The 1997 Barber Dodge Pro Series season was the twelfth season of the series. All drivers used Dodge powered Goodyear shod Mondiale chassis. This was the final season the series used the Mondiale chassis and Goodyear tires.
Race calendar and results
Round Circuit Location Date Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver 1 St. Petersburg Street Circuit St. Petersburg, Florida February 23 Rino Mastronardi Victor Gonzalez Jr. Rino Mastronardi 2 Sebring International Raceway Sebring, Florida March 15 Tony Renna Tony Renna Derek Hill 3 Hutchinson Island Savannah, Georgia May 18 Derek Hill Rocky Moran Jr. Derek Hill 4 Lime Rock Park Lime Rock, Connecticut May 26 Derek Hill Jarle Gasland Rino Mastronardi 5 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio June 15 Derek Hill Derek Hill Derek Hill 6 Watkins Glen International Watkins Glen, New York June 29 Rino Mastronardi Derek Hill Rino Mastronardi 7 Grand Prix of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota July 6 Jarle Gasland Derek Hill Nicolas Rondet 8 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio August 10 Nicolas Rondet Nicolas Rondet Andy Boss 9 Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin August 17 Rino Mastronardi Rocky Moran Jr. Rino Mastronardi 10 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey County, California September 7 Chris Menninga Chris Menninga Rino Mastronardi 11 Reno Grand Prix Reno, Nevada October 19 Rino Mastronardi Rino Mastronardi Derek Hill 12 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey County, California October 26 Rino Mastronardi Nicolas Rondet Chris Menninga
Final standings Color Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green 4th & 5th place Light Blue 6th–10th place Dark Blue 11th place or lower Purple Did not finish Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Brown Withdrawn (Wth) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Driver replacement (Rpl) Injured (Inj) No race held (NH) Rank Driver STP SEB SAV LRP MOH WGI MIN MOH ROA LAG REN LAG Points 1 Derek Hill 25 1 1 2 1 3 7 3 26 3 1 9 157 2 Rino Mastronardi 1 3 2 1 4 1 17 26 1 1 18 27 147 3 Andy Boss 3 9 22 3 5 25 2 1 2 5 2 6 135 4 Chris Menninga 6 7 20 5 3 2 6 5 4 2 22 1 130 5 Nicolas Rondet 28 4 10 4 8 9 1 2 5 4 4 3 125 6 Rocky Moran Jr. 7 5 3 27 7 8 5 25 3 8 23 2 100 7 Martin Stenshorne 29 8 4 23 28 5 25 4 27 6 3 23 67 8 Will Langhorne 18 12 8 6 27 7 19 10 7 24 8 12 58 9 Samer Hindi 5 19 12 11 14 26 16 15 8 11 5 8 55 10 Tony Renna 27 2 7 24 2 4 18 22 54 11 G. J. Mennen 2 13 9 8 21 11 13 8 12 17 54 12 Victor Gonzalez Jr. 4 29 6 18 15 13 24 6 28 12 6 15 51 13 Giovanni Gulinelli 5 10 12 12 3 23 9 46 14 Scott Brunk 10 11 28 9 17 27 24 11 9 9 14 38 15 Eric Tresslar 14 16 13 13 19 17 10 11 10 10 10 24 38 Mattias Anderson 16 10 23 12 10 Barry Atkins 18 22 24 Townsend Bell 18 4 Bruno Correia 28 21 Jarrett Boon 8 15 11 14 13 15 20 22 13 27 11 16 Randy Bryan 19 Sebastien Carcone 26 20 22 Jose Antonio Costa 7 6 14 7 11 Patsy DiFilippo 19 27 25 23 24 26 20 23 23 16 20 Mike Durand 17 20 28 Sean Patrick Flanery 29 17 18 Jon Fogarty 12 14 16 20 7 Matt Fowler 17 25 16 16 Jarle Gåsland 21 28 21 25 6 6 23 Tim Goetze 15 17 Mark-Paul Gosselaar 22 12 16 Kip Gulseth 19 Andre Hansen 22 20 Randy Harris 13 Ryan Jones 18 Denis Lay 20 18 17 19 22 20 Scott Mayer 25 25 John McCaig 15 21 14 26 11 18 4 20 26 17 25 Jamie Menninga 16 17 13 Jared O'Malley 12 Nick O'Sullivan 13 14 Jose Luis Di Palma 14 16 Gustavo Pasetto 12 24 William Peetz 21 21 19 Steve Pelke 22 Gian-Maria Regazzoni 11 17 Joshua Rehm 26 19 Alfonso Ribeiro 18 14 8 19 Steven Rikert 26 6 24 7 9 16 Matt Robinson 15 9 15 22 Memo Rojas 15 Nilton Rossoni 26 Charlie Schaitberger 14 Jeff Shafer 5 Jeff Simmons 27 10 7 Craig Sletten 26 2724 Bill Tichenor 24 22 15 15 25 21 9 13 13 19 Owen Trinkler 10 Keith Watts 9 Charles Willis 23 23 19 21 20 23 11 21 21 14 21
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