1997 International Formula 3000 season

1997 FIA International Formula 3000 season
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The 1997 International Formula 3000 season featured the 1997 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship ^[1] which was contested over a ten round series from May 11 to October 25, 1997.

1 Drivers and teams
2 Calendar
3 Final points standings
- 3.1 Drivers
4 Drivers' Championship
- 4.1 Notes
5 Complete Overview
6 References
7 External links

Drivers and teams

The following teams and drivers contested the 1997 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship. The Lola T96/50 Zytek-Judd was used by all teams ^[2], as was mandatory under the championship regulations.

Team	Car #	Driver	Race weekends
RSM Marko	1	Craig Lowndes	All
RSM Marko	2	Juan Pablo Montoya	All
Super Nova Racing	3	Ricardo Zonta	All
Super Nova Racing	4	Laurent Redon	All
Team Astromega	5	Boris Derichbourg	All
Team Astromega	6	Soheil Ayari	All
Draco Engineering	7	Cyrille Sauvage	All
Draco Engineering	8	Pedro Couceiro	All
Apomatox	9	Fabrizio Gollin	1-3, 9
	9	Emmanuel Clérico	4
	10	Jean-Philippe Belloc	1-4
Edenbridge Racing	11	Werner Lupberger	All
Edenbridge Racing	12	Max Wilson	All
Pacific Racing	14	Oliver Tichy	1-8
Pacific Racing	15	Marc Gené	1-2
DAMS	16	Grégoire de Galzain	All
DAMS	17	Jamie Davies	All
Durango Formula	18	Stephen Watson	All
Durango Formula	19	Gareth Rees	All
Auto Sport Racing	20	Gastón Mazzacane	All
Auto Sport Racing	21	Tom Kristensen	All
Nordic Racing	22	Thomas Biagi	1-3
		Marc Gené	4-6, 10
		Mario Waltner	7-8
		Gianluca Paglicci	9
	23	Rui Águas	All
Bob Salisbury Engineering	24	Oliver Gavin	1-3
	24	James Taylor	4-10
	25	Thomas Schie	All
Den Blå Avis	26	Jason Watt	All
DC Cook Motorsport	27	David Cook	All
DC Cook Motorsport	28	Patrick Lemarié	9-10
Coloni Motorsport	29	Markus Friesacher	All
	30	Emiliano Spataro	1-9
	30	Oliver Tichy	10
Ravarotto Racing	31	Anthony Beltoise	1-7
Ravarotto Racing	32	Patrick Lemarié	1-4, 6
GP Racing	33	Thomas Biagi	4-10
Elide Racing	34	Miguel Ángel de Castro	10
Arden International	35	Christian Horner	All
KTR	36	Kurt Mollekens	All
Redman & Bright F3000	37	Gonzalo Rodríguez	1, 3-7, 9-10
DKS Racing	38	Dino Morelli	1-4

Calendar

Race No	Track	Country	Date	Laps	Distance	Time	Speed	Winner	Pole Position	Fastest Lap
1	Silverstone	United Kingdom	May 11, 1997	40	5.14=205.60 km	1'21:15.501	151.990 km/h	Tom Kristensen	Ricardo Zonta	Marc Gené
2	Pau	France	May 19, 1997	75	2.76=207.00 km	1'32:44.230	133.927 km/h	Juan Pablo Montoya	Juan Pablo Montoya	Juan Pablo Montoya
3	Helsinki	Finland	May 25, 1997	65	3.18=206.7 km	1'38:32.881	125.847 km/h	Soheil Ayari	Juan Pablo Montoya	Juan Pablo Montoya
4	Nürburgring	Germany	June 29, 1997	4	4.556=18.224 km	0'07:57.334	137.443 km/h	Ricardo Zonta	Ricardo Zonta	Ricardo Zonta
5	Pergusa-Enna	Italy	July 20, 1997	41	4.95=202.95 km	1'04:48.310	187.902 km/h	Jamie Davies	Jamie Davies	Jamie Davies
6	Hockenheim	Germany	July 26, 1997	31	6.823=211.513 km	1'04:33.262	196.591 km/h	Ricardo Zonta	Tom Kristensen	Juan Pablo Montoya
7	Spielberg	Austria	August 3, 1997	48	4.319=207.312 km	1'12:39.794	171.183 km/h	Juan Pablo Montoya	Juan Pablo Montoya	Ricardo Zonta
8	Spa-Francorchamps	Belgium	August 22, 1997	29	6.968=202.072 km	1'05:19.036	185.622 km/h	Jason Watt	Tom Kristensen	Rui Águas
9	Mugello	Italy	September 29, 1997	40	5.245=209.8 km	1'09:03.576	182.277 km/h	Ricardo Zonta	Ricardo Zonta	Ricardo Zonta
10	Jerez	Spain	October 25, 1997	44	4.428=194.832 km	1'13:47.224	158.428 km/h	Juan Pablo Montoya	Ricardo Zonta	Ricardo Zonta

Note:

The Silverstone round was the Autosport International Trophy ^[2]
The Pau round was the 57th Grand Prix Automobile du Pau ^[2]
The Pergusa-Enna round was the 35th Gran Premio del Mediterraneo ^[2]

Final points standings

Drivers

Points were awarded for race placings as follows: 10 points to the winner, 6 for runner up, 4 for third place, 3 for fourth place, 2 for fifth place and 1 for sixth place. No additional points were awarded. Only half points were awarded for Round 4 as the race was stopped due to an accident.

