1991 World Sportscar Championship

The 1991 FIA Sportscar World Championship season was the 39th season of FIA World Sportscar Championship motor racing. It featured the 1991 FIA Sportscar World Championship, which was contested over an eight race series from 14 April to 28 October 28, 1991. The series was open to Group C Sportscars, with Category 1 cars complying with new 1991 Group C rules and Category 2 cars running under the pre 1991 regulations. Teo Fabi won the Drivers Championship and Silk Cut Jaguar won the Teams title.

Schedule

Silk Cut Jaguar won the Teams Championship with Jaguar XJR-14 (above) and XJR-12 models

Peugeot Talbot Sport placed second with the 905

Team Sauber Mercedes placed third with the Mercedes C11 (above) and C291 models

Rnd	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Fuji Film Cup (430 km)	Suzuka Circuit	14 April
2	Trofeo F. Caracciolo (430km)	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	5 May
3	Castrol BRDC Empire Trophy (430 km)	Silverstone Circuit	19 May
4	24 Hours of Le Mans	Circuit de la Sarthe	22 June 23 June
5	ADAC Sportwagen-Weltmeisterschaft (430km)	Nürburgring	18 August
6	Championnat du Monde de Voitures de Sport (430 km）	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours	15 September
7	Trofeo Hermanos Rodriguez (430 km)	Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez	6 October
8	SWC in Autopolis (430 km)	Autopolis	28 October

Season results

Races

Rnd	Circuit	C1 Winning Team	C2 Winning Team	Results
		C1 Winning Drivers	C2 Winning Drivers
1	Suzuka	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Team Sauber Mercedes	Results
		Mauro Baldi Philippe Alliot	Jean-Louis Schlesser Jochen Mass
2	Monza	Silk Cut Jaguar	Team Sauber Mercedes	Results
		Derek Warwick	Jean-Louis Schlesser Jochen Mass
3	Silverstone	Silk Cut Jaguar	Team Sauber Mercedes	Results
		Derek Warwick Teo Fabi	Jean-Louis Schlesser Jochen Mass
4	La Sarthe	Euro Racing	Mazdaspeed	Results
		Kiyoshi Misaki Hisashi Yokoshima Naoki Nagasaki	Volker Weidler Johnny Herbert Bertrand Gachot
5	Nürburgring	Silk Cut Jaguar	Porsche Kremer Racing	Results
		David Brabham Derek Warwick	Manuel Reuter Harri Toivonen
6	Magny-Cours	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Porsche Kremer Racing	Results
		Keke Rosberg Yannick Dalmas	Manuel Reuter Harri Toivonen
7	Hermanos Rodriguez	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Team Salamin Primagaz	Results
		Keke Rosberg Yannick Dalmas	Bernd Schneider "John Winter"
8	Autopolis	Team Sauber Mercedes	Courage Compétition	Results
		Michael Schumacher Karl Wendlinger	George Fouché Steven Andskär

Points system

Points were awarded in the order of 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 ^[1] to the top 10 finishers in each race, with some exceptions:

• Drivers had to complete 30% of the race distance and only drive one car in order to score points ^[1]
• Teams were only given points for their highest finishing car; any other team cars were merely skipped in the points standings. Points were still awarded to their drivers however.
• Neither driver nor team scored points if the car did not complete 90% of the winner's distance.

Category 1 and Category 2 cars did not contest their own individual championships and thus were scored together.

