CASC North American Formula Atlantic Series Race
Brainerd, 15 Jun 1980
Results | Laps | Time/Speed | ||
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1 | Steve "Gas" Saleen | Ralt RT1/79 [165] - Ford BDD Jennings #69 Saleen Racing |
33 | 55m 55.86s 106.202 mph |
2 | Price Cobb | March 80A [20] - Ford BDD #22 Jon Norman Racing |
33 | 56m 12.18s |
3 | Jerry Hansen | March 80A [15] - Ford BDD #44 Kevin Oshima Bonsai Gardens |
33 | |
4 | Rick Bell | Ralt RT1/78 [127] - Ford BDD #78 Bell Racing (see note 1) |
33 | |
5 | Ralph Manaker | March 80A [4] - Ford BDD #23 R.M. Racing |
33 | |
6 | Roger 'Kip' Penske Jr | Ralt RT1 - Ford BDD Jennings #10 Lane Sports (see note 2) |
33 | |
7 | Ed Midgley | March 79B [78B-19] - Ford BDD #40 (see note 3) |
33 | |
8 | Charles Cass | March 80A [8] - Ford BDD Race Shop #8 Doug Shierson Racing |
33 | |
9 | Mike Follett | Ralt RT1/78 [128] - Ford BDD #21 Follett's Mountain Sports (see note 4) |
32 | |
10 | Colin Tuckey | Chevron B45/B39 [45-78-03] - Ford BDD #26 FBM (see note 5) |
32 | |
11 | James Oppermann | March 79B [4] - Ford BDD #29 |
30 | |
12 | Carl Liebich | March 79B [21] - Ford BDD #54 Liebrau Racing (see note 6) |
29 | |
13 | Dan Marvin | March 80A [21] - Ford BDD #7 Jon Norman Racing |
29 | |
14 | Bob Hoff | Ralt RT1/77 [79] - Ford BDD Jennings #68 Gas Saleen Racing (see note 7) |
21 | Suspension |
15 | Rogelio Rodriguez | Ralt RT1/79 [147] - Ford BDD Jennings #11 Lane Sports |
19 | Overheating |
16 | Whitney Ganz | Ralt RT1 - Ford BDD #39 (see note 8) |
13 | Engine |
17 | Bruce Clark | Lola T560 [HU1] - Ford BDD #75 Budweiser (see note 9) |
1 | Accident damage |
18 | Jacques Villeneuve Sr | March 80A [5] - Ford BDD Race Shop #6 Shierson Racing |
0 | Accident |
19 | Tom Stewart | March 80A [10] - Ford BDD #3 Pierre Phillips Racing |
0 | Accident |
20 | Jeff Wood | March 80A [14] - Ford BDD Willis #2 |
0 | Accident; written off |
21 | John Mortensen | March 80A [6] - Ford BDD Race Shop #9 Shierson Racing |
0 | Accident |
22 | Tommy Grunnah | March 80A [16] - Ford BDD #53 Relco Racing |
0 | Accident |
23 | Patrick Garmyn | March 78B [3] - Ford BDD #86 (see note 10) |
0 | Accident |
All cars are 1.6-litre F/Atl unless noted.
