ECAR Formula Atlantic Championship Round
Lime Rock, 1 Aug 1987
Results | Laps | Time/Speed | |||||||
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1 | Michael Greenfield | Ralt RT4/87 [670] - Ford BDD Jennings #42 Greenfield Industries/Pennzoil |
40 | 34m 14.080s 107.25 mph |
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2 | Calvin Fish | Ralt RT4/87 [673] - Ford BDD Jennings #49 HFC Racing |
40 | 34m 26.740s |
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3 | Eric Lang | Ralt RT4/87 [667] - Ford BDD Mong #35 Lang Racing |
40 | ||||||
4 | John Timken | Ralt RT4/86 [84-508] - Ford BDD Jennings #94 Stuart Moore Racing |
40 | ||||||
5 | Steve Shelton | Ralt RT4/85 [589] - Ford BDD Jennings #3 Agip |
40 | ||||||
6 | John Thompson | Ralt RT4/87 [672] - Ford BDD Jennings #22 Thompson Organization |
40 | ||||||
7 | James Oppermann | Ralt RT4/83 [404] - Ford BDD Jennings #44 Ja-Opp Racing |
40 | ||||||
8 | Scott Harrington | Ralt RT4/86 [599] - Ford BDD Jennings #20 H. Promotions/Sports Racing Services |
39 | ||||||
9 | Paul Nachtwey | Ralt RT4/86 [598] - Ford BDD Jennings #88 Aim Chem Enterprises |
39 | ||||||
10 | Russell Newman | Ralt RT4/86 [651] - Ford BDD Jennings #51 Pepsi Cola/FCL Graphics |
39 | ||||||
11 | R Peter Gates | Ralt RT4/82 [354] - Ford BDD Hasselgren #4 |
39 | ||||||
12 | Jeremy Hill | Ralt RT4/83 - Ford BDD Hasselgren Robert Motors |
39 | ||||||
13 | Kenneth Smith | Ralt RT4/83 - Ford BDD Jersey Formula #31 Samm Sound Car Stereo Equipment |
38 | ||||||
14 | J. Gregory Knittel | March 78B [20] - Ford BDD Hasselgren #33 |
38 | ||||||
15 | Glenn Taylor | Ralt RT4/82 - Ford BDD Jennings #93 Dan Taylor & Sons, Excavating |
38 | ||||||
16 | Charles Batka | Ralt RT4/87 [660] - Ford BDD Robertson #6 Visible Motion/Red Arrow |
37 | Engine | |||||
17 | Ed Healey | Ralt RT4/86 [597] - Ford BDD Jennings #15 Westminster Leasing |
37 | ||||||
18 | Glenn Maerki | March 79B - Ford BDD Willis #90 |
37 | ||||||
19 | Paul Corazzo | March 79B [78B-8?] - Ford BDD Stimola #32 Team 22 (see note 1) |
37 | ||||||
20 | Thomas Knapp | Ralt RT4/87 [674] - Ford BDD Robertson #11 Knapp Seed Farm/Valvoline |
36 | Cam belt | |||||
21 | Robert Kaneda | Ralt RT4/81 - Ford BDD Wenz #37 Central Penn Fitness Services |
30 | Overheating | |||||
22 | Joe Ostrowski | March 79B [1] - Ford BDD Ostrowski #38 Video Scouting Services (see note 2) |
21 | Engine | |||||
23 | Paul Dallenbach | Ralt RT4/86 [595] - Ford BDD Jennings #27 |
14 | Accident | |||||
24 | Paul Poore | Tiga FA81 [164] - Ford BDD Poore #21 Revolution Wheels/Centurion Alarms |
8 | Mechanical | |||||
DNS | Tim Gaffney | March 832 [3] - Ford BDD NME #62 Eagle Capital |
Did not start | ||||||
DNS | Tom Calicchio | Ralt RT4/85 [584] - Ford BDD Robertson #12 |
Did not start (Engine) |
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DNS | Jason Holehouse | Ralt RT4/81 [219] - Ford BDD #52 Wasteco/Chrisfield Capital |
Did not start | ||||||
DNA | Frank Shober | Ralt RT4/81 - Ford BDD #13 Accurate-Western Capital Corp |
Did not arrive |
All cars are 1.6-litre F/Atl unless noted.
