1999 FIA GT Homestead 3 Hours

The 1999 FIA GT Homestead 3 Hours was the eighth round the 1999 FIA GT Championship season. It took place at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, Florida, United States, on September 26, 1999.

This event was originally intended to share the weekend with a United States Road Racing Championship event. However, the USRRC championship was cancelled midway through the season, leaving the FIA GT Championship to run on their own. In order to increase the number of participants for the FIA GT event, as well as to allow USRRC teams to compete, a National GT (N-GT) designation was used for cars which had run in the USRRC's GT2 and GT3 classes. This would be the first time the FIA GT Championship used two classes of cars since the end of the 1998 season, and the cancellation of GT1.

Cars running in the N-GT class would not be eligible for points in the FIA GT Championship.

Official results

Class winners are in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).

Pos Class No Team Drivers Chassis Tyre Laps
Engine
1 GT 21 Paul Belmondo Racing Paul Belmondo
Emmanuel Clérico		 Chrysler Viper GTS-R D 122
Chrysler 8.0L V10
2 GT 1 Viper Team Oreca Olivier Beretta
Karl Wendlinger		 Chrysler Viper GTS-R M 122
Chrysler 8.0L V10
3 GT 18 Chamberlain Motorsport Xavier Pompidou
Hans Hugenholtz
Vincent Vosse		 Chrysler Viper GTS-R M 121
Chrysler 8.0L V10
4 GT 2 Viper Team Oreca Jean-Philippe Belloc
David Donohue		 Chrysler Viper GTS-R M 120
Chrysler 8.0L V10
5 GT 15 Freisinger Motorsport Bob Wollek
Wolfgang Kaufmann		 Porsche 911 GT2 D 119
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
6 GT 16 Freisinger Motorsport Manfred Jurasz
Lance Stewart		 Porsche 911 GT2 D 116
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
7 N-GT 17 Schumacher Racing Larry Schumacher
Cort Wagner
John O'Steen		 Porsche 911 GT2 M 116
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
8 GT 19 Chamberlain Motorsport Christian Vann
Christian Gläsel		 Chrysler Viper GTS-R M 116
Chrysler 8.0L V10
9 GT 8 Elf Haberthur Racing Luca Cappellari
Paolo Rapetti
Patrick Vuillaume		 Porsche 911 GT2 D 113
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
10 GT 7 Konrad Motorsport Charles Slater
Ugo Colombo		 Porsche 911 GT2 D 113
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
11 N-GT 12 Bell Motorsport Ron Johnson
Scott Neuman
Andy Pilgrim		 BMW M3 ? 112
BMW 3.2L I6
12 N-GT 40 Aspen Knolls Racing Shane Lewis
Bob Mazzuoccola		 BMW M3 Y 102
BMW 3.2L I6
13
DNF		 GT 6 Konrad Motorsport Franz Konrad
Mike Hezemans		 Porsche 911 GT2 D 67
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
14
DNF		 GT 9 Elf Haberthur Racing Mauro Casadei
Andrea Garbagnati		 Porsche 911 GT2 D 50
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
15
DNF		 GT 22 Paul Belmondo Racing Marc Rostan
"Rael"		 Chrysler Viper GTS-R D 49
Chrysler 8.0L V10
16
DNF		 N-GT 39 Mosler Automotive João Barbosa
James Ruffier
Loïc Depailler		 Mosler Intruder ? 24
Chevrolet 5.7L V8
17
DNF		 N-GT 14 NP Racing Bret Parker
Kevin Allen		 Dodge Viper GTS-R ? 4
Dodge 8.0L V10

Statistics
  • Pole position – #1 Viper Team Oreca – 1:34.442
  • Fastest lap – #1 Viper Team Oreca – 1:22.597
  • Average speed – 143.426 km/h

References
  • "Results: 1999 Round 8 – Homestead". FIA GT Championship. 26 September 1999. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
  • "3 h Homestead". World Sports Racing Prototypes. 2 October 2005. Archived from the original on 2008-09-24. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
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