1997 Suzuka 1000 km

1997 1000 km Suzuka

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Layout of the Suzuka International Racing Course (1987-2002)

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.

Official results

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

Statistics

• Pole Position – #12 AMG-Mercedes – 1:56.023
• Fastest Lap – #12 AMG-Mercedes – 2:00.019
• Average Speed – 167.340 km/h

External links

• World Sports Prototype Racing – Race Results

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