1989 IMSA GT Championship

1989 IMSA GT Championship

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The 1989 Camel GT Championship season was the 19th season of the IMSA GT Championship auto racing series. It was for GTP and Lights classes of prototypes, as well as Grand Tourer-style racing cars which ran in the GTO and GTU classes, as well as a tube-frame American Challenge (AC) class during select GT-only rounds. It began February 4, 1989, and ended October 22, 1989, after twenty rounds.

Schedule

The GT and Prototype classes did not participate in all events, nor did they race together at shorter events. The AC class only participated in GT-only events. Races marked with All had all classes on track at the same time.

Rnd	Race	Length	Class	Circuit	Date
1	SunBank 24 at Daytona	24 Hours	All	Daytona International Speedway	February 4–5
2	Nissan Grand Prix of Miami	45 Minutes	GT	Streets of Miami	March 5
		3 Hours	Proto
3	12 Hours of Sebring	12 Hours	All	Sebring International Raceway	March 18
4	Nissan Grand Prix of Atlanta	500 km	Proto	Road Atlanta	April 2
5	Pontiac Grand Prix of Palm Beach	3 Hours	Proto	West Palm Beach street circuit	April 23
6	Summit Point Grand Prix	2 Hours 30 Minutes	GT	Summit Point Raceway	May 21
7	Toyota Trucks Lime Rock Grand Prix	150 Laps,	Proto	Lime Rock Park	May 29
8	Nissan Grand Prix of Ohio	500 km	Proto	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	June 4
		200 km	GT
9	Audi quattro IMSA Weekend	500 km	GT	Mosport Park	June 25
10	Camel Continental	500 km	Proto	Watkins Glen International	July 2
11	Miller High Life 500	500 km	All	Road America	July 16
12	G.I. Joe's Camel Grand Prix	1 Hour 30 Minutes	GT	Portland International Raceway	July 30
		300 km	Proto
13	Camel Grand Prix of the Heartland	2 Hours	GT	Heartland Park	August 12
		300 km	Proto		August 13
14	Nissan Camel Grand Prix of San Antonio	1 Hour	GT	San Antonio street circuit	September 3
		2 Hours	Proto
15	Lincoln-Mercury California Grand Prix	300 km	Proto	Sears Point Raceway	September 10
		200 km	GT
16	Kodak Copier 500	500 km	GT	Watkins Glen International	September 24
17	GTE World Challenge of Tampa	360 km	Proto	Florida State Fairgrounds	October 1
18	Lime Rock 2 Hours	2 Hours	GT	Lime Rock Park	October 1
19	Toyota Monterey Grand Prix	1 Hour	GT	Laguna Seca Raceway	October 15
20	Camel Grand Prix of Southern California	1 Hour	GT	Del Mar Fairgrounds	October 22
		2 Hours	Proto

