The 1997 Pokka Suzuka 1000km was the seventh race of the 1997 FIA GT Championship season. It was run at the Suzuka Circuit, Japan on August 24, 1997.
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Several Japanese teams chose to participate in this race, conforming to either the GT1 and GT2 classes.
Official results
editClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).
Pos | Class | No | Team | Drivers | Chassis | Tyre | Laps |
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Engine | |||||||
1 | GT1 | 10 | AMG-Mercedes | Marcel Tiemann Alessandro Nannini Bernd Schneider‡ |
Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR | B | 171 |
Mercedes-Benz LS600 6.0L V12 | |||||||
2 | GT1 | 12 | AMG-Mercedes | Klaus Ludwig Bernd Mayländer |
Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR | B | 171 |
Mercedes-Benz LS600 6.0L V12 | |||||||
3 | GT1 | 3 | Gulf Team Davidoff GTC Racing |
Anders Olofsson Pierre-Henri Raphanel Jean-Marc Gounon |
McLaren F1 GTR | M | 171 |
BMW S70 6.0L V12 | |||||||
4 | GT1 | 8 | BMW Motorsport Schnitzer Motorsport |
JJ Lehto Steve Soper |
McLaren F1 GTR | M | 171 |
BMW S70 6.0L V12 | |||||||
5 | GT1 | 6 | Porsche AG | Bob Wollek Thierry Boutsen Hans-Joachim Stuck |
Porsche 911 GT1 Evo | M | 169 |
Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
6 | GT1 | 1 | Gulf Team Davidoff GTC Racing |
Andrew Gilbert-Scott Geoff Lees John Nielsen |
McLaren F1 GTR | M | 169 |
BMW S70 6.0L V12 | |||||||
7 | GT1 | 11 | AMG-Mercedes | Bernd Schneider Alexander Wurz Aguri Suzuki |
Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR | B | 169 |
Mercedes-Benz LS600 6.0L V12 | |||||||
8 | GT1 | 9 | BMW Motorsport Schnitzer Motorsport |
Peter Kox Roberto Ravaglia |
McLaren F1 GTR | M | 169 |
BMW S70 6.0L V12 | |||||||
9 | GT1 | 44 | Team Lark McLaren | Keiichi Tsuchiya Masanori Sekiya Akihiko Nakaya |
McLaren F1 GTR | M | 168 |
BMW S70 6.0L V12 | |||||||
10 | GT1 | 7 | Porsche AG | Allan McNish Yannick Dalmas Pedro Lamy |
Porsche 911 GT1 Evo | M | 164 |
Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
11 | GT1 | 17 | JB Racing | Mauro Baldi Emmanuel Collard Alain Ferté |
Porsche 911 GT1 | M | 164 |
Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
12 | GT1 | 5 | David Price Racing | David Brabham Perry McCarthy Olivier Grouillard |
Panoz Esperante GTR-1 | G | 154 |
Ford (Roush) 6.0L V8 | |||||||
13 | GT1 | 16 | Roock Racing | Ralf Kelleners Christophe Bouchut Carl Rosenblad |
Porsche 911 GT1 | M | 159 |
Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
14 | GT2 | 51 | Viper Team Oreca | Olivier Beretta Philippe Gache |
Chrysler Viper GTS-R | M | 156 |
Chrysler 8.0L V10 | |||||||
15 | GT2 | 57 | Roock Racing | Pedro Chaves Robert Nearn Hisashi Wada |
Porsche 911 GT2 | M | 155 |
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
16 | GT2 | 52 | Viper Team Oreca | Justin Bell Tommy Archer Hideshi Matsuda |
Chrysler Viper GTS-R | M | 155 |
Chrysler 8.0L V10 | |||||||
17 | GT2 | 66 | Konrad Motorsport | Franz Konrad Wolfgang Kaufmann Seiichi Sodeyama |
Porsche 911 GT2 | P | 153 |
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
18 | GT2 | 56 | Roock Racing | Bruno Eichmann Ni Amorim Claudia Hürtgen |
Porsche 911 GT2 | M | 153 |
