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
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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