Total 24 Hours of Spa - Hours 18-19 09:02
Rene Rast stops from the lead as the 17th hour of the race comes to an end. The German bids his farewells and Andrea Piccini takes over the #16 Audi. 09:10
Puncture for the leader! Piccini gets back to the pits but has damage been incurred? 09:13
The #16 loses about a minute - enough for Ortelli to take the lead. 09:15
Aaron Scott reports that GT3 Racing team manager Jim Hersey has just said that there are "14 Scooby Doos to go!" Huh? "Each Scooby Doo episode is half an hour and when you think of your stints in terms of Scooby episodes, it doesn't sound too bad!" They're a strange bunch in that garage! 09:18
Ortelli now leads by 34 seconds. 09:20
The #75 ProSpeed Porsche drops out of the top 20 as work continues on the brakes, promoting Peter Belshaw in the #30 Audi to 20th. 09:27
Palttala sets his car's fastest lap - 2:21.158 - as he tries to close the 90 seconds to the third-placed #2 Audi of Vanthoor. Meanwhile, Fässler has managed to get the #6 Audi up to ninth overall. 09:29
Fässler pits and hands the WRT R8 ultra over to TK 09:39
Kenneth Heyer briefly stopped on the track - the #19 Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 slowly returning to the pit. 09:44
Yellow flags again...not sure why. 09:45
Aston Martin #89 lost its left front wheel just before the Bus Stop. Dupont pits. 09:51
Palttala in the pit - trying to fire up the car again, once more serious troubles. 09:56
He's out though...but a 7 minute lap time including that stop. Audi 1-2-3, Vita4One 4. 10:01
Left rear problem (puncture? suspension?) for the #71 and it went straight...car stopped on left hand side of turn 7. 10:02
Lost rear left tyre 10:08
Safety Car.......... 10:10
Beechdean-Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 #107 lost a tyre and went off at turn 13. 10:13
Two flatbed transporters out to collect the two cars that have lost their left rear wheel. 10:18
Tom Kristensen, suffering a problem with the rear view mirror, took it from the car...and threw it out the window at the bus stop. Marshals picked it up. Safety car in at the end of this lap! 10:19
Green flag! 10:22
Stippler takes the lead after the restart - Haase now right behind him. Flashing lights to clear the backmarkers. 10:23
Palttala now in the sandwich between Stippler and Haase, but before turning into La Source Haase has passed Palttala and is back chasing down Stippler. 10:25
The Pro-Am battle is back down to six seconds after the latest caution - Alessandro Pier Guidi leading in the #52 Ferrari from Perez Gaetano Ardagna in the #51 sister car. 10:28
Christopher Haase went straight at Les Combes. Strange moment there... We reported earlier that Rene Rast would be on his way to Hungary - he isn't. Rast did not race yesterday and will not race in Porsche Supercup today. 10:29
85 Mustang also through the grass at Les Combes. 10:31
Debris on track T3 10:41
From the pitlane: Andrew Howard, #107 Beechdean Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 (just prior to his car losing a wheel): "The car's running really well at the moment and feels strong. We've had the usual 24-hour wearings and knocks, which have taken their toll, and we had a battery issue that stranded Phil at pit-in. We changed the battery and I took over, but as we weren't fully sure that it was the battery I had to drive without main beams for a few laps; fortunately it was the battery. "The conditions last night were incredible - I've never driven in anything like it! Of course, as is the case in racing, once you've coped with and survived something like that you tick it off the list and want to get straight back in the car. "The rain was so heavy there was water coming over the bonnet! I had mentioned to the guys the other night that I may try powerboat racing next year - I don't need to now because that was what it felt like last night! "I've worked with a lot of the guys for years and they are the real heroes - all we do is drive round and eat!" 10:56
The #3 BMW stops and Maxime Martin takes over from Palttala. 10:59
With just over five hours to go (390 laps) Stippler's lead over Haase is 124 seconds. | 
