{"id":7556,"date":"2007-07-29T12:18:33","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T12:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=7556"},"modified":"2024-03-06T02:57:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T02:57:54","slug":"corvette-wins-spa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/corvette-wins-spa\/","title":{"rendered":"Corvette wins SPA."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<p>After 532 laps around the 7 km circuit of Spa Francorchamps, the Carsport Corvette C6R of Deletraz, Hezemans, Fassler and Gollin took the chequered flag to win the 24 hour race. They broke Team Vitaphone&#8217;s long time winning streak who spun out in the last hour.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Hezemans said &#8221;Pole position and victory &#8211; that was quite difficult. But I must say that, for me, all the credit goes to Marcel Fassler. When it was raining we were sat in our motorhome and we said to Marcel: Please keep going! 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