Spa-Francorchamps 6-hour race 2012

Audi R18 e-tron quattro ; Emergency vehicles from André Lotterer , Benoît Tréluyer and Marcel Fässler

The first 6-hour race of Spa-Francorchamps , also WEC 6 Hours of Spa, Spa-Francorchamps , took place on May 5, 2012 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps and was the second round of the FIA World Endurance Championship of that year .

The race

After the introduction of the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2012 , the traditional 1000 km race at Spa-Francorchamps switched from the European Le Mans Series to this new racing series. With the exception of the Sebring 12-hour race and the Le Mans 24-hour race , all of the races were driven over a distance of six hours. This turned the 1000 km race into a 6-hour race.

The racing debut of the Toyota TS030, which had already been announced for the race in Sebring , had to be postponed again after the only fully operational chassis was so badly damaged during a test drive at the Paul Ricard Circuit in early April that it had to be abandoned. As a result, the first use of the LMP1 car built by Toyota Motorsport in Cologne and race- supervised by Oreca was postponed to the Le Mans race . The Pescarolo 03 , based on the Aston Martin AMR-One and prepared by the team of the Le Mans record starter Henri Pescarolo , was not yet ready to race either.

Audi Sport under the direction of Wolfgang Ullrich reported four Audi R18s through Joest Racing . The two lightweight R18 ultra and the two hybrid R18 e-tron quattro were allowed to drive freely up to the last pit stops, after which the sequence was determined. In the end, Marc Gené , Romain Dumas and Loïc Duval won in the R18 ultra with a lead of 50 seconds over the R18 e-tron quattro of André Lotterer , Benoît Tréluyer and Marcel Fässler .

