1999 FIA GT Watkins Glen 3 Hours
The Bosch Sports Car Oktoberfest was the ninth round the 1999 FIA GT Championship season. It took place at Watkins Glen International, New York, United States, on October 3, 1999.
As with the previous FIA GT event, this race 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. Cars running in the N-GT class would not be eligible for points in the FIA GT Championship.
This race would also be the last time that the FIA GT Championship would run in North America.
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 |
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Engine | |||||||
1 | GT | 2 | Viper Team Oreca | Jean-Philippe Belloc David Donohue |
Chrysler Viper GTS-R | M | 93 |
Chrysler 8.0L V10 | |||||||
2 | GT | 1 | Viper Team Oreca | Olivier Beretta Karl Wendlinger |
Chrysler Viper GTS-R | M | 93 |
Chrysler 8.0L V10 | |||||||
3 | GT | 19 | Chamberlain Motorsport | Christian Vann Christian Gläsel |
Chrysler Viper GTS-R | M | 92 |
Chrysler 8.0L V10 | |||||||
4 | GT | 15 | Freisinger Motorsport | Bob Wollek Wolfgang Kaufmann |
Porsche 911 GT2 | D | 91 |
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
5 | GT | 21 | Paul Belmondo Racing | Paul Belmondo Luca Drudi |
Chrysler Viper GTS-R | D | 91 |
Chrysler 8.0L V10 | |||||||
6 | GT | 18 | Chamberlain Motorsport | Xavier Pompidou Michel Ligonnet Vincent Vosse |
Chrysler Viper GTS-R | M | 91 |
Chrysler 8.0L V10 | |||||||
7 | N-GT | 17 | Schumacher Racing | Larry Schumacher John O'Steen |
Porsche 911 GT2 | M | 90 |
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
8 | GT | 22 | Paul Belmondo Racing | Steve Pfeffer "Rael" |
Chrysler Viper GTS-R | D | 90 |
Chrysler 8.0L V10 | |||||||
9 | GT | 16 | Freisinger Motorsport | Manfred Jurasz Yukihiro Hane |
Porsche 911 GT2 | D | 86 |
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
10 | N-GT | 46 | Reiser Callas Rennsport | Joel Reiser David Murry |
Porsche 911 Carrera RSR | ? | 86 |
Porsche 3.8L Flat-6 | |||||||
11 | GT | 9 | Elf Haberthur Racing | Mauro Casadei Andrea Garbagnati |
Porsche 911 GT2 | D | 85 |
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
12 | GT | 8 | Elf Haberthur Racing | Luca Cappellari Patrick Vuillaume David Kicak |
Porsche 911 GT2 | D | 83 |
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
13 | N-GT | 84 | Jeff Nowicki Specter Werks |
Jeff Nowicki Andy Pilgrim |
Chevrolet Corvette C5 | ? | 83 |
Chevrolet 5.7L V8 | |||||||
14 | N-GT | 44 | John Fergus Dick Greer Racing |
John Fergus Dick Greer |
Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme | ? | 83 |
Oldsmobile V8 | |||||||
15 | GT | 6 | Konrad Motorsport | Franz Konrad Mike Hezemans |
Porsche 911 GT2 | D | 78 |
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
16 | N-GT | 52 | Glenn Seward Extreme Motor Racing |
Glenn Seward David Galpin James Yeames |
Chevrolet Corvette C4 | ? | 72 |
Chevrolet V8 | |||||||
17 | N-GT | 53 | Michael Jacobs Jacobs Motorsports |
Richard Geck Frank Del Vecchio |
Ford Mustang Cobra R | ? | 62 |
Ford 5.8L V8 | |||||||
18 | GT | 7 | Konrad Motorsport | Charles Slater Jesús Diez de Villarroel |
Porsche 911 GT2 | D | 48 |
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
19 | N-GT | 54 | Michael Jacobs Jacobs Motorsports |
Michael Jacobs Paul Hacker |
Ford Mustang Cobra R | ? | 20 |
Ford 5.8L V8 | |||||||
20 DNF |
N-GT | 47 | Paragon Motorsports | Keith Fisher Scott Brunk |
Porsche 964 Carrera Cup | P | 8 |
Porsche 3.6L Flat-6 | |||||||
21 DNF |
N-GT | 45 | SSZ Motorcars | Mark Knepper William Collins |
SSZ Stradale Mk.III | ? | 4 |
Nissan 3.0L Turbo V6 |
Statistics
- Pole position – #2 Viper Team Oreca – 1:47.576
- Fastest lap – #2 Viper Team Oreca – 1:47.717
- Average speed – 171.297 km/h
References
- "Results: 1999 Round 9 – Watkins Glen". FIA GT Championship. 3 October 1999. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
- "3 h Watkins Glen". World Sports Racing Prototypes. 2 October 2005. Archived from the original on 2008-09-24. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
- "FIA GT Championship Watkins Glen 1999 (Photo Archive)". Racing Sports Cars. 17 September 2002. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
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