Competitors of Spa FIA/WEC face the uncertain climate of the Belgian Ardennes.

Your faithful team of scribblers is alive and well and Tony and Jock are at Spa. You will find Tony’s input under live text on the WEC website (live.fiawec.com) and Jock’s stuff here on the pages of Club Arnage.

There are certain ‘givens’ at Spa.. beer, chips, mayonnaise, waffles and unpredictable weather. You will be pleased to know that all these are safely in place. It rained so hard on the way down that the several huge dollops of bird droppings have been washed off the car ! So, we are watching ‘Free Practice’ which, as a rule, doesn't prove too much. The good news is that Audi have raided their parts bins and are here with three cars. Quite an achievement after the carnage at Silverstone where you recall they destroyed at least one and possibly two tubs.  We are told that the #3 Audi  is running in ‘Le Mans’ aero spec so may not be as quick as the other two.

Toyota are carrying on where they left off at Silverstone and have sat in 1st and 2nd all the way through the session right up to the last few minutes when #1Audi with Duval at the wheel went fastest. 

Porsche LMP1... nothing to report..

The two new examples of the Toyota powered Rebellion R-One made their first and rather cautious appearances and we need to point out the entry list you may have seen is wrong.. the #13 Rebellion Racing is in fact an R-One not the old Lola B12/60 Toyota.

Interestingly the ‘old’ Prospeed Porsche GT3 RSR was ahead of the new factory 991 RSR. Rumour has it that they have been calmed down a bit after their stellar performance at Silverstone.

We went a news conference held by the WEC/FIA/ACO to explain more about the intricacies of the new breed of hybrid and how they are trying to ‘level the playing field’ regarding big Joules, little Joules and petrol vs diesel. Sadly your scribes are nowhere near clever enough to a) understand it all and b) explain it. However we may get to see a paper copy later and can then perhaps put some meat on the bone. 

Incidentally the rain has stopped and the mist is lifting .. 

Jock Simpson