1997 Mosport Festival

Mosport International Raceway

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
Engine
1 WSC 43 Central Arkansas Racing Canada Ron Fellows
United States Rob Morgan
Ferrari 333SP G 86
Ferrari F310E 4.0L V12
2 WSC 16 United States Dyson Racing United States Butch Leitzinger
United Kingdom James Weaver
Riley & Scott Mk III G 86
Ford 5.0L V8
3 WSC 1 United States Doyle/Riley & Scott South Africa Wayne Taylor
Belgium Eric van de Poele
Riley & Scott Mk III P 86
Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8
4 WSC 27 United States Moretti Racing Italy Gianpiero Moretti (I)
Belgium Didier Theys (B)
Ferrari 333 SP Y 86
Ferrari F310E 4.0 L V12
5 WSC 3 Peru Dibos Racing Peru Eduardo Dibos
Spain Fermin Velez
Ferrari 333 SP G 84
Ferrari F310E 4.0 L V12
6 WSC 88 United States MSI Racing Canada Ross Bentley
United States Jeff Jones
Riley & Scott Mk III G 81
Chevrolet 6.0 L V8
7 WSC 28 United States FAB Factory Motorsport United States Jon Field
United States A. J. Smith
Spice SC95 G 80
Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8
8 WSC 63 United States Downing Atlanta Racing United States Barry Waddell
United States Jim Downing
Kudzu DLM G 75
Mazda 2.0 L 3-Rotor
9 WSC 30 United States Moretti Racing Brazil Antônio Hermann (BR)
Italy Andrea Montermini (I)
Ferrari 333 SP Y 71
Ferrari F310E 4.0 L V12
10 WSC 17 France Courage Compétition Canada Martin Guimont
Canada Jacek Mucha
Courage C41 G 62
Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8
11 WSC 4 Peru Dibos Racing Peru Neto Jochamowitz
United States Jim Pace
Riley & Scott Mk III P 48
Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8
12 WSC 20 United States Dyson Racing United States Elliott Forbes-Robinson
United Kingdom Andy Wallace
Riley & Scott Mk III G 40
Ford 5.0 L V8
13 WSC 19 United States Davin Racing United States Edd Davin
United States Mark Montgomery
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. United States Jochen Rohr
United States Andy Pilgrim
United States Dorsey Schroeder
Porsche 911 GT1 P 52
2 GTS-1 66 Panoz Motorsports United States Doc Bundy
United Kingdom Andy Wallace
Panoz GTR-1 Ford 52
3 GTS-2 61 Konrad Motorsport Austria Franz Konrad
United States Nick Ham
Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo P 50
4 GTS-3 6 Prototype Technology Group United States Derek Hill
Costa Rica Javier Quiros
BMW M3 Y 50
5 GTS-3 7 Prototype Technology Group Austria Dieter Quester
Belgium Marc Duez
BMW M3 Y 49
6 GTS-1 02 Rohr Corp. Canada Victor Sifton
United States Joe Varde
United States Jochen Rohr
United States Andy Pilgrim
Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo P 49
7 GTS-2 97 GMB Motorsports (USA) United States Dirk Layer
United States Kelly Collins
Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo P 49
8 GTS-3 39 Jim Mathews Racing / Carolina Turkey United States Jim Matthews
United States David Murry
Porsche 993 P 49
9 GTS-2 15 United States Will Pace
United States Jim Pace
United States Snow - DNP
Porsche 911 Turbo Y 48
10 GTS-3 76 Team A.R.E. (USA) United States Jeff Purner
United States Blackman
Porsche 993 Carrera RSR 48
11 GTS-3 73 Jack Lewis Enterprises United States Jack Lewis
Canada Tony Burgess
Porsche 993 Carrera RSR G 47
12 GTS-1 91 Rock Valley Oil & Chemical Co. Inc. United States Roger Schramm
United States Stu Hayner
Chevrolet Camaro P 40
13 GTS-3 41 Team Technodyne United States Chris Cervelli
United States Cort Wagner
Porsche 993 Carrera RSR P 37 mechanical
14 GTS-3 10 Prototype Technology Group United States Bill Auberlen
United States Boris Said
BMW M3 Y 30
15 GTS-2 99 Schumacher Racing United States Larry Schumacher
United States John O'Steen
Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo P 28
16 GTS-1 27 Multimatic Motorsports Canada Scott Maxwell
Canada Jason Priestley
Ford Mustang Cobra G 7 mechanical
17 GTS-2 56 Martin Snow United States Martin Snow
United States Peter Kitchak
Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo 0 accident
18 GTS-3 77 Mattco Racing United States Matthew Cohen
United States Pete Halsmer
United States Renna
BMW M3 Y 0 accident
19 GTS-3 32 Phoenix American Motorsport United States Marty Miller
United States John Heinricy
United States Joe Aquilante
Pontiac Firebird 0 accident
DNS GTS-3 18 RAE Motorsports Inc. United States Raymond Boissoneau
United States Peter Goebel
Mazda RX-7 DNS
DNS GTS-2 53 United States Melanie Snow Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo DNS
DNS 36 Schumacher Racing United States Larry Schumacher
United States John O'Steen
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 United States Tommy Kendall Ford Mustang Cobra 40
2 3 United States Dorsey Schroeder Ford Mustang Cobra 40
3 6 United States Jon Gooding Ford Mustang Cobra 40
4 2 United States Brian Simo Ford Mustang Cobra 39
5 7 United States Mike Borkowski Ford Mustang Cobra 39
6 9 United States John W. Miller IV Chevrolet Camaro 39
7 13 United States Bruce Nesbitt Ford Mustang Cobra 39
8 10 United States Leighton Reese Pontiac Grand Prix 38
9 8 United States Max Lagod Chevrolet Camaro 38
10 12 United States Don Sak Oldsmobile Cutlass 38
11 11 United States Don Meluzio Chevrolet Camaro 37
12 14 United States Craig Shafer Chevrolet Camaro 37
13 17 United States John Halbing Oldsmobile Cutlass 36
14 19 United States Ed Hinchliff Ford Mustang Cobra 35
15 21 United States Chet Williams Chevrolet Camaro 35
16 18 United States Frank Cioppettini Jr. Chevrolet Camaro 34
17 15 United StatesBob Ruman Chevrolet Camaro 32
18 4 United States Paul Gentilozzi Chevrolet Camaro 26 - Mech.
19 1 Italy Alessandro Zampedri Chevrolet Camaro 23 - Crash.
20 22 Canada Jerry Simmons Chevrolet Camaro 15 - Mech.
21 20 United States Jim Briody Chevrolet Camaro 9 - Mech.
22 16 United States Ray Genick 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

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  3. ^ "Mosport 2 Hours". Racing Sports Cars. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
  4. ^ "Mosport Festival". Ultimate Racing History. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
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  6. ^ "IMSA GT 1997". classicscars.com. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
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