The 1997 Mosport Festival was a professional sports car racing event held at Mosport International Raceway in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada on August 29 to the 31st, 1997. It was the seventh round of the 1997 Professional SportsCar Racing Championship season. The weekend featured a separate 1 hour 45 minute, 52 lap Exxon Supreme GT Series race for GT cars on the Saturday and a 2-hour, 86 lap Exxon World SportsCar Championship race for World Sports Cars on the Sunday. The split races were the only time since the 1995 revival of the Mosport IMSA round that the race has gone two instead of three hours.

Mosport International Raceway

The World Sports Car race was won by the Central Arkansas Racing team with drivers Ron Fellows and Rob Morgan driving a Ferrari 333 SP. The Sunday race attracted more than 30,000 spectators with an estimated total of 100,000 over the four-day festival.[1]

The weekend included the eleventh race of the 1997 Trans-Am season won by Tommy Kendall in a Ford Mustang for his eleventh straight win of the season.[2] The festival also included concerts at the track by Tom Cochrane and the Goo Goo Dolls.

Race results

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Exxon World SportsCar Championship

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Pos Class No Team Drivers Chassis Tyre Laps
Engine
1 WSC 43 Central Arkansas Racing   Ron Fellows
  Rob Morgan
Ferrari 333SP G 86
Ferrari F310E 4.0L V12
2 WSC 16   Dyson Racing   Butch Leitzinger
  James Weaver
Riley & Scott Mk III G 86
Ford 5.0L V8
3 WSC 1   Doyle/Riley & Scott   Wayne Taylor
  Eric van de Poele
Riley & Scott Mk III P 86
Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8
4 WSC 27   Moretti Racing   Gianpiero Moretti (I)
  Didier Theys (B)
Ferrari 333 SP Y 86
Ferrari F310E 4.0 L V12
5 WSC 3   Dibos Racing   Eduardo Dibos
  Fermin Velez
Ferrari 333 SP G 84
Ferrari F310E 4.0 L V12
6 WSC 88   MSI Racing   Ross Bentley
  Jeff Jones
Riley & Scott Mk III G 81
Chevrolet 6.0 L V8
7 WSC 28   FAB Factory Motorsport   Jon Field
  A. J. Smith
Spice SC95 G 80
Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8
8 WSC 63   Downing Atlanta Racing   Barry Waddell
  Jim Downing
Kudzu DLM G 75
Mazda 2.0 L 3-Rotor
9 WSC 30   Moretti Racing   Antônio Hermann (BR)
  Andrea Montermini (I)
Ferrari 333 SP Y 71
Ferrari F310E 4.0 L V12
10 WSC 17   Courage Compétition   Martin Guimont
  Jacek Mucha
Courage C41 G 62
Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8
11 WSC 4   Dibos Racing   Neto Jochamowitz
  Jim Pace
Riley & Scott Mk III P 48
Oldsmobile Aurora 4.0 L V8
12 WSC 20   Dyson Racing   Elliott Forbes-Robinson
  Andy Wallace
Riley & Scott Mk III G 40
Ford 5.0 L V8
13 WSC 19   Davin Racing   Edd Davin
  Mark Montgomery
Argo P G 1
BMW 4.0 L V8
  • Time of race: 2 hours, 3.205 seconds
  • Average speed: 170.092 km-per-hour
  • Margin of victory: 0.89 seconds
  • Fastest race lap: Andrea Montermini, 1:12.527 (196.430 km/h), lap 61[3][4]

