2017 Kyalami 9 Hours

2017 Kyalami 9 Hours, officially known as 2017 Eskom Kyalami 9 Hours was an endurance event held at Kyalami Circuit, Gauteng, South Africa. The race was organised by Markus Mk. Co, whose last time organised Rejects-1 World Championship series. It was held on 9-10th December 2017. The unique feature of the race is a dusk-to-dawn race, with race started on 7:30 PM and finished 4:30 AM the next morning. There two class of cars: GT1 which run GT cars at the same spec of GTR-WC, and TC2 which run former WTCC S2000 cars and current Copa Petrobras de Marcas, with organisers giving options to the entrants.

The race was won by Trueba Racing Team of Franck van Nifterick and Lorenzo Crescenzi in GT1 class. TC2 class winner were Hunter Autosport's Deanna McMahon and Peter Oliver.

Race Result

Pos	Class	No.	Team	Car	Drivers	Laps	Grid
1	GT1	24	Trueba Racing Team	Maserati MC12	Franck van Nifterick Lorenzo Crescenzi	314	3
2	GT1	008	Rob Lomas Racing	Aston Martin DBR9	Wiremu Tamati Bob Lomas	314	4
3	GT1	25	Trueba Racing Team	Maserati MC12	Danny van Rijkens Simon Redman	314	5
4	GT1	3	Mont Blanc Racing	Lister Storm	Randall Wade Vic Sunset	314	8
5	GT1	91	Mont Blanc Racing	Lister Storm	Steven Mackintosh Ben Collins	314	2
6	GT1	007	Rob Lomas Racing	Aston Martin DBR9	Jason Gonzi Boris Pavlovic	313	7
7	GT1	1	Union Saver Developments	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Ricardo Llosa Jordan McKenna	313	10
8	TC2	100	Hunter Autosport	SEAT Leon TDI	Deanna McMahon Peter Oliver	277	23
9	TC2	87	Renzo Engineering	Alfa Romeo 156	Marco Bizzarri Rafael Modena	276	14
10	TC2	52	Racing Team Scandinavia	BMW 320si	Ragnar Larsen Ludvig Kristoffersen	276	25
11	TC2	422	Union Saver Developments	Chevrolet Lacetti	Artesia Mass Shin Ramirez	276	21
12	TC2	33	Racing Team Scandinavia	BMW 320si	Verna Klien Alvin Ziegler	276	15
13	TC2	31	Team Mecha Racing	Toyota Corolla	Cecep Sugiharto Ryu Takanori	276	16
14	TC2	32	Team Mecha Racing	Toyota Corolla	Mauricio Rossini Patrick Boon	276	24
15	TC2	423	Union Saver Developments	Chevrolet Lacetti	Sasha Hawke Paul Jenkins	276	13
16	TC2					276
17	TC2					276
18	TC2					276
19	TC2					275
20	TC2					275
21	TC2					275
22	TC2	27	Anthony Byrne Cars	Ferrari 550	Andre Lotterer John Bean	274 Accident	6
23	TC2	28	Anthony Byrne Cars	Ferrari 550	Benoit Treluyer Natalia Valenti	260 Accident	1
33	Wildcard	88	Porsche South Africa	Porsche 997 GT3-R	Kelvin van der Linde Adrian Zaugg	-	DNS