1998 FIA GT A1-Ring 500km

The 1998 FIA GT A1-Ring 500 km was the eighth round the 1998 FIA GT Championship season. It took place at the A1-Ring, Austria, on September 20, 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	2	AMG Mercedes	Klaus Ludwig Ricardo Zonta	Mercedes-Benz CLK LM	B	116
					Mercedes-Benz M119 6.0L V8
2	GT1	1	AMG Mercedes	Bernd Schneider Mark Webber	Mercedes-Benz CLK LM	B	116
					Mercedes-Benz M119 6.0L V8
3	GT1	7	Porsche AG	Yannick Dalmas Allan McNish	Porsche 911 GT1-98	M	115
					Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6
4	GT1	6	Zakspeed Racing	Michael Bartels Max Angelelli	Porsche 911 GT1-98	P	115
					Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6
5	GT1	12	Team Persson Motorsport	Jean-Marc Gounon Marcel Tiemann	Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR	B	115
					Mercedes-Benz M120 6.0L V12
6	GT1	15	Davidoff Classic GTC Competition	Geoff Lees Thomas Bscher	McLaren F1 GTR	G	112
					BMW S70 6.0L V12
7	GT1	3	DAMS	Christophe Tinseau Franck Lagorce	Panoz GTR-1	M	109
					Ford (Roush) 6.0L V8
8	GT2	52	Viper Team Oreca	Karl Wendlinger Justin Bell	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	M	106
					Chrysler 8.0L V10
9	GT2	51	Viper Team Oreca	Olivier Beretta Pedro Lamy	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	M	106
					Chrysler 8.0L V10
10	GT2	66	Konrad Motorsport	Altfrid Heger Franz Konrad	Porsche 911 GT2	D	105
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
11	GT1	8	Porsche AG	Jörg Müller Uwe Alzen	Porsche 911 GT1-98	M	105
					Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6
12	GT2	81	Freisinger Motorsport	Wolfgang Kaufmann Michel Ligonnet	Porsche 911 GT2	?	104
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
13	GT2	63	Krauss Race Sports International	Michael Trunk Bernhard Müller	Porsche 911 GT2	D	104
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
14	GT2	58	Roock Sportsystem	André Ahrlé Sascha Maassen	Porsche 911 GT2	Y	104
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
15	GT2	65	Konrad Motorsport	Martin Stretton Toni Seiler	Porsche 911 GT2	D	103
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
16	GT2	60	Elf Haberthur Racing	Michel Neugarten Gerd Ruch Marco Spinelli	Porsche 911 GT2	G	103
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
17	GT2	57	Roock Racing	Bruno Eichmann Mike Hezemans	Porsche 911 GT2	Y	103
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
18	GT2	79	RWS	Günther Blieninger Hans-Jörg Hofer Raffaele Sangiuolo	Porsche 911 GT2	?	100
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
19	GT2	61	Elf Haberthur Racing	Bruno Lambert Mauro Casadei Karl Baron	Porsche 911 GT2	G	99
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
20	GT2	96	Proton Competition	Horst Felbermayr, Sr. Horst Felbermayr, Jr.	Porsche 911 GT2	P	97
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
21	GT1	5	Zakspeed Racing	Armin Hahne Andreas Scheld	Porsche 911 GT1-98	P	97
					Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6
22	GT2	56	Roock Racing	Claudia Hürtgen Stéphane Ortelli	Porsche 911 GT2	Y	89
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
23	GT1	11	Team Persson Motorsport	Christophe Bouchut Bernd Mayländer	Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR	B	86
					Mercedes-Benz M120 6.0L V12
24 DNF	GT2	67	Remus Racing	Wido Rössler Herbert Drexler	Porsche 911 GT2	?	56
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
25 DNF	GT2	69	Proton Competition	Gerold Ried Patrick Vuillaume	Porsche 911 GT2	P	50
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
26 DNF	GT2	62	Stadler Motorsport	Axel Röhr Uwe Sick	Porsche 911 GT2	P	47
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
27 DNF	GT2	70	Marcos Racing International	Christian Vann Harald Becker Cor Euser	Marcos LM600	D	46
					Chevrolet 5.9L V8
28 DNF	GT2	78	Bovi Motorsport	Kálmán Bódis Ferenc Rátkai	Porsche 911 GT2	?	46
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
29 DNF	GT2	53	Chamberlain Engineering	Manfred Stohl Ni Amorim	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	D	11
					Chrysler 8.0L V10
30 DNF	GT2	76	Seikel Motorsport	Ernst Palmberger Gerhard Marchner Manfred Jurasz	Porsche 911 GT2	P	3
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6

Statistics

• Pole position – #2 AMG Mercedes – 1:22.166
• Fastest lap – #1 AMG Mercedes – 1:23.802
• Average speed – 179.375 km/h

References

• "Results: 1998 Round 8 – A1-Ring". FIA GT Championship. 20 September 1998. Retrieved 2007-12-17.
• "500 km A1-Ring". World Sports Racing Prototypes. 2 October 2005. Retrieved 2007-12-17.
• "FIA GT Championship A1-Ring 1998 (Photo Archive)". Racing Sports Cars. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 2007-12-17.