•    Impressive win at Spa 12-hour race for No.48 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992)
•    Victory for Gabriele Piana, Dylan Pereira, Tobias Muller and Carlos Rivas
•    Red Camel-Jordans.nl and Van Berlo Motorsport by BKR complete overall podium 
•    Popular class victories for Van Berlo, SebLajoux Racing and BLACK FALCON 

 ZWEITER SIEG IN FOLGE FÜR 48 LOSCH MOTORSPORT BY BLACK FALCON BEIM MICHELIN 992 ENDURANCE CUP

Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium (6 September 2025):
One year on from making history as winners of the inaugural Michelin 992 Endurance Cup powered by Porsche Motorsport, 48 LOSCH MOTORSPORT by BLACK FALCON emerged victorious again this evening at Spa-Francorchamps in the 2025 instalment of the hotly contested 12-hour race.

Steadily building their way into the race on Saturday morning, the team of Gabriele Piana, Dylan Pereira, Tobias Muller and Carlos Rivas had climbed into realistic contention for the win from around one third distance. Always seeming to have the edge during the second half of the contest, the team remains undefeated in the endurance spectacular exclusively for Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992) cars.

“Well done to the team, well done to my team-mates, they were very fast”, said a delighted Piana, who took the No.48 car to the chequered flag, “We did everything right so no complaints, I’m very happy. The team did an amazing job to get us to where we are, this is a team sport so if you don’t have the whole team behind you, you cannot achieve this – so I’m very happy.”

Red Camel-Jordans.nl made it a two-way fight for outright success, and second place marked an improvement on last year’s third position. The squad’s bid was hampered later on by a handling issue which cost the car, shared by Fabian Danz and Rik, Luc and Ivo Breukers, vital performance. 

The outright podium was completed by PRO-AM class winners Van Berlo Motorsport by Bas Koeten Racing, the line-up of Bart van Helden, Marcel and Glenn van Berlo delivering a superb showing throughout the full 12 hours. Third in the PRO class was HRT Performance, the line-up of Sebastian Freymuth, Hugo Ellis, Steven Gambrell and Pedro Juan Moreno.

In the two amateur-based classes, AM-S and AM-B, the action was every bit as good with victory in the former earned by SebLajoux Racing in an impressive fifth overall with drivers Marc Guillot, Louis Perrot, Stephane Perrin and Sebastien Lajoux.  

From the back of the overall 25-car grid, the No.121 BLACK FALCON car of Joao Goncalves, William Freire and Joao Barbosa achieved a dream win in AM-B just outside the outright top 10. Following an accident in practice and significant repairs required to their Porsche, the squad missed qualifying and had a mountain to climb. The result speaks for itself in how good the performance was.

With teams from 10 countries, and a total of 22 nationalities represented, the cosmopolitan entry delivered a memorable race in the Ardennes. Strategy, particularly tyre strategy, proved intriguing with the Michelin rubber used being a softer compound than that in the Michelin 24H SERIES.

Skies were blue and conditions ideal for the start where pole qualifier Paul Meijer instantly stormed into a strong lead for MDM Motorsport. By the end of lap two his advantage was over five seconds while, behind, Rik Breukers in the Red Camel-Jordans.nl car put together a sensational opening tour.

Charging from eighth to fourth over the first half of the lap, Breukers took third on the Kemmel Straight on lap two and then sealed second a few corners later. Meijer was able to eke out a bigger lead as the opening hour progressed, and he was 18 seconds to the good prior to the first stops.

Freymuth enjoyed a strong first stint as well, starting fifth for HRT and rising to third. After the first round of stops MDM continued to lead with the PRO-AM car now in the hands of Jan Jaap van Roon, with the AM-S class SebLajoux Racing entry of Guillot second from Fabian Danz in the No.9 Red Camel entry. Danz soon dispatched Guillot and then took the lead on lap 43.

Less than 10 laps later, an AM-B class car made contact with the barriers which triggered a Full Course Yellow and Safety Car so lots of teams took the opportunity to make pit-stops. Luc Breukers climbed aboard the Red Camel car and emerged back in the lead, with MDM – who pitted a lap later than the No.9 – second with Hans Weijs, EST1 Racing’s Porsche third in the hands of Angelo Fontana. 

