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, on October 3, 1999. As with the previous FIA GT event, this race was originally intended to share the weekend with a

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event. However, the USRRC championship was cancelled midway through the season, leaving the FIA GT Championship to run on their own. In order to increase the number of participants for the FIA GT event, as well as to allow USRRC teams to compete, a ''National GT'' (''N-GT'') designation was used for cars which had run in the USRRC's GT2 and GT3 classes. Cars running in the N-GT class would not be eligible for points in the FIA GT Championship. This race would also be the last time that the FIA GT Championship would run in North America.

Official results

Class winners are in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).

Statistics

* Pole position – #2 Viper Team Oreca – 1:47.576 * Fastest lap – #2 Viper Team Oreca – 1:47.717 * Average speed – 171.297 km/h

References

* * * {{Sportscar Race Report , Year_of_race = 1999 , Sportscar_Series = FIA GT Championship , Previous_race_in_season = 1999 FIA GT Homestead 3 Hours , Next_race_in_season = 1999 FIA GT Zhuhai 500km W FIA GT Watkins Glen