The Vehicles Earth

By Tarek Ramchani 

The Zolder 24 Hours is this weekend, the 34th edition of this Belgian endurance event. A single Audi R8 LMS ultra is entering the race from Belgian Audi Club Team WRT.

Team WRT Audi achieved a well deserved pole position for the race tomorrow after a very fraught qualifying session. The Belgian team had a fantastic three-way battle with the BMW Z4 GT3 of Marc VDS and the Porsche 997 GT3 R from ProSpeed Competition. The defending champions in this event are entering the #32 R8 LMS ultra which is shared by four strong drivers: Laurens Vanthoor and Anthony Kumpen both from Belgium, accompanied by Edward Sandström from Sweden and Audi factory driver Marco Bonanomi from Italy.

Only three GT3 cars are on the entry list. The three cars are from the top three Belgian GT teams. They will be the big favorites for the overall win. The other competitors are mainly smaller prototypes called CN, the best of these are three seconds down on the pole setting Audi.

The race start is set for tomorrow at 4:00 PM local time. Good luck to WRT.

Qualifying session times

Photo credit: Fabrice Bergenhuizen / Endurance-Info.com