Belcar – Mid-Summer Race – Zolder
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© Joost Custers

Tomorrow, Thursday (June 28) is the fourth round of the Mediagroep Van Dijck Belcar Championship. A race on a Thursday is somewhat special and thus the general public might have professional commitments on a normal weekday, but the real racing aficionados will definitely sacrifice a half day’s holiday for this fourth race of the year, between the best GT3s of the Belgian endurance championship.

The first three races, the opening round at Zolder, Donington Park and then the 12 Hours of Spa BTCS meeting brought about just as many different winners, with in order of success, the reigning champions Kumpen / Longin in their Corvette Z06 (below), followed by the Mosler of Radermecker / Lémeret and quite surprisingly the Mosler of Kenis / De Keersmaeker. Who will it be this (mid)week?

The battle for the title is just as tight. PK Carsport (Kumpen / Longin with 47 points) is leading with a 3 point lead. Second is the extremely consistent GPR Porsche 997 of Guillaume Dumarey (once again with Maxime Soulet). On 8 points we find the other GPR Porsche of Duez / Maes and the first Mosler, of Gravity International. MI DHL is fourth on 12 points, five points less than the Racing For Belgium Aston Martin of Coekelbergs / Marchal. Last but not least and in joint sixth place we come across the two Porsches of ProSpeed with Penders / Lamot and Loix / Bouvy.

We also need to add the G&A Mosler of Kenis and the best Dodge Viper of Wauters / Vanthoor, Severich / Thomas and the girls Stéphanie Boden and Alexandra Van de Velde, who took pole at Spa, and we have summed up all the serious candidates for victory.... although... Peter Kox and Marius Ritskes will drive an ACS-Racing Lamborghini Gallardo, which should be an interesting contender.

In Division 2 there is the Porsche 996 GT3 Cup of NGT Racing (Marc Neyens and Bart Couwberghs), who this season have not, as yet, come across their match and as such will be out to clinch four wins out four. And finally in Division 3 the battle is more open with the Porsche 997 of the Thiers brothers, Frank and Hans, the CEO 996 RS of De Laet / Vollebergh, the AD Sport 996 Biturbo of Harry Steegmans and the novel Ultima GTR of Derdaele / Empsen.