These Photos From A Snowy Six Hours Of Spa Look Absolutely Stunning

It's not often than you see a major international racing event hit by snow but at Spa-Francorchamps, it seems anything is possible!
These Photos From A Snowy Six Hours Of Spa Look Absolutely Stunning

Spa is one of the tracks where it’s often said that you can experience four seasons in one day. Whatever the time of year, it’s always possible that bright sunshine can turn into a heavy downpour with a snap of the fingers - and not always one which covers the entire track.

But at this weekend’s WEC round, the weather forecast incredibly said that race day would be hit with snow. In May! It wasn’t just because they’d got an intern to do the forecasts, either - when they turned up to the track it was indeed covered in a gentle dusting of the white stuff.

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By the start of the race it had all disappeared, though, and we were left with what was surely going to be a regular dry race.

Nope. Literally minutes later a storm blew in and before long the snow was falling again. And that’s pretty much how the race went as weather conditions cycled between clear and sunny to wet and windy as virtually every form of water fell from the skies: rain, snow, sleet, hail - you name it.

Never mind four seasons in a day - Spa was experiencing seasons that haven’t yet been discovered by humans and it made for some superb images.

Image via FIA WEC
Image via FIA WEC
Image via FIA WEC
Image via FIA WEC
Image via FIA WEC
Image via FIA WEC
Image via Goodyear
Image via Goodyear
Image via BMW Motorsport
Image via BMW Motorsport
Image via Ferrari
Image via Ferrari
Image via Ferrari
Image via Ferrari
Image via Toyota Gazoo Racing
Image via Toyota Gazoo Racing
Image via Toyota Gazoo Racing
Image via Toyota Gazoo Racing
Image via Toyota Gazoo Racing
Image via Toyota Gazoo Racing
Image via Toyota Gazoo Racing
Image via Toyota Gazoo Racing
Image via Porsche
Image via Porsche
Image via Porsche
Image via Porsche
Image via Porsche
Image via Porsche

Following a number of safety cars as conditions flitted between wet and dry, the race was eventually stopped with just 10 minutes left to run. The No.8 Toyota of Kazuki Nakajima, Sebastien Buemi and Fernando Alonso won the race after the sister car hit some troubles mid-race and could only end up sixth.

Toyota clinched the LMP1 teams’ title (not especially surprising) while the No.8 crew is now right on the cusp of clinching the drivers’ championship - pretty much anything other than a retirement at Le Mans will see Buemi win his second crown, and Nakajima and Alonso their first.

A version of this article was originally posted on WTF1

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Comments

Anonymous

Oh boy some of these pictures are so cool!

05/05/2019 - 13:56 |
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Martin Burns

almost makes me want to move back to a snowy region… almost…

That shot of the Toyota in the pits though..

05/05/2019 - 14:04 |
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I’m looking at snow falling from the sky at this very moment. You do not want this

05/06/2019 - 10:02 |
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Anonymous

Some of these pics are surely going on my home and lock screens!

05/05/2019 - 14:21 |
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CannedRex24

i legit just got a new laptop.

thank god ive found some new wallpapers

05/05/2019 - 16:32 |
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Lord Saucius The Divine

Those look like they would be amazing wallpapers!

05/05/2019 - 17:19 |
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Mr. Kei (A Random Corolla) (ZoomZoomer32) (Käfer für i

They used the Hubble space telescope to take a photo of the BMW because it’s the only thing far enough to photograph it entirely

05/06/2019 - 08:23 |
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