2004 FIA GT Championship

The 2004 FIA GT Championship season was the 8th season of the FIA GT Championship. It was a series contested by Grand Touring style cars broken into two classes based on power and manufacturer involvement, called GT and N-GT. It began on 28 March 2004 and ended 14 November 2004 after 11 races.

Schedule

Rnd	Race	Circuit	Date
1	LG Super Racing Weekend Monza	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	28 March
2	LG Super Racing Weekend Valencia	Circuit de Valencia	18 April
3	LG Super Racing Weekend Magny-Cours	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours	2 May
4	LG Super Racing Weekend Hockenheim	Hockenheimring	16 May
5	LG Super Racing Weekend Brno	Autodrom Brno Masaryk	30 May
6	LG Super Racing Weekend Donington	Donington Park	27 June
7	Proximus Spa 24 Hours	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	31 July 1 August
8	LG Super Racing Weekend Imola	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari	5 September
9	LG Super Racing Weekend Oschersleben	Motopark Oschersleben	19 September
10	LG Super Racing Weekend Dubai	Dubai Autodrome	8 October
11	LG Super Racing Weekend Zhuhai	Zhuhai International Circuit	14 November

Entries

GT

Entrant	Car	Engine	Tyre	No.	Drivers	Rounds
BMS Scuderia Italia	Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello	Ferrari 5.9 L V12	M	1	Matteo Bobbi	All
					Gabriele Gardel	All
					Stefano Livio	7
					Miguel Ángel de Castro	7
				2	Fabrizio Gollin	1–10
					Luca Cappellari	1–10
					Lilian Bryner	7
					Enzo Calderari	7
					Luca Drudi	11
					Nicola Cadei	11
					Frédéric Dor	11
Care Racing				3	Lilian Bryner	1–6, 8–11
					Enzo Calderari	1–6, 8–11
					Stefano Livio	1–6, 8–9
					Thomas Biagi	10
					Christophe Bouchut	11
Konrad Motorsport	Saleen S7-R	Ford 6.9 L V8	P	4	Toni Seiler	1–10
					Franz Konrad	1–5, 8, 11
					Walter Lechner Jr.	1–4, 7–11
					Harald Becker	5–6
					Paul Knapfield	6–7
					Wolfgang Treml	7
					Alexandros Margaritis	10–11
Vitaphone Racing Team				5	Michael Bartels	All
					Uwe Alzen	All
					Franz Konrad	7
					Eric van de Poele	7
Zwaans GTR Racing Team	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Chrysler 356-T6 8.0 L V10	D	9	Rob van der Zwaan	1–7
					Klaus Abbelen	1–5
					Henrik Roos	1–2, 7
					Val Hillebrand	4–7
					Arjan van der Zwaan	7
				10	Arjan van der Zwaan	1–6
					Christophe Bouchut	1–4, 8
					Marc Goossens	1
					Val Hillebrand	2, 8–11
					Henrik Roos	3–6, 9–10
					Stéphane Lemeret	5–8, 10
					Marc Duez	7
					Fanny Duchâteau	7
					Loïc Deman	7
					Rob van der Zwaan	9, 11
GPC Giesse Squadra Corse	Ferrari 575-GTC Competizione	Ferrari 6.0 L V12	P	11	Fabio Babini	All
					Philipp Peter	1–9
					Mika Salo	7
					Vincent Vosse	7
					Gianni Morbidelli	10–11
				13	Emaunuele Naspetti	All
					Mike Hezemans	1–5
					Gianni Morbidelli	6–9
					Didier Defourny	7
