1997 Mosport Festival

thumb|250px|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.September 1, 1997 Mosport Ron Fellows report http://www.motorsport.com/imsa/news/mosport-ron-fellows-report/ Motorsport.com March 20, 2015 April 2, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150402134504/http://www.motorsport.com/imsa/news/mosport-ron-fellows-report/ dead 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.September 1, 1997 Kendall Tops at Mosport Too, 11 For 11 With Mosport Park Trans-Am Win http://www.theautochannel.com/news/date/19970901/news005797.html The Auto Channel March 21, 2015 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 CAN Ron FellowsUSA Rob Morgan Ferrari 333SP Goodyear 86 Ferrari F310E 4.0L V12 2 WSC 16 United States Dyson Racing USA Butch LeitzingerUK James Weaver Riley & Scott Mk III Goodyear 86 Ford 5.0L V8 3 WSC 1 United States Doyle/Riley & Scott ZAF Wayne TaylorBEL Eric van de Poele Riley & Scott Mk III Pirelli 86 Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8 4 WSC 27 United States Moretti Racing ITA Gianpiero Moretti (I)BEL Didier Theys (B) Ferrari 333 SP Yokohama 86 Ferrari F310E 4.0 L V12 5 WSC 3 Peru Dibos Racing Peru Eduardo DibosSPA Fermin Velez Ferrari 333 SP Goodyear 84Ferrari F310E 4.0 L V12 6 WSC 88 United States MSI Racing CAN Ross BentleyUSA Jeff Jones Riley & Scott Mk III Goodyear 81 Chevrolet 6.0 L V8 7 WSC 28 United States FAB Factory Motorsport USA Jon Field USA A. J. Smith Spice SC95 Goodyear 80 Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8 8 WSC 63 United States Downing Atlanta Racing USA Barry WaddellUSA Jim Downing Kudzu DLM Goodyear 75 Mazda 2.0 L 3-Rotor 9 WSC 30 United States Moretti Racing BRA Antônio Hermann (BR)ITA Andrea Montermini (I) Ferrari 333 SP Yokohama 71 Ferrari F310E 4.0 L V12 10 WSC 17 France Courage Compétition CAN Martin GuimontCAN Jacek Mucha Courage C41 Goodyear 62Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8 11 WSC 4 Peru Dibos Racing Peru Neto JochamowitzUSA Jim Pace Riley & Scott Mk III Pirelli 48 Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8 12 WSC 20 United States Dyson Racing USA Elliott Forbes-RobinsonGBR Andy Wallace Riley & Scott Mk III Goodyear 40 Ford 5.0 L V8 13 WSC 19 United States Davin Racing USA Edd Davin USA Mark Montgomery Argo P Goodyear 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 61http://www.racingsportscars.com/race/Mosport-1997-08-31.html Mosport 2 Hours Racing Sports Cars March 20, 2015http://www.ultimateracinghistory.com/race.php?raceid=13640 Mosport Festival Ultimate Racing History March 20, 2015 Exxon Supreme GT Series Pos Class No Team Drivers Car Tyre Laps 1 GTS-1 01 Rohr Corp. USA Jochen RohrUSA Andy PilgrimUSA Dorsey Schroeder Porsche 911 GT1 Pirelli 52 2 GTS-1 66 Panoz Motorsports USA Doc BundyGB Andy Wallace Panoz GTR-1 Ford 52 3 GTS-2 61 Konrad Motorsport Austria Franz KonradUSA Nick Ham Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo Pirelli 50 4 GTS-3 6 Prototype Technology Group USA Derek HillCosta Rica Javier Quiros BMW M3 Yokohama 50 5 GTS-3 7 Prototype Technology Group Austria Dieter QuesterBEL Marc Duez BMW M3 Yokohama 49 6 GTS-1 02 Rohr Corp. CAN Victor SiftonUSA Joe VardeUSA Jochen RohrUSA Andy