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Spa 24 Hours - Hour 23 14:01 - Vannelet is now aboard the #53 GT3 leading Muehlner Porsche, the car rejoined in 6th having been passed in the pits by the #1 AF Corse Ferrari. Dean stays aboard #68 Audi 14:04 Leader pits, #79 on lap 497 Adorf out - Werner in to the Dirkmobile and the lead car keeps a full laps advantage despite the stop. #56 rejoins after its puncture, still in 19th position with its retired team car the next target 12 laps up the road. The closest battles on the road at present are: For 10th
(and 3rd in GT3) - the #73 Audi currently has an 18.5 second deficit to deal
with over the #67 R8 14:12 - #78 pits from 4th on lap 492 Jorg Muller hands over to Pedro Lamy 14:13 Johansson puts in the fastest lap of the #67 car's race - 2:26.645 as he looks to deal with the WRT threat behind - the immediate issue though is dealt with as #73 pits for a routine stop. 14:14 500 laps completed by the leader The originally Gulf Liveried, now mainly race tape, #64 Aston has stopped t the bottom of Eau Rouge 14:18 - As the WRT Audi emerges from its pit stop it has the #7 Trackspeed Porsche right behind - but that battle will come to nothing as the Audi gets a black and orange flag for their broken windscreen - the windscreen that has been utterly destroyed for over 20 Hours - Now that's a late decision!! Here's a picture taken of the car at 17:20 yesterday
And here's a more recent one
In the interests of absolute fairness the Clerk of the Course has observed that that the screen has developed a hole The car pits at 14:26 and almost instantly drops to 13th.
The change took seven minutes and you have to ask the dual questions - 1: Why wasn't the car flagged much, much earlier when visibility was clearly badly obscured both in the rain and in darkness? And 2: Why didn't the team do the (7 minute) repair when the car was garaged for over half an hour earlier in the race? 14:41 the 8th placed #99 Marc VDS Ford pits on lap 482 - Leinders takes the car back out 14:44 - #67 pits from tenth, lap 472, their nearest challenger was the Trackspeed Porsche a lap back but the #7 car pits too at 14:46. Johansson stays in #67 - Asch replaces Rosenblad in #7 14:52 the #1 AF Corse Ferrari pits from fifth on 494 laps - Cioci out, Kauffmann in - The car should retain its fifth place 14:58 the 4th placed #78 BMW pits Positions After 23 Hours #79, 23, 16, 78, 1, 53, 4, 99, 68, 67, 7, 17, 73, 71, 60, 81, 66, 56, 55 (Out), 58, 86, 85 (Out), 59 (Pit), 64 (Out), 51 (Out), 70, 69 - 2, 50, 98, 91, 13, 52, 74, 100, 84, 72, 61, 63, 62 - All Out - We think that means the final hour will welcome 23 runners |
