Vosse described the occasions that led as much as the WRT Audi R8 LMS GT3 with Dries Vanthoor on the wheel losing the lead to the Iron Lynx Ferrari 488 GTE Evo driven by Alessandro Pier Guidi with just 10 minutes to go as “plenty of enjoyable”.
“All of us wish to win and I wish to win greater than most individuals, however I like this type of state of affairs as a result of it will increase the thrill,” he advised Autosport.
“I am not disenchanted as a result of it was so thrilling: that is the form of race I wish to be concerned in.
“There are podium finishes that style extraordinarily good, and that is a kind of.”
The WRT automobile Vanthoor shared with fellow manufacturing facility Audi drivers Kelvin van der Linde and Charles Weerts was working second to the Ferrari of Pier Guidi, Nicklas Nielsen and Come Ledogar by roughly 20s early within the last hour of the double-points spherical of the GT World Problem Europe.
With rain forecast and spots of rain falling in some locations on the observe, the crew gambled on switching Vanthoor to wet-weather tyres on the automobile’s last pitstop with 50 minutes to go though the observe was dry.
Torrential rain began midway round Vanthoor’s out-lap and he moved into the lead when Iron Lynx delayed switching Pier Guidi to wets.
Vosse defined that the crew had made the gamble as a result of “we knew we wanted some luck if we have been going to win, and we went on the lookout for it”.
Pier Guidi handed Vanthoor with 4 laps to go across the exterior at Blanchimont to retake the lead for Iron Lynx
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He insisted that he wasn’t assured of victory though Vanthoor briefly held a lead of simply lower than a minute.
“We knew there can be a full course yellow very quickly and when the protection automobile got here out [as per normal practice in the GTWCE] there weren’t many automobiles between us and the Ferrari,” he defined.
Vanthoor was roughly 4 seconds forward when the race went inexperienced with 27 minutes left on the clock and was unable to carry off Pier Guidi’s cost.
The Audi misplaced the lead with 4 laps to go when the Ferrari driver went across the exterior of the quick Blanchimont left-hander and took the chequered flag slightly below 4 seconds in arrears.
Iron Lynx crew boss Andrea Piccini, who gained Spa as a driver with Audi in 2012, described Pier Guidi’s drive as “unbelievable” and “history-making”.
Vanthoor complained of an absence of front-end grip over the ultimate laps, saying: “As quickly because it went inexperienced, I did not have the grip I’d have preferred.”
Vosse instructed that the difficulty might have been linked to working the Pirelli wets on a very dry observe for half a lap.
Van der Linde reckoned that Iron Lynx was most likely higher in a position to match the tyre pressures to the circumstances as a result of it pitted two laps latter for wets.
“We weren’t anticipating it to rain so laborious, so that you sometimes go for a decrease strain that works in drying circumstances,” he stated.
“As a result of the Ferrari reacted barely later, they have been in a position to do one thing completely different: they most likely went greater, that is my feeling.”