Spa-Francorchamps – Very Quick Report
FIA SCC & British GT

We’ve got to escape from here imminently, and there’s no way we can to do justice to this race (the GT race, mainly) in the time available. Full reports on Monday.

But very quickly…..

Andy Wallace made sure that Tom Kristensen didn’t have it all his own way in SR1, at least while it was wet – which it was from lap three onwards. But the DBA suffered as the track dried, the discs glazing over and hampering braking. So it was headed the way of the Audi anyway, but a brief, very light shower soon after half way saw Hayanari Shimoda out brake himself at La Source: wets were needed. But the Jpanese then crashed the DBA fairly heavily, leaving second to the Pescarolo Courage, third the #2 RfH Dome and fourth the Taurus Lola. Jan Lammers was the one to suffe in traffic, contact with a Porsche eliminating his Dome – but the DBA retiring means that he and John Bosch are the Champions. Lammers’ car has never failed to finish an FIA SCC race – until today.

GT was a classic: it came down to a Mosler battle over the last hour…although the two MT900Rs were the class of the field apart from some great stuff from the DeWalt TVRs. But it was Barbosa chasing Erdos, and the pair of them were oustanding. Erdos was always looking short of fuel, and with the gap 0.2 secs two thirds of the way round the last lap (!) the Balfe car ran out, leaving the win to Barbosa, Short and Herridge. Eclipse finished fifth, and the points are probably Balfe drivers 184, Eclipse drivers 180, Tom Herridge 179. One race to go.