Season results

Rnd	Circuit	GTP Winning Team	Lights Winning Team	GTO Winning Team	GTU Winning Team	Results
		GTP Winning Drivers	Lights Winning Drivers	GTO Winning Drivers	GTU Winning Drivers
1	Daytona	Template:Flagicon #67 Miller-BF Goodrich	Template:Flagicon #9 Essex Racing	Template:Flagicon #16 Stroh's Light Cougar	Template:Flagicon #17 Al Bacon Performance	Results
		Template:Flagicon Bob Wollek Template:Flagicon Derek Bell Template:Flagicon John Andretti	Template:Flagicon Charles Morgan Template:Flagicon John Morrison Template:Flagicon Tom Hessert	Template:Flagicon Pete Halsmer Template:Flagicon Bob Earl Template:Flagicon Mark Martin Template:Flagicon Paul Stewart	Template:Flagicon Al Bacon Template:Flagicon Bob Reed Template:Flagicon Rod Millen
2	Miami	Template:Flagicon #83 Electramotive Eng.	Template:Flagicon #4 S&L Racing	Template:Flagicon #6 Roush Racing	Template:Flagicon #72 John Finger	Results
		Template:Flagicon Chip Robinson Template:Flagicon Geoff Brabham	Template:Flagicon Scott Schubot	Template:Flagicon Pete Halsmer	Template:Flagicon John Finger
3	Sebring	Template:Flagicon #83 Electramotive Eng.	Template:Flagicon #55 Huffaker Racing	Template:Flagicon #11 Roush Racing	Template:Flagicon #74 Huffaker Racing	Results
		Template:Flagicon Chip Robinson Template:Flagicon Geoff Brabham Template:Flagicon Arie Luyendyk	Template:Flagicon Bob Lesnett Template:Flagicon Dan Marvin	Template:Flagicon Wally Dallenbach Jr. Template:Flagicon Dorsey Schroeder	Template:Flagicon George Robinson Template:Flagicon Bart Kendall Template:Flagicon Johnny Unser
4	Road Atlanta	Template:Flagicon #83 Electramotive Eng.	Template:Flagicon #4 S&L Racing	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	Results
		Template:Flagicon Chip Robinson Template:Flagicon Geoff Brabham	Template:Flagicon Scott Schubot
5	Palm Beach	Template:Flagicon #67 Busby Racing	Template:Flagicon #4 S&L Racing	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	Results
		Template:Flagicon Bob Wollek Template:Flagicon John Andretti	Template:Flagicon Scott Schubot Template:Flagicon Linda Ludemann
6	Summit Point	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	Template:Flagicon #4 Audi of America	Template:Flagicon #74 Robinson Racing	Results
				Template:Flagicon Hans-Joachim Stuck	Template:Flagicon George Robinson
7	Lime Rock	Template:Flagicon #84 Electramotive Eng.	Template:Flagicon #9 Essex Racing	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	Results
		Template:Flagicon Geoff Brabham	Template:Flagicon Charles Morgan Template:Flagicon Jeff Purner
8	Mid-Ohio	Template:Flagicon #83 Electramotive Eng.	Template:Flagicon #9 Essex Racing	Template:Flagicon #4 Audi of America	Template:Flagicon #71 Team Highball	Results
		Template:Flagicon Chip Robinson Template:Flagicon Geoff Brabham	Template:Flagicon Charles Morgan Template:Flagicon Tom Hessert	Template:Flagicon Hans-Joachim Stuck	Template:Flagicon Amos Johnson
9	Mosport	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	Template:Flagicon #6 Roush Racing	Template:Flagicon #00 Full Time Racing	Results
				Template:Flagicon Pete Halsmer	Template:Flagicon Jeremy Dale
10	Watkins Glen	Template:Flagicon #84 Electramotive Eng.	Template:Flagicon #63 Mazda	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	Results
		Template:Flagicon Chip Robinson Template:Flagicon Geoff Brabham	Template:Flagicon Jim Downing Template:Flagicon Howard Katz
11	Road America	Template:Flagicon #83 Electromotive Eng.	Template:Flagicon #4 S&L Racing	Template:Flagicon #7 Cunningham Racing	Template:Flagicon #71 Team Highball	Results
		Template:Flagicon Chip Robinson Template:Flagicon Geoff Brabham	Template:Flagicon Scott Schubot	Template:Flagicon Steve Millen	Template:Flagicon Amos Johnson
12	Portland	Template:Flagicon #60 Castrol Jaguar	Template:Flagicon #63 Downing Atlanta	Template:Flagicon #6 Roush Racing	Template:Flagicon #00 Full Time Racing	Results
		Template:Flagicon Price Cobb Template:Flagicon Jan Lammers	Template:Flagicon Jim Downing Template:Flagicon Howard Katz	Template:Flagicon Pete Halsmer	Template:Flagicon Kal Showket
13	Heartland Park	Template:Flagicon #83 Electramotive Eng.	Template:Flagicon #4 S&L Racing	Template:Flagicon #4 Audi of America	Template:Flagicon #95 Leitzinger Racing	Results
		Template:Flagicon Geoff Brabham	Template:Flagicon Scott Schubot Template:Flagicon Linda Ludemann	Template:Flagicon Hans-Joachim Stuck	Template:Flagicon Bob Leitzinger
14	San Antonio	Template:Flagicon #84 Electramotive Eng.	Template:Flagicon #4 S&L Racing	Template:Flagicon #9 Roush Racing	Template:Flagicon #95 Leitzinger Racing	Results
		Template:Flagicon Chip Robinson	Template:Flagicon Scott Schubot Template:Flagicon Linda Ludemann	Template:Flagicon Wally Dallenbach Jr.	Template:Flagicon Bob Leitzinger
15	Sears Point	Template:Flagicon #83 Electramotive Eng.	Template:Flagicon #4 S&L Racing	Template:Flagicon #4 Audi of America	Template:Flagicon #07 Full Time Racing	Results
		Template:Flagicon Geoff Brabham	Template:Flagicon Scott Schubot Template:Flagicon Linda Ludemann	Template:Flagicon Hans-Joachim Stuck	Template:Flagicon Jeremy Dale
16	Watkins Glen	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	Template:Flagicon #4 Audi of America	Template:Flagicon #17 Al Bacon Performance	Results
				Template:Flagicon Hans-Joachim Stuck Template:Flagicon Walter Röhrl	Template:Flagicon Al Bacon
17	Tampa	Template:Flagicon #60 Castrol Jaguar	Template:Flagicon #9 Essex Racing	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	Results
		Template:Flagicon Price Cobb	Template:Flagicon Charles Morgan Template:Flagicon Tom Hessert
18	Lime Rock	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	Template:Flagicon #4 Audi of America	Template:Flagicon #00 Full Time Racing	Results
				Template:Flagicon Hans-Joachim Stuck	Template:Flagicon Kal Showket
19	Laguna Seca	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	Template:Flagicon #4 Audi of America	Template:Flagicon #07 Full Time Racing	Results
				Template:Flagicon Hans-Joachim Stuck	Template:Flagicon Jeremy Dale
20	Del Mar	Template:Flagicon #60 Castrol Jaguar	Template:Flagicon #4 S&L Racing	Template:Flagicon #9 Roush Racing	Template:Flagicon #07 Full Time Racing	Results
		Template:Flagicon Jan Lammers	Template:Flagicon Scott Schubot Template:Flagicon Linda Ludemann	Template:Flagicon Wally Dallenbach Jr.	Template:Flagicon Jeremy Dale

External links

• World Sports Racing Prototypes - 1989 IMSA GT Championship results