3 May 2019 Archives

Super exciting qualifying at Spa

Friday May 3rd, 2019Monday May 13th, 2019 Jens Jensen

The qualifying for the six hours FIA World Endurance Championship race at Spa Francorchamps was run under looming rainclouds, but starting off with dry asphalt. The GTE cars were the first to get 25 minutes on the track. The cars got five extra minutes, since Spa Francorchamps is the longest track on the calendar, apart from Le Mans, or else there could be problems for both drivers to complete their laps. Motoaki Ishikawa was the first driver of the weekend to run off in Eau Rouge. The Japanese in MR…

Trouble-free FP3

Friday May 3rd, 2019Friday May 3rd, 2019 Jens Jensen

It was an non dramatic FP3 in FIA World Endurance Championship at Spa Francorchamps, Belgium. The 60-minute long practice went without a single yellow flag and all the teams drove between 18 to 27 laps. Toyota Gazoo Racing #7 was the fastest car, ahead of the sister car #8, but SMP Racing continued the good speed from yesterday with #17 in P3 and #11 right behind. It was Kamui Kobayashi who set the quickest time for #7, which was even half a second faster than the laptime that Toyota set…

Manthey Racing wins a very wet VLN3 race – a 1-2-3 finish destroyed by a penalty given after the race

Friday May 3rd, 2019 Stefan Schneider

After the weather conditions at the Nürburgring already had badly affected VLN1 and VLN2, VLN3 finally was finally a complete 4hours race – however, it still was a tricky race again, due to the weather situation. After a few laps, already anticipated heavy rain kicked in, making it a very difficult race for the drivers. Just after a few laps, the GT3 field and other classes saw some reduction of cars, with quite some sliding and spinning one the wet track and hitting the barriers. Manthey Racing’s Porsches seemed to…