					Frédéric Bouvy	7
					Philipp Peter	10–11
Lister Racing	Lister Storm GT	Jaguar 7.0 L V12	D	14	Patrick Pearce	1–2, 4
					Tom Coronel	1–2, 4
					Paul Knapfield	1–2
					Gregor Fisken	7
					Ian Donaldson	7
					Robert Schirle	7
JMB Racing	Ferrari 575-GTC Competizione	Ferrari 6.0 L V12	M	17	Karl Wendlinger	All
					Toto Wolff	1–4
					Robert Lechner	1–4
					Jaime Melo	5–6, 8–9
					Bert Longin	7
					Pierre-Yves Corthals	7
					Alex Müller	7
					Tarso Marques	10–11
					Iradj Alexander	11
				18	Bert Longin	1–6, 8–11
					Ian Khan	1–5
					Christophe Pillon	1
					Thomas Bleiner	2–4
					Robert Lechner	5
					Lorenzo Casè	6
					Matteo Malucelli	6
					Peter Kutemann	7
					Andrea Garbagnati	7
					Antoine Gosse	7
					Sergey Zlobin	8–11
					Chris Buncombe	8–10
					Maurizio Mediani	11
JMB				19	Antoine Gosse	1–6, 8–9
					Stéphane Daoudi	1–5, 9–11
					Peter Kutemann	1, 3–5, 8–11
					Andrea Garbagnati	2, 6, 10
					Mauro Casadei	6, 11
					Matteo Malucelli	8
Wieth Racing	Ferrari 550 GTS	Ferrari 6.0 L V12	D	22	Wolfgang Kaufmann	1–3, 6
					Vittorio Zoboli	1, 3
					Paolo Biglieri	1
					Miguel Ángel de Castro	2
					Mark Mayall	6
					Rob Croydon	6
DAMS	Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT	Lamborghini 6.0 L V12	M	24	Andrea Piccini	8–10
					Jean-Denis Délétraz	8–10
					Neel Jani	10
					Philip Ma	11
					Samson Chan	11
					Michael Choi Koon Ming	11
				26	Beppe Gabbiani	8–10
					Filipe Ortiz	8–10
					Andrea Piccini	11
					Jean-Denis Délétraz	11
Creation Autosportif	Lister Storm GT	Jaguar 7.0 L V12	D	27	Jamie Campbell-Walter	1–8
					Jamie Derbyshire	1–8
					Bobby Verdon-Roe	6–7
					Peter Snowdon	7
Graham Nash Motorsport	Saleen S7-R	Ford 6.9 L V8	D	28	Paolo Ruberti	All
					Jesús Diez de Villaroel	1–3
					Harald Becker	1
					Gabriele Lancieri	2, 4–5, 8, 10
					Luca Pirri	3, 8, 11
					Wolfgang Kaufmann	4, 9
					Anthony Kumpen	5
					David Leslie	6
					Paul Whight	6
					Sergey Zlobin	7
					Christophe Geoffroy	7
					Gian Maria Gabbiani	7
					Jamie Wall	9
					Rocky Agusta	10–11
Reiter Engineering	Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT	Lamborghini 6.0 L V12	M	29	Oliver Gavin	2
					Peter Kox	2
Force One Racing Festina	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Chrysler 356-T6 8.0 L V10	P	32	François Labhardt	7
					Julien Gilbert	7
					François Jakubowski	7
					Philippe Alliot	7
AF Corse[N 1]	Maserati MC12 GT1	Maserati 6.0 L V12	P	33	Andrea Bertolini	8–11
					Mika Salo	8–11
				34	Fabrizio de Simone	8–11
					Johnny Herbert	8–11
Scuderia Veregra	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Chrysler 8.0 L V10	P	35	Valerio Scarsellati	8
					Angelo Lancelotti	8
					"Base Up"	8
					Anthony Beltoise	10
					Narain Karthikeyan	10
					Maktoum Hasher Al Maktoum	10
					Marco Saviozzi	11
					David Terrien	11
					Jean-Yves Mallat	11

