Monza 500 km race 1992

Toyota TS010 with starting number 7; Hitoshi Ogawa and Geoff Lees' winning car

The 500 km race of Monza 1992 , also SWC 500 km Monza, Autodromo Nazionale di Monza , took place on April 26 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza and was the first race of the sports car world championship of that year .

The race

The 500 km race in Monza was the first championship run in the 1992 World Championship. Even the field of just eleven vehicles marked the beginning of the end of the major sports car races in Europe at the beginning of the 1990s. The finish line can be described as curious. Although four cars crossed the finish line, only two were classified - the other cars had not covered the minimum distance of 90% of the number of laps of the winning car required for a classification. The place on the winners podium remained free for the third-placed. The race was won by Geoff Lees and Hitoshi Ogawa in a Toyota TS010 .

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	C1	7th	Toyota Team Tom's	Geoff Lee's Hitoshi Ogawa	Toyota TS010	87
2	C1	1	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Derek Warwick Yannick Dalmas	Peugeot 905 Evo 1 bis	85
Not classified
3	FIA CUP	22nd	Chamberlain Engineering	Ferdinand de Lesseps Bernhard Thuner	Spice SE89C	76
4th	FIA CUP	25th	GSR GmbH	Almo Coppelli Frank Kraemer	Gebhardt C91	75
Failed
5	FIA CUP	21st	Action Formula	Luigi Taverna Alessandro Gini	Spice SE90C	59
6th	FIA CUP	29	Team SCI	Ranieri Randaccio Stefano Sebastiani	Spice SE90C	46
7th	C1	2	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Mauro Baldi Philippe Alliot	Peugeot 905 Evo 1 bis	39
8th	C1	3	Euro Racing	Cor Euser Charles Zwolsman senior	Lola T92 / 10	39
9	C1	5	Mazdaspeed	Maurizio Sandro Sala Volker Weidler	Mazda MXR-01	35
10	C1	8th	Toyota Team Tom's	Andy Wallace Jan Lammers	Toyota TS010	25th
11	FIA CUP	23	Geepee Argo Cars	Georg Paolin David Coyne	Argo JM19D	25th
Not started
12	C1	4th	Euro Racing	Stefan Johansson Jesús Pareja	Lola T92 / 10	1

¹ gearbox damage in the formation lap

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
13	C1	9	British Racing Motors	Wayne Taylor Harri Toivonen	BRM P351
14th	C1	10	British Racing Motors	Tiff Needell Eugene O'Brien	BRM P351
15th	C1	11	Konrad Motorsport	Franz Konrad Bob Wollek	Konrad KM-011
16	C1	12	RM Motorsport	Raul Boesel Julian Bailey	Jaguar XJR-14
17th	C1	14th	RM Motorsport	Justin Bell	Jaguar XJR-14
18th	FIA Cup	24	GP motorsport		Spice SE90C
19th	FIA Cup	26th	Mussato Action Car	Massimo Monti Giovanni Fontanesi	Mussato MXJ-92
20th	FIA Cup	27	RM Motorsport		Jaguar XJR-17
21st	FIA Cup	28	RM Motorsport		Jaguar XJR-17
22nd	FIA Cup	30th	TDR Racing	Giovanni Lavaggi Perry McCarthy Fabio Magnani	Spice SE90C

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
C1	Geoff Lees	Hitoshi Ogawa	Toyota TS010	Overall victory
FIA Cup	no participant in the finish

Racing data

• Registered: 22
• Started: 11
• Valued: 2
• Race classes: 2
• Spectators: 20,000
• Race day weather: warm and dry
• Route length: 5.800 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 2:16: 42.659 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 87
• Total distance of the winning team: 504,600 km
• Winner's average: 221.460 km / h
• Pole position: Yannick Dalmas - Peugeot 905 Evo 1 Bis (# 1) - 1: 26.019 = 242.737 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Mauro Baldi - Peugeot 905 Evo 1 (# 2) - 1: 29.386 = 233.594 km / h
• Racing series: 1st round of the 1992 Sports Car World Championship

literature

• Peter Higham: The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. A complete Reference from Formula 1 to Touring Car. Guinness Publishing Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-85112-642-1 .

Web links

• Race results at wspr-racing.com ( Memento from June 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )

Previous race 430km Autopolis race 1991

Sports car world championship

Follow -up race 500 km from Silverstone 1992