Exxon Supreme GT Series

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Pos Class No Team Drivers Car Tyre Laps
1 GTS-1 01 Rohr Corp.   Jochen Rohr
  Andy Pilgrim
  Dorsey Schroeder
Porsche 911 GT1 P 52
2 GTS-1 66 Panoz Motorsports   Doc Bundy
  Andy Wallace
Panoz GTR-1 Ford 52
3 GTS-2 61 Konrad Motorsport   Franz Konrad
  Nick Ham
Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo P 50
4 GTS-3 6 Prototype Technology Group   Derek Hill
  Javier Quiros
BMW M3 Y 50
5 GTS-3 7 Prototype Technology Group   Dieter Quester
  Marc Duez
BMW M3 Y 49
6 GTS-1 02 Rohr Corp.   Victor Sifton
  Joe Varde
  Jochen Rohr
  Andy Pilgrim
Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo P 49
7 GTS-2 97 GMB Motorsports (USA)   Dirk Layer
  Kelly Collins
Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo P 49
8 GTS-3 39 Jim Mathews Racing / Carolina Turkey   Jim Matthews
  David Murry
Porsche 993 P 49
9 GTS-2 15   Will Pace
  Jim Pace
  Snow - DNP
Porsche 911 Turbo Y 48
10 GTS-3 76 Team A.R.E. (USA)   Jeff Purner
  Blackman
Porsche 993 Carrera RSR 48
11 GTS-3 73 Jack Lewis Enterprises   Jack Lewis
  Tony Burgess
Porsche 993 Carrera RSR G 47
12 GTS-1 91 Rock Valley Oil & Chemical Co. Inc.   Roger Schramm
  Stu Hayner
Chevrolet Camaro P 40
13 GTS-3 41 Team Technodyne   Chris Cervelli
  Cort Wagner
Porsche 993 Carrera RSR P 37 mechanical
14 GTS-3 10 Prototype Technology Group   Bill Auberlen
  Boris Said
BMW M3 Y 30
15 GTS-2 99 Schumacher Racing   Larry Schumacher
  John O'Steen
Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo P 28
16 GTS-1 27 Multimatic Motorsports   Scott Maxwell
  Jason Priestley
Ford Mustang Cobra G 7 mechanical
17 GTS-2 56 Martin Snow   Martin Snow
  Peter Kitchak
Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo 0 accident
18 GTS-3 77 Mattco Racing   Matthew Cohen
  Pete Halsmer
  Renna
BMW M3 Y 0 accident
19 GTS-3 32 Phoenix American Motorsport   Marty Miller
  John Heinricy
  Joe Aquilante
Pontiac Firebird 0 accident
DNS GTS-3 18 RAE Motorsports Inc.   Raymond Boissoneau
  Peter Goebel
Mazda RX-7 DNS
DNS GTS-2 53   Melanie Snow Porsche 911 GT2 Turbo DNS
DNS 36 Schumacher Racing   Larry Schumacher
  John O'Steen
Porsche 911 DNS
  • Time of race: 1 hour, 46 minutes 1.543 seconds
  • Average speed: 116.452 km-per-hour
  • Margin of victory: 15.256 seconds
  • Fastest race lap: #66 Panoz GTR-1 Ford, 1:18.634 (181.1638 km/h), lap 23

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Trans-Am Series

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Pos No Driver Car Laps
1 5   Tommy Kendall Ford Mustang Cobra 40
2 3   Dorsey Schroeder Ford Mustang Cobra 40
3 6   Jon Gooding Ford Mustang Cobra 40
4 2   Brian Simo Ford Mustang Cobra 39
5 7   Mike Borkowski Ford Mustang Cobra 39
6 9   John W. Miller IV Chevrolet Camaro 39
7 13   Bruce Nesbitt Ford Mustang Cobra 39
8 10   Leighton Reese Pontiac Grand Prix 38
9 8   Max Lagod Chevrolet Camaro 38
10 12   Don Sak Oldsmobile Cutlass 38
11 11   Don Meluzio Chevrolet Camaro 37
12 14   Craig Shafer Chevrolet Camaro 37
13 17   John Halbing Oldsmobile Cutlass 36
14 19   Ed Hinchliff Ford Mustang Cobra 35
15 21   Chet Williams Chevrolet Camaro 35
16 18   Frank Cioppettini Jr. Chevrolet Camaro 34
17 15  Bob Ruman Chevrolet Camaro 32
18 4   Paul Gentilozzi Chevrolet Camaro 26 - Mech.
19 1   Alessandro Zampedri Chevrolet Camaro 23 - Crash.
20 22   Jerry Simmons Chevrolet Camaro 15 - Mech.
21 20   Jim Briody Chevrolet Camaro 9 - Mech.
22 16   Ray Genick Chevrolet Camaro 2 - Elect.
  • Time of race: 1 hour, 5 minutes, 46 seconds
  • Average speed: 89.735 miles-per-hour
  • Margin of victory: 1.3730 seconds
  • Fastest race lap: Tommy Kendall, 1:22.117 (107.802 mph), lap 30

References

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  1. ^ "Mosport Ron Fellows report". Motorsport.com. September 1, 1997. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
  2. ^ "Kendall Tops at Mosport Too, 11 For 11 With Mosport Park Trans-Am Win". The Auto Channel. September 1, 1997. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
  3. ^ "Mosport 2 Hours". Racing Sports Cars. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
  4. ^ "Mosport Festival". Ultimate Racing History. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
  5. ^ "SportsCar GTS Mosport 1997". Racing Sports Cars. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
  6. ^ "IMSA GT 1997". classicscars.com. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
  7. ^ "Mosport Festival IMSA GT Race". Ultimate Racing History. Retrieved March 26, 2015.