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2001 Grand Prix of Mosport

The 2001 Gran Turismo 3 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 17 to the 19, 2001. It is named after Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, a racing game released on July 10, 2001, a month prior to this event. It was the seventh round of the 2001 American Le Mans Series season and the 16th IMSA / Professional SportsCar Racing sanctioned sports car race held at the facility.

Race

The overall race victory went to Audi Sport North America drivers Frank Biela and Emanuele Pirro marking the Audi R8's second consecutive win at Mosport. Second place went to Jan Magnussen and David Brabham in the Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S, with Team Cadillac drivers Emmanuel Collard and Christophe Tinseau picking up the first American Le Mans Series podium for the Cadillac Northstar LMP01.

Dick Barbour Racing took the LMP675 victory with drivers Bruno Lambert and Didier de Radigues in the Reynard 01Q.

Corvette Racing drivers Ron Fellows and Johnny O'Connell drove the Chevrolet Corvette C5-R to the GTS class victory with BMW Schnitzer Motorsport drivers Jörg Müller and JJ Lehto taking the GT win in the BMW M3 GTR.

The race was held under cool and rainy conditions and was broadcast across North America on NBC Sports with Rick Benjamin and Bill Adam calling the race.

Official results

Class winners in bold.

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tyre
DNF	15	16	17	18	19	20
DNF	21	22
DNF	23
DNF	24
DNF	25
DNF	26
DNF
LMP900	2	DEU Audi Sport North America	DEU Frank Biela
ITA Emanuele Pirro	Audi R8		115
Audi 3.6L Turbo V8
LMP900	50	USA Panoz Motor Sports	DEN Jan Magnussen
AUS David Brabham	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S		113
Élan 6L8 6.0L V8
LMP900	7	USA Team Cadillac	FRA Emmanuel Collard
FRA Christophe Tinseau	Cadillac Northstar LMP01		112
Cadillac Northstar 4.0L Turbo V8
LMP900	8	USA Team Cadillac	RSA Wayne Taylor
ITA Max Angelelli	Cadillac Northstar LMP01		112
Cadillac Northstart 4.0L Turbo V8
LMP900	16	USA Dyson Racing	USA Butch Leitzinger
GBR James Weaver	Riley & Scott Mk III C		112
Lincoln (Élan) 6.0L V8
LMP675	5	USA Dick Barbour Racing	BEL Bruno Lambert
BEL Didier de Radigues	Reynard 01Q		111
Judd GV675 3.4L V8
GTS	3	USA Corvette Racing	CAN Ron Fellows
USA Johnny O'Connell	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R		109
Chevrolet 7.0L V8
GTS	26	DEU Konrad Team Saleen	USA Terry Borcheller
Austria Franz Konrad	Saleen S7-R		108
Ford 7.0L V8
GTS	4	USA Corvette Racing	USA Andy Pilgrim
USA Kelly Collins	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R		107
Chevrolet 7.0L V8
GT	42	DEU BMW Motorsport
DEU Schnitzer Motorsport	DEU Jörg Müller
FIN JJ Lehto	BMW M3 GTR		107
BMW 4.0L V8
GT	43	DEU BMW Motorsport
DEU Schnitzer Motorsport	DEU Dirk Müller
SWE Fredrik Ekblom	BMW M3 GTR		107
BMW 4.0L V8
GT	6	USA Prototype Technology Group	USA Boris Said
DEU Hans-Joachim Stuck	BMW M3 GTR		107
BMW 4.0L V8
GT	23	USA Alex Job Racing	DEU Lucas Luhr
DEU Sascha Maassen	Porsche 911 GT3-RS		106
Porsche 3.6L Flat-6
LMP900	38	USA Champion Racing	GBR Andy Wallace
GBR Johnny Herbert	Audi R8		104
Audi 3.6L Turbo V8
GTS	45	USA American Viperacing	USA Shane Lewis
USA David Donohue	Dodge Viper GTS-R		103
Dodge 8.0L V10
GT	52	DEU Seikel Motorsport	CAN Tony Burgess
SWE Magnus Wallinder	Porsche 911 GT3-RS		102
Porsche 3.6L Flat-6
GT	69	CAN Kyser Racing	CAN Kye Wankum
USA Jeffrey Pabst	Porsche 911 GT3-R		96
Porsche 3.6L Flat-6
GT	15	USA Dick Barbour Racing	USA Grady Willingham
MEX Randy Wars	Porsche 911 GT3-R		95
Porsche 3.6L Flat-6
LMP675	57	USA Dick Barbour Racing	CAN John Graham
Venezuela Milka Duno	Reynard 01Q		95
Judd GV675 3.4L V8
GT	22	USA Alex Job Racing	USA Randy Pobst
DEU Christian Menzel	Porsche 911 GT3-RS		92
Porsche 3.6L Flat-6
GTS	44	USA American Viperacing	USA Tom Weickardt
USA Kevin Allen	Dodge Viper GTS-R		88
Dodge 8.0L V10
LMP675	11	USA Roock-KnightHawk Racing	USA Steven Knight
DEU Claudia Hürtgen	Lola B2K/40		56
Nissan (AER) VQL 3.4L V6
GT	10	USA Prototype Technology Group	USA Joe Foster
SWE Niclas Jönsson	BMW M3 GTR		27
BMW 4.0L V8
LMP900	1	DEU Audi Sport North America	ITA Rinaldo Capello
DEN Tom Kristensen	Audi R8		24
Audi 3.6L Turbo V8
GT	30	USA Petersen Motorsports	GBR Johnny Mowlem
DEU Timo Bernhard	Porsche 911 GT3-R		21
Porsche 3.6L Flat-6
LMP900	51	USA Panoz Motor Sports	DEU Klaus Graf
FRA Franck Lagorce	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S		1
Élan 6L8 6.0L V8

Statistics

Pole Position - #1 Audi Sport North America - 1:08.222
Fastest Lap - #2 Audi Sport North America - 1:10.002
Time of race - 2:46:03.805
Distance - 455.098 km
Average Speed - 164.430 km/h

References

Watkins, Gary. (September 2001). "Red Alert - Race Report Mosport". [[Haymarket Media Group]].

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