Drivers Championship

Pos	Driver	Team	Rnd 1	Rnd 2	Rnd 3	Rnd 4	Rnd 5	Rnd 6	Rnd 7	Rnd 8	Total
1	Teo Fabi	Silk Cut Jaguar		15	20	12	15	12		12	86
2	Derek Warwick	Silk Cut Jaguar		20	*	10	20	8	6	15	79
3=	Philippe Alliot	Peugeot Talbot Sport	20	3	6			15	15	10	69
3=	Mauro Baldi	Peugeot Talbot Sport	20	3	6			15	15	10	69
5	Cor Euser	Euro Racing	10	10	8			10	10	6	54
6	Charles Zwolsman	Euro Racing	10	10				10	10	6	46
7=	Jochen Mass	Team Sauber Mercedes	15	12	10					8	45
7=	Jean-Louis Schlesser	Team Sauber Mercedes	15	12	10					8	45
9=	Michael Schumacher	Team Sauber Mercedes			15	8				20	43
9=	Karl Wendlinger	Team Sauber Mercedes			15	8				20	43
11	Manuel Reuter	Porsche Kremer Racing	12	8	3	2	12	6			43
12	Harri Toivonen	Porsche Kremer Racing	12	8	3		12	6			41
13=	Keke Rosberg	Peugeot Talbot Sport						20	20		40
13=	Yannick Dalmas	Peugeot Talbot Sport						20	20		40
15	Maurizio Sandro Sala	Mazdaspeed	6	4		6	8	4		3	31
16=	Johnny Herbert	Mazdaspeed				20					20
16=	Volker Weidler	Mazdaspeed				20					20
18	David Brabham	Silk Cut Jaguar							6	12	18
19	David Kennedy	Mazdaspeed	6				8			2	16
20	Jésus Pareja	Repsol Brun Motorsport	4		4	1	4		3		16
21=	Davy Jones	Silk Cut Jaguar				15					15
21=	Raul Boesel	Silk Cut Jaguar				15					15
23	Bernd Schneider	Konrad Motorsport Team Salamin Primagaz							12		12
24=	Kenny Acheson	Silk Cut Jaguar				12					12
24=	Bob Wollek	Silk Cut Jaguar				12					12
24=	Martin Brundle	Silk Cut Jaguar			12						12
27=	Steven Andskär	Courage Compétition	8							4	12
27=	George Fouché	Courage Compétition	8							4	12
29	Lionel Robert	Courage Compétition		2			6		4		12
30	Otto Altenbach	Team Salamin Primagaz					10	1			11
31=	Oscar Larrauri	Repsol Brun Motorsport		6	4	1					11
31=	Massimo Sigala	Repsol Brun Motorsport	4	6	1						11
33=	Jürgen Oppermann	Team Salamin Primagaz					10				10
33=	John Nielsen	Silk Cut Jaguar				10					10
35	Pierre Dieudonné	Mazdaspeed		4				4	2		10
36=	Derek Bell	Konrad Motorsport Team Salamin Primagaz							8		8
36=	Gianpiero Moretti	Team Salamin Primagaz							8		8
38	Stefan Johansson	Mazdaspeed Konrad Motorsport				6					6
39	Walter Brun	Repsol Brun Motorsport			1		4				5
40=	Yojiro Terada	Mazdaspeed				3			2		5
40=	Takashi Yorino	Mazdaspeed				3				2	5
42=	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Konrad Motorsport				4					4
42=	Frank Jelinski	Konrad Motorsport				4					4
42=	Pascal Fabre	Automobiles Louis Descartes Courage Compétition							4		4
45=	Paolo Barilla	Courage Compétition	3								3
45=	Otto Rensing	Porsche Kremer Racing					3				3
45=	Eje Elgh	Courage Compétition Team Salamin Primagaz	3								3
45=	Tomas López	Porsche Kremer Racing						3			3
45=	Gregor Foitek	Porsche Kremer Racing Repsol Brun Motorsport						3			3
50=	Claude Bourbonnais	Courage Compétition		1	2						3
50=	François Migault	Courage Compétition		2					1		3
52=	Antoine Salamin	Team Salamin Primagaz	2								2
52=	Franz Konrad	Konrad Motorsport					2				2
52=	Marco Brand	Veneto Equipe SRL Courage Compétition						2			2
52=	Max Cohen-Olivar	Team Salamin Primagaz	2								2
52=	Denis Morin	Courage Compétition						2			2
52=	Harald Becker	Konrad Motorsport					2				2
52=	Michel Trollé	Courage Compétition			2						2
59=	Jürgen Lässig	Team Salamin Primagaz						1			1
59=	Tomas Saldaña	Courage Compétition							1		1

Note

• 1 - Derek Warwick co-drove the winning car at Silverstone but was not eligible for points.^[1]
• 2 - Bertrand Gachot co-drove the winning car at Le Mans but was not eligible for points due to insufficient distance.^[1]
• 3 - Michael Ferte co-drove the second placed car at Le Mans but was not eligible for points due to insufficient distance.^[1]
• 4 - John Winter co-drove the third placed car at Mexico City but was not eligible for points due to insufficient distance.^[1]
• 5 - The sixth paced Toyota at Autopolis was not eligible for points so positions 7 to 11 were moved up one place for scoring purposes.^[1]

Teams Championship

Pos [2]	Team [2][3]	Chassis	Engine	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Rd 8	Total [2]
1	Silk Cut Jaguar	Jaguar XJR-14 Jaguar XJR-12	Cosworth HB 3.5L V8 (Note 1) Jaguar 7.4L V12		20	20	15	20	12	6	15	108
2	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Peugeot 905 Peugeot 905 Evo 1B	Peugeot SA35 3.5L V10 Peugeot SA35 3.5L V10	20	3	6			20	20	10	79
3	Team Sauber Mercedes	Mercedes C291 Mercedes C11	Mercedes M291 3.5L Flat-12 Mercedes M119 5.0L Turbo V8	15	12	15	8				20	70
4	Euro Racing	Spice SE90C	Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5L V8	10	10	8			10	10	6	54
5	Mazdaspeed	Mazda 787 Mazda 787B	Mazda R26B 2.6L 4-Rotor Mazda R26B 2.6L 4-Rotor	6	4		20	8	4	2	3	47
6	Porsche Kremer Racing	Porsche 962CK6	Porsche Type-935 3.2L Turbo Flat-6	12	8	3	2	12	6			43
7	Courage Compétition	Porsche 962C Porsche 962C GTi Cougar C26S	Porsche Type-935 3.2L Turbo Flat-6 Porsche Type-935 3.2L Turbo Flat-6 Porsche Type-935 3.2L Turbo Flat-6	8	2	2		6	2	4	4	28
8	Team Salamin Primagaz	Porsche 962C	Porsche Type-935 3.2L Turbo Flat-6	2				10	1	12		25
9	Repsol Brun Motorsport	Porsche 962C Brun C91	Porsche Type-935 3.2L Turbo Flat-6 Judd EV 3.5L V8	4	6	4	1	4		3		22
10	Konrad Motorsport	Porsche 962C Konrad KM-011	Porsche Type-935 3.2L Turbo Flat-6 Lamborghini 3512 3.5L V12				4	2				6

Note

• 1 - Jaguar's Cosworth HB engines were re-badged to "Jaguar".^[4]
• 2 - The sixth paced Toyota at Autopolis was not eligible for points so positions 7 to 11 were moved up one place for scoring purposes.^[1]

References

1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 FIA Sportscar World Championship, Seasonal Survey, Autosport, 9 January 1992, page 56
2. 1 2 3 1991 Sports Car World Championship / Teams (points table), 1992 FIA Yearbook, Red section, page 69
3. ↑ The Teams points table in the 1992 FIA Yearbook uses a shorter name than that shown here for most teams
4. ↑ Janos L Wimpffen, 1991 - Formula One Sport, Time and Two Seats, page 1701

External links

• 1991 Sportscar World Championship race results