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29.07.2007

Hour 19 : safety cars and rain...

The final quarter of the Total 24 Hours of Spa began in dramatic fashion, as there was a change in the overall lead and yet another safety car period. The nr 1 Vitaphone Racing Maserati MC12 took the lead when the nr 5 Carsport Holland Corvette C6R pitted right on the stroke of 10:00am, the result of two remarkably quick stints by Pedro Lamy in the Maserati; Lamy handed over the car to Thomas Biagi when he pitted just two laps after the Corvette.

The safety car was deployed as the result of an incident at the La Source hairpin involving the nr 78 JMB Racing Ferrari 430 GT2 and the nr 175 Sport Garage Ferrari 430 GT3. The timing was fortunate for Lamy; with two safety cars used because of the 7.04km length of the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, Marcel Fässler was unable to regain the lead in the nr 5 Corvette, having been picked up by the safety car part way round the lap.

Xavier Pompidou managed to extract the nr 74 Ebimotors Porsche 997 GT3 RSR from the barriers at Raidillon and made it back to the pits for repairs.

At 10:15, despite being under the safety car, the nr 118 Trackspeed Racing Porsche 997 GT3 Cup, with Johnny Lang at the wheel, hit the barrier at the entry to Eau Rouge, slid across the track and stopped on the pit lane exit. Despite one front wheel no longer pointing in the right direction Lang managed to get the car turned around and set off back to the pits.

Conditions remained appalling, with rain falling steadily. The teams were informed that the safety car would continue until the race direction considered conditions to be safe, due to water running across the track in certain areas. Therefore, at the end of the hour, the nr 1 Vitaphone Maserati led GT1, the nr 97 BMS Scuderia Italia Porsche led GT2, the nr 124 Mühlner Porsche led G3 and the nr 105 Mosler led G2

 

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