Place	Name	Country	Team											Total Points
1	Ricardo Zonta	Brazil	SuperNova Racing	-	-	-	5	6	10	6	2	10	-	39
2	Juan Pablo Montoya	Colombia	RSM Marko	-	10	-	1.5	-	2	10	-	4	10	37.5
3	Jason Watt	Denmark	Den Blå Avis	3	-	-	3	-	3	-	10	6	-	25
4	Jamie Davies	United Kingdom	DAMS	4	4	-	-	10	4	-	-	-	-	22
5	Max Wilson	Brazil	Edenbridge Racing	-	-	-	1	4	6	-	6	3	-	20
6	Tom Kristensen	Denmark	Auto Sport Racing	10	6	-	2	-	-	1	-	-	-	19
7	Oliver Tichy	Austria	Pacific Racing	-	-	6	-	-	-	2	-	-		14
7	Oliver Tichy	Austria	Coloni Motorsport										6	14
8	Soheil Ayari	France	Team Astromega	-	1	10	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	12
9	Laurent Redon	France	SuperNova Racing	-	3	-	-	1	-	4	-	2	-	10
10	Rui Águas	Portugal	Nordic Racing	-	-	2	-	-	-	3	-	-	2	7
11	Pedro Couceiro	Portugal	Draco Engineering	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6
	Dino Morelli	United Kingdom	DKS Racing	2	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6
13	Cyrille Sauvage	France	Draco Engineering	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	5
14	Patrick Lemarié	France	Ravarotto Racing	1	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
	Boris Derichbourg	France	Team Astromega	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	4
	Gareth Rees	United Kingdom	Durango Formula	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	4
17	Craig Lowndes	Australia	RSM Marko	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	3
	Kurt Mollekens	Belgium	KTR	-	-	-	-	2	1	-	-	-	-	3
	Werner Lupberger	South Africa	Edenbridge Racing	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	3
20	Stephen Watson	South Africa	Durango Formula	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	2
21	Christian Horner	United Kingdom	Arden International	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1
22	Gonzalo Rodríguez	Uruguay	Redman & Bright F3000	-	-	-	0.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.5

Drivers' Championship

Pos	Driver	SIL	PAU	HEL	NÜR	PER	HOC	A1	SPA	MUG	JER	Pts
1	Ricardo Zonta	DSQ	Ret	Ret	1	2	1	2	5	1	Ret	39
2	Juan Pablo Montoya	Ret	1	Ret	4	11	5	1	DSQ	3	1	37.5
3	Jason Watt	4	12	DNS	2	Ret	4	Ret	1	2	Ret	25
4	Jamie Davies	3	3	Ret	8	1	3	9	8	EX	Ret	22
5	Max Wilson	Ret	7	Ret	5	3	2	8	2	4	10	21
6	Tom Kristensen	1	2	Ret	3	Ret	Ret	6	Ret	EX	Ret	19
7	Oliver Tichy	8	8	2	9	Ret	7	5	Ret		2	14
8	Soheil Ayari	Ret	6	1	19	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	6	Ret	12
9	Laurent Redon	Ret	4	Ret	21	6	Ret	3	14	5	11	10
10	Rui Águas	Ret	9	5	7	Ret	DSQ	4	9	12	5	7
11	Pedro Couceiro	2	Ret	Ret	15	DNS	Ret	11	7	Ret	Ret	6
12	Dino Morelli	5	11	3	Ret							6
13	Cyrille Sauvage	7	5	Ret	Ret	8	Ret	Ret	4	9	DSQ	5
14	Gareth Rees	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	16	11	Ret	Ret	7	3	4
15	Boris Derichebourg	12	15	8	Ret	9	DNQ	13	3	22	15	4
16	Patrick Lemarié	6	13	4	13		Ret			14	DNQ	4
17	Craig Lowndes	14	Ret	Ret	Ret	4	Ret	Ret	Ret	21	9	3
18	Werner Lupberger	11	DNQ	DNQ	18	Ret	14	Ret	13	11	4	3
19	Kurt Mollekens	EX	10	Ret	DNQ	5	6	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	3
20	Stephen Watson	15	DNQ	6	16	7	12	Ret	6	15	Ret	2
21	Christian Horner	16	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	16	DNQ	17	6	1
22	Gonzalo Rodríguez	DNQ		Ret	6	Ret	17	7		8	Ret	0.5
23	David Cook	Ret	DNQ	7	DNQ	Ret	DNQ	14	Ret	Ret	7	0
24	Grégoire de Galzain	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	17	Ret	9	15	Ret	EX	8	0
25	Marc Gené	13	DNQ		DNQ	Ret	8				Ret	0
26	Anthony Beltoise	Ret	Ret	9	14	12	13	Ret				0
27	Jean-Philippe Belloc	9	Ret	Ret	20							0
28	Gastón Mazzacane	10	DNQ	Ret	10	15	10	17	11	10	Ret	0
29	Thomas Schie	DNQ	14	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	15	DNQ	10	18	Ret	0
30	Emiliano Spataro	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	11	13	16	12	Ret	Ret		0
31	Thomas Biagi	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	14	18	Ret	Ret	16	12	0
32	Emmanuel Clérico				12							0
33	James Taylor				DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	12	DNQ	DNQ	0
34	Fabrizio Gollin	Ret	Ret	Ret						13		0
35	Markus Friesacher	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	17	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	19	DNQ	0
36	Gianluca Paglicci									20		0
–	Miguel Ángel de Castro										DNQ	0
–	Mario Waltner							DNQ	DNQ			0
–	Oliver Gavin	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ								0
Pos	Driver	SIL	PAU	HEL	NÜR	PER	HOC	A1	SPA	MUG	JER	Pts

