Spa 24 Hours

Spa 24 Hours

The Total 24 Hours of Spa is an endurance racing event held annually in Belgium at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. Conceived by Jules de Their and Henri Langlois Van Ophem just one year after the first 24 Hours of Le Mans, the race was run under the auspices of the Royal Automobile Club Belgium (RACB).

It was held for the first time in 1924 over a convert|9.3|mi|km|1 circuit on public roads between the towns of Francorchamps, Malmedy and Stavelot. The present 6.9760 km circuit was inaugurated in 1979.

The Spa 24 Hours were part of the European Touring Car Championship from 1966 to 1973. The event also counted towards the World Sportscar Championship in 1953 and 1981. As on the Nürburgring, both a 24h and a 1000km race is held at Spa, as the 1000km Spa for sports car racing were introduced in 1966.

Cars entered included Russian Moskvitch and engine sizes ranged from 996 cc NSU Prinz TT to the luxurious V8-powered Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL 6.3, tuned by Mercedes-AMG to the so-called [http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/0,1518,415796,00.html "Red pig" ] . This heavy and fast vehicle with 6834 cc and Convert|420|hp|kW|0|abbr=on finished only 2nd in 1971, as frequent refuelling was necessary, and tyre wear was also high.

With the participation of Swiss Lilian Bryner on the victorious Ferrari 550 of the "BMS Scuderia Italia" team, the 2004 race marked the first time in history that a female driver has won a 24 hour endurance race in a Gran Turismo with more than Convert|500|hp|kW|-1|abbr=on.

Results on 14km track

Results on 7km track

The current version of the Spa 24 Hours is an event under the FIA GT Championship calendar, although it was previously run as part of various touring car series. Currently, the cars run fall under the GT1 and GT2 FIA classifications as well as the G2 and G3 classifications used for non-homologated racing cars of lower classes.

References

External links

* [http://www.proximus24hours.com/htm/story.asp Spa 24h Website ]
* [http://homepage.mac.com/frank_de_jong/Races/1971%20Spa.html 1971 results ]
* [http://homepage.mac.com/frank_de_jong/Races/1972%20Spa.html 1972 results ]
* [http://www.wspr-racing.com/wspr/results/wscc/ms1981.html#12 1981 results ]
* [http://www.fiagt.com/ FIA GT Website ]


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