Notorious for its climate, the Spa Francorchamps Circuit in Belgium once again turned wet and caused the latest ELMS race to be abandoned only halfway through its four hour duration.
It had been dry in qualifying and 360’s Ross Kaiser was delighted after qualifying with third quickest in their Ligier JSP3. “We had made changes to the car everywhere, which improved it but we were bottoming out at Eau Rouge and I had some big slides. I had been near the bottom of the times, but got a really good lap in late, so I felt pretty pleased.”
The rain had been unrelenting throughout the morning of the race, but it still got underway as planned. “The race started behind the safety car, but we decided I would start the race as there was only the two of us,” Kaiser said. Team Principal Terrence Woodward would have probably started in the dry, and done an hour before changing, but the weather dictated otherwise.
When the green flag was waved Kaiser initially retained third, behind Lahaye’s Ultimate Norma and Drudi’s Euro international Ligier, before United Autosport’s Van Uitert came flying through to lead by lap seven.
“We were all running in a line and had caught Lahaye, before he put it in the wall at Pif Paf, putting me back into third,” said Kaiser.
He continued to run a solid third until electing to take an early stop. “We thought we would get a compulsory stop out of the way and stand us in good stead for later,” he added.
