Short report from Spa Classics 2012

Balz Schreier
05/26/2012

The interesting and promising Spa Classic event is taking place for the second time this weekend.

After the success of the first event in 2011, even more vehicles will be at the start this year: around 500 starters will tackle the hunt for a podium place in seven fields. The individual fields for this year's event are

FIA Historic Formula One - F1 (1966-1985)
Historic Formula 2 - F2 (1967-1978)
Proto 1 (1966-1971) & GT 1 (1966-1974):
In this field, prototypes such as McLaren M1B and Porsche 908/2 race simultaneously against Ferrari Daytona, Ford GT40 etc.
Proto 2 (1972-1979) & GT 2 (1975-1979)
60s Endurance (by Peter Auto) - GT (until 1966) & Sports (until 1963)
Group C - sports cars & prototypes (1982-1993):
The era of Group C cars began exactly 30 years ago, so this year's Group C field is all the larger with Porsche 956 and 962, Silk Cut Jaguar and many others

The typical Ardennes weather did not materialize for the time being, and practice and qualifying were held in summer temperatures:

Our photographer Julien Mahiels has been on site since yesterday and will be capturing a wide variety of impressions, which we will show in the main article to be published soon.
Of course, many cars are still being tuned to the characteristics of Spa...