Race details Date 16 November 1997 Location Guia Circuit, Macau Course Temporary street circuit Distance Leg 115 laps, Leg 215 laps, Leg 1 Pole Driver Time 2:15.892 Fastest Lap Driver Time 2:16.111 Podium First Soheil Ayari Graff Racing Second Patrice Gay Graff Racing Third André Couto Prema Powerteam Leg 2 Driver Fastest Lap Driver Time 2:15.950 Podium First Soheil Ayari Graff Racing Second Patrice Gay Graff Racing Third Enrique Bernoldi Promatecme
The 1997 Macau Grand Prix Formula Three was the 44th Macau Grand Prix race to be held on the streets of Macau on 16 November 1997. It was the fourteenth edition for Formula Three cars. Although he crashed at on the ninth lap of the first leg which necessitated a rebuild of his car, Graff Racing driver Soheil Ayari won the two-leg aggregate event by 11.5 seconds over his teammate Patrice Gay in second position. Third place was taken by Enrique Bernoldi of the Promatecme team.
Entry list Team No Driver Vehicle Engine San Miguel Paul Stewart Racing 1 Ralph Firman Dallara 397 Mugen-Honda 2 Jonny Kane Bertram Schafer Racing 3 Massimiliano Angelelli Dallara 397 Opel 5 Bas Leinders RC Motorsport 6 Oliver Martini Dallara 397 Opel 12 Michele Gasparini Dallara 396 TOM'S 7 Tom Coronel Dallara 397 Toyota Gauloises Graff Racing 8 Patrice Gay Dallara 396 Opel 9 Soheil Ayari Promatecme 15 Enrique Bernoldi Dallara 397 Renault 16 Nicolas Minassian LD Autosport 17 Stéphane Sarrazin Dallara 396 Fiat Toda Racing 18 Yuji Tachikawa Dallara 397 Mugen-Honda Prema Powerteam 19 André Couto Dallara 397 Opel 20 Donny Crevels Dallara 396 Fiat Josef Kaufmann Racing 21 Wolf Henzler Martini MK73 Opel Alan Docking Racing 22 Mark Webber Dallara 397 Mugen-Honda 23 Ricardo Maurício ASM Formule 3 25 David Saelens Dallara 396 Opel EF Project 26 Maurizio Mediani Dallara 397 Fiat Tomei Sport 27 Sebastián Martino Dallara 397 Opel 28 Keiichi Nishimiya Dallara 396 GM Motorsport 29 Peter Dumbreck Dallara 397 Opel 30 Norman Simon La Filiere 31 Franck Montagny Martini MK73 Opel 32 Oriol Servià Martin Donnelly Racing 33 Mário Haberfeld Dallara 397 Opel Fortec Motorsports 35 Ben Collins Dallara 397 Mitsubishi 36 Fredrik Ekblom Source:
Race results
References
External links The official website of the Macau Grand Prix