Andre Lotterer gets last-minute Spa 24 Hours call for WRT Audi team

The 35-year-old, who claimed his three Le Mans 24 Hours victories with Audi, has accepted a last-minute invitation to race for the Belgian WRT squad in the blue-riband Endurance Cup round of the Blancpain GT Series.

Lotterer will share a customer Audi R8 LMS GT3 car together with former LMP1 team-mate Marcel Fassler and Dries Vanthoor.

He takes the place of Will Stevens, who has contested the opening three BGTS enduros in the car.

Lotterer described the chance to return to Spa to drive for WRT as "an offer you cannot refuse".

"When Vincent [Vosse, WRT's team boss] called me to check if the challenge could interest me, the answer has been immediate!," he said.

"It was a nice surprise and I am very happy."

Lotterer thanked Porsche, which he joined for this season after Audi's withdrawal from LMP1, for allowing him to take up the drive with WRT.

He will head to Spa from Barcelona, where he is undertaking an LMP1 test with Porsche at the start of this week.

It will be Lotterer's first race in a GT3 car since the Spa endruo in 2015.

He competed in the event every year from 2012-15 with Audi, scoring a best result of third with WRT alongside Christopher Mies and Frank Stippler in 2013.

WRT has four customer entries for Spa this weekend alongside its two factory cars.