1988 IMSA GT Championship

The 1988 Camel GT Championship season was the 18th season of the IMSA GT Championship auto racing series. It was for GTP and Lights classes of prototypes, as well as Grand Tourer-style racing cars which ran in the GTO and GTU classes. It began January 30, 1988, and ended October 23, 1988, after seventeen rounds.

1988 IMSA GT Championship

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Schedule

The GT and Prototype classes did not participate in all events, nor did they race together at shorter events. Races marked as GT featured both GTO and GTU classes combined. Races marked with All had all classes on track at the same time.

Rnd	Race	Length	Class	Circuit	Date
1	SunBank 24 at Daytona	24 Hours	All	Daytona International Speedway	January 30 January 31
2	Grand Prix of Miami	3 Hours	Proto	Streets of Miami	February 28
		40 Minutes	GTU
3	Coca-Cola 12 Hours of Sebring	12 Hours	All	Sebring International Raceway	March 19
4	Atlanta Journal-Constitution Grand Prix	500 km	Proto	Road Atlanta	April 10
5	Grand Prix of Palm Beach	3 Hours	Proto	West Palm Beach street circuit	April 24
		1 Hour	GTO
6	Mid-Atlantic Toyota Grand Prix	3 Hours	GT	Summit Point Raceway	May 22
7	Lime Rock Grand Prix	150 Laps	Proto	Lime Rock Park	May 30
8	Nissan Grand Prix of Ohio	500 km	Proto	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	June 5
		200 km	GT
9	Camel Continental	500 km	Proto	Watkins Glen International	July 3
10	Miller High Life 500	500 km	All	Road America	July 17
11	G.I. Joe's Grand Prix	1 Hour 30 Minutes	GT	Portland International Raceway	July 31
		300 km	Proto
12	Lincoln-Mercury California Grand Prix	200 km	GT	Sears Point Raceway	August 14
		300 km	Proto
13	Nissan Camel Grand Prix of San Antonio	3 Hours	Proto	San Antonio street circuit	September 4
14	Lime Rock 2 Hours	90 Laps	GTO	Lime Rock Park	September 5
		50 Laps	GTU
15	Kodak Copier 500	500 km	GT	Watkins Glen International	September 25
16	Columbus Ford Dealers 500	300 km	Proto	Columbus street circuit	October 2
		45 Minutes	GT
17	Camel Grand Prix of Southern California	45 Minutes	GTU	Del Mar Fairgrounds	October 22
		1 Hour	GTO
		2 Hours	Proto

Season results

Rnd	Circuit	GTP Winning Team	Lights Winning Team	GTO Winning Team	GTU Winning Team	Results
		GTP Winning Drivers	Lights Winning Drivers	GTO Winning Drivers	GTU Winning Drivers
1	Daytona	#60 Castrol Jaguar	#9 Essex Racing	#11 Roush Racing	#71 Team Highball	Results
		Martin Brundle Raul Boesel John Nielsen	David Simpson David Loring Tom Hessert	Pete Halsmer Scott Pruett Bob Akin Paul Miller	Bob Lazier Amos Johnson Dennis Shaw
2	Miami	#16 Dyson Racing	#80 Gaston Andrey Racing	Did Not Participate	#1 C&C Inc.	Results
		Price Cobb James Weaver	Martino Finotto Ruggero Melgrati		Tommy Kendall
3	Sebring	#86 Bayside Disposal	#9 Essex Racing	#5 Protofab Racing	#71 Team Highball	Results
		Hans-Joachim Stuck Klaus Ludwig	David Loring Tom Hessert	Wally Dallenbach Jr. John Jones	Amos Johnson Dennis Shaw
4	Road Atlanta	#3 Electramotive Eng.	#80 Gaston Andrey Racing	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	Results
		John Morton Geoff Brabham	Martino Finotto Ruggero Melgrati
5	Palm Beach	#83 Electramotive Eng.	#9 Essex Racing	#6 Roush Racing	Did Not Participate	Results
		John Morton Geoff Brabham	David Loring Tom Hessert	Pete Halsmer
6	Summit Point	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	#11 Roush Racing	#1 C&C Inc.	Results
				Scott Pruett	Tommy Kendall
7	Lime Rock	#83 Electramotive Eng.	#79 Whitehall Motorsports	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	Results
		Geoff Brabham	Skeeter McKitterick
8	Mid-Ohio	#83 Electramotive Eng.	#01 Spice Engineering	#98 All American Racers	#1 C&C Inc.	Results
		Tom Gloy Geoff Brabham	Charles Morgan Dominic Dobson	Chris Cord	Tommy Kendall
9	Watkins Glen	#83 Electramotive Eng.	#79 Winters	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	Results
		John Morton Geoff Brabham	Skeeter McKitterick Costas Los
10	Road America	#83 Electromotive Eng.	#55 Huffaker Racing	#98 All American Racers	#07 Full Time Racing	Results
		John Morton Geoff Brabham	Terry Visger Dan Marvin	Dennis Aase	Dorsey Schroeder
11	Portland	#83 Electramotive Eng.	#01 Spice Engineering	#6 Roush Racing	#02 C&C Inc.	Results
		Geoff Brabham	Charles Morgan	Pete Halsmer	Max Jones
12	Sears Point	#83 Electramotive Eng.	#55 AC Delco Pontiac	#99 All American Racers	#07 Full Time Racing	Results
		Geoff Brabham	Dan Marvin	Willy T. Ribbs	Dorsey Schroeder
13	San Antonio	#16 Dyson Racing	#55 Huffaker Racing	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	Results
		Price Cobb James Weaver	Dan Marvin Bob Lobenberg
14	Lime Rock	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	#5 Protofab Racing	#07 Full Time Racing	Results
				Wally Dallenbach Jr.	Dorsey Schroeder
15	Watkins Glen	Did Not Participate	Did Not Participate	#98 All American Racers	#1 C&C Inc.	Results
				Chris Cord Dennis Aase	Tommy Kendall
16	Columbus	#83 Electramotive Eng.	#9 Essex Racing	#16 Hoerr Racing	#1 C&C Inc.	Results
		Geoff Brabham	David Loring Tom Hessert	Irv Hoerr	Tommy Kendall
17	Del Mar	#61 Castrol Jaguar	#55 Huffaker Racing	#99 All American Racers	#1 C&C Inc.	Results
		Martin Brundle Jan Lammers	Dan Marvin	Willy T. Ribbs	Tommy Kendall

Championship results

The GTP Drivers Championship was won by Australian Geoff Brabham, driving a Nissan GTP ZX-T.^[1]