Vallelunga 6-hour race in 1999

Piergiuseppe Peroni and Leonardo Maddalena achieved third place overall on a Lucchini SR2

The 6-hour race of Vallelunga 1999 , also Gold Cup, 6 ore Vallelunga , took place on November 21 at the Autodromo Vallelunga and was the seventh round of the Italian GT Championship of that year.

The race

In the last race of the Italian GT Championship in 1999, prototypes were also eligible to start. Thomas Bscher registered a BMW V12 LM for himself and Emanuele Pirro . Alex Caffi and Beppe Gabbiani drove a Riley & Scott Mk III. There was also a Ferrari 333SP , which was driven by Luca Drudi , among others .

All three prototypes failed in the race. The Riley & Scott Mk III had a gearbox failure. Thomas Bscher had to shut down the BMW after damage to the drive shaft. A defective front brake stopped the Ferrari. Denny Zardo and Angelo Lancelotti won the overall standings in a Tampolli RTA-98 powered by an Alfa Romeo engine , ten laps ahead of the competition.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	Pc	1	Denny Zardo	Denny Zardo Angelo Lancelotti	Tampolli RTA-98	248
2	Pc	3	Roberto Sperati	Roberto Sperati Fabio Poggetti	Lucchini SP97	238
3	IS SR2	9	Piergiuseppe Peroni	Piergiuseppe Peroni Leonardo Maddalena	Lucchini SR2-99	236
4th	Pc	2	Ernesto Saccomanno	Ernesto Saccomanno Luigi Scalini	Lucchini SP98	233
5	FGT2	14th	Seikel Motorsport	Giuseppe Quargentan Nigel Smith Ernst Palmberger	Porsche 911 GT2	233
6th	FGT2	15th	Gabriele Sabatini	Gabriele Sabatini Mauro Casadei Marco Spinelli	Porsche 964 GT2	232
7th	FGT3	23	RWS Motorsport	Hans-Jörg Hofer Luca Riccitelli Günther Blieninger	Porsche 993 GT3	230
8th	G3 GITC	32	Mario Spagnoli	Mario Spagnoli Arturo Merzario Horst Farnbacher	Porsche 996 Supercup	229
9	FGT2	12	RWS Motorsport	Horst Felbermayr senior Horst Felbermayr junior Raffaele Sangiuolo	Porsche 993 GT2	227
10	G3 GITC	33	Luigi Romoletto	Luigi Romoletto Guido Daccò	Porsche 993 RSR	226
11	G2 GITC	21st	Massimo Pasini	Massimo Pasini Francesco Virdis Beppe Schenetti	Porsche 911 Turbo	226
12	G2 GITC	20th	Dario Cerati	Dario Cerati Mario Sala Michel Ligonnet	Porsche 993 Supercup	216
13	G4 GITC	34	Aspero Lapilli	Aspero Lapilli Walter Ceroni Mattia Angiolini	Porsche Carrera 3.0	207
14th	FC	35	Stefano Speranza	Stefano Speranza Massimiliano Mugelli Biondetti	Ferrari F355 Challenge	206
15th	IS SR1	7th	Gianluca Giraudi	Gianluca Giraudi Luca Drudi Rory Parasitili	Ferrari 333SP	198
16	IS SR2	10	Lucchini Engineering	Massimo Saccomanno Salvatore Ronca	Lucchini SR2-99	169
17th	G2 GITC	19th	Matteo Cassina	Matteo Cassina Bruno Michelotti Paolo Rapetti	Porsche Carrera RSR 3.8	163
Failed
18th	G3 GITC	29	Tonino Persiani	Tonino Persiani Fabrizio Frizzi I. Persiani	Nissan 300ZX	146
19th	G3 GITC	31	Glauco Solieri	Glauco Solieri Fabian Peroni Gianluca de Lorenzi	Ferrari F355 GT	120
20th	LMP1	4th	Bscher	Thomas Bscher Emanuele Pirro	BMW V12 LM	83
21st	IS SR2	6th	Roberto Tonetti	Roberto Tonetti Fabio Mancini	Sighinolfi	64
22nd	WSC	5	Conrero Srl	Alex Caffi Beppe Gabbiani	Riley & Scott Mk III	62
23	G3 GITC	26th	Franco Scapini	Ivan Capelli Erich Prinoth Marco De Iturbe	Ferrari F355 GT	29
Not started
24	G3 GITC	27	Win sport	Luca Cattaneo Renato Premoli Antonio De Castro	Porsche Carrera Cup	1

¹ not started

Only in the entry list

No further reports are known for this race.

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
LMP	no participant in the finish
WSC	no participant in the finish
Pc	Denny Zardo	Angelo Lancelotti		Tampolli RTA-98	Overall victory
FGT2	Giuseppe Quargentan	Nigel Smith	Ernst Palmberger	Porsche 911 GT2	Rank 5
FGT3	Hans-Jörg Hofer	Luca Riccitelli	Günther Blieninger	Porsche 993 GT3	Rank 7
FC	Stefano Speranza	Massimiliano Mugelli	Biondetti	Ferrari F355 Challenge	Rank 14
G2 GITC	Massimo Pasini	Francesco Virdis	Beppe Schenetti	Porsche 911 Turbo	Rank 11
G3 GITC	Mario Spagnoli	Arturo Merzario	Horst Farnbacher	Porsche 996 Supercup	Rank 8
G4 GITC	Aspero Lapilli	Walter Ceroni	Mattia Angiolini	Porsche Carrera 3.0	Rank 13
IS SR1	Gianluca Giraudi	Luca Drudi	Rory Parasitili	Ferrari 333SP	Rank 15
IS SR2	Piergiuseppe Peroni	Leonardo Maddalena		Lucchini SR2-99	Rank 3

Racing data

• Registered: 24
• Started: 23
• Valued: 17
• Race classes: 11
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: rain
• Route length: 4.085 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 6:01:05.473 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 248
• Total distance of the winning team: 793,600 km
• Winner's average: 131.866 km / h
• Pole position: Gianluca Giraudi - Ferrari 333SP (# 7)
• Fastest race lap: Gianluca Giraudi - Ferrari 333SP (# 7) - 1: 12.471 = 158.960 km / h
• Racing series: 7th round of the Italian Sports Car Championship 1999

Web links

• Race results

Previous race 50 km of Magione 1999

Italian GT Championship

Successor to the 1-hour race at Vallelunga 2000