1997 Mosport Festival
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The 1997 Mosport Festival was a professional sports car racing event held at Mosport International Raceway in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada on August 29 to the 31st, 1997. It was the seventh round of the 1997 Professional SportsCar Racing Championship season. The weekend featured a separate 1 hour 45 minute, 52 lap Exxon Supreme GT Series race for GT cars on the Saturday and a 2-hour, 86 lap Exxon World SportsCar Championship race for World Sports Cars on the Sunday. The split races were the only time since the 1995 revival of the Mosport IMSA round that the race has gone two instead of three hours.
The World Sports Car race was won by the Central Arkansas Racing team with drivers Ron Fellows and Rob Morgan driving a Ferrari 333 SP. The Sunday race attracted more than 30,000 spectators with an estimated total of 100,000 over the four-day festival.[1]
The weekend included the eleventh race of the 1997 Trans-Am season won by Tommy Kendall in a Ford Mustang for his eleventh straight win of the season.[2] The festival also included concerts at the track by Tom Cochrane and the Goo Goo Dolls.
Race results
Exxon World SportsCar Championship
Pos | Class | No | Team | Drivers | Chassis | Tyre | Laps |
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Engine | |||||||
1 | WSC | 43 | Central Arkansas Racing | ![]() ![]() | Ferrari 333SP | G | 86 |
Ferrari F310E 4.0L V12 | |||||||
2 | WSC | 16 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Riley & Scott Mk III | G | 86 |
Ford 5.0L V8 | |||||||
3 | WSC | 1 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Riley & Scott Mk III | P | 86 |
Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8 | |||||||
4 | WSC | 27 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Ferrari 333 SP | Y | 86 |
Ferrari F310E 4.0 L V12 | |||||||
5 | WSC | 3 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Ferrari 333 SP | G | 84 |
Ferrari F310E 4.0 L V12 | |||||||
6 | WSC | 88 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Riley & Scott Mk III | G | 81 |
Chevrolet 6.0 L V8 | |||||||
7 | WSC | 28 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Spice SC95 | G | 80 |
Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8 | |||||||
8 | WSC | 63 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Kudzu DLM | G | 75 |
Mazda 2.0 L 3-Rotor | |||||||
9 | WSC | 30 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Ferrari 333 SP | Y | 71 |
Ferrari F310E 4.0 L V12 | |||||||
10 | WSC | 17 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Courage C41 | G | 62 |
Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8 | |||||||
11 | WSC | 4 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Riley & Scott Mk III | P | 48 |
Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8 | |||||||
12 | WSC | 20 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Riley & Scott Mk III | G | 40 |
Ford 5.0 L V8 | |||||||
13 | WSC | 19 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Argo P | G | 1 |
BMW 4.0 L V8 |
- Time of race: 2 hours, 3.205 seconds
- Average speed: 170.092 km-per-hour
- Margin of victory: 0.89 seconds
- Fastest race lap: Andrea Montermini, 1:12.527 (196.430 km/h), lap 61[3][4]
Exxon Supreme GT Series
Pos | Class | No | Team | Drivers | Car | Tyre | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | GTS-1 | 01 | Rohr Corp. | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Porsche 911 GT1 | P | 52 |
2 | GTS-1 | 66 | Panoz Motorsports | ![]() ![]() | Panoz GTR-1 Ford | 52 | |
3 | GTS-2 | 61 | Konrad Motorsport | ![]() ![]() | Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo | P | 50 |
4 | GTS-3 | 6 | Prototype Technology Group | ![]() ![]() | BMW M3 | Y | 50 |
5 | GTS-3 | 7 | Prototype Technology Group | ![]() ![]() | BMW M3 | Y | 49 |
