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#7 Toyota wins 6 Hours of Spa after red flag and safety car interruptions

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#7 Toyota wins 6 Hours of Spa after red flag and safety car interruptions

Mike Conway (GBR) / Kamui Kobayashi (JPN) / Jose Maria Lopez (ARG) #07 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota GR010 Hybrid. 05.05.2022. FIA World Endurance Championship, Rd 2, Six Hours of Spa, Spa Francorchamps, Belgium. - www.xpbimages.com, EMail: requests@xpbimages.com © Copyright: Moy / XPB Images

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Jose Maria Lopez, Mike Conway, and Kamui Kobayashi have won the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, after a rain-affected race saw three red flags, multiple full course course yellows and safety cars.

The race started in the dry but was red flagged for a crash for Miroslav Kinopka in the #44 ARC Bratislava Oreca 07-Gibson. When the race resumed under safety car, with the intention to go green, the leading #8 Toyota failed track-side with electrical issues, requiring the safety car to stay out longer than planned.

While the safety car was out the heavens opened and it poured with rain. As the #31 WRT Oreca 07-Gibson had switched to wets under red flag, it didn’t need to pit again unlike other cars, including the leading LMHs — #7 Toyota, #36 Alpine, and #708 Glickenhaus.

This meant the #31 WRT took the lead with a wet weather masterclass from Robin Frijns when the race went green. The Dutchman pulled a large gap on the #7 Toyota in the theoretically faster class, until another safety killed the gap.

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In the dry, however, the #31 WRT wasn’t on the pace of the LMHs, and indeed the track dried up and Rene Rast slipped to fourth. A consolation prize for the Belgian squad, though, was an overall podium in addition to a class win, after #708 Glickenhaus made a strategy error by switching to slicks too early when they were on for a surefire podium. They eventually finished ninth overall.

Second in LMH and overall was the #36 Alpine, with Mathieu Vaxiviere, Nicolas Lapierre and Andre Negrao each spending time behind the wheel. The French team, though, didn’t quite have the pace to challenge Toyota, after winning the previous time out in Sebring.

With the #31 WRT third overall with Sean Galeal, Rast and Frijns, the #41 RealTeam by WRT Oreca 07-Gibson of Ferd made it a 1-2 for the Belgian team in LMP2, based just a stone’s throw from Spa-Franchorchamps. Ferdinand Habsburg, Norman Nato and Rui Andrade each spent time behind the wheel, with Habsburg crossing the line in second. Third in class was the #38 JOTA Oreca 07-Gibson, driven by Will Stevens, Roberto Gonzalez and Antonio Felix da Costa.

In GTE-Pro, #51 Ferrari, driven by James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi, was the unlikely winner after the AF Corse-run Ferraris qualified fourth and fifth, last in class. The team benefitted from the red flags and safety cars to take a lap of over a lap, and while later stoppages and safety cars reeled this back in, the #92 Porsche of Michael Christiansen and Kevin Estre was never able to reel the #51 in, although they were less than a second apart when they crossed the line. Third, but only mere tenths of a second behind the Porsche, was the #52 Ferrari of Miguel Molina and Antonio Fucuo.

Finally in GTE-Am, the #77 Dempsey-Proton Porsche of Harry Tincknell, Sebastian Priaulx and Christian Reid won, after a hard fought battle with Ben Keating, Henrique Chaves and Marco Sorensen in the #33 TF Sport Aston Martin, which finished second after starting on pole. Third in class was the #98 Northwest Aston Martin, with Paul Dalla Lana, David Pittard and Nicki Thiim behind the wheel.

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1 Mike Conway
 Kamui Kobayashi
 Jose Maria Lopez
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2 Andre Negrao
 Nicolas Lapierre
 Matthieu Vaxiviere
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3 Sean Gelael
 Robin Frijns
 René Rast
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 Ferdinand Habsburg
 Norman Nato
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 Antonio Felix da Costa
 Will Stevens
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6 Dane Cameron
 Emmanuel Collard
 Felipe Nasr
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 Filipe Albuquerque
 Will Owen
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8 Alex Lynn
 Oliver Jarvis
 Josh Pierson
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9 Olivier Pla
 Romain Dumas
 Pipo Derani
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 Louis Deletraz
 Lorenzo Colombo
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 James Calado
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 Kevin Estre
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13 Miguel Molina
 Antonio Fuoco
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14 Lilou Wadoux
 Sébastien Ogier
 Charles Milesi
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15 François Perrodo
 Nicklas Nielsen
 Alessio Rovera
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16 Nico Müller
 Ryan Cullen
 Sébastien Bourdais
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17 Steven Thomas
 James Allen
 Rene Binder
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18 Tommy Milner
 Nick Tandy
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19 Jean Baptiste Lahaye
 Matthieu Lahaye
 François Heriau
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20 Gianmaria Bruni
 Richard Lietz
Porsche 911 RSR – 19LMGTE PRO3 Laps
21 Christian Ried
 Sebastian Priaulx
 Harry Tincknell
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22 Ben Keating
 Henrique Chaves Jr.
 Marco Sorensen
Aston Martin Vantage AMRLMGTE AM4 Laps
23 Paul Dalla Lana
 David Pittard
 Nicki Thiim
Aston Martin Vantage AMRLMGTE AM4 Laps
24 Thomas Flohr
 Francesco Castellacci
 Nick Cassidy
Ferrari 488 GTE EVOLMGTE AM4 Laps
25 Matteo Cairoli
 Mikkel Pedersen
 Nicolas Leutwiler
Porsche 911 RSR – 19LMGTE AM4 Laps
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