After 24 hours of frenetic racing around the legendary Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium, it was ultimately the pole-sitter that prevailed to lift the coveted laurels.
Up until the final hour, however, the result had looked like being somewhat different, with the #1 Vitaphone Maserati MC12 of Michael Bartels, Thomas Biagi, local hero Eric van de Poele and Pedro Lamy holding sway at the front and looking odds-on to seal the squad its third straight success in the challenging round-the-clock classic.
A late ‘off' for van de Poele at Stavelot, however, cost the quartet a lap and handed the lead back to the Carsport Holland Corvette C6-R of Jean-Denis Delétraz, Mike Hezemans, Marcel Fässler and Fabrizio Gollin once more, an advantage they would retain all the way to the chequered flag. The PK Carsport entry came home third with their Corvette C5-R driven by Anthony Kumpen, Bert Longin, Frédéric Bouvy and Kurt Mollekens.
In GT2, following a
Ferrari whitewash in the opening five rounds of the 2007
FIA GT Championship, all honours this time went to Porsche with a trio of the German cars on the podium.
Class victory fell to BMS Scuderia Italia's Porsche 997 GT3 RSR in the hands of Emmanuel Collard, Matteo Malucelli and Marc Lieb, with the IMSA Performance Matmut machine of Richard Lietz, Patrick Long and Raymond Narac annexing the runner-up spot and Tech9 Motorsport finishing third courtesy of Sean Edwards, Leo Machitski and Sascha Maassen.
The G3 category was clinched by Mühlner Motorsport with their Porsche, with the #105 Mosler triumphing in G2. JMB Racing claimed the innovative Coupe du Roi with their Ferrari 430 GT3.
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