BELGIAN GT: Zolder June 1st 2008

Circuit Zolder played host to the third round of the Belgian GT Championship.

After a disappointing Dijon outing, the Gravity Moslers were looking strong, with Anthony Kumpen and Bert Longin fastest in both free practice sessions. But it was the pairing of Vincent Radermecker and Ron Marchal that qualified highest, second spot on the grid with Kumpen and Longin on the next row back in third. Guino Kenis and Chris Mattheus put the G&A car into seventh on the grid.

With the Racing Dodge Viper converting pole into an early lead, the Gravity Moslers were able to keep up with the pace and chase the Viper down. Kenis and Mattheus were running strongly, too, until brake problems forced an early retirement after 26 laps.

Then, heartbreak for the championship leaders, as Kumpen and Longin suffered a reoccurance of the fuel supply problem experienced during qualifying and their Mosler bowed out after 31 laps.

That left Vincent Radermecker as the sole Mosler runner and he brought the Gravity car home for its first podium place, finishing third behind the winning GPR Porsche and the
Francorchamps Motors Ferrari.

With Gravity now in third place in the team championship and Kumpen / Longin dropping to fourth in the drivers' championship, the scene is surely set for a nip 'n tuck battle at Spa in July.

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