Mid-Ohio 200 Mile Race 1981

Second placed Bobby Rahal in 2010

The 1981 Mid-Ohio 200-Mile Race , also known as the Red Roof Inns GT 200, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course , took place on May 31 of this year at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course . The race was the tenth round of the IMSA GTP series in 1981 .

The race

The race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course ended with another triumph for Briton Brian Redman in a Lola T600 . Before this success he had already won the races in Laguna Seca and Lime Rock . In addition, there was overall victory in the Daytona 24-hour race , which he achieved together with Bob Garretson and Bobby Rahal in a Porsche 935K3 .

John Paul junior achieved the best training time in the Porsche 935 JLP-3 with a time of 1: 29.170 minutes. Redman was sixth in training. He won the race with a lead of 31 seconds over the duo Giampiero Moretti and Bobby Rahal. Redman started again without teammates. This meant that he had to drive through for more than 2 hours on his own, but saved himself the need to change drivers during the pit stop to refuel. Moretti and Rahal, who had a change, could not make up this lost time against the fast Lola.

Results

Final ranking

Item	Class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	GTX	7th	Kent-Cooke Wood Racing	Brian Redman	Lola T600	84
2	GTX	30th	Momo / penthouse	Giampiero Moretti Bobby Rahal	Porsche 935 / 78-81	84
3	GTX	18th	JLP Racing	John Paul Junior	Porsche 935 JLP-3	84
4th	GTX	1	John Fitzpatrick Racing	John Fitzpatrick	Porsche 935 K3 / 80	82
5	GTX	2	BMW North America	David Hobbs	BMW M-1 / C	82
6th	GTX	0	Interscope Racing	Ted Field Bill Whittington	Porsche 935K3 / 80	80
7th	GTO	25th	Red Lobster Racing	Dave Cowart Kenper Miller	BMW M1	78
8th	GTO	67	Joe Crevier	Joe Crevier Al Unser junior	BMW M1	78
9	GTU	85	Logan Blackburn	Logan Blackburn	Datsun 280ZX	77
10	GTU	92	Kent Racing	Lee Mueller	Mazda RX-7	76
11	GTU	98	Kent Racing	Walt Drill Rick Knoop	Mazda RX-7	76
12	GTU	32	Alderman Datsun	George Alderman	Datsun 240Z	76
13	GTU	62	Kegel Enterprises	Bill Knoll	Porsche 911	76
14th	GTU	22nd	Personalized car dealership	Wayne Baker	Porsche 914/4	76
15th	GTU	23	Raytown Datsun	Frank Carney	Datsun 280ZX	75
16	GTO	34	Drolsom Racing	George Drolsom	Porsche 924 Carrera	74
17th	GTU	82	Trinity Racing	Jim Cook	Mazda RX-7	74
18th	GTO	26th		Tim Selby Earl Roe	Porsche Carrera RSR	73
19th	GTO	11		Kim Mason	Chevrolet Corvette	71
20th	GTU	50	Downing Atlanta	Jim Downing Irv Hoerr	Mazda RX-7	70
21st	GTO	91	Electrodyne Racing	Chester Vincentz Lance Van Every	Porsche 934	70
22nd	GTO	28		Fred Stiff Mike Follmer	Datsun 280ZX Turbo	70
23	GTO	72		Jean Kjoller Jay Kjoller	Porsche Carrera RSR	69
24	GTO	80		Ronald Vanke	Chevrolet Corvette	69
25th	GTU	39	Foreign Exchange	John Higgins Chip Mead	Porsche 911	68
Failed
26th	GTX	6th	Team Zakspeed Roush	Klaus Ludwig	Ford Mustang Turbo	70
27	GTX	27		Rich Sloma	Chevrolet Corvette	65
28	GTO	04	T&R Racing	Rene Rodriguez Tico Almeida	Porsche Carrera RSR	56
29	GTU	55	Mandeville Racing	Roger Mandeville Amos Johnson	Mazda RX-7	51
30th	GTX	3	Andial Masters Racing	Rolf Stommelen	Porsche 935M16	49
31	GTX	86	Bayside Disposal Racing	Bruce Leven Hurley Haywood	Porsche 935/80	39
32	GTO	31	Midwest Team Corvett	Larry Trotter	Chevrolet Corvette	39
33	GTO	10		Paul Chunta Mark Voegele	Chevrolet Corvette	39
34	GTX	8th	JLP Racing	John Paul Sr.	Lola T600	38
35	GTO	76	Philip Keirn	Philip Keirn	Chevrolet Corvette	37
36	GTX	73		Del Russo Taylor	Chevron GTP	30th
37	GTU	77		Patrick Jacquemart	Renault Le Car Turbo	24
38	GTU	17th	Dan Furey	Dan Furey	Furey Mk.1	22nd
39	GTX	19th	Chris Cord Racing	Chris Cord Jim Adams	Chevrolet Monza	21st
40	GTO	83	Electramotives	Don Devendorf	Datsun 280ZX Turbo	18th
41	GTO	79	Whitehall Promotions	Bob Bergstrom	Porsche 924 Carrera GTR	15th
42	GTU	66	Jack Dunham	Jack Dunham	Mazda RX-7	9
43	GTU	47		Jim Mullen	Mazda RX-7	2

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 for a variety of reasons.

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis
44	GTX	00			Porsche 935K3 / 80
45	GTU	01	Roehrig Racing	Dave White J. Dana Roehrig	BMW 320i
46	GTO	05		Tico Almeida	Porsche Carrera RSR
47	GTO	06	Bill Wink	Bill Wink	Chevrolet Corvette
48	GTX	07		Ludwig Heimrath junior	Porsche 935
49	GTU	4th		Exay Borrero	BMW 320i
50	GTO	15th		Doug Lutz	Porsche Carrera RSR
51	GTO	16		Paul Resnick	Porsche Carrera RSR
52	GTU	38	Jack Buchinger	Jack Buchinger	Datsun 280ZX
53	GTO	41		Rusty Schmidt	Chevrolet Corvette
54	GTX	45	Wayne Darling	Wayne Darling	Chevrolet Camaro
55	GTU	46		David Miller	Datsun 240Z
56	GTO	48	Dynasales	John Carusso	Chevrolet Corvette
57	GTU	49		Al Cosentino Bob Speakman	Mazda RX-7
58	GTU	57		Robert Overby	Porsche 914/6
59	GTU	71		Charles Morgan	Datsun 280ZX
60	GTO	75		Dale Kreider	Chevrolet Corvette
61	GTU	94		Bob Speakman	Datsun 240Z
62	GTO	97		Jimmy Spencer Dean Spencer	Ford Mustang

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
GTX	Brian Redman		Lola T600	Overall victory
GTO	Dave Cowart	Kenper Miller	BMW M1	Rank 7
GTU	Logan Blackburn		Datsun 280ZX	Rank 9

Racing data

• Registered: 62
• Started: 43
• Valued: 25
• Race classes: 3
• Spectator: unknown
• Weather on race day: unknown
• Route length: 3.862 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 2:08: 38.927 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 84
• Total distance of the winning team: 324.444 km
• Winner's average: 151.315 km / h
• Pole position: John Paul junior - Porsche 935 JLP-3 (# 18) - 1: 29.170 - 155.936 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Brian Redman - Lola T600 (# 7) - 1.28.520 - 157.080 km / h
• Racing series: 10th round of the IMSA GTP series in 1981

literature

• JA Martin and Ken Welles: Prototypes - the History of the IMSA GTP Series . Bull Publishing, Phoenix 2000, ISBN 1-893618-01-3 .

Web links

• Results at Racing Sports Cars