karachev - Mercedes SLS AMG GT3
#83 Bentley Team HTP - Max van Splunteren/Louis Machiels/Fabian Hamprecht/TBA - Bentley Continental GT3
#100 Dragonspeed - Ryan Dalziel/Henrik Hedman/Elton Julian/Antonio Lazzaro - Ferrari 458 Italia
#240 BMW Racing Against Cancer - Pascal Witmeur/Jean-Michel Martin/Marc Duez/Eric van de Poele - Porsche 997 GT3 R

- The R8 LMS is the new-look Audi, while the Ultra is the 'old' one.

- The ROAL BMW with Zanardi/Spengler/Glock is using complex and brilliant design to help Zanardi (and the other two) to properly drive the race. A ton of background info on the design of that car on DSC: http://www.dailysportscar.com/2015/06/2 ... ngler.html

- The #240 BMW is 'racing against cancer'. Driver & starter of the initiative Pascal Witmeur (did some F3000, F3 and FIA World Endurance in the 80s, and is kind of a Belgian racing 'icon') survived cancer and wanted to do something in return. He's gathered some of the biggest names in Belgian endurance racing with 4-time winner Jean-Michel Martin (father of and 3rd in Le Mans in 1980), 3-time winner Marc Duez (several Le Mans starts) and 5-time winner + record holder Eric van de Poele (with Bentley at Le Mans in 01/02, F1 in the early 90s). They have paid full entry and will act as if they will drive the full race, but in fact the car will only run 24 minutes on 4 occasions: the start, somewhere around midnight, somewhere around noon, and the finish. Everything not spent by doing this (tyres, fuel etc) will be gifted to the Belgian association against cancer. More info (in French): http://www.racingagainstcancer.info/

Soul Reaver · PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 9:50 pm

Of the 58, I wonder how many will fight for the win.

Chris A · PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 10:05 pm

Isn't the race where last year everyone tried to die?

Fabs · PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 10:11 pm

deggis · PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 10:14 pm

The official live stream should show all qualifying sessions (if not practice too)... iirc that has been the case with normal BSS/BES races

StanV · PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 12:57 am

deggis wrote:

The official live stream should show all qualifying sessions (if not practice too)... iirc that has been the case with normal BSS/BES races

It's never been the case for Spa. The cameras aren't even set up yet on Thursday. A bit silly really, because coverage of the evening & night qualifying would be awesome.

Check the streaming schedule all the way at the bottom:

Spoiler:

StanV · PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 1:00 am

Chris A wrote:

Isn't the race where last year everyone tried to die?

This would be the most awesome tagline.

"The 24 Hours of Spa: the race where everyone tries to die"

StanV · PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 1:37 am

Ok, updated post 1 with this:

Quote:

Cars to keep an eye on:
Pro
#1 Audi Sport Team WRT - René Rast/Laurens Vanthoor/Markus Winkelhock - Audi R8 LMS
#2 Audi Sport Team WRT - Frank Stippler/Stéphane Ortelli/Nico Müller - Audi R8 LMS
#3 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT - Robin Frijns/Jean-Karl Vernay/Stéphane Richelmi - Audi R8 LMS Ultra
#5 Audi Sport Team Phoenix - Christian Mamerow/Christopher Mies/Nicki Thiim - Audi R8 LMS
#6 Audi Sport Team Phoenix - Marcel Fässler/André Lotterer/Mike Rockenfeller - Audi R8 LMS
#7 M-Sport Bentley - Andy Meyrick/Guy Smith/Steven Kane - Bentley Continental GT3
#8 M-Sport Bentley - Maximilian Buhk/Maxime Soulet/Andy Soucek - Bentley Continental GT3
#9 ROAL Motorsport - Alex Zanardi/Bruno Spengler/Timo Glock - BMW Z4
#23 Nissan GT Academy Team RJN - Katsumasa Chiyo/Wolfgang Reip/Alex Buncombe - Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3
#29 Black Falcon - Nico Verdonck/Adam Christodoulou/Andreas Simonsen - Mercedes SLS AMG GT3
#35 Saintéloc - Grégory Guilvert/Edward Sandström/Marc Basseng - Audi R8 LMS Ultra
#45 BMW Sports Trophy Team Marc VDS - Maxime Martin/Augusto Farfus/Dirk Werner - BMW Z4
#46 BMW Sports Trophy Team Marc VDS - Markus Palttala/Nick Catsburg/Lucas Luhr - BMW Z4
#58 Von Ryan Racing - Shane van Gisbergen/Rob Bell/Kevin Estre - McLaren 650 S GT3
#59 Von Ryan Racing - Bruno Senna/Adrian Quaife-Hobbs/Alvaro Parente - McLaren 650 S GT3
#75 ISR - Filip Salaquarda/Marco Bonanomi/Fred Vervisch - Audi R8 LMS Ultra
#84 Bentley Team HTP - Harold Primat/Vincent Abril/Mike Parisy - Bentley Continental GT3
#99 ROWE Racing - Nico Bastian/Stef Dusseldorp/Daniel Juncadella - Mercedes SLS AMG GT3

