Only 39 starters this year, and none of the favourites got onto the rostrum. The Alpine of Nussbaumer was not taken very seriously at the start, but helped by limited works support it won the race.

Pre-race favourite was for instance the group 2 BMW coupé of Eisenschenk/Stoffel/Wendel, which had already raced at the Spa 24 hours; or the Dino of Ecurie Francorchamps; or the BMW 2002 of Koob/Lagodny/Konz.

The Dino was out within seconds when a half shaft broke, the 2002 BMW retired on Friday with a broken engine mount - while leading. The BMW coupé was the last one to retire (!) when the clutch gave up.

The race itself, which attracted only a few spectators, was dull. Wendel took the lead, Koob and Thérier followed and passed the BMW soon. The pace was set, and the cars rolled on - finishing was more important than pure speed. After day 1, 8 cars had retired already.

Wednesday night, and the BMW coupé was in front again, with the Alpine second and the 2002 third. Fourth was the German Eifelland Porsche, fifth a French Porsche.

Thursday night little had changed. The Alpine was now in front of the coupé, the 2002 was still third, the Porsches had changed position, but later the French Porsche broke its half shaft as well and retired. Behind them, the Marabout Opel was followed by the Hennerci family in the BMW 2002 and then the prototype 1300 cc DAF, the most interesting car of the race really. Ninth were Gellert/Bins/Bialas with a Capri RS, which had first and fourth gear available - and nothing else.

On Friday we lost the Belgian BMW 2002, Saturday morning came the end of the BMW coupé. So the final order was the Alpine in first, the Hennerci family with Kuhl second, the prototype DAF third, a battered Eifelland Porsche fourth, and between fifth and sixth the gap was only 90 seconds.

