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1997 Suzuka 1000 km

The 1997 Pokka Suzuka 1000km was the seventh race of the 1997 FIA GT Championship season. It was run at the Suzuka Circuit, Japan on August 24, 1997.

Several Japanese teams chose to participate in this race, conforming to either the GT1 and GT2 classes.

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	27
DNF	28
DNF	29
DNF	30
DNF	31
DNF	32
DNF	33
DNF	34
DNF	35
DNF	36
DNF	DNS
GT1	10	DEU AMG-Mercedes	DEU Marcel Tiemann
ITA Alessandro Nannini
DEU Bernd Schneider‡	Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR		171
Mercedes-Benz LS600 6.0L V12
GT1	12	DEU AMG-Mercedes	DEU Klaus Ludwig
DEU Bernd Mayländer	Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR		171
Mercedes-Benz LS600 6.0L V12
GT1	3	GBR Gulf Team Davidoff
GBR GTC Racing	SWE Anders Olofsson
FRA Pierre-Henri Raphanel
FRA Jean-Marc Gounon	McLaren F1 GTR		171
BMW S70 6.0L V12
GT1	8	DEU BMW Motorsport
DEU Schnitzer Motorsport	FIN JJ Lehto
GBR Steve Soper	McLaren F1 GTR		171
BMW S70 6.0L V12
GT1	6	DEU Porsche AG	FRA Bob Wollek
BEL Thierry Boutsen
DEU Hans-Joachim Stuck	Porsche 911 GT1 Evo		169
Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6
GT1	1	GBR Gulf Team Davidoff
GBR GTC Racing	GBR Andrew Gilbert-Scott
GBR Geoff Lees
DNK John Nielsen	McLaren F1 GTR		169
BMW S70 6.0L V12
GT1	11	DEU AMG-Mercedes	DEU Bernd Schneider
AUT Alexander Wurz
JPN Aguri Suzuki	Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR		169
Mercedes-Benz LS600 6.0L V12
GT1	9	DEU BMW Motorsport
DEU Schnitzer Motorsport	NLD Peter Kox
ITA Roberto Ravaglia	McLaren F1 GTR		169
BMW S70 6.0L V12
GT1	44	JPN Team Lark McLaren	JPN Keiichi Tsuchiya
JPN Masanori Sekiya
JPN Akihiko Nakaya	McLaren F1 GTR		168
BMW S70 6.0L V12
GT1	7	DEU Porsche AG	GBR Allan McNish
FRA Yannick Dalmas
PRT Pedro Lamy	Porsche 911 GT1 Evo		164
Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6
GT1	17	FRA JB Racing	ITA Mauro Baldi
FRA Emmanuel Collard
FRA Alain Ferté	Porsche 911 GT1		164
Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6
GT1	5	GBR David Price Racing	AUS David Brabham
GBR Perry McCarthy
FRA Olivier Grouillard	Panoz Esperante GTR-1		154
Ford (Roush) 6.0L V8
GT1	16	DEU Roock Racing	DEU Ralf Kelleners
FRA Christophe Bouchut
SWE Carl Rosenblad	Porsche 911 GT1		159
Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6
GT2	51	FRA Viper Team Oreca	MCO Olivier Beretta
FRA Philippe Gache	Chrysler Viper GTS-R		156
Chrysler 8.0L V10
GT2	57	DEU Roock Racing	PRT Pedro Chaves
GBR Robert Nearn
JPN Hisashi Wada	Porsche 911 GT2		155
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT2	52	FRA Viper Team Oreca	GBR Justin Bell
USA Tommy Archer
JPN Hideshi Matsuda	Chrysler Viper GTS-R		155
Chrysler 8.0L V10
GT2	66	DEU Konrad Motorsport	AUT Franz Konrad
DEU Wolfgang Kaufmann
JPN Seiichi Sodeyama	Porsche 911 GT2		153
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT2	56	DEU Roock Racing	CHE Bruno Eichmann
PRT Ni Amorim
DEU Claudia Hürtgen	Porsche 911 GT2		153
