Donington 2:30 hour race in 1999
The 1999 Donington 2:30 hour race , also known as The Very Fast Show (SportsRacing World Cup), Donington Park , took place on July 18 at Donington Park and was the fifth round of the FIA Sports Car Championship of that year.
The race
After the end of the sports car world championship in 1992 , unlike North America, there was no sports car racing series in Europe for a few years . The establishment of the FIA sports car championship was initiated by the British entrepreneur and racing driver John Mangoletsi . With the start of the series in 1997 , the FIA took over the direction and created the technical regulations. The sports car championship was designed to complement the FIA GT championship , which started in the same year .
In 1999 the series became Sports Racing World Cup and began in March with the 2:30 hour race in Barcelona , which resulted in the overall victory of Emmanuel Collard and Vincenzo Sospiri in a Ferrari 333SP entered by the Jean-Pierre Jabouilles team . In Donington, Jean-Marc Gounon and Éric Bernard remained successful in the DAMS - Lola B98 / 10 . The attraction of the race was the 56-year-old Arturo Merzario , who drove a Tampolli SR2 RTA-99 together with Paolo Maccari . After an accident with their teammate, the duo dropped out in the last quarter of the race.
Results
Final ranking
| Item | class | No. | team | driver | vehicle | Round | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SR1 | 12 |
 DAMS team
|
Jean-Marc Gounon Éric Bernard
|
Lola B98 / 10 | 99 | ||
| 2 | SR1 | 5 |
 GLV Brums
|
 Gastón Mazzacane Giovanni Lavaggi
|
Ferrari 333SP | 99 | ||
| 3 | SR1 | 1 |
JB Giesse Team Ferrari
|
Emmanuel Collard Vincenzo Sospiri
|
Ferrari 333SP | 99 | ||
| 4th | SR1 | 2 |
JB Giesse Team Ferrari
|
Mauro Baldi Laurent Redon
|
Ferrari 333SP | 98 | ||
| 5 | SR1 | 23 |
BMS Scuderia Italia
|
Christian Pescatori Emanuele Moncini
|
Ferrari 333SP | 98 | ||
| 6th | SR1 | 22nd |
BMS Scuderia Italia
|
Marco Zadra Angelo Zadra
|
Ferrari 333SP | 98 | ||
| 7th | SR1 | 15th |
Target 24
|
Andrea de Lorenzi Nicola Larini
|
Riley & Scott Mk III | 97 | ||
| 8th | SR1 | 4th |
 Autosport Racing
|
Enzo Calderari Lilian Bryner Jean-Denis Delétraz
|
Ferrari 333SP | 96 | ||
| 9 | SR1 | 6th |
 Dutch National Racing Team
|
Alexander van der Lof Dick Waaijenberg
|
Ferrari 333SP | 93 | ||
| 10 | SR1 | 10 |
 Kremer Racing
|
 John Nielsen Grant Orbell
 |
Lola B98 / 10 | 89 | ||
| 11 | SR2 | 58 |
 EBRT Schroder Motorsport
|
 Martin Henderson Stephane van Dyck
|
Pilbeam MP84 | 88 | ||
| 12 | SR2 | 53 |
Siliprandi
|
Piergiuseppe Peroni Leonardo Maddalena
|
Lucchini SR2 99 | 87 | ||
| 13 | SR2 | 99 |
PR Bruneau
|
Jean-François Yvon Pierre Bruneau
|
Debora LMP296 | 86 | ||
| 14th | SR2 | 57 |
Scuderia Giudici
|
Raffaele Raimondi Gianni Giudici
|
Picchio MB1 | 86 | ||
| 15th | SR1 | 7th |
BPR Competition
|
Remko Papenburg Bert Ploeg
|
Kremer K8 | 85 | ||
| 16 | SR2 | 60 |
