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2000 Grand Prix of Mosport

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The 2000 globemegawheels.com Grand Prix of Mosport was an American Le Mans Series professional sports car race held at Mosport International Raceway near Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada from August 4 to the 6, 2000. It was the sixth round of the 2000 American Le Mans Series season and the 15th IMSA / Professional SportsCar Racing sanctioned sports car race held at the facility.

Race

The overall race was won by Audi Sport North America's Audi R8 driven by Rinaldo Capello and Allan McNish for their second successive American Le Mans Series win of the season. The race was one of the closest races in sportscar racing history with the second place BMW V12 LMR driven by Jörg Müller and JJ Lehto for BMW Schnitzer Motorsport only 0.149 seconds behind at the finish. The #43 BMW V12 LMR driven by Jean-Marc Gounon and Bill Auberlen finished third.

The race victory in the GTS class was equally as close with the Viper Team Oreca Dodge Viper GTS-R of Olivier Beretta and Karl Wendlinger beating the local favorite Ron Fellows and his teammate Andy Pilgrim in the Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette C5-R by 0.29 seconds.

The GT class victory went Alex Job Racing drivers Randy Pobst and Bruno Lambert in the Porsche 911 GT3-R.

After two sunny days for practice and qualifying, the race was held under cool rainy conditions which led to five caution periods over 23 laps. The race was broadcast across North America on NBC Sports with Allen Bestwick and Bill Adam calling the race.

Official results

Class winners in bold.

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tyre	Laps	Engine	1	2
DNF	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
DNF	18	19	20
DNF	21	22	23
DNF	24
DNF	25
DNF	26
DNF	DNS	DNS	DNS
LMP	77	DEU Audi Sport North America	ITA Rinaldo Capello
GBR Allan McNish	Audi R8		94
Audi 3.6 L Turbo V8
LMP	42	DEU BMW Motorsport
DEU Schnitzer Motorsport	DEU Jörg Müller
FIN JJ Lehto	BMW V12 LMR		94
BMW S70 6.0 L V12
LMP	43	DEU BMW Motorsport
DEU Schnitzer Motorsport	FRA Jean-Marc Gounon
USA Bill Auberlen	BMW V12 LMR		93
BMW S70 6.0 L V12
GTS	91	FRA Viper Team Oreca	MON Olivier Beretta
AUT Karl Wendlinger	Dodge Viper GTS-R		91
Dodge 8.0L V10
GTS	3	USA Corvette Racing	USA Andy Pilgrim
CAN Ron Fellows	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R		91
Chevrolet 7.0 L V8
GTS	92	FRA Viper Team Oreca	USA David Donohue
USA Tommy Archer	Dodge Viper GTS-R		91
Dodge 8.0 L V10
LMP	36	USA Johansson-Matthews Racing	SWE Stefan Johansson
GBR Guy Smith	Reynard 2KQ-LM		90
Judd GV4 4.0 L V10
LMP	2	USA Panoz Motor Sports	USA Johnny O'Connell
JPN Hiroki Katou	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S		89
Élan 6L8 6.0 L V8
GT	23	USA Alex Job Racing	USA Randy Pobst
BEL Bruno Lambert	Porsche 911 GT3-R		89
Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6
GT	7	USA Prototype Technology Group	USA Boris Said
DEU Hans-Joachim Stuck	BMW M3		88
BMW 3.2 L I6
GT	51	USA Dick Barbour Racing	DEU Sascha Maassen
FRA Bob Wollek	Porsche 911 GT3-R		87
Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6
GT	21	USA MCR/Aspen Knolls	USA Shane Lewis
USA Cort Wagner	Porsche 911 GT3-R		87
Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6
GT	10	USA Prototype Technology Group	USA Brian Cunningham
USA Peter Cunningham	BMW M3		87
BMW 3.2 L I6
GTS	08	USA Roock Motorsport North America	USA Zak Brown
USA Vic Rice	Porsche 911 GT2		87
Porsche 3.8 L Turbo Flat-6
GT	22	USA Alex Job Racing	USA Mike Fitzgerald
USA Robert Nagel	Porsche 911 GT3-R		86
Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6
GT	70	AUS Skea Racing International	GBR Johnny Mowlem
USA David Murry	Porsche 911 GT3-R		86
Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6
LMP	78	DEU Audi Sport North America	DEU Frank Biela
ITA Emanuele Pirro	Audi R8		85
Audi 3.6 L Turbo V8
GT	71	AUS Skea Racing International	USA Grady Willingham
USA Doc Bundy	Porsche 911 GT3-R		78
Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6
GT	67	USA The Racer's Group	USA Robert Orcutt
USA Jennifer Tumminelli	Porsche 911 GT3-R		78
Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6
GT	66	USA The Racer's Group	USA Kevin Buckler
USA Philip Collin	Porsche 911 GT3-R		77
Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6
GT	69	CAN Kyser Racing	CAN Greg Doff
CAN Kye Wankum
CAN Rudy Bartling	Porsche 911 GT3-R		67
Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6
GT	52	DEU Seikel Motorsport	CAN Tony Burgess
ITA Stefano Buttiero	Porsche 911 GT3-R		45
Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6
LMP	1	USA Panoz Motor Sports	AUS David Brabham
DEN Jan Magnussen	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S		40
Élan 6L8 6.0 L V8
LMP	24	USA Johansson-Matthews Racing	USA Jim Matthews
USA Mark Simo	Reynard 2KQ-LM		18
Judd GV4 4.0 L V10
GT	5	USA Dick Barbour Racing	DEU Dirk Müller
DEU Lucas Luhr	Porsche 911 GT3-R		13
Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6
GT	6	USA Prototype Technology Group	USA Johannes van Overbeek
USA Brian Simo	BMW M3		11
BMW 3.2 I6
LMP	0	ITA Team Rafanelli SRL	ITA Mimmo Schiattarella
BEL Didier de Radiguès	Lola B2K/10		-
Judd (Rafanelli) GV4 4.0 L V10
LMP	8	USA Phil Creighton Motorsports	USA Scott Schubot
CAN Claude Bourbonnais	Lola B2K/10		-
Ford (Roush) 6.0 L V8
GTS	73	CAN Multimatic Motorsports
CAN Doncaster Racing	CAN David Lacey
CAN Greg Willkins	Porsche 911 GT2		-
Porsche 3.6 L Turbo Flat-6

Statistics

Pole Position - #78 Audi Sport North America - 1:08.432
Fastest Lap - #77 Audi Sport North America - 1:11.424
Time of race - 2:46:05.662
Distance - 371.993 km
Average Speed - 134.379 km/h

References

Watkins, Gary. (August 10, 2000). "Drench Canadian - ALMS Round 6". [[Haymarket Media Group]].
Baser, Ken. (August 31, 2000). "Edged - Audi and BMW battle a slick track to a photo finish". [[Street & Smith.
Watkins, Gary. (September 2000). "Down To The Wire - Mosport Report". [[Haymarket Media Group]].
(2000). "Official Results". [[International Motor Sports Association]].
"American Le Mans Series 2000". World Sports Racing Prototypes.

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