Widescreen gallery: Roadbook Celebrates the 8th edition of the Spa Summer Classic

by Marcel Hundscheid/Speed-O-Graphica.com

The Spa Summer Classic has seen a vast growth in popularity with both drivers and spectators over the years. For this year’s edition over 600 historic cars found their way to Spa-Francorchamps, featuring 11 races including a 3-hour race on Saturday evening.

Roadbook, led by Alain Defalle and Vincent Collard, did a great job organising the 2017 event. Held over three days, it saw racing action from early in the morning until the evening. This year it touring and sports cars, Formula 3 and Formula Renault single seaters as well as GTs.

The 11 different races saw on-track action from the CSCC Swinging Sixties and Classic K, the CSCC Inter Series Cup, Sports 2000 & Sport Protos Cup and 7 Race Series from the United Kingdom, the NK HTGT, State-of-Art NK GT&TC, and the UPS4ALL Youngtimer Touring Car Challenge from the Netherlands, the Belgian Historic Cup. Gathered within Spa Formula Summer were Formula 3, Formula 4, Formula Renault 2.0 and Formula 1800 cc cars. Besides this Roadbook organized two endurance races, the Spa Ardennes Challenge and finally the Spa 3 Hours.

A wide variety of cars could be seen in action over the 3 days. To name just a handful out of the over 600 participants were the BMW CSL and BMW M1, Alpine A110 and A310, Ford Sierra Cosworth RS, Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport, Ford GT40, and lots of different Porsches, Caterhams, Triumphs, TVRs, etc.

Racing Results Spa Summer Classic 2017:

Spa Ardennes Challenge (61 entries)

1)       Singleton/Watson                     Caterham C400

2)       T Davis                                        Caterham C400                                + 10.711

3)       R Murray                                    Caterham C400                                + 38.825

Spa Formula Summer race 1 (34 entries)

1)       H Lloyd                                      Dallara 312-Mercedes

2)       C Dittmann                               Dallara 312 Mercedes-HWA              + 3.126

3)       P Regensperger                        Dallara 305 Opel                              + 5.012

Spa Formula Summer race 2 (35 entries)

1)       H Lloyd                                      Dallara 312-Mercedes

2)       C Dittmann                               Dallara 312 Mercedes-HWA              + 19.748

3)       K. Böhlen                                  Dallara 308 Opel                              + 41.091

Youngtimer Touring Car Challenge race 1 (51 entries)

1)       Marcel van Rijswick                 Porsche 964

2)       P Stox                                         Porsche 964                                    + 1.351

3)       D Nymand                                 BMW E36 M3                                  + 33.052

Youngtimer Touring Car Challenge race 2 (52 entries)

1)       M Nielsen                                  BMW E36 Coupe

2)       Marcel van Rijswick               Porsche 964                                    + 7.059

3)       P Stox                                        Porsche 964                                    + 7.482

CSCC Inter Series Cup race 1 (65 entries)

1)       Colin Wells                               BMW E46 M3

2)       Piers Reid                                 BMW E46 M3                                  + 13.905

3)       Malone/Moulton-Smith        BMW E36 M3 Evo                           + 14.536

CSCC Inter Series Cup race 2 (66 entries)

1)       Piers Reid                                 BMW E46 M3

2)       Mathew Evans                        BMW E46 M3                                  + 3.338

3)       Malone/Moulton-Smith       BMW E36 M3 Evo                           + 6.426

Sports 2000 SRCC Sport Proto Cup race 1 (43 entries)

1)       Patrick Sherrington                MCR

2)       Guy Peeters                             Chevron B23                                   + 30.986

3)       Tom Stoten                              Gunn TS11                                      + 38.121

Sports 2000 SRCC Sport Proto Cup race 2 (43 entries)

1)       Patrick Sherrington                MCR

2)       Tom Stoten                              Gunn TS11                                      + 7.167

3)       Michael Gibbins                     MCR                                               + 8.256

 

NK HTGT (55 cars)

1)       Georg Nolte                                    Ford GT40

2)       Michiel Campagne                       Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport        + 28.908

3)       Rhea Sautter/Andrew Newall   Jaguar E-Type                                 + 1:.00.496

CSCC race 1 (69 entries)

1)       Richard Plant/William Plant     Morgan Plus 8

2)       Mark Campbell                            Triumph TR5                                    + 1.164

3)       Paul Whight                                 Lotus Elan 26R                                + 1:51.104

CSCC race 2 (69 entries)

1)       William Plant                               Morgan Plus 8

2)       Malcolm Johnson                       Lotus Europa                                  + 4:07.356

3)       Yannick Szczygiel                        Triumph TR4                                    + 1 ronde

NK GT & TC race 1 (32 entries)

1)       Eric Holthausen                          BMW 3.0 CSL

2)       Ola Svendsen                              Ford Escort RS 1600                       + 9.310

3)       Hans de Graaf                            Porsche Carrera RS                         + 25.770

NK GT & TC race 2 (32 entries)

1)       Ola Svendsen                             Ford Escort RS 1600

2)       Eric Holthausen                       BMW 3.0 CSL                                  + 1.773

3)       Hans de Graaf                          Porsche Carrera RS                         + 1.940

Belgian Historic Cup race 1 (65 entries)

1)       Patrick Michiels                        Porsche 964

2)       Pierre-Yves Paque                    Porsche 964                                    + 14.411

3)       Luc Moortgat                            Porsche 964 Cup                             + 31.798

Belgian Historic Cup race 2 (65 entries)

1)       Luc Moortgat                            Porsche 964 Cup

2)       Pierre-Yves Paque                   Porsche 964                                    + 1.997

3)       Eric Nulens                               Porsche 964                                    + 48.092

7 Race Series race 1 (49 entries)

1)       Lee Wiggins                                      Caterham

2)       Clive Richards                                 Caterham                                    + 0.513

3)       Eduardo Leitao/Ricardo Leitao  Caterham                                    + 0.565

7 Race Series race 2 (49 entries)

1)       Lee Wiggins                                     Caterham

2)       Paul Thacker                                   Caterham                                    + 0.431

3)       Eduardo Leitao/Ricardo Leitao  Caterham                                    + 0.709

Spa 3 Hours (73 entries)

1)       Goncalo Gomes/James Claridge    Lotus 47

2)       Georg Nolte/Michael Funke           Ford GT40                                  + 6.789

3)       Paxman/Harding/Crabtree            Ford Escort Mk.1                        + 2 laps