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	Finished, in points
Blue	Finished, no points
Blue	Not classified (NC)
Purple	Did not finish (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
	Withdrew (WD)
	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not participate
Blank	Excluded (EX)

Notes

Results in bold indicate pole position.
Results in italics indicate fastest lap.
All drivers used Lola T96/50 chassis, with Zytek-Judd engines, and Avon tyres.
Ricardo Zonta was disqualified from first place at Silverstone due to a gearbox irregularity.
Nurburgring race was stopped prematurely due to an accident involving Dino Morelli in torrential rain. Half points awarded.
Juan Pablo Montoya was disqualified during the Spa-Francorchamps race for holding up the field with a damaged car.
Jamie Davies and Grégoire de Galzain were excluded from the race at Mugello for failing to attend the drivers' briefing. Tom Kristensen was excluded from the same event due to having an illegal spacer fitted.
Rui Águas was disqualified during the race at Hockenheim for dangerous driving.
Cyrille Sauvage was disqualified from second place at Jerez because a member of his team entered parc fermé after the race.
Kurt Mollekens was excluded from the race at Silverstone after failing to attend the drivers' briefing.

Complete Overview

first column of every race

= grid position

second column of every race

= race result

R24=retired, but classified R=retired NS=did not start NQ=did not qualify NT=no time set in qualifying DIS(1)=disqualified after finishing as winner (13)=place after practice, but grid position not held free DIS=disqualified in practice

