2:30 hour race on the Nürburgring in 1999

BMW V12 LM chassis number 1; driven at the Nürburgring by Pedro Lamy and Thomas Bscher

The 2:30 hour race on the Nürburgring 1999 , also DMC / ADAC Sports Car Festival (SportRacing World Cup), Nürburgring , took place on September 5th at the Nürburgring and was the seventh round of the FIA sports car championship of that year .

The race

After an interruption of eight years, an international sports car race took place at the Nürburgring again . As part of the Sports Car World Championship in 1991 , a 430 km race was held that ended with the overall victory of David Brabham and Derek Warwick in the Jaguar XJR-14 .

In 1999 the race distance was again 430 kilometers, which resulted from the race duration of 2 hours and 30 minutes. The race ended with the overall victory of Jean-Marc Gounon and Éric Bernard in the DAMS - Lola B98 / 10, who had a narrow lead of 15 seconds over the Ferrari 333SP of Christian Pescatori and Emanuele Moncini .

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	SR1	12	DAMS team	Jean-Marc Gounon Éric Bernard	Lola B98 / 10	94
2	SR1	23	BMS Scuderia Italia	Christian Pescatori Emanuele Moncini	Ferrari 333SP	94
3	SR1	1	JB Giesse Team Ferrari	Emmanuel Collard Vincenzo Sospiri	Ferrari 333SP	94
4th	SR1	17th	Price & Bscher	Pedro Lamy Thomas Bscher	BMW V12 LM	93
5	SR1	2	JB Giesse Team Ferrari	Mauro Baldi Max Angelelli	Ferrari 333SP	93
6th	SR1	22nd	BMS Scuderia Italia	Marco Zadra Angelo Zadra	Ferrari 333SP	92
7th	SR1	26th	Italtechnica	Luca Drudi Gianluca Giraudi	Ferrari 333SP	90
8th	SR1	4th	Autosport Racing	Enzo Calderari Lilian Bryner Jean-Denis Delétraz	Ferrari 333SP	88
9	SR1	6th	Dutch National Racing Team	Alexander van der Lof Dick Waaijenberg	Ferrari 333SP	88
10	SR1	3	G4 Team Gebhardt Racing Cars	Frank Jelinski Stanley Dickens Michael Herich	Gebhardt G4	88
11	SR2	55	Tampolli Engineering	Giovanna Amati Angelo Lancelotti Guido Knicz	Tampolli SR2 RTA-99	82
12	SR2	58	Ebrt Schroder Motorsport	Martin Henderson Stephane van Dyck	Pilbeam MP84	81
13	SR2	61	Grove	Alan Craggs Mike Chittenden Mike Catlow	Grove Mk.2	61
Disqualified
14th	SR2	57	Scuderia Giudici	Raffaele Raimondi Gianni Giudici	Picchio MB1	72
Failed
15th	SR1	15th	Target 24	Andrea de Lorenzi Alex Caffi	Riley & Scott Mk III	85
16	SR1	27	Doran Lista	Didier Theys Fredy Lienhard	Ferrari 333SP	85
17th	SR2	62	Turbo engine	Filippo Francioni Roberto Tonetti	Sighinolfi 1999	70
18th	SR1	10	Kremer Racing	John Nielsen Grant Orbell	Lola B98 / 10	67
19th	SR1	31	Riley & Scott Europe	Philippe Gache Franck Lagorce	Riley & Scott Mk III	64
20th	SR2	56	Tampolli Engineering	Paolo Maccari Arturo Merzario	Tampolli SR2 RTA-99	61
21st	SR2	60	Lucchini Engineering	Salvatore Ronca Massimo Saccomanno	Lucchini SR2 99	43
22nd	SR1	18th	Simpson Engineering	Viktor Maslov Nigel Greensall	Matrix MXP	40
23	SR1	5	GLV Brums	Gastón Mazzacane Giovanni Lavaggi	Ferrari 333SP	33
24	SR2	63	Redman Bright	Peter Owen Mark Smithson	Pilbeam MB84	8th
25th	SR2	99	Pi.R. Bruneau	Phil Burgan Pierre Bruneau	Debora LMP296	4th
26th	SR2	53	Siliprandi	Piergiuseppe Peroni Leonardo Maddalena	Lucchini SR2 99	1

Only in the entry list

Here you will find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race but did not take part for a variety of reasons.

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis
27	SR1	7th	BPR Competition	Remko Papenburg Bert Ploeg	Kremer K8
28	SR1	9	Kremer Racing		Kremer K8
29	SR1	11	SCI	Ranieri Randaccio Stefano Sebastiani	Lucchini SR1-98
30th	SR1	16	Conrero		Riley & Scott Mk III
31	SR1	25th	RWS Motorsport	Luca Riccitelli Günther Blieninger	Riley & Scott Mk III
32	SR1	40	Multimatic Karjala Pirelli	Scott Maxwell Harri Toivonen	Lola B98 / 10
33	SR2	51	Mark Bailey Racing		MBR 972
34	SR2	59	Tampolli Engineering		Tampolli SR2 RTA-99
35	SR2	64	Redman Bright		Pilbeam MP84

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
SR1	Jean-Marc Gounon	Eric Bernard		Lola B98 / 10	Overall victory
SR2	Giovanna Amati	Angelo Lancelotti	Guido Knicz	Tampolli SR2 RTA-99	Rank 11

Racing data

• Registered: 35
• Started: 26
• Rated: 13
• Race classes: 2
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: hot and dry
• Route length: 4.556 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 2:30: 06.273 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 94
• Total distance of the winning team: 428.264 km
• Winner's average: 171.186 km / h
• Pole position: Christian Pescatori - Ferrari 333SP (# 23) - 1: 29.992 = 182.256 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Grant Orbell - Lola B98 / 10 (# 10) - 1: 31.794 = 178.678 km / h
• Racing series: 7th round of the FIA Sports Car Championship in 1999

Web links

• Race results

Previous race of the 2:30 hour race in Brno 1999

FIA Sports Car Championship

Succession Race 2: 30-hour race at Magny-Cours in 1999