6 | GTS-1 | 02 | Rohr Corp. | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo | P | 49 |
7 | GTS-2 | 97 | GMB Motorsports (USA) | ![]() ![]() | Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo | P | 49 |
8 | GTS-3 | 39 | Jim Mathews Racing / Carolina Turkey | ![]() ![]() | Porsche 993 | P | 49 |
9 | GTS-2 | 15 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Porsche 911 Turbo | Y | 48 | |
10 | GTS-3 | 76 | Team A.R.E. (USA) | ![]() ![]() | Porsche 993 Carrera RSR | 48 | |
11 | GTS-3 | 73 | Jack Lewis Enterprises | ![]() ![]() | Porsche 993 Carrera RSR | G | 47 |
12 | GTS-1 | 91 | Rock Valley Oil & Chemical Co. Inc. | ![]() ![]() | Chevrolet Camaro | P | 40 |
13 | GTS-3 | 41 | Team Technodyne | ![]() ![]() | Porsche 993 Carrera RSR | P | 37 mechanical |
14 | GTS-3 | 10 | Prototype Technology Group | ![]() ![]() | BMW M3 | Y | 30 |
15 | GTS-2 | 99 | Schumacher Racing | ![]() ![]() | Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo | P | 28 |
16 | GTS-1 | 27 | Multimatic Motorsports | ![]() ![]() | Ford Mustang Cobra | G | 7 mechanical |
17 | GTS-2 | 56 | Martin Snow | ![]() ![]() | Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo | 0 accident | |
18 | GTS-3 | 77 | Mattco Racing | ![]() ![]() ![]() | BMW M3 | Y | 0 accident |
19 | GTS-3 | 32 | Phoenix American Motorsport | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Pontiac Firebird | 0 accident | |
DNS | GTS-3 | 18 | RAE Motorsports Inc. | ![]() ![]() | Mazda RX-7 | DNS | |
DNS | GTS-2 | 53 | ![]() | Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo | DNS | ||
DNS | 36 | Schumacher Racing | ![]() ![]() | Porsche 911 | DNS |
- Time of race: 1 hour, 46 minutes 1.543 seconds
- Average speed: 116.452 km-per-hour
- Margin of victory: 15.256 seconds
- Fastest race lap: #66 Panoz GTR-1 Ford, 1:18.634 (181.1638 km/h), lap 23
[5][6][7]
Trans-Am Series
Pos | No | Driver | Car | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 5 | ![]() | Ford Mustang Cobra | 40 |
2 | 3 | ![]() | Ford Mustang Cobra | 40 |
3 | 6 | ![]() | Ford Mustang Cobra | 40 |
4 | 2 | ![]() | Ford Mustang Cobra | 39 |
5 | 7 | ![]() | Ford Mustang Cobra | 39 |
6 | 9 | ![]() | Chevrolet Camaro | 39 |
7 | 13 | ![]() | Ford Mustang Cobra | 39 |
8 | 10 | ![]() | Pontiac Grand Prix | 38 |
9 | 8 | ![]() | Chevrolet Camaro | 38 |
10 | 12 | ![]() | Oldsmobile Cutlass | 38 |
11 | 11 | ![]() | Chevrolet Camaro | 37 |
12 | 14 | ![]() | Chevrolet Camaro | 37 |
13 | 17 | ![]() | Oldsmobile Cutlass | 36 |
14 | 19 | ![]() | Ford Mustang Cobra | 35 |
15 | 21 | ![]() | Chevrolet Camaro | 35 |
16 | 18 | ![]() | Chevrolet Camaro | 34 |
17 | 15 | ![]() | Chevrolet Camaro | 32 |
18 | 4 | ![]() | Chevrolet Camaro | 26 - Mech. |
19 | 1 | ![]() | Chevrolet Camaro | 23 - Crash. |
20 | 22 | ![]() | Chevrolet Camaro | 15 - Mech. |
21 | 20 | ![]() | Chevrolet Camaro | 9 - Mech. |
22 | 16 | ![]() | Chevrolet Camaro | 2 - Elect. |
- Time of race: 1 hour, 5 minutes, 46 seconds
- Average speed: 89.735 miles-per-hour
- Margin of victory: 1.3730 seconds
- Fastest race lap: Tommy Kendall, 1:22.117 (107.802 mph), lap 30
References
- ^ "Mosport Ron Fellows report". Motorsport.com. September 1, 1997. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
- ^ "Kendall Tops at Mosport Too, 11 For 11 With Mosport Park Trans-Am Win". The Auto Channel. September 1, 1997. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
- ^ "Mosport 2 Hours". Racing Sports Cars. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
- ^ "Mosport Festival". Ultimate Racing History. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
- ^ "SportsCar GTS Mosport 1997". Racing Sports Cars. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
- ^ "IMSA GT 1997". classicscars.com. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
- ^ "Mosport Festival IMSA GT Race". Ultimate Racing History. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
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