6h of Spa-Francorchamps 2025

Though the 6 Hours of Spa in its current format began in 2012 as part of the World Endurance Championship, the first six hour (or 1000 kilometre) race was held at the circuit in 1953 - the Coupe de Spa. The event continued in various formats, using both the circuit and local roads, until 1975. It took place intermittently thereafter, across various distances, before the WEC’s inaugural season in 2012.

The race takes place at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium, around 8km south-east of the town of Spa itself. Opened in 1921, the circuit has undergone several redesigns, most notably in 1979 when its distance was halved and public roads removed from the layout due to safety concerns.

The circuit is primarily used for four-wheeled racing, though the 24 Heures de Spa-Francorchamps Motos still takes place there annually. Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix has been held intermittently since 1925, with the Intercontinental GT Challenge’s Spa 24 Hours also having a long history at the track. The European Le Mans Series and Ferrari Challenge Europe also race there.

Porsche has raced at Spa since the event’s early days in the 1950s, with the brand’s first victory coming at the 1959 Coupe de Spa from a Porsche 718 RSK. More recently, the Porsche 919 Hybrid competed in the 6 Hours of Spa from its first year of WEC competition in 2014, before the 963 was introduced in 2023.

Porsche has the joint-most wins of any manufacturer at Spa in the six-hour race and its predecessors, with 10 victories: 1959, 1960, 1969–1971, 1982–1984, 1986 and 2024. In last year’s 6 Hours of Spa, a crash-delayed race which was eventually restarted, Hertz Team JOTA took the first customer victory of the Hypercar era in the Porsche 963. Porsche also has eight wins in the Spa 24H.