Qualifying | |||||
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1 | Jacques Villeneuve Sr | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 80A [5] - Ford BDD Race Shop | 1.34.288 | ||
2 | Tom Stewart | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 80A [10] - Ford BDD | 1.34.567 | ||
3 | James Oppermann | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 79B [4] - Ford BDD | 1.34.628 | ||
4 | Steve "Gas" Saleen | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT1/79 [165] - Ford BDD Jennings | 1.34.673 | ||
5 | Dan Marvin | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 80A [21] - Ford BDD | 1.35.303 | ||
6 | Jeff Wood | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 80A [14] - Ford BDD Willis | 1.35.319 | ||
7 | Jerry Hansen | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 80A [15] - Ford BDD | 1.35.435 | ||
8 | John Mortensen | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 80A [6] - Ford BDD Race Shop | 1.35.462 | ||
9 | Whitney Ganz | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT1 - Ford BDD | 1.35.610 | ||
10 | Rogelio Rodriguez | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT1/79 [147] - Ford BDD Jennings | 1.35.781 | ||
11 | Rick Bell | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT1/78 [127] - Ford BDD | 1.36.053 | ||
12 | Charles Cass | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 80A [8] - Ford BDD Race Shop | 1.36.066 | ||
13 | Tommy Grunnah | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 80A [16] - Ford BDD | 1.36.068 | ||
14 | Roger 'Kip' Penske Jr | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT1 - Ford BDD Jennings | 1.36.184 | ||
15 | Bruce Clark | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Lola T560 [HU1] - Ford BDD | 1.36.478 | ||
16 | Ed Midgley | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 79B [78B-19] - Ford BDD | 1.36.553 | ||
17 | Price Cobb | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 80A [20] - Ford BDD | 1.36.923 | ||
18 | Ralph Manaker | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 80A [4] - Ford BDD | 1.37.063 | ||
19 | Bob Hoff | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT1/77 [79] - Ford BDD Jennings | 1.38.239 | ||
20 | Mike Follett | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT1/78 [128] - Ford BDD | 1.38.591 | ||
21 | Patrick Garmyn | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 78B [3] - Ford BDD | 1.38.663 | ||
22 | Carl Liebich | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 79B [21] - Ford BDD | 1.40.153 | ||
23 | Colin Tuckey | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Chevron B45/B39 [45-78-03] - Ford BDD | 1.41.067 |
Notes on the cars:
- Ralt RT1/78 [127] (Rick Bell): New to Rick Bell (Lakeville, CT) and used in the 1978 Labatts Formula Atlantic championship. Retained for 1979, again in the North American Pro series. Retained for a third season in 1980, and again raced regularly in the North American Pro series. In 1981, he sold the car, and believes it went through three other drivers until it was bought by a friend of Bell's. Bell has been racing the car in historic racing, mainly at Lime Rock, since then.
- Ralt RT1 (Roger 'Kip' Penske Jr): Tom Gloy (Lafayette, CA) acquired a Ralt RT1 of unknown vintage as a spare to his newer RT1/79 for the 1979 season, when he was run by Lane Sports. Retained by Lane Sports for 1980 when it was driven by Gloy and by Kip Penske. [CT]
- March 79B [78B-19] (Ed Midgley): Sold new to Jerry Hansen (Long Lake, MN) and used in SCCA Nationals, winning the 1978 Run-Offs. Sold to Ed Midgley (Geneva, IL) in January 1979 and used again only in SCCA Nationals that season. Updated to 79B specification for 1980 and raced by Midgley in the Pro championship until he wrecked it at Trois Rivieres. Midgley acquired a second 78B to complete the season. The damaged 78B was sold to Carl Berggren (Elmhurst, IL) who rebuilt it and raced it in SCCA Formula Atlantic in 1981 and 1982. He advertised it in 1983 and it was later with Bruce Cambern (Bloomfield Hills, MI) who advertised it in 1985. Subsequent history unknown.
- Ralt RT1/78 [128] (Mike Follett): New to Mike Follett (Lewiston, Idaho) and raced in the North American Formula Atlantic series from 1978 to 1980. He kept the car until the end of 1983 when he crashed heavily in a WCAR race at Sears Point. [CT]
- Chevron B45/B39 [45-78-03] (Colin Tuckey): New to Rick Shea Racing and in North American Formula Atlantic in 1978, with backing from Jethro Tull. Raced by Shea at the first round, and by Marcel Talbot, Skeeter McKitterick, Bob Earl and Tom Gloy at later races, Retained by Shea for 1979 and raced by Mark McCaig (Calgary, Alberta) in the Pro series. To Colin Tuckey (Calgary, Alberta) for 1980, and entered in the Pro series by FBM Racing. Retained by Tuckey for 1981. Later raced by David Farmer (Niagra Falls, Ontario) in 1983. The car ended up with another Chevron in a museum in Canada, until 1989, when they were spotted by Peter Hemming. The B45 was acquired by Ed Swart in February 1993, and prepared for historic racing. He raced the B45 from October 1993 with a BDA engine in the Formula Atlantic class, and after about five years ran it with a 2-litre BDG engine in F2 classes.
