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CASC North American Formula Atlantic Series Race

Mosport Park, 14 Jun 1981

ResultsLapsTime/Speed
1 Jacques Villeneuve Sr March 81A [2] - Ford BDD
#1 Doug Shierson Racing
40 58m 49.054s
111.49 mph
2 Whitney Ganz Ralt RT4/81 [228] - Ford BDD
#17 Silhouette/Karges Sport
40 58m 55.318s
3 Allen Berg Ralt RT4/81 [219] - Ford BDD Jennings
#68 Berg Racing Strata
40 59m 16.922s
4 Norm Hunter Ralt RT4/81 [210] - Ford BDD
#12 Pepsi Cola-Lane Sports
40 59m 17.791s
5 Billy Scyphers Ralt RT4/81 [80-189] - Ford BDD
#38 Garvin Brown
40 59m 35.912s
6 Rogelio Rodriguez Ralt RT4/81 [204] - Ford BDD
#11 Marlboro-Lane Sports
40 First on road; 90" penalty for passing pace car
7 Chris Kneifel March 81A - Ford BDD
#8 Doug Shierson Racing Primus
39
8 Tommy Grunnah March 81A [3] - Ford BDD
#6 Doug Shierson Racing Relco
39
9 James Oppermann March 79B [4] - Ford BDD
#29 JaOpp Racing
38
10 Jeremy Hill March 78B [15] - Ford BDD
#76 Nascar Bar and Grill
38
11 John David Briggs March 79B [19] - Ford BDD
#37 Briggs Racing
37
12 Jim van Horn March 81A [8?] - Ford BDD
#4 LTD/Aardvark Photo Processing
37
13 Peter Lerch March 80A [24] - Ford BDD
#14 Stimola Race Prep
37
14 Ed Midgley March 80A [15] - Ford BDD
#40 Foxwood Motorsports
36
15 Erik Phelan March 77B - Ford BDD
#36 (see note 1)
34
16 Hubert Phipps March 80A [11] - Ford BDD
#90 Stimola Race Prep
8 Suspension
17 Mike Rosen Ralt RT4/81 [209] - Ford BDD
#10 Primo-Lane Sports
1 Accident
18 Dan Marvin Ralt RT4/81 [249] - Ford BDD
#7 Boerner Racing
1 Oil line
19 Mark Moore March 79B - Ford BDD
#19 MDB Systems/British Motors
1 Not known
DNA Carl Liebich March 79B [21] - Ford BDD
#54 Liebrau Racing (see note 2)
Did not arrive
DNA Tim Coconis Ralt RT4/81 [227] - Ford BDD
#83 Graphics International
Did not arrive
DNA Ken Dunn Ralt RT1/78 [109] - Ford BDD
#27 Zamboni/Dunn Racing
Did not arrive
DNA John Connolly Ralt RT1 - Ford BDD
#56 Connolly Enterprises
Did not arrive
DNA Steve "Gas" Saleen Ralt RT1/79 [165] - Ford BDD
#69 Gas Saleen Racing
Did not arrive
DNA David Loring Hayashi 220A - Ford BDD
#13 American Pacific Racing
Did not arrive

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

Qualifying
1 Jacques Villeneuve Sr (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 81A [2] - Ford BDD 1.18.542
2 Allen Berg (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/81 [219] - Ford BDD Jennings 1.18.969
3 Whitney Ganz (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/81 [228] - Ford BDD 1.19.265
4 Rogelio Rodriguez (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/81 [204] - Ford BDD 1.19.403
5 Tommy Grunnah (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 81A [3] - Ford BDD 1.19.908
6 Norm Hunter (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/81 [210] - Ford BDD 1.20.281
7 Chris Kneifel (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 81A - Ford BDD 1.20.749
8 Mike Rosen (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/81 [209] - Ford BDD 1.20.857
9 John David Briggs (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 79B [19] - Ford BDD 1.20.976
10 Jim van Horn (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 81A [8?] - Ford BDD 1.21.337
11 Dan Marvin (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/81 [249] - Ford BDD 1.21.612
12 Billy Scyphers (F/Atl) 1.6-litre Ralt RT4/81 [80-189] - Ford BDD 1.22.500
13 Jeremy Hill (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 78B [15] - Ford BDD 1.22.638
14 Ed Midgley (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 80A [15] - Ford BDD 1.23.332
15 Mark Moore (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 79B - Ford BDD 1.23.428
16 James Oppermann (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 79B [4] - Ford BDD 1.24.731
17 Hubert Phipps (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 80A [11] - Ford BDD 1.24.744
18 Peter Lerch (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 80A [24] - Ford BDD 1.25.175
19 Erik Phelan (F/Atl) 1.6-litre March 77B - Ford BDD No time

Notes on the cars:

  1. March 77B (Erik Phelan): Eric Phelan (Redondo Beach, CA) raced a March 77B in the first four rounds of the 1981 North American Formula Atlantic championship. Chris Townsend reports that Phelan ran this car from 1979 to 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)