#SpaFrancorchamps

The world’s fastest lawnmower is generating a new kind of buzz today by taking on one of the most famous corners in motorsport.

Sports car racing is set to change dramatically in North America next year with the ALMS and Grand-Am series joining forces. With the future uncertain, Europe may become the battleground for racing supremacy.

The hybrid, all-wheel drive Audi R18 e-tron quattro race car sporting a diesel powerplant will make its race debut at Spa Francorchamps this weekend. 

If you’re like us then you can’t get enough of the McLaren MP4-12C GT3. While a bit too tame a design in production trim, the race car pops – thanks in part to the bright orange paint.

Audi beat out BMW and Mercedes-Benz at the 24 Hours of Spa in Belgium, running the legendary Spa-Francorchamps course in an R8 LMS.

The RSRNurburg school runs a fleet of brand new Lotus cars at the Nurburgring and Spa-Francorchamps for those feeling the need for speed. Based out of Nurburg, Germany, the company allows drivers to sample a new Lotus Exige S’s and track the car on both the Nuburgring in Germany and the Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium.

As we recently reported, the newly released Ferrari 599 GTO is the fastest street-legal Ferrari ever built. With a 670 horsepower V12 and a six speed transmission derived directly from the F1 program, this 3,538 lb technological marvel also has highly sophisticated aerodynamics, suspension tuning and traction control systems.

With the first 599 GTO owners taking delivery of their half million dollar super toy very recently, the video after the jump shows several in action at what appears to be a Ferrari Club lapping day at the revered Belgian F1 circuit Spa-Francorchamps. The sound of 599 GTO starting is enough to give us goosebumps, but its exhaust note as it blasts down the front straight is beyond sublime.

[Source: Jorrik’s Car Channel]