Third victory of the season for the Audi R8 LMS in Belgium

 At the 25-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps Phoenix Racing clinched its third victory of the season with the Audi R8 LMS in the Belgian GT Championship. However, after their narrow exploit on Friday Jean-Francois Hemroulle and Tim Verbergt already retired in the early phase of the second race on Saturday. Their first retirement caused them to drop to second place in the overall standings.

Spa-Francorchamps (B), July 10, Belgian GT Championship round 7

1 Hemroulle/Verbergt (Audi R8 LMS) 24 laps in 1h 00m 4.700s2 Verbist/Longin (Porsche) + 0.656s3 Wauters/Van Hooydonk (Dodge) + 13.924s4 Renard/Vosse (Aston Martin) + 15.684s5 Huisman/Kuismanen (Ford) + 17.888s

Spa-Francorchamps (B), Juli 11, Belgian GT Championship round 81 Wauters/van Hooydonk (Dodge) 24 laps in 1h 01m 35.152s2 Verbist/Longin (Porsche) + 1.784s3 Huisman/Kuismanen (Ford) + 6.040s4 Bouvy/Coens (Ferrari) + 6.360s5 Vanhanen/Nurminen (Porsche) + 1m 21.544s

Standings after 8 of 14 rounds:

1 Wouters/van Hooydonk, 126 points; 2 Hemroulle/Verbergt, 115; 3 Huisman/Kuismanen, 97; 4 Verbist/Longin, 93; 5 Bouvy/Coens, 90.Next race: Zolder (B), August 22