1999 FIA GT Championship season

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1999 FIA GT Championship season
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The 1999 FIA GT Championship season was the 3rd season of FIA GT Championship. It is a series comprised of Grand Touring style cars tuned to full racing machines. It began on April 11, 1999 and ended November 26, 1999 after 10 races.

Due to the dominating success of AMG Mercedes over the past two seasons, no GT1 team besides Mercedes was entered for 1999. Due to this, the FIA chose to eliminate the GT1 class and run with only the former GT2 class. This former GT2 class would become the top GT1 class in 2000 in the FIA's attempt to stop factory backed teams from causing another incident similar to one caused by Mercedes' investment.

Contents 1 Schedule 2 Season Results 3 Drivers Championship 4 Teams Championship 5 External links

[edit] Schedule

Rnd	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Monza 500km	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	April 11
2	P&O Steam Line Silverstone 500 miles	Silverstone Circuit	May 9
3	Hockenheim 500km	Hockenheimring	June 27
4	Budapest 500km	Hungaroring	July 4
5	Zolder 500km	Zolder Circuit	July 18
6	Oschersleben 500km	Motopark Oschersleben	August 8
7	Donington 500km	Donington Park	September 5
8	Homestead 3 Hours	Homestead-Miami Speedway	September 26
9	Bosch Sportscar Oktoberfest (3 Hours)	Watkins Glen International	October 3
10	Zhuhai 500km	Zhuhai International Circuit	November 26

[edit] Season Results

Rnd	Circuit	Overall Winning Team	Results
		Overall Winning Drivers
1	Monza	#1 Chrysler Viper Team Oreca	Results
		Olivier Beretta Karl Wendlinger
2	Silverstone	#1 Chrysler Viper Team Oreca	Results
		Olivier Beretta Karl Wendlinger
3	Hockenheimring	#2 Chrysler Viper Team Oreca	Results
		Jean-Philippe Belloc Dominique Dupuy
4	Hungaroring	#2 Chrysler Viper Team Oreca	Results
		Jean-Philippe Belloc Dominique Dupuy
5	Zolder	#1 Chrysler Viper Team Oreca	Results
		Olivier Beretta Karl Wendlinger
6	Oschersleben	#1 Chrysler Viper Team Oreca	Results
		Olivier Beretta Karl Wendlinger
7	Donington	#1 Chrysler Viper Team Oreca	Results
		Olivier Beretta Karl Wendlinger
8	Homestead	#21 Paul Belmondo Racing	Results
		Paul Belmondo Emmanuel Clérico
9	Watkins Glen	#2 Chrysler Viper Team Oreca	Results
		Jean-Philippe Belloc David Donohue
10	Zhuhai	#1 Chrysler Viper Team Oreca	Results
		Olivier Beretta Karl Wendlinger

[edit] Drivers Championship

Points were awarded on a 10-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the top 6 finishers in each round.

Position	Driver	Car	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	Points
1	Olivier Beretta	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	10	10	-	6	10	10	10	6	6	10	78
	Karl Wendlinger	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	10	10	-	6	10	10	10	6	6	10	78
3	Jean-Philippe Belloc	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	6	6	10	10	-	6	-	3	10	2	53
4	David Donohue	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	6	6	-	-	-	-	-	3	10	-	25
5	Dominique Dupuy	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	-	-	10	10	-	-	-	-	-	4	24
6	Wolfgang Kaufmann	Porsche 911 GT2	4	1	2	1	3	2	-	2	3	3	21
	Christian Gläsel	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	3	3	-	-	-	3	2	-	4	6	21
	Christian Vann	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	3	3	-	-	-	3	2	-	4	6	21
9	Paul Belmondo	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	1	-	-	-	2	-	-	10	2	4	19
10	Vincent Vosse	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	2	4	-	-	-	-	3	4	1	2	16
	Bob Wollek	Porsche 911 GT2	-	-	4	4	-	-	-	2	3	3	16
12	Michel Ligonnet	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	4	1	2	1	3	2	-	-	1	-	14
	Ni Amorim	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	-	-	-	3	6	4	1	-	-	-	14
	Toni Seiler	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	-	-	-	3	6	4	1	-	-	-	14
15	Franz Konrad	Porsche 911 GT2	-	-	4	4	1	-	4	-	-	-	13
16	Justin Bell	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	-	6	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12
17	Emmanuel Clérico	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	10	-	-	11
18	Marc Duez	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	-	4	-	-	-	6	-	-	-	-	10
19	Didier Defourny	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	2	4	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	9
	Julian Bailey	Lister Storm GTL	-	-	3	-	-	-	6	-	-	-	9
21	Luca Drudi	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	-	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	8
22	Hans Hugenholtz	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	7
23	Sascha Maassen	Porsche 911 GT2	-	-	-	2	-	-	4	-	-	-	6
24	Xavier Pompidou	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	1	-	5
25	Claude-Yves Gosselin	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	1	-	-	-	2	1	-	-	-	-	4
	Mike Hezemans	Lister Storm GTL	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	4
	David Hart	Lister Storm GTL	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	4
28	Tim Sugden	Lister Storm GTL	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
	Jamie Campbell-Walter	Lister Storm GTL	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
30	Claudia Hürtgen	Porsche 911 GT2	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
	Stéphane Ortelli	Porsche 911 GT2	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
	Michael Eschmann	Porsche 911 GT2	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
	Paul Hulverscheid	Porsche 911 GT2	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
	Manfred Jurasz	Porsche 911 GT2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	2
35	André Ahrlé	Porsche 911 GT2	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	Hubert Haupt	Porsche 911 GT2	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	Altfrid Heger	Porsche 911 GT2	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	1
	Lance Stewart	Porsche 911 GT2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1
	Yukihiro Hane	Porsche 911 GT2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1

[edit] Teams Championship

Points are awarded to the top 6 finishers in the order of 10-6-4-3-2-1. Both cars score points towards the championship regardless of finishing position.

Pos	Team	Car	Engine	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Rd 8	Rd 9	Rd 10	Total
1	Chrysler Viper Team Oreca	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Chrysler 8.0L V10	16	16	16	16	10	16	10	9	16	12	137
2	Chamberlain Motorsport	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Chrysler 8.0L V10	3	3		3	6	7	3	4	5	6	40
3	Freisinger Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT2	Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6	4	1	2	1	3	2		3	3	4	23
4	Paul Belmondo Racing	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Chrysler 8.0L V10	1				2	1		10	2	4	20
5=	Konrad Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT2	Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6			4	4	1		4				13
5=	Lister Storm Racing	Lister Storm	Jaguar 7.0L V12			3		4		6				13
7	GLPK Racing	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Chrysler 8.0L V10	2	4					3				9
8	Roock Racing	Porsche 911 GT2	Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6		2	1								3
9	Roock Sportsystem	Porsche 911 GT2	Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6				2							2

[edit] External links

• Official FIA GT homepage