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Coppa AC Bologna

Imola, 25 Jul 1971

ResultsLapsTime/Speed
1 Helmut Marko (G6) 1.8-litre Lola T212 [HU23] - Cosworth FVC
#35 K. V. Wendt (see note 1)
56 1h 31m 31.20s
2 Jean-Pierre Jabouille (G6) 2-litre Abarth 2000 SP/71 (SE021) - Tipo 236 4
#32 Abarth Corse
56 1h 32m 04.90s
3 Mario Casoni (G6) 1.8-litre Lola T212 [HU17?] - Cosworth FVC
#39 Ecurie Bonnier/Filipinetti
56 1h 33m 21.00s
4 Ed Swart (G6) 1.8-litre Chevron B19 [71-10A] - Cosworth FVC
#42 Canon Racing
55
5 John Burton (G6) 1.8-litre Chevron B19 [71-10] - Cosworth FVC
#43 Canon Racing
55
6 Gianpiero Moretti (G6) 1.8-litre Lola T212 - Cosworth FVC
#37 Scuderia Picchio Rosso
54
7 Antonio Zadra (G6) 1.8-litre Lola T212 [SL212/20] - Cosworth FVC
#40 Scuderia Brescia Corse
53
8 Gustav Schlup (G6) 1.8-litre Lola T212 [T210] - Cosworth FVC
#38 Gustav Schlup
51
9 "Pal Joe" (Gianfranco Palazzoli) (G5) 2-litre Abarth 2000 S (SE010) 4
#51 Pal Joe
50
10 Vittorio Mascari (G5) 2-litre Porsche 906 [161] f6
#58 Mascaleros
49
11 Franco Berruto (G5) 2-litre Porsche 906 f6
#57
47
12 "Manuel" (G4) 2-litre Porsche 911 T
#60 Manuel
44
13 "Pegger" (G4) 2-litre Porsche 911S
#59
42
R Guy Edwards (G6) 1.8-litre Lola T212 [HU26] - Cosworth FVC
#55 Phillips Autoradio
38 1:Clutch
R Jo Bonnier (G6) 1.8-litre Lola T212 [HU18] - Cosworth FVC
#34 Scuderia Filipinetti (see note 2)
29 2:Head gasket
R Silvano Bergoni (G4) 2-litre Porsche 911S
#61 Silvano Bergoni
10 1:Accident
R Arturo Merzario (G6) 2-litre Abarth 2000 SP/71 (SE021) - Tipo 236 4
#31 Abarth Corse
9 1:Overheating
R Michel Dupont (G6) 1.8-litre Chevron B16 - Cosworth FVC
#46 Michel Dupont
2 accident ("crashed rather heavily")
UNK Demetrio Martino (G6) 1.3-litre AMS - Alfa Romeo
#52 Demetrio Martino

Qualifying
1 Arturo Merzario (G6 2.0) 2-litre Abarth 2000 SP/71 (SE021) - Abarth Tipo 236 4 1m 35.89s
2 Helmut Marko (G6 2.0) 1.8-litre Lola T212 [HU23] - Cosworth FVC 1m 36.61s
3 Jo Bonnier (G6 2.0) 1.8-litre Lola T212 [HU18] - Cosworth FVC 1m 37.08s
4 Jean-Pierre Jabouille (G6 2.0) 2-litre Abarth 2000 SP/71 (SE021) - Abarth Tipo 236 4 1m 38.16s
5 John Burton (G6 2.0) 1.8-litre Chevron B19 [71-10] - Cosworth FVC 1m 38.27s
6 Mario Casoni (G6 2.0) 1.8-litre Lola T212 [HU17?] - Cosworth FVC 1m 38.29s
7 Guy Edwards (G6 2.0) 1.8-litre Lola T212 [HU26] - Cosworth FVC 1m 38.97s
8 Ed Swart (G6 2.0) 1.8-litre Chevron B19 [71-10A] - Cosworth FVC 1m 39.07s
9 Antonio Zadra (G6 2.0) 1.8-litre Lola T212 [SL212/20] - Cosworth FVC 1m 44.44s
10 "Pal Joe" (Gianfranco Palazzoli) (G5 2.0) 2-litre Abarth 2000 S (SE010) - Abarth 4 1m 44.74s
11 Michel Dupont (G6 2.0) 1.8-litre Chevron B16 - Cosworth FVC 1m 46.23s
12 Vittorio Mascari (G5 2.0) 2-litre Porsche 906 [161] - Porsche 906 f6 1m 50.30s
13 Gustav Schlup (G6 2.0) 1.8-litre Lola T212 [T210] - Cosworth FVC 1m 50.74s
14 Franco Berruto (G5 2.0) 2-litre Porsche 906 - Porsche 906 f6 1m 55.53s
15 Gianpiero Moretti (G6 2.0) 1.8-litre Lola T212 - Cosworth FVC 1m 56.09s
16 Demetrio Martino (G6 2.0) 1.3-litre AMS - Alfa Romeo 2m 01.29s
17 Silvano Bergoni (G4) 2-litre Porsche 911S 2m 06.14s
18 "Manuel" (G4) 2-litre Porsche 911 T 2m 06.51s
19 "Pegger" (G4) 2-litre Porsche 911S 2m 09.85s

Notes on the cars:

  1. Lola T212 [HU23] (Helmut Marko): One of two Lola T212s bought by Karl von Wendt Racing for 1971 and the team car originally allocated to Von Wendt himself. Raced at Paul Ricard in April by Von Wendt and Jean-Pierre Jabouille and then at Salzburgring in May by Gijs van Lennep. As Von Wendt had retired from driving, HU23 was not take to Silverstone in June but when Helmut Marko damaged the other team car, HU22, at that race, he moved over to HU23 for the rest of the season. He won in this car at Clermont-Ferrand, Hockenheim and Imola in June and July and also raced at Nürburgring and Zandvoort in September. Presumably Marko's car at the ADAC-Sauerland-Bergpreis in October. Then shipped to South Africa for the Springbok series and raced by Marko and John Love in six events. Subsequent history unknown but said to have been sold to a Belgian driver and crashed at some point in the 1970s. A car with this number owned by Ian Webb in the early 1980s and rebuilt on a reskinned monocoque for use in historic racing, initially by Richard Eyre and then John Foulston. Nicola Foulston sold it to a M. Defornay in 1986 but it is then unknown until owned by Richard Griot (Seattle, WA) in the late 1990s then to Walt Cox (Seattle, WA) 2005, Steve Read 2008 and Gregoire Audi 2010.
  2. Lola T212 [HU18] (Jo Bonnier): One of two cars delivered to Ecurie Bonnier and raced under the Scuderia Filipinetti banner. HU18 is identified by Sport Auto as Jo Bonnier's personal car and is likely to be the car used at Paul Ricard April 1972 by Claude Ballot-Léna. A surviving Bonnier invoice shows that HU18 was sold to Enzo Osella in May 1972 and a 2011 advert by Marcel Roks quotes a 1985 HVIF which identifies HU18 as the car then owned by Roberto Filannino and Pasquale Barberio. Barberio raced a 1300cc Lola T212-Abarth in Italian domestic racing in 1973 and the Roks advert says he kept the car until 1976. Later owners are given as a Mr. Girollami 1976, Stefano Sebastiani 1982, Victor Myette 1994, Andy Wolfe (Cambridge, UK) 1998 and the current owner in 2001.

Sources

Note that the identification of individual cars in these results is based on the material presented elsewhere in this site and may in some cases contradict the organisers' published results.

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