Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium — May 2026
Spa-Francorchamps has been doing this since 1921. It does not adjust for reputation. It does not soften for occasion. It simply waits — and on the evening of May 23rd, 2026, it got what it was waiting for.
21:25 local time. The sun already gone below the Ardennes. Five hundred drivers. Three hundred and seventy cars. Headlights threading through the dark at Eau Rouge in the GT3 Revival Series’ debut at this circuit.
Ferraris. Aston Martins. A Matech Ford GT wearing its livery like a reminder that some things should not be forgotten. The circuit received them the only way it knows how — without sentiment.
The Race
Two Audis found the barriers. The red flag arrived before penalties could be served. Mitchell led from pole, lost the win to a clock, took the class anyway. Some things cannot be administered away.
The paddock slept on it. Sunday came clear again.
Rob Huff — Haribo Mercedes, World Touring Car Champion 2012 — arrived three-wide down the Kemmel Straight on lap one of his GT3 Revival debut, as though the intervening years were a scheduling conflict he had simply declined to attend.
Beaubelique ran the Ferrari to the flag with a Nissan GT-R in his mirrors and the gap closing faster than the arithmetic was comfortable with. A few tenths between them at the line.
The Circuit
Clear skies all weekend. No rain. No famous Spa weather. It did not need any. Spa-Francorchamps is one of the few places on earth that does not require drama to produce it. The circuit has been doing this for over a century, and it has not forgotten how.
The GT3 Revival Series came to Spa-Francorchamps for the first time in 2026. The circuit, characteristically, was unimpressed by the occasion. It simply ran the race.
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