Aurora AFX British F1 Championship Round
Nogaro, 8 Jul 1979
| Results | Laps | Time/Speed | |||||||
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| 1 | Emilio de Villota | Lotus 78 [1 JPS15] - Cosworth DFV V8 #3 Madom F1 Team |
50 | 1h 00m 47.91s 95.66 mph |
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| 2 | Bernard de Dryver | Fittipaldi F5A [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 #5 RAM Racing |
50 | 1h 00m 49.63s |
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| 3 | David Kennedy | Wolf [WR4] - Cosworth DFV V8 #11 Theodore Racing |
50 | 1h 01m 14.41s |
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| 4 | Desiré Wilson | Tyrrell 008 [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 #1 Melchester Racing |
50 | 1h 01m 51.95s |
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| 5 | Giorgio Pianta | Williams FW06 [004] - Cosworth DFV V8 #14 Frank Williams Racing |
49 | ||||||
| 6 | Tony Dean | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B42 [42-78-19] - Hart 420R #18 A. G. Dean (Racing) |
47 | ||||||
| 7 | Ricardo Zunino | Arrows A1 [4] - Cosworth DFV V8 #17 Charles Clowes Racing |
46 | ||||||
| 8 | Germain Garon | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B42 [42-78-09] - Hart 420R #25 RAM Racing |
46 | ||||||
| R | Neil Bettridge | Tyrrell 008 [5] - Cosworth DFV V8 #2 Melchester Racing |
12 | Accident | |||||
| R | Carlo Franchi ("Gimax") | Williams FW06 [002] - Cosworth DFV V8 #10 Team Agostini |
42 | Overheating | |||||
| R | Alain Couderc | (F2) 2-litre AGS JH15 [021] - BMW M12/7 #34 Motul Nogaro |
42 | Clutch | |||||
| R | Guy Edwards | Fittipaldi F5A [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 #4 RAM Racing |
40 | CV joint | |||||
| R | Giacomo Agostini | Williams FW06 [001] - Cosworth DFV V8 #9 Team Agostini |
17 | Fuel pump | |||||
| R | Adrian Russell | (F2) 2-litre March 782 [26] - Hart 420R #20 Adrian Russell (see note 1) |
13 | Engine | |||||
| R | Tiff Needell | Ensign N177 [MN09] - Cosworth DFV V8 #7 JC Racing |
6 | Accident | |||||
| R | Jean-Pierre Jaussaud | Surtees TS20 [03] - Cosworth DFV V8 #23 Team Surtees |
6 | Accident | |||||
| DNSC | Gordon Smiley | Surtees TS20 [02] - Cosworth DFV V8 #22 Team Surtees |
Did not start (crashed) | ||||||
All cars are 3-litre F1 unless noted.
| Qualifying | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ricardo Zunino | (F1) 3-litre Arrows A1 [4] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1:10.03 | ||
| 2 | Emilio de Villota | (F1) 3-litre Lotus 78 [1 JPS15] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1:10.80 | ||
| 3 | Bernard de Dryver | (F1) 3-litre Fittipaldi F5A [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1:10.96 | ||
| 4 | Guy Edwards | (F1) 3-litre Fittipaldi F5A [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1:11.44 | ||
| 5 | David Kennedy | (F1) 3-litre Wolf [WR4] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1:11.70 | ||
| 6 | Neil Bettridge | (F1) 3-litre Tyrrell 008 [5] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1:11.93 | ||
| 7 | Giacomo Agostini | (F1) 3-litre Williams FW06 [001] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1:12.12 | ||
| 8 | Jean-Pierre Jaussaud | (F1) 3-litre Surtees TS20 [03] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1:12.21 | ||
| 9 | Giorgio Pianta | (F1) 3-litre Williams FW06 [004] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1:12.47 | ||
| 10 | Gordon Smiley * | (F1) 3-litre Surtees TS20 [02] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1:12.60 | ||
| 11 | Desiré Wilson | (F1) 3-litre Tyrrell 008 [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1:12.68 | ||
| 12 | Tiff Needell | (F1) 3-litre Ensign N177 [MN09] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1:12.82 | ||
| 13 | Carlo Franchi ("Gimax") | (F1) 3-litre Williams FW06 [002] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1:13.07 | ||
| 14 | Alain Couderc | (F2) 2-litre AGS JH15 [021] - BMW M12/7 | 1:13.17 | ||
| 15 | Tony Dean | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B42 [42-78-19] - Hart 420R | 1:15.68 | ||
| 16 | Adrian Russell | (F2) 2-litre March 782 [26] - Hart 420R | 1:17.10 | ||
| 17 | Germain Garon | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B42 [42-78-09] - Hart 420R | 1:17.95 | ||
| * Did not start | |||||
Notes on the cars:
- March 782 [26] (Adrian Russell): To Stephen South for F2 mid-1978 and fitted with a Hart 420R, but South was under-financed and only appeared occasionally. Took pole position at the Brands Hatch Aurora race in late-August. Sold to Adrian Russell (Thornton Heath, Surrey) for 1979 and used in F2, libre and Aurora until August when sold to Scot Jim Stevenson who ran it in libre, mainly at Ingliston, in late 1979 and early 1980. Then to Roger Philpott for hillclimbs in 1981, now with a 2.3-litre Hart engine, but again sold mid-season when Roy Lane pursuaded Philpott in August 1981 to exchange the 782 for Lane's new but underperforming March 802/812. Raced by Lane for the rest of the season, finished second in the Doune hillclimb in October. Sold to Norrie Galbraith for 1982 and upgraded to 79B specification but heavily damaged in Galbraith's fatal accident while filming for Scottish TV at Doune in September. The tub was scrapped but the remains of 782-26 went via Bobby Howlings to Willy Widar in Belgium and were at some point rebuilt on the tub from 792-20, which Galbraith had acquired shortly before the crash. This 782/792 went to Leo Schildkamp (Heerlen, Netherlands) in 1993, then to Per-Owe Soderberg (Laxå, Sweden) in 1994 and then Thomas Fridlund (Arvika, Sweden) in 2001. Then to John Bladon December 2005, and sold by him to Matthew Slinn December 2006. Slinn had plans to rebuild the car to 782 specification using a 78B tub.
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.
These results were compiled primarily from the race reports in Autosport during the season, with some additional information from the results section of Autocourse, and some details compiled by Jeremy Jackson from a variety of sources, including Autosport, Motoring News and the Formula One Register books. All the chassis identities were taken from research elsewhere on this site.
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