1999 FIA GT Homestead 3 Hours

The 1999 FIA GT Homestead 3 Hours was the eighth round the 1999 FIA GT Championship season. It took place at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, Florida, United States, on September 26, 1999.

Road course
Layout of the Homestead-Miami Speedway road course

This event 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. This would be the first time the FIA GT Championship used two classes of cars since the end of the 1998 season, and the cancellation of GT1.

Cars running in the N-GT class would not be eligible for points in the FIA GT Championship.

Official results edit

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 21   Paul Belmondo Racing   Paul Belmondo
  Emmanuel Clérico
Chrysler Viper GTS-R D 122
Chrysler 8.0L V10
2 GT 1   Viper Team Oreca   Olivier Beretta
  Karl Wendlinger
Chrysler Viper GTS-R M 122
Chrysler 8.0L V10
3 GT 18   Chamberlain Motorsport   Xavier Pompidou
  Hans Hugenholtz
  Vincent Vosse
Chrysler Viper GTS-R M 121
Chrysler 8.0L V10
4 GT 2   Viper Team Oreca   Jean-Philippe Belloc
  David Donohue
Chrysler Viper GTS-R M 120
Chrysler 8.0L V10
5 GT 15   Freisinger Motorsport   Bob Wollek
  Wolfgang Kaufmann
Porsche 911 GT2 D 119
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
6 GT 16   Freisinger Motorsport   Manfred Jurasz
  Lance Stewart
Porsche 911 GT2 D 116
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
7 N-GT 17   Schumacher Racing   Larry Schumacher
  Cort Wagner
  John O'Steen
Porsche 911 GT2 M 116
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
8 GT 19   Chamberlain Motorsport   Christian Vann
  Christian Gläsel
Chrysler Viper GTS-R M 116
Chrysler 8.0L V10
9 GT 8   Elf Haberthur Racing   Luca Cappellari
  Paolo Rapetti
  Patrick Vuillaume
Porsche 911 GT2 D 113
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
10 GT 7   Konrad Motorsport   Charles Slater
  Ugo Colombo
Porsche 911 GT2 D 113
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
11 N-GT 12   Bell Motorsport   Ron Johnson
  Scott Neuman
  Andy Pilgrim
BMW M3 ? 112
BMW 3.2L I6
12 N-GT 40   Aspen Knolls Racing   Shane Lewis
  Bob Mazzuoccola
BMW M3 Y 102
BMW 3.2L I6
13
DNF
GT 6   Konrad Motorsport   Franz Konrad
  Mike Hezemans
Porsche 911 GT2 D 67
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
14
DNF
GT 9   Elf Haberthur Racing   Mauro Casadei
  Andrea Garbagnati
Porsche 911 GT2 D 50
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
15
DNF
GT 22   Paul Belmondo Racing   Marc Rostan
  "Rael"
Chrysler Viper GTS-R D 49
Chrysler 8.0L V10
16
DNF
N-GT 39   Mosler Automotive   João Barbosa
  James Ruffier
  Loïc Depailler
Mosler Intruder ? 24
Chevrolet 5.7L V8
17
DNF
N-GT 14   NP Racing   Bret Parker
  Kevin Allen
Dodge Viper GTS-R ? 4
Dodge 8.0L V10

Statistics edit

  • Pole position – #1 Viper Team Oreca – 1:34.442
  • Fastest lap – #1 Viper Team Oreca – 1:22.597
  • Average speed – 143.426 km/h

References edit

  • "Results: 1999 Round 8 – Homestead". FIA GT Championship. 26 September 1999. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
  • "3 h Homestead". World Sports Racing Prototypes. 2 October 2005. Archived from the original on 2008-09-24. Retrieved 2007-12-12.


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