1992 Life Grand Prix Series season

1992 Life Grand Prix Series
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The 1992 Life Grand Prix Series season was the second season of the Life Grand Prix Series. The total number of entries was increased 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 started each GP. The only exception to this rule was the Swiss SuperPrix, where all cars automatically qualified for 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

Entrant	No.	Race Drivers	Rounds	Test Driver(s)
Foster's Good Call Racing	00	Evelyn Gomes	1-12	Apostolos Alianopoulos Jose Braggia
		James Davies 24	13-
	9	Pieter Kickert	1-11, 15-16
		Jérémy-Étienne Voeckler 21	12-14, 17-
Alstom GPE 27	4	Jérémy-Étienne Voeckler	16	None
		Geoff Donnelly 29	17-19
Team DAYP Loans Racing	5	Dave Wilson	1-4, 8-	Tex Pearson
		Tex Pearson 3	5-7
Winton Racing 9	7	Sam Winton	1-5	Jeice Swan
Aussie Motorsport	8	Joe Gaera	1-9	Joe Bloggs
		Sam Sun 16	10-
	10	Maea Blog	1-
		Joe Bloggs	19
Life's a (Weeta)bix 14	11	Jonny Greenwood	1-8	None
Great Leap Backward	13	Kim Jong-Sung	1-	Carlos Marquez
	31	Josip Stalic	1-
C.R.A.S.H.	14	Frank Tenpenny	1-	Jimmy Hernandez
	15	Eddie Pulaski	1-5, 9-
		Jimmy Hernandez 5	6-8
Kickert Motorsport Engineering 29	16	Pieter Kickert	17-	None
Al Smith Racing Enterprises	17	Geoff Donnelly	1-10	Mike Boullier
		Frédéric-Maxime Voeckler 19	11-
	71	Jan van der Maeyede	1-
	77	Geoff Donnelly 23	13
Team Sandinista!	19	Christopher Arthurs	1-	None
	20	Rachel Graham	1-14, 17-
		Geoff Donnelly 25	15-16
Ursus Racing 10	25	Fidrik Arnason	7-	None
Il Barone Rampante 18	27	Frédéric-Maxime Voeckler	1-9	Jérémy-Étienne Voeckler
	28	Rafael Modena	1-4, 6-9
		Jérémy-Étienne Voeckler 4	5
Zeroforce	29	Algernon Bell	1-5, 7-9, 15-	Natascha Zaugg
		Natascha Zaugg 7	6, 10-14
EuroBrum	33	William Anker	1-	Jamie Murphy
	34	Richard Richardson	1-
Rockets to Russia	35	Danny Ramone	1-	Algernon Bell
	53	Marky Howard	1-
Mazzacane Motorsport	39	José Pablo Mazzacane	1-	Jules Connes
	40	Matthias Kjellerup	1-2, 5
		Jules Connes 2	3-4
		Jean-Pierre Balivernes 7	6-
Racing for Greece powered by Olives	42	Apostolos Alianopoulos	1-	None
	43	Atos Koumettou	1-
HURT Racing	47	Will Roberts	1-	None
Blokkmonsta Racing	55	Vic Sunset	1-	None
Restov Racing 8	66	John Holmes	1-5	None
	67	Derek Gray	1-5
Herbalife Racing	69	Charles Jericho	1-	Baccus Young
High-Tech Motorsport Technology Racing Team	76	Shigeru Hashimoto	1-	None
Scuderia Asso di Fiori	88	Jose Braggia	1-	Joachim Dumm
	98	Gio van Dycke	1-7, 14-
	259	Joachim Dumm 12	8-13
Nicchi Motori	99	Valentino Nicchi	1-10	Marcus Kun Alik Mori
		Cameron Maroon 15	11-
Foxhound Life	190	Pjotr Madunochev	1, 11-	Kenneth Baker
		Kenneth Baker 1	2-7, 9-10
		W. A. Stokins 13	8
Life of Namibia	264	Leonhard von Gottorp	1-7	None
		Anderson Angula 11	8-
V.I.D.A.	444	Pedro Capilé	1-18	Julio Vaca
		Cleide do Nascimento 28	19
	445	Cleide do Nascimento	1-9, 17-18
		Julio Vaca 17	10-16, 19
Caraxl 8	500	James Generic	6-10, 12-13, 15, 18-19	Ronald Tenpecost
		Ronald Tenpecost 20	11, 14, 16-17
The Team of the Workers Party	666	Mikhail Karimov	1-14	None
		Ronald Tenpecost 26	15, 18
		Carlos Marquez 26	16-17
	888	Archibald Oswald March	1-12
		Dimitry Vitkin 22	13-

Notes:

• 1 - Pjotr Madunochev 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. Pulaski returned to the seat in Germany after Hernandez was found out to be not much of an improvement.
• 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.
• 7 - Natascha Zaugg drove the Zeroforce car at her home race due to sponsorship commitments. She would return to the cockpit for the Le Mans Superprix, as Algernon Bell needed to rest after a crash in Germany, and would continue in the cockpit until the end of the European season for sponsorship reasons.
• 8 - Restov Racing quit after the Italian GP due to lack of results. Their entry was taken over by the new Caraxl team.
• 9 - Likewise, Winton Racing struggled to find enough funding after poor results and withdrew from the series prior to the Austrian GP.
• 10 - Ursus Racing joined the series after the Austrian GP.
• 11 - Leonhard von Gottorp had a horrific accident with Gio van Dycke at the Czechoslovakian GP which put him into coma. After a miraculous recovery he decided that he had seen enough of this series and moved over to IndyCars. Anderson Angula, one of the team's founders, stepped in the cockpit as von Gottorp's replacement.
• 12 - Gio van Dycke suffered whiplash injuries in the same accident, and was also banned for three races after his recovery due to being found guilty of reckless endangerement of fellow drivers. The team's designated reserve driver Joachim Dumm stood in for him.
• 13 - Kenneth Baker was excluded from the Finnish Grand Prix after causing a collision with Geoff Donnelly at the Czechoslovakian GP. Rookie W. A. Stokins made his debut as Baker's one-off replacement.
• 14 - Life's a (Weeta)bix withdrew from the sport after the Finnish GP due to disappointing results.
• 15 - Valentino Nicchi got bored of the series and moved to IndyCar after the Swiss SuperPrix. He was replaced by Cameroonian rookie Cameron Maroon.
• 16 - Joe Gaera was seriously injured in a collision with Algernon Bell at the German round and was replaced by New Zealander rookie Sam Sun.
• 17 - Cleide do Nascimento was also injured at the German round in a collision with Atos Koumettou. She was replaced by the team's test and reserve driver Julio Vaca.
• 18 - IBR withdrew from the series due to poor results after the German round.
• 19 - Frédéric-Maxime Voeckler replaced Geoff Donnelly at select rounds of the championship due to sponsorship reasons. This was later extended to cover the rest of the season after an impressive 2nd place finish on Voeckler's debut with his new team.
• 20 - James Generic felt that he needed to rest after the very intense Swiss SuperPrix, so the team's reserve driver Ronald Tenpecost drove the car in Belgium. Tenpecost would also take the seat at Castle Combe and the two US rounds, as Generic had some personal issues.
• 21 - Pieter Kickert was injured in a collision with Marky Howard at the Belgian GP. He was replaced by veteran driver Jérémy-Étienne Voeckler.
• 22 - Archibald March's season ended in a horrible accident at Zandvoort. He was replaced by Dimitry Vitkin.
• 23 - Al Smith Racing was given the right to run a third car at the Birmingham round "due to exceptional circumstances". Geoff Donnelly, recently replaced by Frédéric-Maxime Voeckler in the #17 car, drove this extra entry.
• 24 - James Davies replaced the under-performing Evelyn Gomes, in a bid to field a more competitive line-up.
• 25 - Rachel Graham was banned for two races aftear a streak of collisions, culminating a large pileup at the British GP. She was replaced by Al Smith Racing's former driver Geoff Donnelly.
• 26 - Mikhail Karimov was banned for four races for causing a serious collision with Kim Jong-Sung at the British GP. An agreement was reached with the Great Leap Backward and Caraxl teams that Carlos Marquez would drive in Karimov's place in both US rounds, while Ronald Tenpecost would drive in Canada and Japan.
• 27 - After losing his drive at Foster's Good Call, Jérémy-Étienne Voeckler gathered the funds necessary to start up his own team Alstom GPE. The team would make their debut at the US East Grand Prix.
• 28 - Due to other commitments in Brazil, Pedro Capilé was forced to miss the Australian round. Cleide de Nascimento moved to the seat left vacant by him, while Julio Vaca returned to drive the second car.
• 29 - After just two races, Foster's Good Call decided that Pieter Kickert was no longer fit to drive for them and signed Jéremy-Étienne Voeckler back as their second driver. Voeckler's team Alstom GPE signed journeyman driver Geoff Donnelly to finish the season, while Kickert had no other way to stay in the sport but to resurrect his own team with which he drove during the first part of the 1991 season.

