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 course	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, 229.5 mi (369.3 km)	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 course	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	#67 Miller-BF Goodrich	#9 Essex Racing	#16 Stroh's Light Cougar	#17 Al Bacon Performance	Results
		Bob Wollek Derek Bell John Andretti	Charles Morgan John Morrison Tom Hessert	Pete Halsmer Bob Earl Mark Martin Paul Stewart	Al Bacon Bob Reed Rod Millen
2	Miami	#83 Electramotive Eng.	#4 S&L Racing	#6 Roush Racing	#72 John Finger	Results
		Chip Robinson Geoff Brabham	Scott Schubot	Pete Halsmer	John Finger
3	Sebring	#83 Electramotive Eng.	#55 Huffaker Racing	#11 Roush Racing	#74 Huffaker Racing	Results
		Chip Robinson Geoff Brabham Arie Luyendyk	Bob Lesnett Dan Marvin	Wally Dallenbach Jr. Dorsey Schroeder	George Robinson Bart Kendall Johnny Unser
4	Road Atlanta	#83 Electramotive Eng.	#4 S&L Racing	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	Results
		Chip Robinson Geoff Brabham	Scott Schubot
5	Palm Beach	#67 Busby Racing	#4 S&L Racing	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	Results
		Bob Wollek John Andretti	Scott Schubot Linda Ludemann
6	Summit Point	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	#4 Audi of America	#74 Robinson Racing	Results
				Hans-Joachim Stuck	George Robinson
7	Lime Rock	#84 Electramotive Eng.	#9 Essex Racing	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	Results
		Geoff Brabham	Charles Morgan Jeff Purner
8	Mid-Ohio	#83 Electramotive Eng.	#9 Essex Racing	#4 Audi of America	#71 Team Highball	Results
		Chip Robinson Geoff Brabham	Charles Morgan Tom Hessert	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Amos Johnson
9	Mosport	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	#6 Roush Racing	#00 Full Time Racing	Results
				Pete Halsmer	Jeremy Dale
10	Watkins Glen	#84 Electramotive Eng.	#63 Mazda	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	Results
		Chip Robinson Geoff Brabham	Jim Downing Howard Katz
11	Road America	#83 Electromotive Eng.	#4 S&L Racing	#7 Cunningham Racing	#71 Team Highball	Results
		Chip Robinson Geoff Brabham	Scott Schubot	Steve Millen	Amos Johnson
12	Portland	#60 Castrol Jaguar	#63 Downing Atlanta	#6 Roush Racing	#00 Full Time Racing	Results
		Price Cobb Jan Lammers	Jim Downing Howard Katz	Pete Halsmer	Kal Showket
13	Heartland Park	#83 Electramotive Eng.	#4 S&L Racing	#4 Audi of America	#95 Leitzinger Racing	Results
		Geoff Brabham	Scott Schubot Linda Ludemann	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Bob Leitzinger
14	San Antonio	#84 Electramotive Eng.	#4 S&L Racing	#9 Roush Racing	#95 Leitzinger Racing	Results
		Chip Robinson	Scott Schubot Linda Ludemann	Wally Dallenbach Jr.	Bob Leitzinger
15	Sears Point	#83 Electramotive Eng.	#4 S&L Racing	#4 Audi of America	#07 Full Time Racing	Results
		Geoff Brabham	Scott Schubot Linda Ludemann	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Jeremy Dale
16	Watkins Glen	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	#4 Audi of America	#17 Al Bacon Performance	Results
				Hans-Joachim Stuck Walter Röhrl	Al Bacon
17	Tampa	#60 Castrol Jaguar	#9 Essex Racing	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	Results
		Price Cobb	Charles Morgan Tom Hessert
18	Lime Rock	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	#4 Audi of America	#00 Full Time Racing	Results
				Hans-Joachim Stuck	Kal Showket
19	Laguna Seca	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	#4 Audi of America	#07 Full Time Racing	Results
				Hans-Joachim Stuck	Jeremy Dale
20	Del Mar	#60 Castrol Jaguar	#4 S&L Racing	#9 Roush Racing	#07 Full Time Racing	Results
		Jan Lammers	Scott Schubot Linda Ludemann	Wally Dallenbach Jr.	Jeremy Dale

External links

• World Sports Racing Prototypes - 1989 IMSA GT Championship results