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1997 FIA GT Hockenheim 4 Hours

The 1997 FIA GT Hockenheim 4 Hours was the inaugural race of the FIA GT Championship, which had replaced the former BPR Global GT Series in 1997. It was run at the Hockenheimring on April 13, 1997.

Official results

Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).

Pos	Class	No	Team
NC	30
DNF	31
DNF	32
DNF	33
DNF	34
DNF	35
DNF	36
DNF	37
DNF	38
DNF	39
DNF	40
DNF	41
DNF	42
DNF	43
DNF	44
DNF	45
DNF	DNS	DNS
GT1	8	DEU BMW Motorsport
DEU Schnitzer Motorsport	FIN JJ Lehto
GBR Steve Soper	McLaren F1 GTR		113
BMW S70 6.0L V12
GT1	3	GBR Gulf Team Davidoff
GBR GTC Racing	FRA Jean-Marc Gounon
FRA Pierre-Henri Raphanel	McLaren F1 GTR		113
BMW S70 6.0L V12
GT1	2	GBR Gulf Team Davidoff
GBR GTC Racing	DEU Thomas Bscher
DNK John Nielsen	McLaren F1 GTR		112
BMW S70 6.0L V12
GT1	6	DEU Porsche AG	DEU Hans-Joachim Stuck
BEL Thierry Boutsen	Porsche 911 GT1		112
Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6
GT1	16	DEU Roock Racing	DEU Ralf Kelleners
FRA Yannick Dalmas	Porsche 911 GT1		111
Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6
GT1	18	DEU Schübel Rennsport	PRT Pedro Lamy
FRA Bob Wollek	Porsche 911 GT1		110
Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6
GT1	22	ITA BMS Scuderia Italia	ITA Pierluigi Martini
ITA Christian Pescatori	Porsche 911 GT1		110
Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6
GT1	21	DEU Kremer Racing	FRA Christophe Bouchut
DEU Klaus Ludwig
SWE Carl Rosenblad	Porsche 911 GT1		110
Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6
GT1	17	FRA JB Racing	FRA Emmanuel Collard
DEU Jürgen von Gartzen	Porsche 911 GT1		109
Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6
GT2	51	FRA Viper Team Oreca	MCO Olivier Beretta
FRA Philippe Gache	Chrysler Viper GTS-R		105
Chrysler 8.0L V10
GT1	4	GBR David Price Racing	GBR Andy Wallace
GBR James Weaver	Panoz Esperante GTR-1		105
Ford (Roush) 6.0L V8
GT2	52	FRA Viper Team Oreca	USA Tommy Archer
GBR Justin Bell	Chrysler Viper GTS-R		104
Chrysler 8.0L V10
GT2	56	DEU Roock Racing	DEU Claudia Hürtgen
CHE Bruno Eichmann
PRT Ni Amorim	Porsche 911 GT2		104
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT1	25	FRA BBA Compétition	FRA Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière
FRA Olivier Thévenin	McLaren F1 GTR		104
BMW S70 6.1L V12
GT2	68	ITA Rennsport Italia	ITA Angelo Zadra
ITA Marco Brand
ITA Leonardo Maddalena	Porsche 911 GT2	?	102
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT1	19	DEU Martin Veyhle Racing (MVR)	DEU Gerd Ruch
DEU Alexander Burgstaller
DEU Alexander Grau	McLaren F1 GTR		102
BMW S70 6.1L V12
GT2	67	DEU Konrad Motorsport	FRA Michel Ligonnet
CHE Toni Seiler
ITA Marco Spinelli	Porsche 911 GT2		101
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT2	63	DEU Krauss Motorsport	DEU Bernhard Müller
DEU Michael Trunk	Porsche 911 GT2		101
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT2	72	CHE Elf Haberthur Racing	FRA Jean-Claude Lagniez
FRA Guy Martinolle	Porsche 911 GT2		100
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT2	64	DEU Kremer Racing	ESP Tomás Saldaña
ESP Alfonso de Orléans	Porsche 911 GT2		100
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT2	73	DEU Seikel Motorsport	ITA Ruggero Grassi
ITA Renato Mastropietro
DEU Fred Rosterg	Porsche 911 GT2	?	99
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT2	69	DEU Proton Competition	DEU Gerold Ried
DEU Ernst Gschwender
FRA Patrick Vuillaume	Porsche 911 GT2		99
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT2	58	FRA Estoril Racing	PRT Manuel Monteiro
FRA Michel Monteiro	Porsche 911 GT2	?	98