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	LMP1	3	Audi Sport Team Joest	Marc Gené Romain Dumas Loïc Duval	Audi R18 Ultra	160
2	LMP1	1	Audi Sport Team Joest	André Lotterer Benoît Tréluyer Marcel Fässler	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	160
3	LMP1	4th	Audi Sport North America	Oliver Jarvis Marco Bonanomi	Audi R18 Ultra	159
4th	LMP1	2	Audi Sport Team Joest	Tom Kristensen Rinaldo Capello Allan McNish	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	159
5	LMP1	12	Rebellion Racing	Nicolas Prost Neel Jani Nick Heidfeld	Lola B12 / 60	156
6th	LMP1	13	Rebellion Racing	Andrea Belicchi Harold Primacy	Lola B12 / 60	155
7th	LMP1	21st	Strakka Racing	Nick Leventis Danny Watts Jonny Kane	HPD ARX-03a	154
8th	LMP2	38	Iota	Sam Hancock Simon Dolan	Zytek Z11SN	151
9	LMP2	25th	ADR delta	John Martin Tor Graves Robbie Kerr	Oreca 03	151
10	LMP2	38	Murphy prototypes	Jody Firth Warren Hughes Brendon Hartley	Oreca 03	151
11	LMP2	35	OAK Racing	Bas Leinders David Heinemeier Hansson	Morgan LMP2	150
12	LMP1	22nd	JRM	David Brabham Karun Chandhok Peter Dumbreck	HPD ARX-03a	150
13	LMP2	45	Boutsen Ginion Racing	Jack Clarke Jens Petersen Bastien Brière	Oreca 03	149
14th	LMP2	28	Gulf Racing Middle East	Fabien Giroix Maxime Jousse Stefan Johansson	Lola B12 / 80	149
15th	LMP1	17th	Pescarolo team	Nicolas Minassian Sébastien Bourdais	Dome S102.5	147
16	LMP2	41	Greaves Motorsport	Christian Zugel Ricardo González Elton Julian	Zytek Z11SN	147
17th	LMP2	24	OAK Racing	Matthieu Lahaye Olivier Pla Jacques Nicolet	Morgan LMP2	144
18th	GTE Pro	77	Team Felbermayr Proton	Richard Lietz Marc Lieb	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	144
19th	GTE Pro	51	AF Corse	Giancarlo Fisichella Gianmaria Bruni	Ferrari 458 Italia	144
20th	GTE Pro	59	Luxury racing	Frédéric Makowiecki Jaime Melo	Ferrari 458 Italia	83
21st	GTE Pro	71	AF Corse	Andrea Bertolini Olivier Beretta	Ferrari 458 Italia	141
22nd	GTE Am	67	IMSA Performance Matmut	Nicolas Armindo Raymond Narac Anthony Pons	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	139
23	LMP2	29	Gulf Racing Middle East	Jean-Denis Delétraz Keiko Ihara	Lola B12 / 80	139
24	GTE Am	88	Team Felbermayr Proton	Christian Ried Gianluca Roda Paolo Ruberti	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	139
25th	LMP2	49	Pecom Racing	Luís Pérez Companc Pierre Kaffer Soheil Ayari	Oreca 03	139
26th	GTE Am	81	AF Corse	Marco Cioci Matt Griffin Piergiuseppe Perazzini	Ferrari 458 Italia	138
27	GTE Am	50	Larbre Compétition	Julien Canal Patrick Bornhauser Fernando Rees	Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1	137
28	GTE Am	58	Luxury racing	Pierre Ehret Dominik Farnbacher Frankie Montecalvo	Ferrari 458 Italia	137
29	LMP2	32	lotus	Luca Moro Kevin Weeda James Rossiter	Lola B12 / 80	137
30th	LMP2	26th	Signatech Nissan	Pierre Ragues Nelson Panciatici Roman Rusinov	Oreca 03	136
31	GTE Am	55	JWA-Avila	Markus Palttala Joël Camathias Paul Daniels	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	134
32	GTE Am	57	Krohn Racing	Tracy Krohn Niclas Jönsson Michele Rugolo	Ferrari 458 Italia	129
33	LMP2	23	Signatech Nissan	Jordan Tresson Franck Mailleux Olivier Lombard	Oreca 03	128
34	LMP2	44	Starworks Motorsport	Vicente Potolicchio Ryan Dalziel Stéphane Sarrazin	HPD ARX-03b	123
Failed
35	LMP1	15th	OAK Racing	Guillaume Moreau Dominik Kraihamer Bertrand Baguette	Pescarolo 01	151
36	LMP2	31	lotus	Thomas Holzer Mirco Schultis Renger van der Zande	Lola B12 / 80	124
37	LMP2	43	Extreme Limit Aric	Philippe Haezebrouck Philippe Thirion	Norma M200P	83
38	LMP2	40	Race performance	Ralph Meichtry Michel Frey Jonathan Hirschi	Oreca 03	45
39	GTE Am	70	Larbre Compétition	Christophe Bourret Jean-Philippe Belloc	Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1	39
40	GTE Pro	97	Aston Martin Racing	Stefan Mücke Adrián Fernández Darren Turner	Aston Martin Vantage V8	11
Not started
41	LMP2	30th	Status GP	Alexander Sims Yelmer Buurman Romain Iannetta	Lola B12 / 80	1
42	GTE Am	61	AF Corse whale trip	Robert Kauffman Brian Vickers Rui Águas	Ferrari 458 Italia	2

¹ Accident in training ² Accident in WarmUp

Only in the entry list

Here you will find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race but did not take part for a variety of reasons.

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis
43	LMP1	7th	Toyota Racing	Alexander Wurz Nicolas Lapierre Kazuki Nakajima	Toyota TS030
44	LMP1	16	Pescarolo team	Emmanuel Collard Jean-Christophe Boullion Julien Jousse	Pescarolo 03

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
LMP1	Marc Gené	Romain Dumas	Loïc Duval	Audi R18 Ultra	Overall victory
LMP2	Sam Hancock	Simon Dolan		Zytek Z11SN	Rank 8
GTE Pro	Marc Lieb	Richard Lietz		Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Rank 18
GTE Am	Nicolas Armindo	Raymond Narac	Anthony Pons	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Rank 22

Racing data

• Registered: 44
• Started: 40
• Rated: 34
• Race classes: 4
• Spectators: 31,000
• Weather on race day: light rain
• Route length: 7.004 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 6:00: 22.708 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 160
• Total distance of the winning team: 1120.164 km
• Winner's average: unknown
• Pole position: Rinaldo Capello - Audi R18 e-tron quattro (# 2) - 2: 01.579 = 207.400 km / h
• Fastest race lap: André Lotterer - Audi R18 e-tron quattro (# 1) - 2: 01.851 = 206.900 km / h
• Racing series: 2nd round of the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship

Web links

• Race results

Previous race 12-hour race at Sebring 2012

FIA World Endurance Championship

Succession race 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans