1992 Life Grand Prix Series season
The 1992 Life Grand Prix Series season was the second season of the Life Grand Prix Series. The total number of entries was risen to 41 from the 30 regular entries that was seen in the previous season. To accomodate all of the new entries, a special prequalifying session was held on each Friday afternoon, and only 28 cars in total were allowed to start the race. The only exception to this rule was the Swiss SuperPrix, where all 41 cars were allowed to start the race. Due to pressure from FISA, the series was forced to abandon all circuits that were used by Formula One during the same year. Despite this, the amount of championship races was increased by one to a total of 19.
Teams and drivers
Notes:
- 1 - Psycho Mantis suffered a serious accident at the Argentine GP, and was replaced by the team's test driver Kenneth Baker for the duration of his injury.
- 2 - Jules Connes replaced Matthias Kjellerup for the Spanish and French GPs for sponsorship reasons.
- 3 - Dave Wilson was injured in an accident at the French GP, and was replaced by Tex Pearson.
- 4 - Rafael Modena's erratic driving at the French GP led to him being replaced by the team's test and reserve driver Jérémy-Étienne Voeckler for the next round in Italy.
- 5 - Due to poor results, Eddie Pulaski was replaced by the team's test driver Jimmy Hernandez from the Austrian GP onwards.
- 6 - Similarly, Jean-Pierre Balivernes was hired to drive the second Mazzacane Motorsports car in hopes of getting it qualified for a race, a feat neither Matthias Kjellerup nor Jules Connes had managed to achieve.
Season calendar
Testing
Track | Date | Fastest driver | Fastest team |
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Autodromo Vallelunga Piero Taruffi | February 16 | Gio van Dycke | Scuderia Asso di Foiri |
February 23 | Dave Wilson | Team DAYP Loans Racing |
Championship races
GP | Date | Title | Track | Pole position | Fastest lap | Winning driver | Winning team | ROTR |
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1 | March 8 | Life Gran Premio de Argentina | Autódromo Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Buenos Aires, Argentina | Leonhard von Gottorp | Leonhard von Gottorp | Mikhail Karimov | The Team of the Workers Party | Danny Ramone |
2 | March 29 | Life Grande Prêmio do Brasil | Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba, Pinhais, Brazil | Dave Wilson | Dave Wilson | Dave Wilson | Team DAYP Loans Racing | William Anker |
3 | April 12 | Life Gran Premio de España | Circuito Permanente del Jarama, Madrid, Spain | Dave Wilson | Dave Wilson | Pieter Kickert | Foster's Good Call Racing | Stewards |
4 | April 26 | Life Grand Prix de France | Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France | Dave Wilson | Gio van Dycke | Marky Howard | Rockets to Russia | Kim Jong-Sung |
5 | May 10 | Life Gran Premio d'Italia | Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello, Mugello, Italy | Gio van Dycke | Gio van Dycke | Marky Howard | Rockets to Russia | Rachel Graham |
6 | May 24 | Life Großer Preis von Österreich | Österreichring, Spielberg, Austria | |||||
7 | June 7 | Life Velká cena Československa | Masaryk Circuit, Brno, Czechoslovakia | |||||
8 | June 21 | Life Suomen Grand Prix | Kemora Circuit, Veteli, Finland | |||||
9 | June 28 | Life Großer Preis von Deutschland | Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße, Berlin, Germany | |||||
10 | July 19 | Life SuperPrix de Suisse | Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France | |||||
11 | August 2 | Life Grote Prijs van België | Circuit Zolder, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium | |||||
12 | August 23 | Life Grote Prijs van Nederland | Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort, Netherlands | |||||
13 | September 6 | Life Grand Prix of Scotland | Knockhill Racing Circuit, Fife, Scotland | |||||
14 | September 20 | Life Grand Prix of England | Birmingham Superprix, Birmingham, England | |||||
15 | October 4 | Life Grand Prix of Great Britain | Castle Combe Circuit, Wiltshire, England | |||||
16 | October 18 | Life Grand Prix of Eastern United States | Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, Ohio, USA | |||||