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT2	62	CHE Stadler Motorsport	CHE Uwe Sick
CHE Denis Lay
DEU Axel Röhr	Porsche 911 GT2		98
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT2	57	DEU Roock Racing	FRA François Lafon
FRA Jean-Marc Smadja
FRA Stéphane Ortelli	Porsche 911 GT2		96
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT2	70	DEU Dellenbach Motorsport	DEU Rainer Bonnetsmüller
DEU Günther Blieninger
AUT Manfred Jurasz	Porsche 911 GT2		89
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT1	10	DEU AMG-Mercedes	ITA Alessandro Nannini
DEU Marcel Tiemann	Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR		89
Mercedes-Benz LS600 6.0L V12
GT2	53	GBR Chamberlain Engineering	NLD Hans Hugenholtz
FIN Jari Nurminen	Chrysler Viper GTS-R		76
Chrysler 8.0L V10
GT2	66	DEU Konrad Motorsport	AUT Franz Konrad
AUT Philipp Peter
DEU Uwe Alzen	Porsche 911 GT2		75
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT1	1	GBR Gulf Team Davidoff
GBR GTC Racing	GBR Ray Bellm
GBR Andrew Gilbert-Scott	McLaren F1 GTR		57
BMW S70 6.0L V12
GT2	60	NLD Marcos Racing International	NLD Toon van de Haterd
NLD Bert Ploeg	Marcos LM600		48
Chevrolet 5.9L V8
GT1	13	GBR GT1 Lotus Racing
FRA Giroix Racing	FRA Fabien Giroix
CHE Jean-Denis Délétraz	Lotus Elise GT1		47
Chevrolet LT5 6.0L V8
GT1	32	FRA Graham Racing	FRA Eric Graham
FRA David Velay	Venturi 600LM	?	44
Renault PRV 3.0L Turbo V6
GT1	23	GBR GBF UK Ltd.	ITA Luca Badoer
ITA Mimmo Schiattarella
ITA Mauro Martini	Lotus Elise GT1		42
Lotus 3.5L Turbo V8
GT2	65	DEU RWS	DEU Wolfgang Münster
ITA Raffaele Sangiuolo
ITA Luca Riccitelli	Porsche 911 GT2	?	41
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT1	20	FRA DAMS Panoz	FRA Éric Bernard
FRA Franck Lagorce	Panoz Esperante GTR-1		39
Ford (Roush) 6.0L V8
GT1	15	GBR GT1 Lotus Racing
FRA Giroix Racing	FRA Jérôme Policand
BRA Maurizio Sandro Sala	Lotus Elise GT1		37
Chevrolet LT5 6.0L V8
GT1	9	DEU BMW Motorsport
DEU Schnitzer Motorsport	NLD Peter Kox
ITA Roberto Ravaglia	McLaren F1 GTR		29
BMW S70 6.0L V12
GT2	50	GBR Agusta Racing Team	ITA Rocky Agusta
ITA Almo Coppelli	Callaway Corvette LM-GT		27
Chevrolet 6.3L V8
GT1	31	AUT Karl Augustin	AUT Karl Augustin
AUT Horst Felbermayr
ITA Stefano Buttiero	Porsche 911 GT2 Evo		24
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT1	14	GBR GT1 Lotus Racing
FRA Giroix Racing	NLD Jan Lammers
NLD Mike Hezemans	Lotus Elise GT1		23
Chevrolet LT5 6.0L V8
GT2	59	NLD Marcos Racing International	NLD Cor Euser
DEU Harald Becker	Marcos LM600		23
Chevrolet 5.9L V8
GT2	61	CHE Stadler Motorsport	CHE Enzo Calderari
CHE Lilian Bryner	Porsche 911 GT2		9
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT1	11	DEU AMG-Mercedes	DEU Bernd Schneider
AUT Alexander Wurz	Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR		5
Mercedes-Benz LS600 6.0L V12
GT2	55	AUT Karl Augustin	AUT Hans-Jörg Hofer
DEU Helmut Reis
DEU Wido Rössler	Porsche 911 GT2		3
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT1	5	GBR David Price Racing	AUS David Brabham
GBR Perry McCarthy	Panoz Esperante GTR-1		–
Ford (Roush) 6.0L V8
GT2	71	AUT GT Racing Team	ITA Luigino Pagatto
ITA Luca Drudi	Porsche 911 GT2	?	–
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6

Statistics

Pole Position – #11 AMG-Mercedes – 1:59.099
Fastest Lap – #8 BMW Motorsport – 2:01.711
Average Speed – 191.756 km/h
Distance – 770.999 km

References

"FIA GT Championship Hockenheim 1997".
(13 Apr 1997). "1997 Hockenheim 4 Hours Photos".
(26 Oct 2024). "1997 Hockenheim FIA GT".
(8 Nov 2023). "1997 FIA GT Championship".

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