Place	Name	Country	Team
1	Ricardo Zonta	Brazil	SuperNova Racing	1	DIS(1)	8	R	8	R	1	1	2	2	2	1	2	2	5	5	1	1	1	R
2	Juan Pablo Montoya	Colombia	RSM Marko	2	R	1	1	1	R	4	4	6	11	15	5	1	1	4	R	2	3	4	1
3	Jason Watt	Denmark	Den Blå Avis	3	4	15	12	(13)	NS	3	2	8	R	5	4	9	R	2	1	4	2	6	R
4	Jamie Davis	United Kingdom	DAMS	23	3	4	3	2	R	13	8	1	1	6	3	24	9	15	8	DIS	-	3	R
5	Max Wilson	Brazil	Edenbridge Racing	8	R	11	7	21	R	5	5	4	3	3	2	14	8	8	2	3	4	9	10
6	Tom Kristensen	Denmark	Auto Sport Racing	12	1	2	2	6	R	2	3	10	R	1	R	3	6	1	R	DIS	-	2	R
7	Oliver Tichy	Austria	Pacific Racing	7	8	9	8	3	2	17	9	9	R	17	7	16	5	21	R	-	-
7	Oliver Tichy	Austria	Coloni Motorsport																			7	2
8	Soheil Ayari	France	Team Astromega	4	R	5	6	9	1	8	19	13	R	8	R	6	10	3	R	7	6	8	R
9	Laurent Redon	France	SuperNova Racing	10	R	3	4	11	R	7	21	11	6	9	R	5	3	9	14	6	5	16	11
10	Rui Águas	Portugal	Nordic Racing	5	R	12	9	18	5	12	7	7	R	4	R	8	4	17	9	13	12	10	5
11	Pedro Couceiro	Portugal	Draco Engineering	22	2	7	R	19	R	14	15	(12)	NS	24	R	13	11	16	7	17	R	19	R
	Dino Morelli	United Kingdom	DKS Racing	11	5	19	11	7	3	16	R24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
13	Cyrille Sauvage	France	Draco Engineering	13	7	6	5	4	R	15	R23	3	8	13	R	7	R	24	4	9	9	5	DIS(2)
14	Patrick Lemarié	France	Ravarotto Racing	25	6	17	13	13	4	11	13	-	-	16	R	-	-	-	-
14	Patrick Lemarié	France	D C Cook Motorsport																	19	14	27	NQ
	Boris Derichbourg	France	Team Astromega	20	12	21	15	22	8	6	R	16	9	27	NQ	22	13	6	3	11	22	15	R
	Gareth Rees	United Kingdom	Durango Formula	15	R	16	R	12	R	9	R22	20	16	19	11	18	R	11	R	5	7	11	3
17	Craig Lowndes	Australia	RSM Marko	6	14	14	R	20	R	23	R25	15	4	10	R	10	R	20	R	10	21	13	9
	Kurt Mollekens	Belgium	KTR	DIS	-	13	10	5	R	32	NQ	12	5	26	6	12	R	18	R	24	R	21	R
	Werner Lupberger	South Africa	Edenbridge Racing	26	11	28	NQ	30	NQ	19	18	21	R	23	14	15	R	10	13	14	11	14	4
20	Stephen Watson	South Africa	Durango Formula	21	15	25	NQ	15	6	18	16	19	7	18	12	21	R	7	6	18	15	22	R
21	Christian Horner	United Kingdom	Arden International	24	R16	33	NQ	29	NQ	33	NQ	30	NQ	29	NQ	25	16	27	NQ	22	17	24	6
22	Gonzalo Rodríguez	Uruguay	Redman & Bright F3000	31	NQ	-	-	14	R	10	6	5	R	7	17	4	7	-	-	8	8	12	R
-	David Cook	United Kingdom	D C Cook Motorsport	14	R	31	NQ	24	7	30	NQ	26	R	30	NQ	26	14	22	R	16	R	26	7
-	Grégoire de Galzain	France	DAMS	29	NQ	32	NQ	32	NQ	26	17	23	R	20	9	23	15	23	R	DIS	-	17	8
-	Marc Gené	Spain	Pacific Racing	16	13	23	NQ	-	-
-	Marc Gené	Spain	Nordic Racing							31	NQ	12	R10	11	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	R
-	Anthony Beltoise	France	Ravarotto Racing	17	R	18	R	16	9	22	14	22	12	21	13	17	R	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Jean-Philippe Belloc	France	Apomatox	19	9	22	R	17	R	24	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Gastón Mazzacane	Argentina	Auto Sport Racing	9	10	24	NQ	23	R	20	10	17	15	12	10	11	17	19	11	12	10	18	R
-	Thomas Schie	Norway	BSE Salisbury Engineering	32	NQ	20	14	26	NQ	28	NQ	28	NQ	22	15	27	NQ	13	10	23	18	25	R
-	Emiliano Spataro	Argentina	Coloni Motorsport	32	NQ	29	NQ	27	NQ	21	11	24	13	25	16	23	15	20	12	15	R	-	-
-	Thomas Biagi	Italy	Nordic Racing	28	NQ	26	NQ	31	NQ
-	Thomas Biagi	Italy	GP Racing							27	NQ	18	14	14	18	19	R	25	R	20	16	23	12
-	Emmanuel Clérico	France	Apomatox	-	-	-	-	-	-	25	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	James Taylor	United Kingdom	BSE Salisbury Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	34	NQ	29	NQ	31	NQ	NT	-	26	12	27	NQ	30	NQ
-	Fabrizio Gollin	Italy	Apomatox	18	R	10	R	10	R	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	21	13	-	-
-	Markus Friesacher	Austria	Coloni Motorsport	27	NQ	30	NQ	28	NQ	29	NQ	25	17	28	NQ	28	NQ	14	R	26	19	28	NQ
-	Gianluca Paglicci	Italy	Nordic Racing	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	25	20	-	-
-	Oliver Gavin	United Kingdom	BSE Salisbury Engineering	30	NQ	27	NQ	33	NQ	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Mario Waltner	Austria	Nordic Racing	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	29	NQ	28	NQ	-	-	-	-
-	Miguel Ángel de Castro	Spain	Elide Racing	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	29	NQ

References

^ Official 1997 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship results Retrieved from web.archive.org on 15 March 2009
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Autocourse, 1997-98, page 273

External links

International F3000 1997 Retrieved from Unofficial F3000 Information on 15 March 2009
Images from the Spa round of the 1997 Formula 3000 International Championship Retrieved from www.jamd.com on 17 March 2009

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