The 1997 Pokka Suzuka 1000km was the seventh race of the 1997 FIA GT Championship season. It was run at the Suzuka Circuit, Japan on August 24, 1997.
Several Japanese teams chose to participate in this race, conforming to either the GT1 and GT2 classes.
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).
| Pos | Class | No | Team | Drivers | Chassis | Tyre | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engine | |||||||
| 1 | GT1 | 10 |  AMG-Mercedes | Marcel Tiemann  Alessandro Nannini Bernd Schneider‡ | Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR | B | 171 |
| Mercedes-Benz LS600 6.0L V12 | |||||||
| 2 | GT1 | 12 | AMG-Mercedes | Klaus Ludwig Bernd Mayländer | Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR | B | 171 |
| Mercedes-Benz LS600 6.0L V12 | |||||||
| 3 | GT1 | 3 |  Gulf Team Davidoff GTC Racing |  Anders Olofsson Pierre-Henri Raphanel Jean-Marc Gounon | McLaren F1 GTR | M | 171 |
| BMW S70 6.0L V12 | |||||||
| 4 | GT1 | 8 | BMW Motorsport Schnitzer Motorsport |  JJ Lehto Steve Soper | McLaren F1 GTR | M | 171 |
| BMW S70 6.0L V12 | |||||||
| 5 | GT1 | 6 | Porsche AG | Bob Wollek  Thierry Boutsen Hans-Joachim Stuck | Porsche 911 GT1 Evo | M | 169 |
| Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
| 6 | GT1 | 1 | Gulf Team Davidoff GTC Racing | Andrew Gilbert-Scott Geoff Lees  John Nielsen | McLaren F1 GTR | M | 169 |
| BMW S70 6.0L V12 | |||||||
| 7 | GT1 | 11 | AMG-Mercedes | Bernd Schneider  Alexander Wurz  Aguri Suzuki | Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR | B | 169 |
| Mercedes-Benz LS600 6.0L V12 | |||||||
| 8 | GT1 | 9 | BMW Motorsport Schnitzer Motorsport |  Peter Kox Roberto Ravaglia | McLaren F1 GTR | M | 169 |
| BMW S70 6.0L V12 | |||||||
| 9 | GT1 | 44 | Team Lark McLaren | Keiichi Tsuchiya Masanori Sekiya Akihiko Nakaya | McLaren F1 GTR | M | 168 |
| BMW S70 6.0L V12 | |||||||
| 10 | GT1 | 7 | Porsche AG | Allan McNish Yannick Dalmas  Pedro Lamy | Porsche 911 GT1 Evo | M | 164 |
| Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
| 11 | GT1 | 17 | JB Racing | Mauro Baldi Emmanuel Collard Alain Ferté | Porsche 911 GT1 | M | 164 |
| Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
| 12 | GT1 | 5 | David Price Racing |  David Brabham Perry McCarthy Olivier Grouillard | Panoz Esperante GTR-1 | G | 154 |
| Ford (Roush) 6.0L V8 | |||||||
| 13 | GT1 | 16 | Roock Racing | Ralf Kelleners Christophe Bouchut Carl Rosenblad | Porsche 911 GT1 | M | 159 |
| Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
| 14 | GT2 | 51 | Viper Team Oreca |  Olivier Beretta Philippe Gache | Chrysler Viper GTS-R | M | 156 |
| Chrysler 8.0L V10 | |||||||
| 15 | GT2 | 57 | Roock Racing | Pedro Chaves Robert Nearn Hisashi Wada | Porsche 911 GT2 | M | 155 |
| Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
| 16 | GT2 | 52 | Viper Team Oreca | Justin Bell  Tommy Archer Hideshi Matsuda | Chrysler Viper GTS-R | M | 155 |
| Chrysler 8.0L V10 | |||||||
| 17 | GT2 | 66 | Konrad Motorsport | Franz Konrad Wolfgang Kaufmann Seiichi Sodeyama | Porsche 911 GT2 | P | 153 |
| Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
| 18 | GT2 | 56 | Roock Racing |  Bruno Eichmann Ni Amorim Claudia Hürtgen | Porsche 911 GT2 | M | 153 |
| Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
| 19 | GT2 | 83 | Larbre Compétition | Patrice Goueslard Jean-Luc Chereau Jack Leconte | Porsche 911 GT2 | ? | 148 |
| Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
| 20 | GT2 | 55 | Augustin Motorsport | Ernst Gschwender Helmut Reis Wido Rössler | Porsche 911 GT2 | G | 143 |
| Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
| 21 | GT2 | 62 | Stadler Motorsport | Denis Lay Uwe Sick Franz Hunkeler | Porsche 911 GT2 | P | 145 |
| Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
| 22 | GT2 | 58 | Estoril Racing Team | Michel Monteiro Manuel Monteiro Henri-Louis Maunoir | Porsche 911 GT2 | ? | 140 |
| Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
| 23 | GT2 | 59 | Marcos Racing International | Cor Euser Harald Becker Herman Buurman | Marcos LM600 | D | 138 |
| Chevrolet 5.9L V8 | |||||||
| 24 | GT2 | 63 | Krauss Motorsport | Takashi Suzuki Sumio Sakurai Nigel Smith | Porsche 911 GT2 | P | 130 |
| Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
| 25 | GT2 | 53 | Chamberlain Engineering | Manabu Orido Naohiro Kawano Yukihiro Hane | Chrysler Viper GTS-R | G | 84 |
| Chrysler 8.0L V10 | |||||||
| 26 NC | GT2 | 84 | NSX Dream 28 Competition | Hajime Ooshiro Masayoshi Furuya Shigekazu Saeki | Honda NSX | ? | 45 |
| Honda 3.2L V6 | |||||||
| 27 DNF | GT1 | 4 | David Price Racing | Andy Wallace James Weaver Butch Leitzinger | Panoz Esperante GTR-1 | G | 110 |
| Ford (Roush) 6.0L V8 | |||||||
| 28 DNF | GT2 | 50 | Agusta Racing Team Elf Haberthur Racing | Luca Drudi Michel Ligonnet Masahiro Kimoto | Porsche 911 GT2 | ? | 86 |
| Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
| 29 DNF | GT1 | 46 | Team Menicon SARD | Masami Kageyama Tetsuya Tanaka | SARD MC8-R | D | 71 |
| Toyota 1UZ-FE 4.0L Turbo V8 | |||||||
| 30 DNF | GT1 | 27 | Parabolica Motorsport | Gary Ayles Chris Goodwin Stefan Johansson | McLaren F1 GTR | M | 65 |
| BMW S70 6.0L V12 | |||||||
| 31 DNF | GT2 | 69 | Proton Competition | Gerold Ried Patrick Vuillaume Manfred Jurasz | Porsche 911 GT2 | P | 59 |
| Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6 | |||||||
| 32 DNF | GT1 | 20 | DAMS Panoz | Éric Bernard Franck Lagorce | Panoz Esperante GTR-1 | M | 26 |
| Ford (Roush) 6.0L V8 | |||||||
| 33 DNF | GT1 | 25 | BBA Compétition | Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière Jun Harada Tomiko Yoshikawa | McLaren F1 GTR | D | 18 |
| BMW S70 6.1L V12 | |||||||
| 34 DNF | GT1 | 15 | First Racing Project GT1 Lotus Racing |  Ratanakul Prutirat Fabien Giroix Jérôme Policand | Lotus Elise GT1 | P | 15 |
| Chevrolet LT5 6.0L V8 | |||||||
| 35 DNF | GT2 | 85 | Team Signal | Takeshi Yuasa Kiyoaki Hanai Akio Tomita | Nissan Silvia | ? | 2 |
| Nissan SR20DET 2.0L Turbo I4 | |||||||
| 36 DNF | GT1 | 39 | IDC Ootsukakagu SARD | Tatsuya Tanigawa Yuji Tachikawa Yasutaka Hinoi | SARD MC8-R | Y | 0 |
| Toyota 1UZ-FE 4.0L Turbo V8 | |||||||
| DNS | GT1 | 2 | Gulf Team Davidoff GTC Racing | John Nielsen Thomas Bscher | McLaren F1 GTR | M | – |
| BMW S70 6.0L V12 |
‡ – Did not score points due to not being entered in that car
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