Porsche cleans house at Spa and Romain Dumas is first to win 24-hour races at Spa and Le Mans in one year since Luigi Chinetti in 1949!
Porsche teams and drivers were rewarded with a double victory in the overall classification and the GT3 class win at the 2010 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium). Works drivers Joerg Bergmeister, Romain Dumas, Wolf Henzler as well as former Porsche Junior Martin Ragginger pocketed the overall win in the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR (#23 BMS Scuderia Italia).
Only 76 seconds later, the 911 GT3 RSR of the IMSA Performance Matmut squad piloted by Richard Lietz, Patrick Long, Patrick Pilet and team owner Raymond Narac was the second car to cross the finish line. In the GT3 class, Dr. Jürgen Häring, Taki Konstantinou, Gilles Vannelet and Arnaud Peyroles took the lead after 20 hours in a 911 GT3 R run by Mühlner Motorsport and held the top position to the flag.
After Spa, Romain Dumas wrote motorsports history. The 32-year-old Porsche driver, Romain Dumas from France, scored overall wins at both the 24-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps and in Le Mans this year. The last racer to write his name in the history books winning both classics in one year was the Italian-born American, Luigi Chinetti in 1949.
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