The Spa 24 Hours has seen plenty of change since its first iteration in 1924, one year after the inaugural around-the-clock event at Le Mans, and not just to its famous undulating ribbon of tarmac. The event formed part of the SportsCar World Championship in 1953 and 1981, but for most of its history, it was a touring car event as the European Touring Car Championship’s crown jewel before taking on its current guise as a GT race in 2001.
The onset of the GT3 era a decade later has bumped its appeal up a notch or two, as the biggest GT3-only event going regularly draws a bumper grid of 60-plus cars that are all capable of producing the same lap time depending on their calibre of drivers.