Lucchini Engineering
|
Salvatore Ronca Massimo Saccomanno
|
Lucchini SR2 99 | 85 | ||
| 17th | SR2 | 50 |
Mark Bailey Racing
|
Nigel Smith Barry Shaw
|
MBR 972 | 70 | ||
| Failed | ||||||||
| 18th | SR2 | 56 |
Cauduro Tampolli team
|
Paolo Maccari Arturo Merzario
|
Tampolli SR2 RTA-99 | 75 | ||
| 19th | SR1 | 25th |
RWS Motorsport
|
Luca Riccitelli Günther Blieninger
|
Riley & Scott Mk III | 54 | ||
| 20th | SR2 | 62 |
Turbo engine
|
Filippo Francioni Roberto Tonetti
|
Sighinolfi 1999 | 49 | ||
| 21st | SR1 | 40 |
 Multimatic
|
Scott Maxwell Harri Toivonen
|
Lola B98 / 10 | 34 | ||
| 22nd | SR1 | 18th |
Simpson Engineering
|
Martin O'Connell Warren Carway
|
Matrix XP | 31 | ||
| 23 | SR1 | 16 |
Conrero
|
Beppe Gabbiani Felipe Ortiz John Burton
|
Riley & Scott Mk III | 18th | ||
| 24 | SR2 | 55 |
Cauduro Tampolli team
|
Angelo Lancelotti Giovanna Amati
|
Tampolli SR2 RTA-99 | 16 | ||
| 25th | SR1 | 31 |
Riley & Scott Europe
|
Gary Formato Philippe Gache Franck Lagorce
|
Riley & Scott Mk III | 11 | ||
| 26th | SR1 | 11 |
SCI
|
Ranieri Randaccio Stefano Sebastiani
|
Lucchini SR1-98 | 6th | ||
| Not started | ||||||||
| 27 | SR1 | 8th |
G4 Team Gebhardt Racing Cars
|
Harald Becker Mathias Andersson Michael Herich
 |
Gebhardt G4 | 1 | ||
| 28 | SR1 | 26th |
Kelemata Italtechnica
|
Felice Tedeschi Gianluca Giraudi
|
Ferrari 333SP | 2 | ||
| 29 | SR2 | 51 |
Mark Bailey Racing
|
Heinrich Langfermann Richard Fores
|
MBR 972 | 3 | ||
| 30th | SR2 | 63 |
Pilbeam
|
Peter Owen Mark Smithson
|
Pilbeam MB84 | 4th | ||
1 overheated engine during training 2 accident during training 3 accident during training 4 engine damage during training
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | SR1 | 17th |
Price & Bscher
|
Thomas Bscher
|
BMW V12 LM |
| 32 | SR1 | 32 |
Riley & Scott Europe
|
Riley & Scott Mk III | |
| 33 | SR2 | 54 |
Luigi Taverna
|
Osella PA20 | |
| 34 | SR2 | 59 |
Debora
|
Debora |
Class winner
| class | driver | driver | vehicle | Placement in the overall ranking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SR1 |
Jean-Marc Gounon
|
Eric Bernard
|
Lola B98 / 10 | Overall victory |
| SR2 |
Martin Henderson
|
Stephane van Dyck
|
Pilbeam MP84 | Rank 11 |
Racing data
- Registered: 34
- Started: 26
- Valued: 17
- Race classes: 2
- Spectators: 18,000
- Race day weather: warm and dry
- Route length: 4.023 km
- Driving time of the winning team: 2:30: 04.848 hours
- Total laps of the winning team: 99
- Total distance of the winning team: 398.313 km
- Winner's average: 159.240 km / h
- Pole position: Jean-Marc Gounon - Lola B98 / 10 (# 12) - 1: 24.639 = 171.128 km / h
- Fastest race lap: John Nielsen - Lola B98 / 10 (# 10) - 1: 25.928 = 168.400 km / h
- Racing series: 5th round of the FIA Sports Car Championship 1999
Web links
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Previous race 2:30 hour race of Pergusa 1999 |
FIA Sports Car Championship |
Succession Race 2: 30-hour race at Brno 1999 |