The Nürburgring Endurance round saw Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO winning two classes (PRO and Gold), Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO 2 also won two classes (Pro-AM and Silver) and Porsche 911 GT3 R won the Bronze Cup class.

Akkodis ASP wins the Nürburgring Endurance round and Marciello, Gounon, Boguslavskiy take the lead of the Endurance Cup drivers’ standings ahead of the last round at Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya.

A Mercedes topped both sessions today with #88 Akkodis ASP Team during the morning free session and Mercedes-AMG Team AlManar #777 Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO in the pre-qualification session.

Two cars topped the GT3 teams running this afternoon with a very tight margin of 0.006 seconds. Daniel Harper, Neil Verhagen, Max Hesse driving Rowe Racing BMW M4 GT3 #998 did set the fastest lap in 1:54.748.

Sky Tempesta Racing is leading the Fanatec GT World Challenge Powered by AWS Endurance Bronze Team and their drivers Eddie Cheever, Chris Froggatt and Jonathan Hui the Bronze Drivers.

Akkodis ASP Team is leading the Fanatec GT World Challenge Powered by AWS Team’s ahead of Team WRT.

Rowe Racing is leading the Fanatec GT World Challenge Powered by AWS Endurance Team’s cup as well as their drivers Philipp Eng, Nick Yelloly and Marco Wittman are leading the driver’s cup.

Among the non PRO entries, #5 Optimum Motorsport Mc Laren (Gold) end among the top 10 overall and pole Porsche #20 from Huber Motorsport (Bronze) ends 13th overall.

The #98 Rowe Racing BMW M4 GT3 is the winner of the 2023 Crowdstrike 24 Hours of Spa ahead of #88 Akkodis ASP Team Mercedes-AMG GT3 and #17 Scherer Sport PHX Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO.

With 5hours 55’ to go Luca Engstler, Kelvin van der Linde and Nicki Thiim with #17 Scherer Sport PHX Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO are leading a pack of 5 PRO cup cars ahead of #5 McLaren leading also the Gold Cup.

After 6 hours of racing, Dries Vanthoor, Sheldon van der Linde, Charles Weerts with #32 Team WRT BMW M4 GT3 are leading the Crowdstrike 24 Hours of Spa.

Porsche #20 and Ferrari #51 will start from front row the Crowdstrike 24 Hours of Spa thanks to Matteo Cairoli clinching pole and Alessio Rovera second.

It were the competitors who took advantage of a track that was still dry at the start of Q1 who were decisive for the final classification of the qualifications. Porsche (6), Audi (5) and Lamborghini (4) are very well represented in the top 20 who will run the Super Pole this Friday 3:35 pm.

The first practice session of the day at Spa, saw the domination of the BMW Junior Team BMW M4 GT3 #998, entrusted to the young drivers of BMW Motorsport, Max Hesse, Neil Verhagen and Dan Harper.

Raffaele Marciello, Jules Gounon and Timur Boguslavskiy with the Akkodis ASP Team #88 Mercedes-AMG GT3 won the Circuit Paul Ricard 1000km after starting from pole. 

Raffaele Marciello, Jules Gounon and Timur Boguslavskiy with the Akkodis ASP Team #88 Mercedes-AMG GT3 sealed top spot after a fascinating contest as five cars looked to have a legitimate shot at pole heading into Q3. 

Let us now review the official test day of the Crowdstrike 24 Hours of Spa PRO-AM class ranking as well as the results by manufacturer not mentioned in previous articles.

#21 Comtoyou Racing Audi and #88 Akkodis ASP team Mercedes did set the fastest laps of both official test days during the Wednesday morning session.

Haase dominated both morning and afternoon sessions with Audi R8 LMS evo II #11 from Comtoyou Racing. Audi and Porsche are trusting the top 8 best laps of the first test day.

Philipp Eng, Marco Wittmann and Nick Yelloly with the #98 ROWE Racing BMW M4 GT3 started from pole and never lost the lead during the whole race.