Season calendar

Testing

Track	Date	Fastest driver	Fastest team
Autodromo Vallelunga Piero Taruffi	February 16	Gio van Dycke	Scuderia Asso di Fiori
	February 23	Dave Wilson	Team DAYP Loans Racing

Championship races

GP	Date	Title	Track	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	ROTR
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	Marshalls
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	Pieter Kickert	Pieter Kickert	Gio van Dycke	Scuderia Asso di Fiori	Joe Gaera
7	June 7	Life Velká Cena Československa	Masaryk Circuit, Brno, Czechoslovakia	Jan van der Maeyede	Jan van der Maeyede	Joe Gaera	Aussie Motorsport	Gio van Dycke
8	June 21	Life Suomen Grand Prix	Kemora Circuit, Veteli, Finland	Dave Wilson	Dave Wilson	Jean-Pierre Balivernes	Mazzacane Motorsport	The Wall Quintet (Richardson, Alianopoulos, Generic, van der Maeyede, Stalic)
9	June 28	Life Großer Preis von Deutschland	Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße, Berlin, Germany	Jan van der Maeyede	Dave Wilson	Dave Wilson	Team DAYP Loans Racing	V.I.D.A.
10	July 19	Life SuperPrix de la Suisse	Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France	Dave Wilson	Jan van der Maeyede	Archibald March	The Team of the Workers Party	Evelyn Gomes
11	August 2	Life Grote Prijs van België	Circuit Zolder, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium	Jan van der Maeyede	Dave Wilson	Maea Blog	Aussie Motorsport	Ronald Tenpecost
12	August 23	Life Grote Prijs van Nederland	Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort, Netherlands	Dave Wilson	Jan van der Maeyede	Jan van der Maeyede	Al Smith Racing Enterprises	Danny Ramone
13	September 6	Life Grand Prix of England	Birmingham Superprix, Birmingham, England	James Davies	Dave Wilson	Jose Braggia	Scuderia Asso di Fiori	Everyone else except Jose Braggia
14	September 13	Life Grand Prix of Great Britain	Castle Combe Circuit, Wiltshire, England	James Davies	Dave Wilson	Jan van der Maeyede	Al Smith Racing Enterprises	Rachel Graham & Mikhail Karimov
15	September 27	Life Grand Prix of Canada	Mosport Park, Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada	James Davies	James Davies	Frédéric-Maxime Voeckler	Al Smith Racing Enterprises	James Davies' engine
16	October 11	Life Grand Prix of Eastern United States	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, Ohio, USA	James Davies	James Davies	James Davies	Foster's Good Call Racing	Gio van Dycke & Julio Vaca
17	October 25	Life Grand Prix of Western United States	Phoenix International Raceway, Avondale, Arizona, USA	James Davies	James Davies	James Davies	Foster's Good Call Racing	Pjotr Madunochev
18	November 1	Life 日本グランプリ	Central Park Mine Circuit, Mine, Japan
19	November 15	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	ENG	GBR	CAN	USE	USW	JAP	AUS	Pts.
1	Dave Wilson	Ret	1	Ret	Ret	INJ	INJ	INJ	Ret	1	Ret	Ret	Ret	5†	2	Ret	4	Ret			44
2	Jan van der Maeyede	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	4†	Ret	1	6†	1	Ret	2	Ret			36
3	Jose Braggia	4	5	Ret	Ret	2	4	Ret	5	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	1	5	3	Ret	Ret			32
4	Marky Howard	3	Ret	Ret	1	1	Ret	7†	7	12†	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	2	Ret	Ret			30
5	James Davies													Ret	Ret	Ret	1	1			28
6	Will Roberts	Ret	Ret	Ret	3	Ret	Ret	2	8	3	5†	Ret	3	4†	Ret	Ret	Ret	4			27
7	Frédéric-Maxime Voeckler	6†	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ		2	Ret	Ret	Ret	1	Ret	Ret			17
8	Pieter Kickert	Ret	Ret	1	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	3	Ret	Ret	Ret	INJ	INJ	INJ	6	Ret	Ret			17
9	Christopher Arthurs	Ret	4	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	Ret	3	Ret	3	2			17
10	Joe Gaera	DNQ	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	1	2	Ret	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ		16
11	Maea Blog	5†	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	6†	1	5	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret			15
12	Vic Sunset	2	Ret	Ret	7	4	6	Ret	4	6	Ret	Ret	6†	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret			15
13	Jean-Pierre Balivernes						Ret	Ret	1	7	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	3			14
14	Mikhail Karimov	1	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	Ret	11	Ret	Ret	3	Ret	Ret	Ret	EX	EX	EX	EX		14
15	Leonhard von Gottorp	Ret	2	Ret	5	Ret	3	Ret	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ							14