Qualifying | |||||
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1 | Michael Greenfield | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/87 [670] - Ford BDD Jennings | 47.706s | ||
2 | Calvin Fish | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/87 [673] - Ford BDD Jennings | 47.778s | ||
3 | Eric Lang | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/87 [667] - Ford BDD Mong | 48.453s | ||
4 | John Thompson | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/87 [672] - Ford BDD Jennings | 48.741s | ||
5 | John Timken | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/86 [84-508] - Ford BDD Jennings | 48.929s | ||
6 | Thomas Knapp | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/87 [674] - Ford BDD Robertson | 49.159s | ||
7 | Charles Batka | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/87 [660] - Ford BDD Robertson | 49.284s | ||
8 | Scott Harrington | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/86 [599] - Ford BDD Jennings | 49.432s | ||
9 | R Peter Gates | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/82 [354] - Ford BDD Hasselgren | 49.663s | ||
10 | Paul Dallenbach | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/86 [595] - Ford BDD Jennings | 49.693s | ||
11 | Robert Kaneda | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/81 - Ford BDD Wenz | 49.838s | ||
12 | Glenn Taylor | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/82 - Ford BDD Jennings | 49.848s | ||
13 | Paul Nachtwey | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/86 [598] - Ford BDD Jennings | 50.247s | ||
14 | Tom Calicchio * | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/85 [584] - Ford BDD Robertson | 50.291s | ||
15 | Kenneth Smith | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/83 - Ford BDD Jersey Formula | 50.518s | ||
16 | Jeremy Hill | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/83 - Ford BDD Hasselgren | 51.133s | ||
17 | Glenn Maerki | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 79B - Ford BDD Willis | 51.235s | ||
18 | Paul Corazzo | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 79B [78B-8?] - Ford BDD Stimola | 51.344s | ||
19 | J. Gregory Knittel | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 78B [20] - Ford BDD Hasselgren | 51.494s | ||
20 | Ed Healey | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/86 [597] - Ford BDD Jennings | 51.689s | ||
21 | Joe Ostrowski | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 79B [1] - Ford BDD Ostrowski | 54.834s | ||
22 | Paul Poore | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Tiga FA81 [164] - Ford BDD Poore | 58.007s | ||
23 | Steve Shelton | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/85 [589] - Ford BDD Jennings | no time | ||
24 | James Oppermann | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/83 [404] - Ford BDD Jennings | no time | ||
25 | Russell Newman | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/86 [651] - Ford BDD Jennings | no time | ||
26 | Tim Gaffney * | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 832 [3] - Ford BDD NME | no time | ||
* Did not start |
Notes on the cars:
- March 79B [78B-8?] (Paul Corazzo): New to RJ Nelkin (Roslyn, NY/Woodbury, NY) for the Labatts Formula Atlantic series and SCCA Nationals in 1978. Despite reports that Nelkin raced it at Palm Beach in February and had it as a spare car at Long Beach in April, its SCCA registration number indicates that it was first used at Charlotte's Super-National in mid-April. Nelkin finished 16th in the Labatts series and finished fifth in NEDiv, scoring 22 points. Chris Townsend advises that the car went to Paul Corazzo (Wethersfield, CT) for 1979, so would be the March he raced in SCCA Nationals in 1979 and is presumably the "79B" he had as late as 1987. The car was next seen in January 2004 when it was advertised from Virginia, having been raced in US historic racing in 1996. The car was acquired by Daryl Taylor and returned to the UK, but at some point was involved in a workshop fire and the tub was destroyed. A new tub was fabricated, and the car was raced by Taylor raced a March 78B in HSCC events from 2007 to 2014, during which time it was also driven by Bruce Fullerton, Simon Taylor, Ashley Taylor, Martin Trott and Robert Wainwright. In 2021, it was sold to Martin Wood (Faversham, Kent), and for the 2022 season, he converted it to 782 F2 specification with a BMW engine.
- March 79B [1] (Joe Ostrowski): New to Alex Blignaut's Team Texan for Roy Klomfass to race in South African Formula Atlantic from October 1978 onwards. When the Formula SA rules were introduced in June 1979, it was fitted at first with a 2-litre BMW engine but this was not a success and it was quickly fitted with a Ford V6. At the end of the season, it is believed to have been sold with other South African Formula Atlantic cars to Ted Titmas (Van Nuys, CA). Chris Townsend reports that the car was sold to brothers Tom and Steve Shelton (Fort Lauderdale, FL) and is likely to be the car driven by Tom, as Steve had already owned chassis 79B-10 since the start of 1979. The two 79Bs were advertised together at the end of 1981, and the ex-Titmas car went to Ron Levanduski (Elmira, NY) who raced it for the next five seasons. Levanduski sold it to Joe Ostrowski (Trenton, NJ) in July 1987. Ostrowski sold the car at the end of 1989 when he bought a newer March 81A. Subsequent history unknown.
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.
North American Formula Atlantic race results have been compiled by Chris Townsend based on material in On Track and Sports Car, plus results sheets where available.
All comments, clarifications, corrections and additions are most welcome. Please email Allen (allen@oldracingcars.com) if you can help in any way with our research.