After Le Mans, Daytona and the Nürburgring, the fourth major 24 hour event of the year will be held on 30th and 31st July on the legendary Spa-Francorchamps circuit. At the starting line of Spa will be many winners of 24 Hours of Le Mans.
After a tenth victory in La Sarthe, Audi will also be big in the Belgian Ardennes, with seven Audi R8 LMS divided into three teams.
Winners at Le Mans in 2010 and 2011, Mike Rockenfeller and Marcel Fässler will team up with with Andrea Piccini on one of the cars of Audi Sport Team Phoenix. Stéphane Ortelli meanwhile who had his last victory at Le Mans with Porsche in 1998. He will share one of the LMS R8 Audi Sport Team WRT with Bert Longin and Felipe Albuquerque. Three former winners of the Le Mans 24 Hours are in the ranks of United Autosports: Johnny Herbert (1991), Mark Blundell (1992) and Stefan Johansson (1997). This team is also includes Arie Luyendyk, who won the 1990 Indianapolis 500, the fastest in the history of the race. He covered the 800 km of the American classic at 299 km/h average speed.
Among the leaders of the last 24 Hours of Le Mans at Spa, there are also Olivier Pla, Julien Jousse, Jonathan Hirschi, Andrea Barlesi, Roald Goethe, Fabien Giroix, Olivier Panis, Nicolas Lapierre, Guillaume Moreau, and Nicolas de Crem.
