1997 International Sports Racing Series season

The 1997 International Sports Racing Series season was the first season of International Sports Racing Series (later known as the FIA Sportscar Championship). It was a series for sportscar style prototypes broken into two classes based on power and weight, called SR1 and SR2. It began on July 6, 1997 and ended November 9, 1997 after 4 races.

As a new series, and with only 4 races, no championships were awarded for teams or drivers.

Schedule

Rnd	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Donington 2 Hours	Donington Park	July 6
2	Zolder 1 Hour 15 Minutes	Zolder Circuit	August 3
3	Masaryk Grand Prix (30 Minutes)	Autodrom Brno Masaryk	September 14
4	Gran Premio Repsol Sport Prototipos (2 Hours)	Circuito Permanente Del Jarama	November 9

Season results

Rnd	Circuit	SR1 Winning Team	SR2 Winning Team	Results
		SR1 Winning Drivers	SR2 Winning Drivers
1	Donington	#7 Joest Racing	#20 Centenari	Results
		Stefan Johansson Pierluigi Martini	Arturo Merzario Giovanni Li Calzi
2	Zolder	#6 Horag Hotz Racing	None	Results
		Fredy Lienhard Didier Theys
3†	Brno	None	#20 Symbol Team	Results
			Arturo Merzario
4	Jarama	#4 Courage Compétition	#20 Symbol Team	Results
		Didier Cottaz Jérome Policand	Arturo Merzario Robin Donovan

† - Round 3 was included in the championship, but only 1 SR2-class car participated. The race was instead made up of CN and S2000 based hillclimb cars.

External links

• 1997 International Sports Racing Series results