1. ↑ AF Corse's Maserati MC12s were not approved for homologation when they entered the series; this homologation was later approved prior to Round 11. The team and drivers were therefore ineligible to score championship points until Round 11.

N-GT

Entrant	Car	Engine	Tyre	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Yukos Freisinger Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6	M	50	Stéphane Ortelli	All
					Emmanuel Collard	All
					Romain Dumas	7
				77	Aleksey Vasilyev	All
					Nikolai Fomenko	1–6, 9–11
					Jörg Bergmeister	7–8
					Timo Bernhard	7
Freisinger Motorsport				99	Sascha Maassen	All
					Lucas Luhr	All
					Marc Lieb	7
AB Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6	D	56	Bruno Barbaro	1, 3–4, 8
					Antonio De Castro	1, 3–4, 8
					Renato Premoli	1, 3–4, 8
Vonka Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-R	Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6	P	57	Jan Vonka	2–5, 8–11
					Miroslav Konôpka	2, 5, 10–11
					Mauro Casadei	3–4, 9
					Marco Panzavuota	8
					Massimiliano Degiovanni	8
Darro Motor Racing	Ferrari 360 Modena N-GT	Ferrari 3.6 L V8	P	58	Gines Vivancos	2
					Luis Miguel Reyes	2
JP Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6	D	59	Jens Petersen	3–4, 6, 8–9
					Jan-Dirk Lueders	3–4, 6, 8–9
					Oliver Mathai	3, 6, 8
					Kersten Jodexnis	4, 9
Machánek Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-RS Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6	D	60	Rudolf Machánek	5
					Jaroslav Hozník	5
				61	Josef Venč	5
					Istvan Racz	5
GPC Giesse Squadra Corse	Ferrari 360 Modena N-GT Ferrari 360 Modena GTC	Ferrari 3.6 L V8	P	62	Christian Pescatori	All
					Fabrizio de Simone	1–7
					Andrea Bertolini	7
					Iradj Alexander	8
					Vincent Vosse	9
					Jaime Melo	10–11
				64	Luca Drudi	10
					Marco Lambertini	10
					Vincent Vosse	10
					Matthew Marsh	11
					Charles Kwan	11
JVG Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6	D	63	Horst Felbermayr	5
					Horst Felbermayr Jr.	5
Scuderia Ecosse	Ferrari 360 Modena GTC	Ferrari 3.6 L V8	P	65	Andrew Kirkaldy	6
					Nathan Kinch	6
Autorlando Sport	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6	P	66	Luigi Moccia	7
					Morendo Soli	7
					Liz Halliday	7
Proton Competition	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6	D	68	Horst Felbermayr	10–11
					Horst Felbermayr Jr.	10–11
				69	Christian Ried	All
					Gerold Ried	All
					Maciej Marcinkiewicz	1–2, 9
					Horst Felbermayr	7
					Horst Felbermayr Jr.	7
Graham Nash Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT3-R	Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6	D	70	Edy Gay	7
					Armand Fumal	7
					Steve Van Bellingen	7
					Michel Orts	7
					Rob Croydon	10
					Del Bennett	10
					David Ovey	10
					Stephen Stokoe	11
					Ken McAlpine	11
					Ben Orcutt	11
JWR	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6	D	71	Mike Jordan	6–7
					David Warnock	6
					Godfrey Jones	7
					David Jones	7
Cirtek Motorsport	Ferrari 360 Modena GTC	Ferrari 3.6 L V8	D	72	Frank Mountain	7
					Rob Wilson	7
					Maurizio Fabris	7
					Karim Ojjeh	7
	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6		73	Adam Jones	7–8
					Nikolai Fomenko	7–8
					John Grant	7
					Vic Rice	7
Seikel Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6	Y	75	Alex Caffi	7
					Luca Riccitelli	7
					Gabrio Rosa	7
					Robin Liddell	7
RJN Motorsport	Nissan 350Z	Nissan 3.5 L V6	D	85	Neil Cunningham	7, 11
					Chris Buncombe	7
					Carl Rosenblad	7
					Vincent Radermecker	7
					Ben Collins	11
MIK Corse	Ferrari 360 Modena GTC	Ferrari 3.6 L V8	P	87	Alessandro Piccolo	8
					Giovanni Berton	8
GruppeM Europe	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6	D	88	Tim Mullen	6
					Jonny Cocker	6
					Marc Lieb	10–11
					Tim Sugden	10–11
Scuderia Veregra	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6	P	89	Beppo Orlandi	8
					Roberto Castagna	8

Season results

Rnd	Circuit	GT Winning Team	N-GT Winning Team	Results
		GT Winning Drivers	N-GT Winning Drivers
1	Monza	#2 BMS Scuderia Italia	#50 Yukos Freisinger	Results
		Fabrizio Gollin Luca Cappellari	Stéphane Ortelli Emmanuel Collard
2	Valencia	#2 BMS Scuderia Italia	#99 Freisinger Motorsport	Results
		Fabrizio Gollin Luca Cappellari	Lucas Luhr Sascha Maassen
3	Magny-Cours	#5 Vitaphone Racing Team	#99 Freisinger Motorsport	Results
		Michael Bartels Uwe Alzen	Lucas Luhr Sascha Maassen
4	Hockenheimring	#1 BMS Scuderia Italia	#99 Freisinger Motorsport	Results
		Matteo Bobbi Gabriele Gardel	Lucas Luhr Sascha Maassen
5	Brno	#5 Vitaphone Racing Team	#62 G.P.C. Giesse	Results
		Michael Bartels Uwe Alzen	Christian Pescatori Fabrizio De Simone
6	Donington	#17 JMB Racing	#50 Yukos Freisinger	Results
		Jaime Melo Karl Wendlinger	Stéphane Ortelli Emmanuel Collard
7	Spa	#2 BMS Scuderia Italia	#50 Yukos Freisinger	Results
		Fabrizio Gollin Luca Cappellari Enzo Calderari Lilian Bryner	Stéphane Ortelli Emmanuel Collard Romain Dumas
8	Imola	#5 Vitaphone Racing Team	#99 Freisinger Motorsport	Results
		Michael Bartels Uwe Alzen	Lucas Luhr Sascha Maassen
9	Oschersleben	#33 AF Corse	#99 Freisinger Motorsport	Results
		Mika Salo Andrea Bertolini	Lucas Luhr Sascha Maassen
10	Dubai	#1 BMS Scuderia Italia	#99 Freisinger Motorsport	Results
		Matteo Bobbi Gabriele Gardel	Lucas Luhr Sascha Maassen
11	Zhuhai	#33 AF Corse	#62 G.P.C. Giesse	Results
		Mika Salo Andrea Bertolini	Christian Pescatori Jaime Melo

