1998 FIA GT Hockenheim 500 km explained

The 1998 FIA GT Hockenheim 500 km was the third round the 1998 FIA GT Championship season. It took place at the Hockenheimring, Germany, on June 28, 1998.

Official results

Class winners are in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tyre	Laps
					Engine
1	GT1	1	AMG Mercedes	Bernd Schneider Mark Webber	Mercedes-Benz CLK LM		74
					Mercedes-Benz M119 6.0L V8
2	GT1	2	AMG Mercedes	Klaus Ludwig Ricardo Zonta	Mercedes-Benz CLK LM		74
					Mercedes-Benz M119 6.0L V8
3	GT1	3	DAMS	Éric Bernard David Brabham	Panoz GTR-1		73
					Ford (Roush) 6.0L V8
4	GT1	12	Team Persson Motorsport	Marcel Tiemann Jean-Marc Gounon	Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR		73
					Mercedes-Benz M120 6.0L V12
5	GT1	15	Davidoff Classic GTC Competition	Geoff Lees Thomas Bscher	McLaren F1 GTR		72
					BMW S70 6.0L V12
6	GT1	7	Porsche AG	Yannick Dalmas Allan McNish	Porsche 911 GT1-98		72
					Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6
7	GT1	6	Zakspeed Racing	Michael Bartels Armin Hahne	Porsche 911 GT1-98		72
					Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6
8	GT2	51	Viper Team Oreca	Pedro Lamy Olivier Beretta	Chrysler Viper GTS-R		69
					Chrysler 8.0L V10
9	GT2	52	Viper Team Oreca	Karl Wendlinger David Donohue	Chrysler Viper GTS-R		68
					Chrysler 8.0L V10
10	GT1	8	Porsche AG	Jörg Müller Uwe Alzen	Porsche 911 GT1-98		67
					Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6
11	GT2	57	Roock Racing	Bruno Eichmann Sascha Maassen	Porsche 911 GT2		67
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
12	GT2	56	Roock Racing	Stéphane Ortelli Claudia Hürtgen	Porsche 911 GT2		67
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
13	GT2	60	Elf Haberthur Racing	Michel Neugarten Gerd Ruch Marco Spinelli	Porsche 911 GT2		66
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
14	GT2	62	Stadler Motorsport	Uwe Sick Axel Röhr	Porsche 911 GT2		65
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
15	GT2	65	Konrad Motorsport	Toni Seiler Martin Stretton	Porsche 911 GT2		64
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
16	GT2	96	Proton Competition	Horst Felbermayr, Sr. Horst Felbermayr, Jr.	Porsche 911 GT2		64
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
17	GT2	61	Elf Haberthur Racing	David Velay Eric Graham David Smadja	Porsche 911 GT2		63
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
18	GT2	98	Cirtek Motorsport Saleen-Allen Speedlab	Mauro Casadei Andrea Garbagnati Angelo Zadra	Saleen Mustang SR		63
					Ford 5.9L V8
19	GT1	27	Parabolica Motorsport BBA Compétition	Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière Patrick Caternet Steffen Widmann	McLaren F1 GTR		63
					BMW S70 6.1L V12
20	GT2	66	Konrad Motorsport	Franz Konrad Nick Ham	Porsche 911 GT2		62
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
21	GT2	76	Seikel Motorsport	Gerhard Marchner Ernst Palmberger Renato Mastropietro	Porsche 911 GT2		59
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
22	GT1	11	Team Persson Motorsport	Bernd Mayländer Christophe Bouchut	Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR		55
					Mercedes-Benz M120 6.0L V12
23	GT2	63	Krauss Race Sports International	Michael Trunk Bernhard Müller	Porsche 911 GT2		53
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
24	GT2	58	Roock Sportsystem	André Ahrlé Ratanakul Prutirat	Porsche 911 GT2		53
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
25 NC	GT2	74	Paul Belmondo Racing	Marc Rostan Jacques Piattier Francis Werner	Porsche 911 GT2		41
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
26 DNF	GT2	70	Marcos Racing International	Harald Becker Cor Euser Christian Vann	Marcos LM600		28
					Chevrolet 5.9L V8
27 DNF	GT1	5	Zakspeed Racing	Alexander Grau Andreas Scheld	Porsche 911 GT1-98		22
					Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6
28 DNF	GT2	53	Chamberlain Engineering	Ni Amorim Gonçalo Gomes	Chrysler Viper GTS-R		12
					Chrysler 8.0L V10
29 DNF	GT2	69	Proton Competition	Patrick Vuillaume Gerold Ried	Porsche 911 GT2		7
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
DNS	GT1	9	Team Hezemans	Jan Lammers Mike Hezemans	Bitter GT1		–
					Chrysler 8.0L V10
DNS	GT1	10	Team Hezemans	Rainer Bonnetsmüller Manfred Jurasz Michael Fielder	Bitter GT1		–
					Chrysler 8.0L V10
DNS	GT2	75	Swiss Team Salamin	Bernard Schwach Max Cohen-Olivar	Porsche 911 GT2	?	–
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6

Statistics

• Pole position – #1 AMG Mercedes – 1:57.571
• Fastest lap – #1 AMG Mercedes – 2:00.333
• Average speed – 197.740 km/h

References

• Web site: Results: 1998 Round 3 – Hockenheim . FIA GT Championship . 28 June 1998 . 2007-12-14.
• Web site: 500 km Hockenheim . World Sports Racing Prototypes . 2 October 2005 . 2007-12-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080924165529/http://wsrp.ic.cz/fiagt1998.html#3 . 2008-09-24 . dead .
• Web site: FIA GT Championship Hockenheim 1998 (Photo Archive) . Racing Sports Cars . 17 September 2002 . 2007-12-14.