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
19 | GT2 | 83 | Larbre Compétition | Patrice Goueslard Jean-Luc Chereau Jack Leconte |
Porsche 911 GT2 | ? | 148 |
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
20 | GT2 | 55 | Augustin Motorsport | Ernst Gschwender Helmut Reis Wido Rössler |
Porsche 911 GT2 | G | 143 |
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
21 | GT2 | 62 | Stadler Motorsport | Denis Lay Uwe Sick Franz Hunkeler |
Porsche 911 GT2 | P | 145 |
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
22 | GT2 | 58 | Estoril Racing Team | Michel Monteiro Manuel Monteiro Henri-Louis Maunoir |
Porsche 911 GT2 | ? | 140 |
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
23 | GT2 | 59 | Marcos Racing International | Cor Euser Harald Becker Herman Buurman |
Marcos LM600 | D | 138 |
Chevrolet 5.9L V8 | |||||||
24 | GT2 | 63 | Krauss Motorsport | Takashi Suzuki Sumio Sakurai Nigel Smith |
Porsche 911 GT2 | P | 130 |
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
25 | GT2 | 53 | Chamberlain Engineering | Manabu Orido Naohiro Kawano Yukihiro Hane |
Chrysler Viper GTS-R | G | 84 |
Chrysler 8.0L V10 | |||||||
26 NC |
GT2 | 84 | NSX Dream 28 Competition | Hajime Ooshiro Masayoshi Furuya Shigekazu Saeki |
Honda NSX | ? | 45 |
Honda 3.2L V6 | |||||||
27 DNF |
GT1 | 4 | David Price Racing | Andy Wallace James Weaver Butch Leitzinger |
Panoz Esperante GTR-1 | G | 110 |
Ford (Roush) 6.0L V8 | |||||||
28 DNF |
GT2 | 50 | Agusta Racing Team Elf Haberthur Racing |
Luca Drudi Michel Ligonnet Masahiro Kimoto |
Porsche 911 GT2 | ? | 86 |
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
29 DNF |
GT1 | 46 | Team Menicon SARD | Masami Kageyama Tetsuya Tanaka |
SARD MC8-R | D | 71 |
Toyota 1UZ-FE 4.0L Turbo V8 | |||||||
30 DNF |
GT1 | 27 | Parabolica Motorsport | Gary Ayles Chris Goodwin Stefan Johansson |
McLaren F1 GTR | M | 65 |
BMW S70 6.0L V12 | |||||||
31 DNF |
GT2 | 69 | Proton Competition | Gerold Ried Patrick Vuillaume Manfred Jurasz |
Porsche 911 GT2 | P | 59 |
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
32 DNF |
GT1 | 20 | DAMS Panoz | Éric Bernard Franck Lagorce |
Panoz Esperante GTR-1 | M | 26 |
Ford (Roush) 6.0L V8 | |||||||
33 DNF |
GT1 | 25 | BBA Compétition | Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière Jun Harada Tomiko Yoshikawa |
McLaren F1 GTR | D | 18 |
BMW S70 6.1L V12 | |||||||
34 DNF |
GT1 | 15 | First Racing Project GT1 Lotus Racing |
Ratanakul Prutirat Fabien Giroix Jérôme Policand |
Lotus Elise GT1 | P | 15 |
Chevrolet LT5 6.0L V8 | |||||||
35 DNF |
GT2 | 85 | Team Signal | Takeshi Yuasa Kiyoaki Hanai Akio Tomita |
Nissan Silvia | ? | 2 |
Nissan SR20DET 2.0L Turbo I4 | |||||||
36 DNF |
GT1 | 39 | IDC Ootsukakagu SARD | Tatsuya Tanigawa Yuji Tachikawa Yasutaka Hinoi |
SARD MC8-R | Y | 0 |
Toyota 1UZ-FE 4.0L Turbo V8 | |||||||
DNS | GT1 | 2 | Gulf Team Davidoff GTC Racing |
John Nielsen Thomas Bscher |
McLaren F1 GTR | M | – |
BMW S70 6.0L V12 |
‡ – Did not score points due to not being entered in that car
Statistics
edit- Pole Position – #12 AMG-Mercedes – 1:56.023
- Fastest Lap – #12 AMG-Mercedes – 2:00.019
- Average Speed – 167.340 km/h
External links
edit- World Sports Prototype Racing – Race Results