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT2	83	FRA Larbre Compétition	FRA Patrice Goueslard
FRA Jean-Luc Chereau
FRA Jack Leconte	Porsche 911 GT2	?	148
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT2	55	AUT Augustin Motorsport	DEU Ernst Gschwender
DEU Helmut Reis
DEU Wido Rössler	Porsche 911 GT2		143
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT2	62	CHE Stadler Motorsport	CHE Denis Lay
CHE Uwe Sick
CHE Franz Hunkeler	Porsche 911 GT2		145
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT2	58	FRA Estoril Racing Team	FRA Michel Monteiro
PRT Manuel Monteiro
CHE Henri-Louis Maunoir	Porsche 911 GT2	?	140
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT2	59	NLD Marcos Racing International	NLD Cor Euser
DEU Harald Becker
NLD Herman Buurman	Marcos LM600		138
Chevrolet 5.9L V8
GT2	63	DEU Krauss Motorsport	JPN Takashi Suzuki
JPN Sumio Sakurai
GBR Nigel Smith	Porsche 911 GT2		130
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT2	53	GBR Chamberlain Engineering	JPN Manabu Orido
JPN Naohiro Kawano
JPN Yukihiro Hane	Chrysler Viper GTS-R		84
Chrysler 8.0L V10
GT2	84	JPN NSX Dream 28 Competition	JPN Hajime Ooshiro
JPN Masayoshi Furuya
JPN Shigekazu Saeki	Honda NSX	?	45
Honda 3.2L V6
GT1	4	GBR David Price Racing	GBR Andy Wallace
GBR James Weaver
USA Butch Leitzinger	Panoz Esperante GTR-1		110
Ford (Roush) 6.0L V8
GT2	50	GBR Agusta Racing Team
CHE Elf Haberthur Racing	ITA Luca Drudi
FRA Michel Ligonnet
JPN Masahiro Kimoto	Porsche 911 GT2	?	86
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT1	46	JPN Team Menicon SARD	JPN Masami Kageyama
JPN Tetsuya Tanaka	SARD MC8-R		71
Toyota 1UZ-FE 4.0L Turbo V8
GT1	27	GBR Parabolica Motorsport	GBR Gary Ayles
GBR Chris Goodwin
SWE Stefan Johansson	McLaren F1 GTR		65
BMW S70 6.0L V12
GT2	69	DEU Proton Competition	DEU Gerold Ried
FRA Patrick Vuillaume
AUT Manfred Jurasz	Porsche 911 GT2		59
Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
GT1	20	FRA DAMS Panoz	FRA Éric Bernard
FRA Franck Lagorce	Panoz Esperante GTR-1		26
Ford (Roush) 6.0L V8
GT1	25	FRA BBA Compétition	FRA Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière
JPN Jun Harada
JPN Tomiko Yoshikawa	McLaren F1 GTR		18
BMW S70 6.1L V12
GT1	15	FRA First Racing Project
GBR GT1 Lotus Racing	THA Ratanakul Prutirat
FRA Fabien Giroix
FRA Jérôme Policand	Lotus Elise GT1		15
Chevrolet LT5 6.0L V8
GT2	85	JPN Team Signal	JPN Takeshi Yuasa
JPN Kiyoaki Hanai
JPN Akio Tomita	Nissan Silvia	?	2
Nissan SR20DET 2.0L Turbo I4
GT1	39	JPN IDC Ootsukakagu SARD	JPN Tatsuya Tanigawa
JPN Yuji Tachikawa
JPN Yasutaka Hinoi	SARD MC8-R		0
Toyota 1UZ-FE 4.0L Turbo V8
GT1	2	GBR Gulf Team Davidoff
GBR GTC Racing	DNK John Nielsen
DEU Thomas Bscher	McLaren F1 GTR		–
BMW S70 6.0L V12

‡ – Did not score points due to not being entered in that car

Statistics

Pole Position – #12 AMG-Mercedes – 1:56.023
Fastest Lap – #12 AMG-Mercedes – 2:00.019
Average Speed – 167.340 km/h

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