1997 Mosport Festival

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.

Mosport International Raceway

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

[5][6][7]

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
  1. "Mosport Ron Fellows report". Motorsport.com. September 1, 1997. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
  2. "Kendall Tops at Mosport Too, 11 For 11 With Mosport Park Trans-Am Win". The Auto Channel. September 1, 1997. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
  3. "Mosport 2 Hours". Racing Sports Cars. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
  4. "Mosport Festival". Ultimate Racing History. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
  5. "SportsCar GTS Mosport 1997". Racing Sports Cars. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
  6. "IMSA GT 1997". classicscars.com. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
  7. "Mosport Festival IMSA GT Race". Ultimate Racing History. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
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