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	Ron Fellows Rob Morgan	Ferrari 333SP	G	86
					Ferrari F310E 4.0L V12
2	WSC	16	Dyson Racing	Butch Leitzinger James Weaver	Riley & Scott Mk III	G	86
					Ford 5.0L V8
3	WSC	1	Doyle/Riley & Scott	Wayne Taylor Eric van de Poele	Riley & Scott Mk III	P	86
					Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8
4	WSC	27	Moretti Racing	Gianpiero Moretti (I) Didier Theys (B)	Ferrari 333 SP	Y	86
					Ferrari F310E 4.0 L V12
5	WSC	3	Dibos Racing	Eduardo Dibos Fermin Velez	Ferrari 333 SP	G	84
					Ferrari F310E 4.0 L V12
6	WSC	88	MSI Racing	Ross Bentley Jeff Jones	Riley & Scott Mk III	G	81
					Chevrolet 6.0 L V8
7	WSC	28	FAB Factory Motorsport	Jon Field A. J. Smith	Spice SC95	G	80
					Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8
8	WSC	63	Downing Atlanta Racing	Barry Waddell Jim Downing	Kudzu DLM	G	75
					Mazda 2.0 L 3-Rotor
9	WSC	30	Moretti Racing	Antônio Hermann (BR) Andrea Montermini (I)	Ferrari 333 SP	Y	71
					Ferrari F310E 4.0 L V12
10	WSC	17	Courage Compétition	Martin Guimont Jacek Mucha	Courage C41	G	62
					Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8
11	WSC	4	Dibos Racing	Neto Jochamowitz Jim Pace	Riley & Scott Mk III	P	48
					Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8
12	WSC	20	Dyson Racing	Elliott Forbes-Robinson Andy Wallace	Riley & Scott Mk III	G	40
					Ford 5.0 L V8
13	WSC	19	Davin Racing	Edd Davin 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.	Jochen Rohr Andy Pilgrim Dorsey Schroeder	Porsche 911 GT1	P	52
2	GTS-1	66	Panoz Motorsports	Doc Bundy Andy Wallace	Panoz GTR-1 Ford		52
3	GTS-2	61	Konrad Motorsport	Franz Konrad Nick Ham	Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo	P	50
4	GTS-3	6	Prototype Technology Group	Derek Hill Javier Quiros	BMW M3	Y	50
5	GTS-3	7	Prototype Technology Group	Dieter Quester Marc Duez	BMW M3	Y	49
6	GTS-1	02	Rohr Corp.	Victor Sifton Joe Varde Jochen Rohr Andy Pilgrim	Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo	P	49
7	GTS-2	97	GMB Motorsports (USA)	Dirk Layer Kelly Collins	Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo	P	49
8	GTS-3	39	Jim Mathews Racing / Carolina Turkey	Jim Matthews David Murry	Porsche 993	P	49
9	GTS-2	15		Will Pace Jim Pace Snow - DNP	Porsche 911 Turbo	Y	48
10	GTS-3	76	Team A.R.E. (USA)	Jeff Purner Blackman	Porsche 993 Carrera RSR		48
11	GTS-3	73	Jack Lewis Enterprises	Jack Lewis Tony Burgess	Porsche 993 Carrera RSR	G	47
12	GTS-1	91	Rock Valley Oil & Chemical Co. Inc.	Roger Schramm Stu Hayner	Chevrolet Camaro	P	40
13	GTS-3	41	Team Technodyne	Chris Cervelli Cort Wagner	Porsche 993 Carrera RSR	P	37 mechanical
14	GTS-3	10	Prototype Technology Group	Bill Auberlen Boris Said	BMW M3	Y	30
15	GTS-2	99	Schumacher Racing	Larry Schumacher John O'Steen	Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo	P	28
16	GTS-1	27	Multimatic Motorsports	Scott Maxwell Jason Priestley	Ford Mustang Cobra	G	7 mechanical
17	GTS-2	56	Martin Snow	Martin Snow Peter Kitchak	Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo		0 accident
18	GTS-3	77	Mattco Racing	Matthew Cohen Pete Halsmer Renna	BMW M3	Y	0 accident
19	GTS-3	32	Phoenix American Motorsport	Marty Miller John Heinricy Joe Aquilante	Pontiac Firebird		0 accident
DNS	GTS-3	18	RAE Motorsports Inc.	Raymond Boissoneau Peter Goebel	Mazda RX-7		DNS
DNS	GTS-2	53		Melanie Snow	Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo		DNS
DNS		36	Schumacher Racing	Larry Schumacher 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

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Trans-Am Series

Pos	No	Driver	Car	Laps
1	5	Tommy Kendall	Ford Mustang Cobra	40
2	3	Dorsey Schroeder	Ford Mustang Cobra	40
3	6	Jon Gooding	Ford Mustang Cobra	40
4	2	Brian Simo	Ford Mustang Cobra	39
5	7	Mike Borkowski	Ford Mustang Cobra	39
6	9	John W. Miller IV	Chevrolet Camaro	39
7	13	Bruce Nesbitt	Ford Mustang Cobra	39
8	10	Leighton Reese	Pontiac Grand Prix	38
9	8	Max Lagod	Chevrolet Camaro	38
10	12	Don Sak	Oldsmobile Cutlass	38
11	11	Don Meluzio	Chevrolet Camaro	37
12	14	Craig Shafer	Chevrolet Camaro	37
13	17	John Halbing	Oldsmobile Cutlass	36
14	19	Ed Hinchliff	Ford Mustang Cobra	35
15	21	Chet Williams	Chevrolet Camaro	35
16	18	Frank Cioppettini Jr.	Chevrolet Camaro	34
17	15	Bob Ruman	Chevrolet Camaro	32
18	4	Paul Gentilozzi	Chevrolet Camaro	26 - Mech.
19	1	Alessandro Zampedri	Chevrolet Camaro	23 - Crash.
20	22	Jerry Simmons	Chevrolet Camaro	15 - Mech.
21	20	Jim Briody	Chevrolet Camaro	9 - Mech.
22	16	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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