Super Success in Round 1
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- Barcelona, March 28th, 1999
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- Six-pack - win
for Ferrari
- Last year’s
winner strikes again
- Second car of JB
Giesse
- Ferrari going to
be superior in Monza as well?
- Results
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- Six Ferrari
taking the first six positions – can
you remember a race in which this did
happen for the last time? In the first
race of the 1999 International Sports
Racing Series (ISRS) at Barcelona,
the first six positions were claimed by
six 333 SPs which made up the race among
them.
- Shades of
this phenomenal dominance had already
become evident in training when only one
Riley & Scott managed to brake the
phalanx of the 333 SPs, qualifying for
the 6th position on the grid,
while the Ferrari of Auto Sport Racing
had to start from 7th.
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- The 333 SP of
Jean-Pierre Jabouille’s JB Giesse
Team, driven by Vicenzo Sospiri and
Emmanuel Collard, started from the pole;
last year, his team had taken the
championship title after an impressive
performance during the season. The
Italian and his French teammate dominated
the race for two hours and drove to their
7th win.
- One of the
two 333 SPs entered by BMS Scuderia
Italia crossed the finishing line about
25 seconds later, driven by Emanuele
Moncini and Christian Pescatori. This was
the first time for the Scuderia Italia to
enter a Ferrari in a race, but the team
had already been popular for their
Formula 1 entries with Dallara and Lola
in the late 1980’s and early
1990’s. In 1992 and 1993, one did
even co-operate in Grand Prix racing with
Ferrari.
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- Strengthened
by much confidence provided through the
win of the 1998 championship, the JB
Giesse Team had decided to enter a second
333 SP, piloted by Laurent Redon and the
Italian Mauro Baldi. Baldi used to drive
for Fredy Lienhard’s team last year,
but decided to accept Jabouille’s
offer when it became clear that his
former Swiss employer would go racing in
the American Le Mans Series instead of
the ISRS in 1999. In this first race of
the season, the car ended up on 3rd,
not to the total satisfaction of the 1990
sports car world champion Mauro Baldi.
But in the 1000 Kilometers of Monza, he
will have a chance to get even with his
teammates.
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- Monza will
show whether the dominance of the Ferrari
will prevail or not. A possible
concurrent might be the new Judd-powered
Lola T98/10 which will have its debut in
Italy.
- The Riley
& Scott which should have started
from 6th at Barcelona did not
have a chance to score because the
BMW-engined vehicle had already dropped
out in the formation lap.
| Results |
| 1 |
Collard/Sospiri |
JB Giesse |
Ferrari 333SP |
2h30m16.776s |
023 |
| 2 |
Pescatori/Moncini |
BMS Scud Italia |
Ferrari 333SP |
+25.564s |
024 |
| 3 |
Baldi/Redon |
JB Giesse |
Ferrari 333SP |
84 laps |
022 |
| 4 |
Lavaggi/Mazzacane |
GLV Brums |
Ferrari 333SP |
84 laps |
003 |
| 5 |
Calderari/Bryner |
AutoSport Racing |
Ferrari 333SP |
83 laps |
020 |
| 6 |
Zadra/Zadra |
BMS Scud Italia |
Ferrari 333SP |
82 laps |
029 |
| 7 |
Saldana/d'Orleans/Kelleners |
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Kremer Porsche K8 |
80 laps |
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| 8 |
Ploeg/Papenburg |
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BPR Kremer Porsche K8 |
76 laps |
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| 9 |
Bruneau/Rostan/Henderson |
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SR2 Bruneau Debora-BMW |
74 laps |
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| 10 |
Mangifesta/Leone/Leone |
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SR2 Osella-BMW Taverna |
69 laps |
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Amati/Lancelotti |
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SR2 Cauduro Tampolli-BMW |
56 laps |
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Waaijenberg/van der Lof |
Dutch National Racing Team |
Ferrari 333SP |
72 laps,
retired with wheel problems when 5th |
021 |
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Gache/Formato |
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Riley&Scott Europe
R&S BMW |
28 laps |
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Langfermann/Fores |
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SR2 Mark Bailey MBR-Rover |
16 laps |
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Merzario/Maccari |
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SR2 Cauduro Tampolli-BMW |
4 laps |
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Blieninger/Riccitelli |
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Riley&Scott BMW |
0 laps |
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- Barcelona,
Spain - 85 laps of 4.278km Montemelo GP
circuit, 363.63kms
Fastest lap: Collard, 1m 36.288s,
177.480km/h
- ISRS points
after Round 1:
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- SR1 Drivers
- 1 Collard,
Sospiri 20
- 3 Moncini,
Pescatori 15
- 5 Baldi,
Redon 12
SR1 Teams- 1 JB Giesse
Ferrari 20
- 2 Scuderia
Italia 15
- 3 GLV Brums
10
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- Gregor
Schulz
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