Aston Martin won the 24 Hours of Spa thanks to the Vantage n°7 of Comtoyou Racing. Walkenhorst Motorsport and the Sarthe driver Maxime Robin had less luck with the n°35. Hit by the Ferrari n°8 at the end of the morning, it did not start again.
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With his Walkenhorst Motorsport team, Maxime Robin finished 9th in his category. | NICK DUNGAN
It was an improbable scenario that allowed Comtoyou Racing’s #7 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 to win the Centenary edition of the 24 Hours of Spa: in the lead, the #51 Ferrari 296 GT3 of the 2023 Le Mans winner Alessandro Pier Guidi (associated with Alessio Rovera and Davide Rigon), during his last stop, found himself stuck behind the Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 n°19 – GRT, stopped in the pit lane. The minute lost was crippling and it was therefore the British car of Mattia Drudi, Marco Sorensen and Nicki Thiim which won the event after 478 laps.
Sarthoise driver Maxime Robin raced in another Aston Martin Vantage GT3, the No. 35 from his Walkenhorst Motorsport team, with Frenchman Romain Leroux and Briton Lorcan Hanafin. While it was well placed, first in its Silver category for part of the event, their car was unable to finish the race following a big collision with the unbalanced No. 8 Kessel Racing Ferrari. by the #46 BMW of Valentino Rossi in Les Combes. The accident caused a neutralization under full course yellow and the Italian driver, penalized, lost any chance of triumph.
