Double appointment for Ferrari at Spa
It will be an intense weekend for the Prancing Horse at the
Belgian Spa-Francorchamps circuit which is staging the FIA
GT 24 Hours race, which will see in action the F430 GT developed
by the Maranello Corse Clienti department. Also on the card
the fourth round of this season’s European Ferrari Challenge
Pirelli Trophy. The event gets underway tomorrow, Thursday
26 July, with the first day of practice. Going into the event
in the Ardennes, the main class of the Ferrari one-make series,
featuring the F430 Challenge cars, is headed by Ireland’s
Michael Cullen (team Rossocorsa,) ahead of Italy’s Max
Blancardi (Motor/Malucelli) and France’s Ange Barde
(Stradale Automobile.)
Currently leading the Shell Cup for gentlemen drivers in
the same series is Monaco’s Philippe Prette (Baron Service,)
who leads Switzerland’s Ronnie Kessel (Kessel Racing)
and Lloyd La Marca (Stradale Automobile) second and third
respectively.
As for the FIA GT championship, Ferrari tackles the “24
Hours” (the start is at 16h00 on Saturday) heading the
GT2 Constructors’ Cup with 126 points to Porsche’s
57, and with three customer in the top places of the general
classification in the category: Scuderia Ecosse and Racing
Team Edil Cris are equal second on 31 points, behind AF Corse
Motorola (71,) who, with their F430 GT cars crewed by Vilander/Mueller
and Ortelli/Bruni have five wins in the five rounds held this
year.
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