
Group C racing at Spa Francorchamps is something I wouldn’t miss for the world. To bad there weren’t many competitors, only 8 group C cars turned up. And unfortunately there were no Porsche 962’s, but one of my favorite cars, the Silk Cut Jaguar XJR-8 was again racing at Spa. Driven by Justin Law it won the race, just like last year. These cars may be 20 years old but they still fly. Justin Law’s fastest time on sunday was 2:18.15. Last year the fastest lap during a Belgian GT race was set by a Mosler MT900, it managed only 2:25.812. The current Le Mans series cars are ofcourse a bit faster, during the 2008 1000km of Spa a Peugeot 908 set the fastest lap at 1:59.069, an average speed of more then 189km/h.
I was very surprised to see a Ferrari 250 GTO parked on a trailer in the pits. You don’t really expect to see a car worth several millions of Euro’s parked on an open trailer. I had a good look at it but couldn’t tell if it was the real thing or just a replica. When I came home and googled the number plate I found this. So technically it’s not even a Ferrari but a Datsun, what a disappointment. Still it’s one of the best looking Datsun’s I have ever seen.
730 photos from sunday in this gallery.