CASC North American Formula Atlantic Series Race
Lime Rock, 5 Jul 1980
| Results | Laps | Time/Speed | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jacques Villeneuve Sr | March 80A [5] - Ford BDD Race Shop #6 Shierson Racing |
66 | 55m 34.107s 100.145 mph |
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| 2 | Jeff Wood | Ralt RT4/80 [162] - Ford BDD #2 Landmark - Agapiou Racing |
66 | 56m 00.370s |
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| 3 | John Mortensen | March 80A [6] - Ford BDD Race Shop #89 Shierson Racing |
65 | ||||||
| 4 | Rick Bell | Ralt RT1/78 [127] - Ford BDD #78 |
65 | ||||||
| 5 | Charles Cass | March 80A [8] - Ford BDD Race Shop #8 Doug Shierson Racing |
64 | ||||||
| 6 | Joe Sposato | March 79B [13] - Ford BDD #28 Fat Cola |
64 | ||||||
| 7 | Roger 'Kip' Penske Jr | Ralt RT1/76 [34] - Ford BDD Jennings #10 Lane Sports (see note 1) |
64 | ||||||
| 8 | Rogelio Rodriguez | Ralt RT1/79 [147] - Ford BDD Jennings #11 Lane Sports |
64 | ||||||
| 9 | Steve "Gas" Saleen | Ralt RT1/79 [165] - Ford BDD Jennings #69 Saleen Racing |
64 | ||||||
| 10 | Bob Hoff | Ralt RT1/77 [79] - Ford BDD Jennings #68 Saleen Racing (see note 2) |
62 | ||||||
| 11 | John Connolly | Ralt RT1 - Ford BDD #56 Connolly Racing |
59 | ||||||
| 12 | Peter Greenfield | March 79B [3] - Ford BDD #42 |
58 | ||||||
| 13 | Tommy Grunnah | March 80A [16] - Ford BDD #53 Relco |
56 | Fuel pump | |||||
| 14 | Price Cobb | March 80A [20] - Ford BDD #22 Jon Norman Racing |
49 | ||||||
| 15 | Whitney Ganz | Ralt RT1 - Ford BDD #39 |
39 | Accident | |||||
| 16 | Ralph Manaker | March 80A [4] - Ford BDD #23 |
37 | Suspension | |||||
| 17 | Charles Crotts | March 77B [5] - Ford BDD #24 (see note 3) |
20 | Accident | |||||
| 18 | Bruce MacInnes | Ralt RT1 - Ford BDD #57 Connolly Racing |
13 | Gearbox | |||||
| DNSC | Tom Stewart | March 80A [10] - Ford BDD #3 Pierre Phillips |
Did not start (crashed) | ||||||
All cars are 1.6-litre F/Atl unless noted.
| Qualifying | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeff Wood | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/80 [162] - Ford BDD | 0.48.673 | ||
| 2 | Jacques Villeneuve Sr | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 80A [5] - Ford BDD Race Shop | |||
| 3 | John Mortensen | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 80A [6] - Ford BDD Race Shop | |||
| 4 | Price Cobb | (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 80A [20] - Ford BDD | |||
Notes on the cars:
- Ralt RT1/76 [34] (Roger 'Kip' Penske Jr): New to Brian Robertson's Quick-Trans/Gabriel International Warranty team in the middle of the 1976 season, replacing the team's Lola T460s, and run for Richard Spenard in the 1976 Players Canadian Formula Atlantic series in yellow Planter's Peanuts livery. Both the Robertson team cares were offered for sale by Fred Opert in early 1977 so this must be the yellow RT1 that was bought from Opert by Dave Webber (Mississauga, Ontario) and raced in the Labatts Formula Atlantic Championship in 1977. Badly damaged in a practice accident at St-Félicien in August and Webber spent much of 1978 rebuilding it. Webber advertised the car in February 1979 with a Can-Am body. This is then very probably the car acquired by Tom Gloy (Lafayette, CA) 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. CT
- 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
- March 77B [5] (Charles Crotts): New to Joe Sposato and used in SCCA Nationals in 1977. Retained for Pro Formula Atlantic for first half of 1978, then sold to Charles Crotts (High Point, NC) for remainder of 1978. Believed to be the car retained by Crotts and run in SCCA events up to 1985.
Sources
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' original 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.