The Olympic Games may be getting underway in Rio de Janerio this week, but the GT3 world had its own gold-medal standard contest last weekend – Total 24 Hours of Spa. The setting was the majestic Spa Francorchamps circuit, situated in Belgium's Ardennes region.
The competition was a cornucopia of Grand Touring racing at its finest. The ingredients were Aston Martin, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Ferrari, Jaguar, Lamborghini, Mercedes-AMG, Nissan and Porsche, and what a dish they served up for this celebration of endurance sportscar competition.
A race that saw the result in doubt right to the end and witnessed a triumph for BMW, their 22nd victory in the Belgian classic, and their first in the modern GT era. The Rowe Racing BMW F13 M6 GT3 driven by Maxime Martin, Philipp Eng and Alexander Sims finished two minutes in front of a Mercedes-AMG and an Audi, an amazingly close margin after 24 hours of flat out driving.
