The 2023 24 Hours of Spa (also known as the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa) was the 76th running of the 24 Hours of Spa. The race took place from June 29 to July 2, 2023. The race was a part of both the 2023 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup and the 2023 Intercontinental GT Challenge.
Background In September 2022, the 2023 Belgian Grand Prix Formula One race was scheduled to be held on July 28-30, which clashed with the traditional date of the Spa 24 Hours, so the latter was forced to be rescheduled to early July.
Supporting the race weekend were the McLaren Trophy Europe, Lamborghini Super Trofeo, Formula Regional European Championship, GT4 European Series and GT1 Sports Club.
During the Saturday morning support race featuring the Formula Regional European Championship, a crash on Lap 9, the penultimate lap of the 30-minute plus one lap race, German driver Tim Tramnitz crashed on the restart exiting Radillon, on the Kemmel Straight. Dutch driver Dilano van't Hoff then collided with a barrier. Without visibility at the circuit, Irish driver Adam Fitzgerald then crashed into the side of the van't Hoff's vehicle, causing it to tear in half. Van't Hoff was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Entry list A 70-car field contested the race — 20 in Pro class, 7 in Gold Cup, 10 in Silver Cup, 21 in Bronze Cup and 12 in Pro-Am Cup. 8 manufacturers were represented, with 15 Mercedes cars, 14 Porsche cars, 13 Audi cars, 10 Lamborghini cars, 7 BMW cars, 5 Ferrari cars (4 Ferrari 296 GT3 and 1 Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020), 5 McLaren cars and 1 Aston Martin car. Compared to the previous edition of the race, Porsche and Ferrari introduced brand-new models, while Lamborghini and McLaren provided the teams with updated kits.
Entrant Car Driver 1 Driver 2 Driver 3 Driver 4 Pro (20 entries) 6 K-Pax Racing Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2 Marco Mapelli Sandy Mitchell Franck Perera 11 Audi Sport Team Comtoyou Audi R8 LMS Evo II Christopher Haase Gilles Magnus Frédéric Vervisch 17 Scherer Sport PHX Audi R8 LMS Evo II Luca Engstler Kelvin van der Linde Nicki Thiim 25 Audi Sport Team Saintéloc Audi R8 LMS Evo II Simon Gachet Christopher Mies Patric Niederhauser 32 Team WRT BMW M4 GT3 Sheldon van der Linde Dries Vanthoor Charles Weerts 40 Audi Sport Tresor Orange1 Audi R8 LMS Evo II Mattia Drudi Ricardo Feller Dennis Marschall 46 Team WRT BMW M4 GT3 Augusto Farfus Maxime Martin Valentino Rossi 51 AF Corse - Francorchamps Motors Ferrari 296 GT3 Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera Robert Shwartzman 54 Dinamic GT Huber Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Christian Engelhart Ayhancan Güven Sven Müller 63 Iron Lynx Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2 Mirko Bortolotti Andrea Caldarelli Jordan Pepper 71 AF Corse - Francorchamps Motors Ferrari 296 GT3 Antonio Fuoco Davide Rigon Daniel Serra 87 Mercedes-AMG Team AKKodis ASP Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Thomas Drouet Lorenzo Ferrari Maximilian Götz 88 AKKodis ASP Team Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Timur Boguslavskiy Jules Gounon Raffaele Marciello 92 Manthey EMA Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Julien Andlauer Kévin Estre Laurens Vanthoor 96 Rutronik Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Laurin Heinrich Dennis Olsen Thomas Preining 98 ROWE Racing BMW M4 GT3 Philipp Eng Marco Wittmann Nick Yelloly 159 Garage 59 McLaren 720S GT3 Evo Benjamin Goethe Marvin Kirchhöfer Nicolai Kjærgaard 777 Mercedes-AMG Team AlManar Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Lucas Auer Fabian Schiller Luca Stolz 998 ROWE Racing BMW M4 GT3 Daniel Harper Max Hesse Neil Verhagen 999 Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Maro Engel Mikaël Grenier Daniel Juncadella Gold (7 entries) 5 Optimum Motorsport McLaren 720S GT3 Evo Sam De Haan Charlie Fagg Dean MacDonald Tom Gamble 9 Boutsen VDS Audi R8 LMS Evo II Alberto Di Folco Adam Eteki Thomas Laurent Aurélien Panis 19 Iron Lynx Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2 Michele Beretta Rolf Ineichen Leonardo Pulcini 21 Comtoyou Racing Audi R8 LMS Evo II Nicolas Baert Max Hofer Maxime Soulet 30 Team WRT BMW M4 GT3 Niklas Krütten Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer Calan Williams 57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Indy Dontje Philip Ellis Russell Ward 157 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Miklas Born David Schumacher Marius Zug Silver (10 entries) 10 Boutsen VDS Audi R8 LMS Evo II Loris Cabirou Andrea Cola César Gazeau Roee Meyuhas 12 Comtoyou Racing Audi R8 LMS Evo II Sam Dejonghe Loris Hezemans Finlay Hutchison Lucas Légeret 26 Saintéloc Junior Team Audi R8 LMS Evo II Erwan Bastard Grégoire Demoustier Antoine Doquin Paul Evrard 33 