Podium finish for the Audi R8 LMS at Spa

Mark Blundell, Zak Brown, Richard Dean and Eddie Cheever drove their Audi R8 LMS to third place in the GT3 class in the traditional 24-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps.

As a result, the newly formed team United Autosports achieved a podium finish in its debut 24-hour race. The second United Autosports R8 LMS with Stefan Johansson, Alain Li, Mark Patterson and Emil Assentato at the wheel finished fourth.

 For a long time two Audi customer teams led the GT3 class. Stéphane Ortelli, Kurt Mollekens, Stéphane Lemeret and François Verbist fell back down the field in the WRT Belgian Audi Club R8 LMS in the 19th hour of the race due to technical problems. Anthony Kumpen, Marcel Fässler, Lucas Luhr and Mike Rockenfeller (Phoenix Racing) retired just after half-distance due to a collision.

Spa-Francorchamps (B), July 31/August 1, Spa-Francorchamps 24 Hours

1 Dumas/Bergmeister/Ragginger/Henzler (Porsche) 541 laps2 Narac/Long/Pilet/Lietz (Porsche) + 1m 16.822s3 Werner/Müller/Adorf (BMW) - 1 lap4 Müller/Lamy/Alzen (BMW) - 7 laps5 Waltrip/Cadei/Kauffmann/Cioci (Ferrari) - 22 laps…9 Blundell/Brown/Dean/Cheever (Audi R8 LMS) - 38 laps10 Johansson/Li/Patterson/Assentato (Audi R8 LMS) - 40 laps13 Ortelli/Mollekens/Lemeret/Verbist (Audi R8 LMS) - 44 laps


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