- March 79B [21] (Carl Liebich): Long-time Chevron importer Fred Opert acquired a March 79B for 1979 and ran it alongside the Chevron B45 he had left from 1978. It was raced once by team driver Marco Tolama and also by European F2 stars Derek Daly (at Trois-Rivières) and Eje Elgh (at Montréal). It went to Carl Liebich for 1980, who recalls buying a car from Opert that had previously been driven by Daly. Retained for 1981 but Liebich does not recall who he sold it to. History then unknown until the early 1990s when it was part of "the Indy Car Experience" at Phoenix International Raceway. It was acquired by Todd Cook of TCE Performances Products (Tempe, AZ) around 1994, then to Jon Gibson, then Jim McDonald, and then to Don Sandy and Art Hebert (San Rafael, CA) in early 2011. It was advertised on motorsportsmarket.com in early 2015 and sold to Charles Arton in South Africa, who ran the car at Killarney in February 2015 in Martini livery and still with Hebert's name on the side. In May 2017, following the Simola Hill Climb, the 79B was destroyed when a transporter containing six cars bound for Cape Town caught fire.
- Ralt RT1/77 [79] (Bob Hoff): New to Gilles Léger (Lachute, Quebec), first appearing at Trois-Rivières in September 1977. Raced by Léger mainly in the Canadian rounds of the Labatts Formula Atlantic Championship in 1978. Then used as a rental car by Léger for Marc Dancose to race at Quebec in June 1979 and Monique Proulx at Montréal in September. Sold to Bob Hoff (Long Beach, CA) for 1980, when it was run for him in the North American Formula Atlantic series by Gas Saleen Racing. [CT]
- Ralt RT1 (Whitney Ganz): Whitney Ganz raced a Ralt RT1 in 1980, but its identity has not been determined. It could be a 1978 or 1979 car. Nothing more known.
- Lola T560 [HU1] (Bruce Clark): New to Jerry Hansen (Long Lake, MN), and logbooked with the SCCA on 17 August 1977. Then to Bruce Clark (Wayzata, MN) 1 May 1978, and raced in SCCA Nationals and occasional nearby Pro races over the next few seasons. He stopped racing after an accident in practice at the Road America Pro race in July 1981. He retained the T560 until 1989, then he sold it to Richard George. It then went to Denis Tobin in 1990, to Michael Henderson in Australia in 1995, then to Colin Haste (Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia) in 2000. Used in historic racing until an accident at Sandown in Australia 2002 left the car very badly damaged. The car was repaired and racing again by 2010, and raced regularly in Australian historic racing thereafter.
- March 78B [3] (Patrick Garmyn): New via importer Doug Shierson Racing to Rapido Auto for Mike Fisher (Portland, OR) to drive in Formula Atlantic in 1978. Raced in the Westwood Pro race in April 1978, and later used to win the Rose Cup SCCA National at Portland in June. Advertised by Rapido Automotive (Portland, OR) in December 1978. To Patrick Garmyn (Archbold, OH) and raced in SCCA National in 1979 and 1980, and in the Brainerd Pro race in June 1980. Then to Ray Schuler (Canton, IL) in time for the SCCA Runoffs in late October. Retained by Schuler for SCCA Nationals from 1981 to 1985 and possibly later. History then unknown until a car with this chassis plate sold by Bill Wonder (Harleysville, PA) to Allen Nicholas in September 2013.
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 Formula and On Track, information drawn from Canadian newspapers and 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.