Bullitt Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Jeff Kingsley Romain Leroux Jacob Riegel Ruben del Sarte 56 Dinamic GT Huber Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Daniele Di Amato Adrien de Leener Jop Rappange Tanart Sathienthirakul 58 GRT Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2 Ricky Capo Fabrizio Crestani Sam Neary Gerhard Tweraser 60 VSR Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2 Luis Michael Dörrbecker Baptiste Moulin Marcus Påverud Artem Petrov 85 GRT Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2 Glenn van Berlo Benjamín Hites Clemens Schmid 90 Madpanda Motorsport Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Magnus Gustavsen Alexey Nesov Ezequiel Pérez Companc Jesse Salmenautio 99 Tresor Orange1 Audi R8 LMS Evo II Alex Aka Pietro Delli Guanti Lorenzo Patrese Bronze (21 entries) 3 GetSpeed Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Patrick Assenheimer Kenneth Heyer Alex Peroni Florian Scholze 7 Inception Racing McLaren 720S GT3 Evo Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Fran Rueda Frederik Schandorff 8 AGS Events Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2 Antonin Borga Leonardo Gorini Nico Jamin 20 Huber Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Antares Au Matteo Cairoli Jannes Fittje Tim Heinemann 23 Grove Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Earl Bamber Brenton Grove Stephen Grove Anton de Pasquale 31 Team WRT BMW M4 GT3 Adam Carroll Lewis Proctor Tim Whale 35 Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW M4 GT3 Anders Buchardt James Kell Thomas Neubauer Bailey Voisin 44 CLRT Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Hugo Chevalier Frédéric Makowiecki Clément Mateu Steven Palette 50 AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3 Simon Mann Ulysse de Pauw Julien Piguet Nicolás Varrone 52 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 Andrea Bertolini Jef Machiels Louis Machiels Lilou Wadoux 55 Dinamic GT Huber Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Ben Barker Marius Nakken Philipp Sager Christopher Zöchling 62 Team Parker Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Kiern Jewiss Xavier Maassen Andy Meyrick Derek Pierce 66 Tresor Attempto Racing Audi R8 LMS Evo II Kikko Galbiati Sean Hudspeth Andrey Mukovoz Dylan Pereira 79 Haupt Racing Team Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Sébastien Baud Hubert Haupt Jordan Love Arjun Maini 81 Theeba Motorsport Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Ralf Aron Reema Juffali Yannick Mettler Alain Valente 83 Iron Dames Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2 Sarah Bovy Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting Doriane Pin 89 AKKodis ASP Team Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Adalberto Baptista Bruno Baptista Rodrigo Baptista Alan Hellmeister 91 Herberth Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Kay van Berlo Ralf Bohn Alfred Renauer Robert Renauer 93 Sky – Tempesta Racing McLaren 720S GT3 Evo Eddie Cheever III Chris Froggatt Jonathan Hui Jeffrey Schmidt 188 Garage 59 McLaren 720S GT3 Evo Henrique Chaves Conrad Grunewald Louis Prette Miguel Ramos 911 Pure Rxcing Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Klaus Bachler Alex Malykhin Marco Seefried Joel Sturm Pro-Am (12 entries) 2 GetSpeed Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Lance Bergstein Andrzej Lewandowski Aaron Walker Lewis Williamson 4 CrowdStrike Racing by Riley Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Colin Braun Felipe Fraga Ian James George Kurtz 16 Uno Racing Team Audi R8 LMS Evo II Adderly Fong Xiaole He Junlin Pan "Rio" 24 Car Collection Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Alex Fontana Ivan Jacoma Nicolas Leutwiler Nico Menzel 38 ST Racing with Rinaldi Ferrari 296 GT3 Jon Miller Samantha Tan Isaac Tutumlu Leonard Weiss 64 Haupt Racing Team Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Matt Bell Frank Bird James Cottingham Naveen Rao 70 CrowdStrike Racing by Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2 Jean-Francois Brunot Brendon Leitch Kerong Li Gerhard Watzinger 75 SunEnergy1 Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Nicky Catsburg Martin Konrad Chaz Mostert Adam Osieka 78 Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2 Rob Collard Patrick Kujala Dennis Lind Bashar Mardini 132 GMG Racing by Car Collection Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Jeroen Bleekemolen Patrick Long James Sofronas Kyle Washington 216 Modena Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Mathias Beche John Shen Benny Simonsen Francis Tjia 888 CSA Racing Audi R8 LMS Evo II Erwin Creed Jean Glorieux Arthur Rougier Casper Stevenson Source:
Qualifying Results
Qualifying Fastest times for each car are denoted in bold. Pole positions in each class are denoted in bold.