Jota win Six Hours of Spa after two hour crash delay · RaceFans

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Jota secured the primary ever victory for a privateer hypercar staff within the WEC by profitable a disrupted Six Hours of Spa.

The quantity 12 Jota Porsche of Callum Ilott, Will Stevens and Norman Nato secured their staff’s first total victory within the hypercar period of WEC.

The quantity six Penske Porsche of Kevin Estre, Andre Lotterer and Laurens Vanthoor completed second, 12 seconds behind, with the quantity 50 Ferrari of Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen in third, simply forward of the quantity 51 Ferrari.

The race was stopped for 2 hours following a significant accident simply after the 4 hour mark when the quantity two Cadillac, pushed by Earl Bamber, hit a GT3 automotive and struck the boundaries on the Kemmel Straight. The unique race time gave the impression to be set to run out, however simply earlier than the scheduled end time at 7pm, race director Eduardo Freitas introduced that the race can be resumed with all the race time earlier than the pink flag added to the clock.

After repairs had been full, the Security Automotive led the sphere round for 3 laps earlier than the race returned to inexperienced flag situations with just below 90 minutes of race time remaining. Fortunately, there have been no extra Security Automotive or pink flag interruptions and the quantity 12 Jota Porsche emerged victorious to assert the staff’s first ever hypercar win.

Behind the rostrum, the quantity 51 Ferrari of Alessandro Pier Guidi, Antonio Giovinazzi and James Calado completed fourth with the quantity 99 Proton Porsche of Harry Tincknell, Neel Jani and Julien Andlauer in fifth.

Kamui Kobayashi completed sixth within the quantity seven Toyota, however a 5 second penalty for late contact with the Iron Dames GT3 Lamborghini noticed his automotive fall behind the quantity eight Toyota. The quantity 83 AF Corse Ferrari completed eighth with the quantity 35 Alpine and the quantity 93 Peugeot finishing the highest ten.

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Race end result

Pos	No.	Class	Group	Automotive	Drivers	Laps
1	12	Hypercar	Group Jota	Porsche 963	William Stevens/Callum Ilott/Norman Nato	141
2	6	Hypercar	Porsche Penske Motorsport	Porsche 963	Kevin Estre/Andre Lotterer/Laurens Vanthoor	141
3	50	Hypercar	Ferrari AF Corse	Ferrari 499P	Antonio Fuoco/Miguel Molina/Nicklas Nielsen	141
4	51	Hypercar	Ferrari AF Corse	Ferrari 499P	Alessandro Pier Guidi/James Calado/Antonio Giovinazzi	141
5	99	Hypercar	Proton Competitors	Porsche 963	Harry Tincknell/Neel Jani/Julien Andlauer	141
6	8	Hypercar	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota GR010	Sebastien Buemi/Brendon Hartley/Ryo Hirakawa	141
7	7	Hypercar	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota GR010	Mike Conway/Kamui Kobayashi/Nyck de Vries	141
8	83	Hypercar	AF Corse	Ferrari 499P	Robert Kubica/Robert Shwartzman/Yifei Ye	140
9	35	Hypercar	Alpine Endurance Group	Alpine A424	Paul-Loup Chatin/Ferdinand Habsburg/Charles Milesi	141
10	93	Hypercar	Peugeot	Peugeot 9X8	Mikkel Jensen/Nico Mueller/Jean-Eric Vergne	140
11	15	Hypercar	Bmw M Group WRT	BMW M Hybrid V8	Dries Vanthoor/Raffaele Marciello/Marco Wittmann	140
12	36	Hypercar	Alpine Endurance Group	Alpine A424	Nicolas Lapierre/Mick Schumacher/Matthieu Vaxiviere	140
13	20	Hypercar	Bmw M Group WRT	BMW M Hybrid V8	Sheldon Van Der Linde/Robin Frijns/Rene Rast	140
14	94	Hypercar	Peugeot	Peugeot 9X8	Paul di Resta/Loic Duval/Stoffel Vandoorne	139
15	11	Hypercar	Isotta Fraschini	Isotta Fraschini Tipo6-C	Antonio Serravalle/Carl Wattana Bennett/Jean-Karl Vernay	138
16	91	LMGT3	Manthey Ema	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Yasser Shahin/Morris Schuring/Richard Lietz	130
17	92	LMGT3	Manthey Purerxcing	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Aliaksandr Malykhin/Joel Sturm/Klaus Bachler	130
18	60	LMGT3	Iron Lynx	Lamborghini Huracan Evo2	Claudio Schiavoni/Matteo Cressoni/Franck Perera	130
19	85	LMGT3	Iron Dames	Lamborghini Huracan Evo2	Sarah Bovy/Doriane Pin/Michelle Gatting	130
20	59	LMGT3	United Autosports	McLaren 720S Evo	James Cottingham/Nicolas Costa/Gregoire Saucy	130
21	54	LMGT3	Vista AF Corse	Ferrari 296	Thomas Flohr/Francesco Castellacci/Davide Rigon	129
22	777	LMGT3	D’Station Racing	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	Clement Mateu/Erwan Bastard/Marco Sorensen	130
23	88	LMGT3	Proton Competitors	Ford Mustang	Giorgio Roda/Mikkel Pedersen/Dennis Olsen	130
24	77	LMGT3	Proton Competitors	Ford Mustang	Ryan Hardwick/Zacharie Robichon/Ben Barker	130
25	78	LMGT3	Akkodis Asp Group	Lexus RC F	Arnold Robin/Timur Boguslavskiy/Kelvin Van Der Linde	129
26	27	LMGT3	Coronary heart Of Racing Group	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	Ian James/Daniel Mancinelli/Alex Riberas	129
27	82	LMGT3	TF Sport	Corvette Z06.R	Hiroshi Koizumi/Sebastien Baud/Daniel Juncadella	129
28	55	LMGT3	Vista AF Corse	Ferrari 296	Francois Heriau/Simon Mann/Alessio Rovera	129
29	87	LMGT3	Akkodis Asp Group	Lexus RC F	Takeshi Kimura/Esteban Masson/Jose Maria Lopez	128
30	2	Hypercar	Cadillac Racing	Cadillac V-Collection.R	Earl Bamber/Alex Lynn/	95
31	31	LMGT3	Group WRT	BMW M4	Darren Leung/Sean Gelael/Augusto Farfus	87
32	5	Hypercar	Porsche Penske Motorsport	Porsche 963	Matt Campbell/Michael Christensen/Frederic Makowiecki	64
33	95	LMGT3	United Autosports	McLaren 720S Evo	Joshua Caygill/Nicolas Pino/Marino Sato	59
34	63	Hypercar	Lamborghini Iron Lynx	Lamborghini SC63	Mirko Bortolotti/Edoardo Mortara/Daniil Kvyat	59
35	81	LMGT3	TF Sport	Corvette Z06.R	Tom Van Rompuy/Rui Andrade/Charlie Eastwood	56
36	38	Hypercar	Group Jota	Porsche 963	Jenson Button/Philip Hanson/Oliver Rasmussen	37
37	46	LMGT3	Group WRT	BMW M4	Ahmad Al Harthy/Valentino Rossi/Maxime Martin	33