CASC North American Formula Atlantic Series Race

Mosport Park, 14 Jun 1981

All cars are 1.6-litre F/Atl unless noted.

Notes on the cars:

1. March 77B (Erik Phelan): Eric Phelan (Redondo Beach, CA) raced a March 77B in SCCA Nationals in California in 1979. At the car's first appearance, at Willow Springs in April 1979, it was described as a 76B/77B, but was called a 77B at all later appearances. Phelan also drove the car in the first four rounds of the 1981 North American Formula Atlantic championship. Chris Townsend reports that Phelan ran this car until 1984. Nothing more known.
2. 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.

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.

Individual sources for this event

Chris Townsend's sources include On Track magazine 25 Jun 81 pp10-11, Autoweek 6 Jul 1981 p28 and the race programme (provided by Ian Crawford)