The No. 59 Garage 59 McLaren 720S GT3 Evo topped a stop-start qualifying session for the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa, which saw the top 20 cars advance to Friday’s Superpole shootout.

In a cut-and-paste narrative we've seen a thousand times before, a grizzled has-been makes an unlikely comeback. But in F1 it's told with such high-octane energy that it barely matters.