EWC Round 2 Spa 8 Hours Qualifying: Trouble Piles Up in Unstable Conditions

A qualifying attack in unstable weather must carry a level of tension nowhere near comparable to just dealing with rain on a road tour.

Spa runs for a full 24 hours, so it must have a different kind of brutality from the Suzuka 8 Hours.

Is the EWC the same series that the Suzuka 8 Hours is part of?

The EWC doesn't get as much attention in Japan as Suzuka does, but I wish first-person reports like this got read more.

If trouble's already piling up from qualifying, the endurance battle in the race itself looks like it's going to be even wilder than usual.

Hikaru Okubo's on-site reports always have such a sense of presence — Spa's weather really is impossible to predict.