1999 FIA GT Homestead 3 Hours

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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.

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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

Class winners are in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).

PosClassNoTeamDriversChassisTyreLaps
Engine
1GT21 Flag of France.svg Paul Belmondo Racing Flag of France.svg Paul Belmondo
Flag of France.svg Emmanuel Clérico
Chrysler Viper GTS-R D 122
Chrysler 8.0L V10
2GT1 Flag of France.svg Viper Team Oreca Flag of Monaco.svg Olivier Beretta
Flag of Austria.svg Karl Wendlinger
Chrysler Viper GTS-R M 122
Chrysler 8.0L V10
3GT18 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Chamberlain Motorsport Flag of France.svg Xavier Pompidou
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Hans Hugenholtz
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Vincent Vosse
Chrysler Viper GTS-R M 121
Chrysler 8.0L V10
4GT2 Flag of France.svg Viper Team Oreca Flag of France.svg Jean-Philippe Belloc
Flag of the United States.svg David Donohue
Chrysler Viper GTS-R M 120
Chrysler 8.0L V10
5GT15 Flag of Germany.svg Freisinger Motorsport Flag of France.svg Bob Wollek
Flag of Germany.svg Wolfgang Kaufmann
Porsche 911 GT2 D 119
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
6GT16 Flag of Germany.svg Freisinger Motorsport Flag of Austria.svg Manfred Jurasz
Flag of the United States.svg Lance Stewart
Porsche 911 GT2 D 116
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
7N-GT17 Flag of the United States.svg Schumacher Racing Flag of the United States.svg Larry Schumacher
Flag of the United States.svg Cort Wagner
Flag of the United States.svg John O'Steen
Porsche 911 GT2 M 116
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
8GT19 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Chamberlain Motorsport Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Christian Vann
Flag of Germany.svg Christian Gläsel
Chrysler Viper GTS-R M 116
Chrysler 8.0L V10
9GT8 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Elf Haberthur Racing Flag of Italy.svg Luca Cappellari
Flag of Italy.svg Paolo Rapetti
Flag of France.svg Patrick Vuillaume
Porsche 911 GT2 D 113
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
10GT7 Flag of Germany.svg Konrad Motorsport Flag of the United States.svg Charles Slater
Flag of the United States.svg Ugo Colombo
Porsche 911 GT2 D 113
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
11N-GT12 Flag of the United States.svg Bell Motorsport Flag of the United States.svg Ron Johnson
Flag of the United States.svg Scott Neuman
Flag of the United States.svg Andy Pilgrim
BMW M3  ?112
BMW 3.2L I6
12N-GT40 Flag of the United States.svg Aspen Knolls Racing Flag of the United States.svg Shane Lewis
Flag of the United States.svg Bob Mazzuoccola
BMW M3 Y 102
BMW 3.2L I6
13
DNF
GT6 Flag of Germany.svg Konrad Motorsport Flag of Austria.svg Franz Konrad
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Mike Hezemans
Porsche 911 GT2 D 67
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
14
DNF
GT9 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Elf Haberthur Racing Flag of Italy.svg Mauro Casadei
Flag of Italy.svg Andrea Garbagnati
Porsche 911 GT2 D 50
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
15
DNF
GT22 Flag of France.svg Paul Belmondo Racing Flag of France.svg Marc Rostan
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg "Rael"
Chrysler Viper GTS-R D 49
Chrysler 8.0L V10
16
DNF
N-GT39 Flag of the United States.svg Mosler Automotive Flag of Portugal.svg João Barbosa
Flag of France.svg James Ruffier
Flag of France.svg Loïc Depailler
Mosler Intruder  ?24
Chevrolet 5.7L V8
17
DNF
N-GT14 Flag of the United States.svg NP Racing Flag of the United States.svg Bret Parker
Flag of the United States.svg Kevin Allen
Dodge Viper GTS-R  ?4
Dodge 8.0L V10

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