With the field bunched up after the Safety Car, racing resumed with just over nine hours to go and Weijs remained close behind Breukers with third placed Fontana under pressure from the advancing No.48 car of Pereira. The latter wasted no time to quickly move up to second, then taking the lead with a great pass at Bruxelles on lap 65. 

Pereira disappeared into the distance but at the next stops 48 LOSCH lost some time, enabling Red Camel’s Ivo Breukers to move ahead. Piana, now in the No.48, closed fast and he retook the lead on the outside into La Source on lap 91 before opening a lead of over a minute – although this vanished when another Safety Car was required at hour five. 

Strategies changed further as a result and through it all Harry King showed typically great speed to rise through the order and bring Team Parker Racing into contention. Conversely, around the halfway point of the race, MDM’s hopes were dashed when a stone in the Porsche’s engine forced the car to stop on track, with Tom Coronel at the wheel, before a lengthy visit to the pits.

Van Berlo Motorsport by BKR had already moved to the head of PRO-AM with van Helden driving and thereafter ran untroubled to the finish to take the chequered flag just a lap shy of the overall winners, a very popular third overall.

During the final third of the race the battle for outright victory increasingly became a two-car fight between 48 LOSCH and Red Camel. Pereira had earlier seen a lead of more than a minute erased due to another Safety Car, but the team’s consistency and pace couldn’t be countered. 

Guillot led AM-S for SebLajoux Racing early on, but at the end of lap four Colin Bonighausen moved through in the No.3 Bas Koeten Racing car. There was drama further back just after the first FCY period of the race, around 40 minutes into the action, when the front-right wheel became detached from the No.88 Q1 Trackracing entry following a pit-stop.

Pitching Jinlong Bao into the Muhlner Motorsport car of Dylan Derdaele at Les Combes, the contact resulted in a spin for the latter and both entries ended up in the pits. The Q1 car lost time with a damaged door, but the outcome was much worse for Muhlner with wrecked steering. 

Following the first pit stops, Guillot continued in the No.888 machine and was second overall as well as leading the class – and closing on the overall race leader. Guillot slipped to third overall on lap 36, but he stayed well clear in AM-S until his next stop when Lajoux took over the car.

Koen Munnichs in the GP-Elite Porsche then held the AM-S lead before a flurry of pit-stops under a Full Course Yellow early in hour three. The No.3 BKR car soon moved to the front, with Pedro Torres, but Perrot and then Perrin in the No.888 ensured the AM-S lead up to the halfway point. 

There was concern for SebLajoux Racing with less than four hours to go, a puncture to the left-rear tyre resulting in a loss of time and trip to the pits. Normal service was quickly resumed, though, and the squad remained in the overall top five for the remainder of the race to claim AM-S success.

The first 15 minutes of the race in AM-B were led by Darren Currie in the No.56 class pole-starting Q1 Trackracing Porsche, but he was shuffled back to third on lap nine in a very tight battle at the head of the class. Both DENER MOTORSPORT by BLACK FALCON entries went through, Luis Gustavo Barboza Zanon leading in the No.123 car from the No.100 of Francisco Villela Pedroso Horta.

Things then worsened for Currie at the half hour mark when, while side-by-side with another car at the apex of La Source, the Q1 Porsche was pitched into a spin and became stranded in the gravel on the outside – requiring the first Full Course Yellow period of the race.

At the front of the class, Horta took over the lead from the sister DENER MOTORSPORT machine later in the first hour and pulled away. He made the squad’s first stop earlier, handing over to Rouman Ziemkiewicz, while Zanon waited until the end of lap 33 and it was the No.100 car which stayed ahead after the stops. On lap 43 though, Nelson Monteiro Junior moved ahead in the No.123.

From third in AM-B, early in hour three, the No.35 Hans Weijs Motorsport car with Edwin Schilt at the wheel had an unfortunate excursion into the barriers with heavy damage caused – Schilt able to walk away unharmed and a Full Course Yellow period called. Following this, the No.123 continued to lead the class before Joao Goncalves moved ahead in the No.121 BLACK FALCON car. 

For the next few hours, through the pit-stops and Safety Car periods, the lead of AM-B was traded by those two entries but during the closing stages the No.121 Porsche had the edge and was ultimately two laps clear of the car of Monteiro Junior, Zanon, Leonardo Sanchez and Isreal Fernandes Salmen.