Pro-Am
#18 Black Falcon - Bernd Schneider/Maro Engel/Oliver Morley/Sean Johnston - Mercedes SLS AMG GT3
#22 Nissan GT Academy Team RJN - Ricardo Sanchez/Gaetan Paletou/Florian Strauss/Olivier Pla - Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3
#32 Leonard Motorsport AMR - Stuart Leonard/Michael Meadows/Stefan Mücke/Tom Onslow-Cole - Aston Martin Vantage GT3
#47 AF Corse - Stéphane Lemeret/Alessandro Pier Guidi/Gianmaria Bruni/Pasin Lathouras - Ferrari 458 Italia
#52 AF Corse - Cedric Sbirrazzuoli/Raffaelle Gianmaria/Toni Vilander/Adrien de Leener - Ferrari 458 Italia
#70 GT Russian Team - Christophe Bouchut/Kenneth Heyer/Jan Seyffarth/Alexey Karachev - Mercedes SLS AMG GT3
#83 Bentley Team HTP - Max van Splunteren/Louis Machiels/Fabian Hamprecht/TBA - Bentley Continental GT3
#100 Dragonspeed - Ryan Dalziel/Henrik Hedman/Elton Julian/Antonio Lazzaro - Ferrari 458 Italia
#240 BMW Racing Against Cancer - Pascal Witmeur/Jean-Michel Martin/Marc Duez/Eric van de Poele - BMW Z4

- The R8 LMS is the new-look Audi, while the Ultra is the 'old' one.

- The ROAL BMW with Zanardi/Spengler/Glock is using complex and brilliant design to help Zanardi (and the other two) to properly drive the race. A ton of background info on the design of that car on DSC: http://www.dailysportscar.com/2015/06/2 ... ngler.html

- The #240 BMW is 'racing against cancer'. Driver & starter of the initiative Pascal Witmeur (did some F3000, F3 and FIA World Endurance in the 80s, and is kind of a Belgian racing 'icon') survived cancer and wanted to do something in return. He's gathered some of the biggest names in Belgian endurance racing with 4-time winner Jean-Michel Martin (father of and 3rd in Le Mans in 1980), 3-time winner Marc Duez (several Le Mans starts) and 5-time winner + record holder Eric van de Poele (with Bentley at Le Mans in 01/02, F1 in the early 90s). They have paid full entry and will act as if they will drive the full race, but in fact the car will only run 24 minutes on 4 occasions: the start, somewhere around midnight, somewhere around noon, and the finish. Everything not spent by doing this (tyres, fuel etc) will be gifted to the Belgian association against cancer. More info (in French): http://www.racingagainstcancer.info/

StanV · PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 2:00 am

Some liveries!