Drivers Championship

The GT Drivers Championship was won jointly by Luca Cappellari and Fabrizio Gollin who shared a Ferrari 550 Maranello entered by BMS Scuderia Italia.

The N-GT Drivers Championship was won jointly by Sascha Maassen and Lucas Luhr who shared a Porsche 996 GT3 RSR entered by Freisinger Motorsport.

Teams Championship

Points were awarded separately in both GT and N-GT to the top 8 class finishers in the order of 10–8–6–5–4–3–2–1. At the Spa 24 Hours only, half points were also granted to the leading eight cars at the 12-hour mark. Both cars scored points towards the championship.

GT Standings

Pos	Team	Car	Engine	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Rd 8	Rd 9	Rd 10	Rd 11	Total
1	BMS Scuderia Italia	Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello	Ferrari 5.9L V12	18	18	11	18	6	9	30.5	13	15	15	6	159.5
2	GPC Giesse Squadra Corse	Ferrari 575-GTC Maranello	Ferrari 6.0L V12	11		3	7	5	9	20	7	2	4	4	72
3	JMB Racing	Ferrari 575-GTC Maranello	Ferrari 6.0L V12	2	7	8		9	10	11	2	7		4	60
4	Vitaphone Racing Team	Saleen S7R	Ford 7.0L V8			10		10	8		10		6		44
5	Care Racing Development	Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello	Ferrari 5.9L V12	4			6	2	2		6	4	8	5	37
6	Ray Mallock Ltd. (RML)	Saleen S7R	Ford 7.0L V8	1	3		1		1	3	1	11	3	2	26
7	AF Corse	Maserati MC12 GT1	Maserati 6.0L V12											18	18†
8	Creation Autosportif	Lister Storm	Jaguar 7.0L V12		4	2	5	4		1					16
9	Zwaans GTR Racing Team	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Chrysler 8.0L V10	3		1	2			5					11
10	Konrad Motorsport	Saleen S7R	Ford 7.0L V8			4		3							7
11	Reiter Engineering	Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT	Lamborghini 6.0L V12		6										6
12	Force One Racing Festina	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Chrysler 8.0L V10							5.5					5.5
13=	JMB	Ferrari 575-GTC Maranello	Ferrari 6.0L V12		1								1		2
13=	Graham Nash Motorsport	Saleen S7R	Ford 7.0L V8										2		2
15	Lister Racing	Lister Storm	Jaguar 7.0L V12							1					1

† – AF Corse was originally not allowed to score points due to their Maserati MC12 not being legally homologated. This was changed for Round 11 in Zhuhai, legalizing the MC12.

N-GT Standings

Pos	Team	Car	Engine	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Rd 8	Rd 9	Rd 10	Rd 11	Total
1	Yukos Freisinger Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6	10	11	14	8	11	10	36	14	13	11		138
2	Freisinger Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6		10	10	10	8	8	9.5	10	10	10	8	93.5
3	G.P.C. Giesse Squadra	Ferrari 360 GTC	Ferrari 3.6L V8	8	8		6	10	4			6	10	15	67
4	Proton Competition	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6	6	4	5	5	4	1	7	2	4	3	4	45
5	Gruppe M Europe	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6						6	5.5			5	3	19.5
6	Vonka Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-R	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6		3	4		3			1	2		6	19
7=	AB Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6	5			4				3				12
7=	JWR	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6						3	9					12
9	Jens Petersen	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6						2		4	3			9
10=	Scuderia Ecosse	Ferrari 360 GTC	Ferrari 3.6L V8						5						5
10=	Autorlando Sport	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6							5					5
10=	Mik Corse	Ferrari 360 GTC	Ferrari 3.6L V8								5				5
13	Seikel Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6							3					3
14=	JVG Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6					2							2
14=	Cirtek Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT3-RS Ferrari 360 GTC	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6 Ferrari 3.6L V8							2					2
16	Machánek Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6					1							1

References

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