17 | November 1 | Life Grand Prix of Western United States | Thunderhill Raceway Park, Willows, California, USA | |||||
18 | November 15 | Life 日本グランプリ | Central Park Mine Circuit, Mine, Japan | |||||
19 | November 22 | Life Grand Prix of Australia | Eastern Creek Raceway, Eastern Creek, Australia |
Results
Pos. | Driver | ARG |
BRA |
ESP |
FRA |
ITA |
AUT |
CZE |
FIN |
GER |
SUI |
BEL |
NED |
SCO |
ENG |
GBR |
USE |
USW |
JAP |
AUS |
Pts. |
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1 | Marky Howard | 3 | Ret | Ret | 1 | 1 | 24 | ||||||||||||||
2 | Dave Wilson | Ret | 1 | Ret | Ret | INJ | INJ | INJ | 15 | ||||||||||||
3 | William Anker | Ret | NC | 2 | 2 | Ret | 12 | ||||||||||||||
4 | Jose Braggia | 4 | 5 | Ret | Ret | 2 | 11 | ||||||||||||||
5 | Mikhail Karimov | 1 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 10 | ||||||||||||||
6 | Pieter Kickert | Ret | Ret | 1 | Ret | Ret | 10 | ||||||||||||||
7 | Vic Sunset | 2 | Ret | Ret | 7 | 4 | 9 | ||||||||||||||
8 | Leonhard von Gottorp | Ret | 2 | Ret | 5 | Ret | 10 | ||||||||||||||
9 | Algernon Bell | Ret | 8 | 4 | Ret | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
10 | Charles Jericho | Ret | 6 | 6† | 4 | Ret | 5 | ||||||||||||||
11 | Kim Jong-Sung | Ret | 3 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 4 | ||||||||||||||
12 | Geoff Donnelly | Ret | Ret | 3 | Ret | Ret | 4 | ||||||||||||||
13 | Will Roberts | Ret | Ret | Ret | 3 | Ret | 4 | ||||||||||||||
14 | Danny Ramone | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
15 | Christopher Arthurs | Ret | 4 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 3 | ||||||||||||||
16 | Gio van Dycke | DNQ | Ret | Ret | Ret | 7† | 3 | ||||||||||||||
17 | Richard Richardson | Ret | 7 | 5 | Ret | Ret | 2 | ||||||||||||||
18 | Maea Blog | 5† | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 2 | ||||||||||||||
19 | Frédéric-Maxime Voeckler | 6† | Ret | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 1 | ||||||||||||||
20 | Rachel Graham | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
21 | José Pablo Mazzacane | DNQ | DNQ | Ret | 6 | Ret | 1 | ||||||||||||||
22 | Apostolos Alianopoulos | DNQ | DNQ | Ret | 8 | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
23 | Joe Gaera | DNQ | 9 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
24 | Evelyn Gomes | Ret | 10 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
25 | Jan van der Maeyede | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
26 | Frank Tenpenny | Ret | Ret | Ret | DNQ | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
27 | Jonny Greenwood | Ret | Ret | Ret | DNQ | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||||||||
28 | Atos Koumettou | Ret | Ret | DNQ | Ret | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
29 | Josip Stalic | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
30 | Kenneth Baker | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||
31 | Eddie Pulaski | Ret | Ret | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||||||||
32 | John Holmes | Ret | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||||||||
33 | Rafael Modena | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||
34 | Tex Pearson | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
35 | Psycho Mantis | Ret | INJ | INJ | INJ | INJ | INJ | INJ | INJ | INJ | INJ | INJ | INJ | INJ | 0 | ||||||
36 | Valentino Nicchi | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||||||||
37 | Sam Winton | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||||||||
38 | Pedro Capilé | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||||||||
39 | Cleide do Nascimento | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||||||||
40 | Archibald March | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||||||||
41 | Derek Gray | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||||||||
42 | Matthias Kjellerup | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
43 | Shigeru Hashimoto | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||||||||
44 | Jules Connes | DNQ | DNQ | 0 |
† Driver did not finish, but was classified due to being among the last six cars running or completing at least 90% of the race distance
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