2003 Gold Cup Invitational

The 2003 Gold Cup Invitational competition was a single event which took place between the 19th and 29th of October, 2003. The venue was Spa, Belgium, and drivers used a GP4 F1-style mod.

The race was a full race distance of 44 laps. The race started under 'parc-ferme' conditions whereby the fuel load set at qualifying would be the fuel load drivers would start the race with. The weather throughout all sessions was sunny and dry.

All drivers' cars were limited to 845 BHP for qualifying and 840 BHP for the race, so all cars were equal and drivers entered as team members of the then current FIA F1 teams.

Qualifying

Pos	Driver	Constructor	Tyre	Controller	S1	S2	S3	Lap	Gap	Fuel laps
1	Antonio Irisarri	Williams-BMW	Soft		32.708	39.188	34.266	1:46.162	—	10.9
2	Shiro Ryong	Ferrari	Soft		32.839	39.368	34.193	1:46.400	0.238	13.1
3	Paul Sleight	Benetton Renault	Soft		32.853	39.522	34.060	1:46.435	0.273	9.9
4	Kari Koski	Benetton Renault	Soft		32.503	40.044	34.123	1:46.670	0.508	14.5
5	Jan Kelder	Prost Acer	Soft		32.372	40.502	33.968	1:46.842	0.680	13.3
6	Artur Costa	Prost Acer	Soft		32.852	39.695	34.344	1:46.891	0.729	9.1
7	Daniel Wilkinson	Jaguar	Soft		32.671	39.833	34.509	1:47.013	0.851	17.9
8	Mikko Jakonen	Minardi European	Soft		32.517	40.176	34.412	1:47.105	0.943	15.1
9	Peter Harding	Williams BMW	Soft		33.226	39.265	34.885	1:47.376	1.214	11.3
10	Matt Maple	BAR Honda	Soft		32.999	40.025	34.369	1:47.393	1.214	12.1
11	Andy Graydon	Arrows Asiatech	Soft		32.909	40.208	34.437	1:47.554	1.392	16.6
12	Petri Loukasmaki	Minardi European	Soft		32.940	40.369	34.418	1:47.727	1.565	15.4
13	Chris Galloway	McLaren Mercedes	Soft		32.792	40.797	35.252	1:48.841	2.679	12.9
14	Kieran Ryan	Jordan Honda	Soft		33.565	40.323	34.974	1:48.862	2.700	14.1
15	David George	Jaguar Cosworth	Soft		33.410	41.059	35.218	1:49.687	3.525	10
16	John Harland	Ferrari	Soft		32.828	41.365	35.900	1:50.093	3.931	20.9
17	Lawrence Simpson	McLaren Mercedes	Soft		33.798	41.053	35.672	1:50.523	4.361	17
18	Ted Cragg	Sauber Petronas	Hard		33.897	41.890	35.749	1:51.536	5.374	11
19	William Ponissi	Arrows Asiatech	Soft		34.521	44.686	38.621	1:57.828	11.666	23

• British driver Toby Lock and Portuguese driver Miguel Oliviera had both registered for the competition, but both had problems qualifying.

Race results

Pos	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pitstops	Fastlap	Controller	Gap
1	Shiro Ryong	Ferrari	44	1:19:13.597	2	3 (12/24/36)	1:45.861		—
2	Antonio Irisarri	Williams	44	1:19:23.738	1	3 (9/21/33)	1:45.843		+10.141
3	Daniel Wilkinson	Jaguar	44	1:19:26.587	7	2 (16/32)	1:45.993		+12.990
4	Kari Koski	Benetton	44	1:19:47.811	4	2 (13/28)	1:46.510		+34.214
5	Mikko Jakonen	Minardi	44	1:20:05.111	8	2 (14/29)	1:47.024		+51.514
6	Jan Kelder	Prost	44	1:20:16.219	5	3 (12/23/34)	1:47.450		+1:02.622
7	Andy Graydon	Arrows	44	1:20:27.768	11	2 (15/31)	1:47.894		+1:14.171
8	Chris Galloway	McLaren	44	1:20:54.277	13	3 (11/23/34)	1:47.829		+1:40.680
9	Kieran Ryan	Jordan	44	1:20:58.738	14	2 (13/30)	1:48.240		+1:45.141
10	Peter Harding†	Williams	43	1:20:49.691	9	3 (10/24/35)	1:47.686		+1 lap
11	Lawrence Simpson	McLaren	42	1:19:53.313	17	2 (15/31)	1:50.372		+2 laps
12	Ted Cragg†	Sauber	40	1:19:40.899	18	3 (9/20/35)	1:50.818		+4 laps
Ret	David George	Jaguar	14	Retired	15	2 (9/14)	1:50.935		+30 laps

^† Peter Harding & Ted Cragg both had a 2 minute time penalty added due to illegal plank wear (over 0.99 mm).

External links

• Archive of Phoenix F1's results webpage.

Preceded by: 2002 Gold Cup

Gold Cup Events 2003

Succeeded by: 2004 Gold Cup