Pergusa 500 km race in 1977

Vincenzo Florio 1905. His generous donation founded the Coppa Florio in the same year

The 500 km race of Pergusa 1977 , also Coppa Florio, Pergusa , took place on June 19 at the Autodromo di Pergusa and was the eighth round of the sports car world championship of that year.

The race

The Coppa Florio was one of the oldest road races in motorsport history . The event, which first took place in 1900, was named in 1905 after Vincenzo Florio , the founder of the Targa Florio . Florio donated 50,000 lire and a challenge cup, after which the race got its name. The first Coppa ended with the victory of Alberto Franchetti in a Panhard & Levassor 12 HP . The last race before World War II took place in 1929 and ended with Albert Divo winning on a Bugatti T35C . Then the race was forgotten.

In 1973 the race was brought back to life and was part of the sports car world championship from 1975 . In 1975 the race distance was 1000 kilometers (winners Arturo Merzario and Jochen Mass in the Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 12 ), which in 1976 was shortened to 500 kilometers or 4 hours (winners Jochen Mass and Rolf Stommelen in the Porsche 936 ). Also in 1977 the race distance was 500 kilometers.

In training again showed the technical superiority of plant - Alfa Romeo T33 / SC / 12 . The gap between the two works cars of Arturo Merzario and Giorgio Francia / Spartaco Dini was more than three seconds in qualifying for the third-placed Osella PA5 of Eugenio Renna and Luigi Moreschi . After Francia / Dini's Alfa was disqualified at the start due to a rule violation, Arturo Merzario drove a lonely race to victory. After a driving time of just under three hours, he had a lead of three laps over the two Swiss Eugen Strähl and Peter Bernhard in a Sauber C5

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	S 3.0	1	Autodelta SpA	Arturo Merzario	Alfa Romeo T33 / SC / 12	100
2	S 2.0	16	Francy Racing	Eugen Strähl Peter Bernhard	Clean C5	97
3	S 1.3	41	Ateneo	Giampaolo Ceraolo Pasquale Anastasio	Osella PA5	94
4th	S 1.6	31	Fabio Siliprandi	Fabio Siliprandi Antonio Castro	Chevron B36	89
5	S 3.0	6th	Citta dei Mille	Mario Casoni Corrado Manfredini	Lola T380	88
6th	S 1.6	32	Adelino Zenone	Adelino Zenone Marco de Bartoli	Osella PA4	87
7th	S 1.6	33	Girolama Caci	Girolama Caci Angelo Siino	Chevron B23	80
8th	S 2.0	15th	Torino Corse	Danilo Tesini Ermanno Pettiti	Osella PA5	77
9	S 1.0	52	Catania Corse	"Jumbo" Mario La Pera	AMS Dallara 1000	77
Not classified
10	S 1.6	35	Rovella	Mario Rovella Giuseppe Oieni	Lola T294	69
Disqualified
11	S 3.0	2	Autodelta SpA	Giorgio Francia Spartaco Dini	Alfa Romeo T33 / SC / 12	1
Failed
12	S 2.0	11	Ateneo	Eugenio Renna Luigi Moreschi	Osella PA5	84
13	S 1.6	37	Etna	Attaguile Enrico Grimaldi	Chevron B23	76
14th	S 2.0	24	Armando Floridia	Armando Floridia Vito Veninata	Chevron B36	65
15th	S 2.0	19th	Osella Squadra Corse	Lella Lombardi Giovanni Anzeloni	Osella PA5	61
16	S 2.0	21st	Catania Corse	Pasquale Barberio Giuseppe Virgilio	Osella PA5	44
17th	S 1.3	33	Nissena	Umberto Rito Emanuele Gruttadauria	OSA	42
18th	S 2.0	14th	Jolly Club	Giorgio Schön Gianfranco Palazzoli	Osella PA4	33
19th	S 2.0	12	Ateneo	Raffaele Restivo Alfonso Merendino	Chevron B36	31
20th	S 2.0	26th	Citta dei Mille	Duilio Ghislotti Romeo Camathias	Lola T296	18th
21st	S 3.0	7th	Bruno Ottomano	Bruno Ottomano Paolo Gargano	Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 3	1
Not started
22nd	S 3.0	4th	Citta dei Mille	Gabriele Gottifredi Mario Casoni Marco Capoferri	Lola T286	1
23	S 2.0	23	Jolly Club	Luigi Colzani Giacinto Caio	Chevron B36	2
24	S 1.6	36	Carmelo Barberi	Carmelo Barberi Prinzivalli	Lola T292	3
25th	S 1.3	43	Saponaro	Cristiano Del Balzo Saponaro	Dallara 1300 cmc	4th
26th	S 3.0	1T	Autodelta SpA	Spartaco Dini	Alfa Romeo T33 / SC / 12	5

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Only in the entry list

Here you will find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race but did not take part.

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis
27	S 3.0	3	Jörg Obermoser	Rolf Stommelen	TOJ SC302
28	S 3.0	5	Vienna Racing	Kurt Hild Manrico Zanuso	TOJ SC301
29	S 3.0	8th	Lloyd Italia	Vittorio Mascari	Osella PA5
30th	S 3.0	9	Piero Fortuna	Piero Fortuna	Osella PA5
31	S 2.0	18th	Vesuvio	Cosimo Turizio Romeo Camathias	Osella PA5
32	S 2.0	22nd	Daniel Brillat	Daniel Brillat Eric Vuagnat	Cheetah G601
33	S 2.0	25th		Fernando Spreafico	Lola T294
34	S 1.6	34	Nord-Ovest	Salvatore Pellegrino	Osella PA4
35	S 1.3	42	Ateneo	Luigi Sartorio Rosalis	Chevron B36
36	S 1.3	45	Sant Paul	Antonio Bono and Fichera	Lola T292
37	S 1.3	46	Sebastiano Di Nooe	Sebastiano Di Nooe	Gigi P2
38	S 1.3	47			Chevron B23
39	S 1.0	51	Lloyd Italia	Alfredo Trovato Giuseppe Oieni	AMS

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
S 3.0	Arturo Merzario		Alfa Romeo T33 / SC / 12	Overall victory
S 2.0	Eugen Strähl	Peter Bernhard	Clean C5	Rank 2
S 1.6	Fabio Siliprandi	Antonio Castro	Chevron B36	Rank 4
S 1.3	Giampaolo Ceraolo	Pasquale Anastasio	Osella PA5	Rank 3
S 1.0	"Jumbo"	Mario La Pera	AMS Dallara 1000	Rank 9

Racing data

• Registered: 39
• Started: 21
• Rated: 9
• Race classes: 5
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: warm and dry
• Route length: 4.950 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 2: 57: 40,200 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 100
• Total distance of the winning team: 495,000 km
• Winner's average: 167.164 km / h
• Pole position: Arturo Merzario - Alfa Romeo T33 / SC / 12 (# 1) - 1: 35.700 = 186.207 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Arturo Merzario - Alfa Romeo T33 / SC / 12 (# 1) - 1: 39.100 = 179.818 km / h
• Racing series: Round 8 of the 1977 Sports Car World Championship

literature

• Peter Higham: The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. A complete Reference from Formula 1 to Touring Car. Guinness Publishing Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-85112-642-1 .

Web links

• Race results

Individual evidence

1. ^ Coppa Florio 1905
2. ↑ Coppa Florio 1929

Previous race 400 km Vallelunga race in 1977

Sports car world championship

Successor to the 6-hour race at Watkins Glen 1977