The ROAL car has a Michel Vaillant styled design:

HTP goes red & black on the Bentleys:

A turquoise WRT Audi:

Another retro Nissan livery:

The racing against cancer car has boxing gloves on it:

Moar:
http://www.endurance-info.com/fr/photo/ ... ock-mardi/
http://www.endurance-info.com/fr/photo/ ... ze-test-2/

Soul Reaver · PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 4:17 am

Great pics!!!

bigears · PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 7:32 am

Excellent liveries this year.

Fabs · PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 9:36 am

it is going to rain

Mattzel89 · PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 11:01 am

Omega · PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 11:49 am

Vanthoor will win. Just because he wins everything in that Audi.

StanV · PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 12:33 pm

An interview with Marcus Mahy, the man we almost lost last year with the accident eventually resulting in a red flag:

http://www.dailysportscar.com/2015/07/2 ... -mahy.html

Quote:

Having spent fully three months in various hospitals, firstly in Liège, then in Salisbury, Wiltshire, Marcus has good recall of the lead-up to the accident. “The car had come in out of schedule because Steven Earle had had a shunt at La Source. After we’d repaired that I got in, and that was my first stint in the car,” he explains.

Marcus-Mahy-Spa-2014

“Now there had been a couple of shunts at Raidillon, quite bad ones and I suspect I picked up some carbon fibre because my front left [tyre] started going soft. I was watching the pressure monitor, heading down the hill at the back of the circuit. I started to work the car quite hard on the right-handers to bring the pressure up just to see if it would hold and it seemed to work. Then I got through Stavelot on the run towards Blanchimont and I saw the pressure going down so I knew I had a problem. I moved the car over to the right hand side to let the faster traffic through, because I knew I would be seriously compromised going through Blanchimont [with the soft tyre].

“Well, I don’t really know what happened next. The next thing I knew I had been clipped, hit in the rear, the car went sideways and I stamped on the brakes. But I went head first into the barrier. That’s all I can remember for about a month.”

No wonder. Marcus had sustained severe bruising to his brain, a broken neck, two broken vertebrae, punctured lungs and right ear hearing loss. He also damaged his left shoulder, ribs and chest and stomach muscles.

Schusti · PostPosted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 11:55 am

That Michelle Vaillant Design looks great!

Hitting the road to Spa tomorrow afternoon. Any other TBK-Members to meet up at Spa?

fede999 · PostPosted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 2:37 pm

An interview with Marcus Mahy, the man we almost lost last year with the accident eventually resulting in a red flag:

Quote:

Marcus-Mahy-Spa-2014

“Now there had been a couple of shunts at Raidillon, quite bad ones and I suspect I picked up some carbon fibre because my front left [tyre] started going soft. I was watching the pressure monitor, heading down the hill at the back of the circuit. I started to work the car quite hard on the right-handers to bring the pressure up just to see if it would hold and it seemed to work. Then I got through Stavelot on the run towards Blanchimont and I saw the pressure going down so I knew I had a problem. I moved the car over to the right hand side to let the faster traffic through, because I knew I would be seriously compromised going through Blanchimont [with the soft tyre].

“Well, I don’t really know what happened next.

Vadim Kogay happened.

bmwpower86 · PostPosted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 9:04 pm

Schusti wrote:

That Michelle Vaillant Design looks great!

Hitting the road to Spa tomorrow afternoon. Any other TBK-Members to meet up at Spa?

here

but only on saturday

deggis · PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 2:41 am

StanV wrote:

STREAMS & TV COVERAGE (CET)
Official stream: http://www.blancpain-gt-series.com/live
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/gt1world;
Nismo: TBA?

2nd link is broken;

Official stream is same as http://www.dailymotion.com/Blancpainendurance

Probably just onboards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4clxTEudwA

codename_47 · PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 3:06 am

I think this is relevant enough to put here:

Supporting FRenault NEC race at 12:45pm cet Friday

Renault 2.0 NEC - Spa 2015 Race 1

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2015 24 Hours of Spa (25 & 26 July)

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