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 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-	Apostolos Alianopoulos Jose Braggia
	9	Pieter Kickert	1-
Team DAYP Loans Racing	5	Dave Wilson	1-4	Tex Pearson
		Tex Pearson 3	5-
Winton Racing 9	7	Sam Winton	1-5	Jeice Swan
Aussie Motorsport	8	Joe Gaera	1-	Joe Bloggs
	10	Maea Blog	1-
Life's a (Weeta)bix	11	Jonny Greenwood	1-	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
		Jimmy Hernandez 5	6-
Al Smith Racing Enterprises	17	Geoff Donnelly	1-	Mike Boullier
	71	Jan van der Maeyede	1-
Team Sandinista!	19	Christopher Arthurs	1-	None
	20	Rachel Graham	1-
Ursus Racing 10	25	Fidrik Arnason	7-	None
Il Barone Rampante	27	Frédéric-Maxime Voeckler	1-	Jérémy-Étienne Voeckler
	28	Rafael Modena	1-4, 6-
		Jérémy-Étienne Voeckler 4	5
Zeroforce	29	Algernon Bell	1-5, 7-	Natascha Zaugg
		Natascha Zaugg 7	6
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 Motorsports	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
		TBA 12	8-
Nicchi Motori	99	Valentino Nicchi	1-	Marcus Kun Alik Mori
Foxhound Life	190	Psycho Mantis	1	Kenneth Baker
		Kenneth Baker 1	2-
Life of Namibia	264	Leonhard von Gottorp	1-7	None
		TBA 11	8-
V.I.D.A.	444	Pedro Capilé	1-	Julio Vaca
	445	Cleide do Nascimento	1-
Caraxl 8	500	James Generic	6-	Ronald Tenpecost
The Team of the Workers Party	666	Mikhail Karimov	1-	None
	888	Archibald Oswald March	1-

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.
• 7 - Natascha Zaugg drove the Zeroforce car at her home race due to sponsorship commitments.
• 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 sport 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.
• 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.

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
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.
1	Marky Howard	3	Ret	Ret	1	1	Ret	Ret													24
2	Dave Wilson	Ret	1	Ret	Ret	INJ	INJ	INJ													15
3	Jose Braggia	4	5	Ret	Ret	2	4	Ret													14
4	Leonhard von Gottorp	Ret	2	Ret	5	Ret	3	Ret	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ							14
5	Gio van Dycke	DNQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	7†	1	Ret	INJ	INJ	INJ	EX	EX	EX							13
6	Pieter Kickert	Ret	Ret	1	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret													12
7	William Anker	Ret	NC	2	2	Ret	Ret	DNQ													12
8	Joe Gaera	DNQ	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	1													10
9	Mikhail Karimov	1	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	Ret													10
10	Will Roberts	Ret	Ret	Ret	3	Ret	Ret	2													10
11	Vic Sunset	2	Ret	Ret	7	4	6	Ret													10
12	Geoff Donnelly	Ret	Ret	3	Ret	Ret	Ret	3													8
13	Algernon Bell	Ret	8	4	Ret	5		4													8
14	Rachel Graham	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	6	2	Ret													7
15	Charles Jericho	Ret	6	6†	4	Ret	Ret	Ret													5
16	Kim Jong-Sung	Ret	3	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret													4
17	Danny Ramone	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	3	Ret	Ret													4
18	Christopher Arthurs	Ret	4	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret													3
19	Apostolos Alianopoulos	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	8	Ret	7	5													2
20	Richard Richardson	Ret	7	5	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret													2
21	Evelyn Gomes	Ret	10	Ret	Ret	Ret	5	Ret													2
22	Maea Blog	5†	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret													2
23	Jan van der Maeyede	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret													2
24	José Pablo Mazzacane	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	Ret													1
25	Josip Stalic	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	6													1
26	Frédéric-Maxime Voeckler	6†	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ													1
27	Frank Tenpenny	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	Ret	DNQ	DNQ													0
28	Jonny Greenwood	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	DNQ													0
29	Atos Koumettou	Ret	Ret	DNQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret													0
30	Kenneth Baker		Ret	Ret	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		DNQ	DNQ													0
34	Tex Pearson					Ret	Ret	Ret													0
35	Jean-Pierre Balivernes						Ret	Ret													0
36	James Generic						Ret	Ret													0
37	Natascha Zaugg						Ret														0
38	Psycho Mantis	Ret	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ							0
39	Valentino Nicchi	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ													0
40	Sam Winton	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	WD														0
41	Pedro Capilé	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ													0
42	Cleide do Nascimento	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ													0
43	Archibald March	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ													0
44	Derek Gray	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ															0
45	Matthias Kjellerup	DNQ	DNQ			DNQ															0
46	Shigeru Hashimoto	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ													0
47	Jules Connes			DNQ	DNQ																0
48	Jimmy Hernandez						DNQ	DNQ													0
49	Jérémy-Étienne Voeckler					DNQ															0
50	Fidrik Arnason							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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