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Added on the 07/08/2019 08:47:16 - Copyright : Auto Moto EN
After numerous caution periods due to heavy rain and aquaplaning hazards at night, race control decided to stop the 2019 Spa 24 Hours with red-flag conditions on Sunday morning at 5:44 am local time. At this point, René Rast in the number 1 Audi R8 LMS from Audi Sport Team WRT was in ninth position, trailed by Frédéric Vervisch in the number 25 car of Audi Sport Team Saintéloc. The number 10 car from Belgian Audi Club Team WRT was 17th and thus the third best Audi.
After 12 of the 24 hours at Spa, Audi Sport Team WRT was the best Audi Sport customer racing team. While rain and safety car periods characterized the race at night, Nico Müller was eighth in the number 1 Audi R8 LMS. He was trailed by Christopher Haase, who was two positions behind in the number 25 car of Audi Sport Team Saintéloc. Five positions further adrift was Jamie Green in the number 129 entry from Montaplast by Land-Motorsport.
After a third of the race time at the Spa 24 Hours, Audi is in the record field of the 72 GT3 sports cars in promising positions. Changing weather conditions with sometimes heavy rain and different racing strategies kept shifts in the field. After eight hours, the Audi R8 LMS of the Audi Sport Team Saintéloc with the number 25 and Markus Winkelhock at the steering wheel ranked sixth as best Audi.
After a break of 5 hours and 45 minutes due to heavy rains, the 71st edition of the Spa 24 Hours was restarted behind the safety car at 11:30 am local time. Four hours before the end of the race, Audi had a promising position in the record field of 72 GT sports cars. The best-placed Audi driver was René Rast in the number 1 car from Audi Sport Team WRT in third place. In eighth position was Belgian Frédéric Vervisch with the number 25 entry from Audi Sport Team Saintéloc. The third Audi R8 LMS in the top ten was the number 10 from Belgian Audi Club Team WRT with Rik Breukers behind the wheel.
At Spa in 2019, Audi Sport customer racing was battling for its third 24-hour race victory this season. At the end of a race that was dominated by freak weather conditions and interrupted for several hours by heavy rain, the Audi R8 LMS, with the leading position having been maintained by Audi DTM drivers Robin Frijns/Nico Müller/René Rast in the gripping final stage, again proved its powerful performance capacity. Even so, drivers and teams were deprived of a podium finish in the overall classification. In the end, though, Audi Sport Team Saintéloc with the best Audi R8 LMS achieved third position on the list of IGTC teams entered and fourth overall.
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