16	Gio van Dycke	DNQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	7†	1	Ret	INJ	INJ	INJ	EX	EX	EX	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret			13
17	William Anker	Ret	NC	2	2	Ret	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret			12
18	Jérémy-Étienne Voeckler					DNQ							2	2†	Ret		Ret	Ret			12
19	Algernon Bell	Ret	8	4	Ret	5		4	Ret	Ret						4	6	7			12
20	Archibald March	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	DNQ	1	Ret	Ret	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	10
21	Danny Ramone	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	3	Ret	Ret	Ret	2	Ret	Ret	DSQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret			10
22	James Generic						Ret	Ret	Ret	4	2		Ret	Ret		Ret					9
23	Geoff Donnelly	Ret	Ret	3	Ret	Ret	Ret	3	Ret	Ret	Ret			Ret		Ret	Ret	DNQ			8
24	Rachel Graham	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	6	2	Ret	Ret	10†	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	EX	EX	Ret			7
25	José Pablo Mazzacane	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	5	Ret	Ret	4	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	Ret			6
26	Charles Jericho	Ret	6	6†	4	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	8	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	8			5
27	Dimitry Vitkin													3†	Ret	7	7	NC			4
28	Pedro Capilé	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	11	3	DNQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	DNQ			4
29	Kim Jong-Sung	Ret	3	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret			4
30	Ronald Tenpecost											NC			4	Ret	Ret	6			4
31	Richard Richardson	Ret	7	5	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	5			4
32	Atos Koumettou	Ret	Ret	DNQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	4	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	DNQ	DNQ			3
33	Apostolos Alianopoulos	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	8	Ret	7	5	Ret	DNQ	Ret	DNQ	Ret	DNQ	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ			2
34	Evelyn Gomes	Ret	10	Ret	Ret	Ret	5	Ret	10	Ret	Ret	DNQ	DNQ								2
35	Sam Sun										Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	5	Ret			2
36	Julio Vaca										Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	5	Ret				2
37	Anderson Angula								DNQ	DNQ	Ret	5†	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret			2
38	Natascha Zaugg						Ret				Ret	6†	Ret	Ret	6						2
39	Josip Stalic	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	6	DSQ	Ret	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ			1
40	W. A. Stokins								6												1
41	Eddie Pulaski	Ret	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ				9	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ			0
42	Cleide do Nascimento	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	9	Ret	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	Ret			0
43	Kenneth Baker		Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	EX	Ret	Ret										0
44	Pjotr Madunochev	Ret	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	Ret	Ret			0
45	Frank Tenpenny	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ			0
46	Jonny Greenwood	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	DNQ	DNQ												0
47	Joachim Dumm								DNQ	DNQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret							0
48	Fidrik Arnason							DNQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ			0
49	Tex Pearson					Ret	Ret	Ret													0
50	Carlos Marquez																Ret	Ret			0
51	Shigeru Hashimoto	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ			0
52	Valentino Nicchi	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	Ret										0
53	Rafael Modena	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	Ret		DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ											0
54	John Holmes	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ															0
55	Jimmy Hernandez						DNQ	DNQ	Ret												0
56	Cameron Maroon											DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ				0
57	Sam Winton	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	WD														0
58	Derek Gray	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ															0
59	Matthias Kjellerup	DNQ	DNQ			DNQ															0
60	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