Pilgrim Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo Pirelli 49 7 GTS-2 97 GMB Motorsports (USA) USA Dirk LayerUSA Kelly Collins Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo Pirelli 49 8 GTS-3 39 Jim Mathews Racing / Carolina Turkey USA Jim MatthewsUSA David Murry Porsche 993 Pirelli 49 9 GTS-2 15 USA Will PaceUSA Jim PaceUSA Snow - DNP Porsche 911 Turbo Yokohama 48 10 GTS-3 76 Team A.R.E. (USA) USA Jeff PurnerUSA Blackman Porsche 993 Carrera RSR 48 11 GTS-3 73 Jack Lewis Enterprises USA Jack LewisCAN Tony Burgess Porsche 993 Carrera RSR Goodyear 47 12 GTS-1 91 Rock Valley Oil & Chemical Co. Inc. USA Roger SchrammUSA Stu Hayner Chevrolet Camaro Pirelli 40 13 GTS-3 41 Team Technodyne USA Chris CervelliUSA Cort Wagner Porsche 993 Carrera RSR Pirelli 37 mechanical 14 GTS-3 10 Prototype Technology Group USA Bill AuberlenUSA Boris Said BMW M3 Yokohama 30 15 GTS-2 99 Schumacher Racing USA Larry SchumacherUSA John O'Steen Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo Pirelli 28 16 GTS-1 27 Multimatic Motorsports CAN Scott MaxwellCAN Jason Priestley Ford Mustang Cobra Goodyear 7 mechanical 17 GTS-2 56 Martin Snow USA Martin SnowUSA Peter Kitchak Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo 0 accident 18 GTS-3 77 Mattco Racing USA Matthew CohenUSA Pete HalsmerUSA Renna BMW M3 Yokohama 0 accident 19 GTS-3 32 Phoenix American Motorsport USA Marty MillerUSA John HeinricyUSA Joe Aquilante Pontiac Firebird 0 accident DNS GTS-3 18 RAE Motorsports Inc. USA Raymond BoissoneauUSA Peter Goebel Mazda RX-7 DNS DNS GTS-2 53 USA Melanie Snow Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo DNS DNS 36 Schumacher Racing USA Larry SchumacherUSA 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 http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/Mosport-1997-08-31g.html?sort=Results SportsCar GTS Mosport 1997 Racing Sports Cars March 26, 2015http://www.classicscars.com/wspr/results/imsa/imsagt1997.html#7 IMSA GT 1997 classicscars.com March 26, 2015http://www.ultimateracinghistory.com/race.php?raceid=13639 Mosport Festival IMSA GT Race Ultimate Racing History March 26, 2015 Trans-Am Series Pos No Driver Car Laps 1 5 USA Tommy Kendall Ford Mustang Cobra 40 2 3 USA Dorsey Schroeder Ford Mustang Cobra 40 3 6 USA Jon Gooding Ford Mustang Cobra 40 4 2 USA Brian Simo Ford Mustang Cobra 39 5 7 USA Mike Borkowski Ford Mustang Cobra 39 6 9 USA John W. Miller IV Chevrolet Camaro 39 7 13 USA Bruce Nesbitt Ford Mustang Cobra 39 8 10 USA Leighton Reese Pontiac Grand Prix 38 9 8 USA Max Lagod Chevrolet Camaro 38 10 12 USA Don Sak Oldsmobile Cutlass 38 11 11 USA Don Meluzio Chevrolet Camaro 37 12 14 USA Craig Shafer Chevrolet Camaro 37 13 17 USA John Halbing Oldsmobile Cutlass 36 14 19 USA Ed Hinchliff Ford Mustang Cobra 35 15 21 USA Chet Williams Chevrolet Camaro 35 16 18 USA Frank Cioppettini Jr. Chevrolet Camaro 34 17 15 USA Bob Ruman Chevrolet Camaro 32 18 4 USA Paul Gentilozzi Chevrolet Camaro 26 - Mech. 19 1 ITA Alessandro Zampedri Chevrolet Camaro 23 - Crash. 20 22 CAN Jerry Simmons Chevrolet Camaro 15 - Mech. 21 20 USA Jim Briody Chevrolet Camaro 9 - Mech. 22 16 USA 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 Category:Grand Prix of Mosport Mosport Festival Mosport Festival Mosport Festival Mosport Festival