1981 Daytona 250 mile race, 1st race

The 250-mile race of Daytona 1981 , also Summer Speed ​​Week 81 (Paul Revere 250), Daytona International Speedway , took place as part of the Summer Speed ​​Week on July 4th of this year at Daytona International Speedway . The race was the twelfth round of the IMSA GTP series in 1981 .

The race

The twelfth round of the IMSA GTP series of this year brought a new winner. The Colombian Mauricio de Narváez won a race in this racing series for the first time as a partner of Hurley Haywood . The lead of two laps on the second placed Dave Cowart and Kenper Miller was clear.

Results

Final ranking

Item	Class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	GTX	46	de Narváez Enterprises	Mauricio de Narváez Hurley Haywood	Porsche 935J	65
2	GTO	25th	Red Lobster Racing	Dave Cowart Kenper Miller	BMW M1	63
3	GTX	18th	JLP Racing	John Paul Junior	Porsche 935 JLP-3	62
4th	GTO	24		Ren Tilton	Porsche 934	60
5	GTU	23	Raytown Datsun	Dick Davenport	Datsun 280ZX	59
6th	GTU	85	Logan Blackburn	Logan Blackburn	Datsun 280ZX	58
7th	GTX	0	Interscope Racing	Ted Field Bill Whittington	Porsche 935K3 / 80	57
8th	GTU	55	Mandeville Racing	Roger Mandeville Amos Johnson	Mazda RX-7	56
9	GTU	82	Trinity Racing	Jim Cook John Casey	Mazda RX-7	56
10	GTU	50	Downing Atlanta	Jim Downing	Mazda RX-7	56
11	GTU	81		Bob Speakman	Datsun Z	55
12	GTU	38	Ron Case	Ron Case	Porsche 911	55
13	GTU	01		Kurt Roehrig Dave White	Porsche 911	55
14th	GTO	37	Kendco Ent. Ed Kuhel	Dick Neland Ed Kuhel	Chevrolet Camaro	55
15th	GTO	29		Hoyt Overbagh	Chevrolet Monza	53
16	GTU	6th	Bon Temps Racing	Ron Reed	Datsun 240Z	53
17th	GTX	52		Fred Snow Jack Swanson	Chevrolet Camaro	53
18th	GTX	9	Garretson Racing	Bobby Rahal Bob Garretson	Porsche 935K3 / 80	50
19th	GTO	60	Bob's Speed ​​Products	Bob Lee	AMC AMX	46
20th	GTX	10	Fuchs-Whitaker Racing	Jimmy Tumbleston	Chevrolet Camaro	43
Failed
21st	GTX	74		Del Russo Taylor	Chevron GTP	48
22nd	GTO	63		Bill Nelson Dale Kreider	Pontiac Firebird	42
23	GTX	84	Scorpio Racing	Enrique Molins Eduardo Barrientos	Porsche 935M16	39
24	GTO	48	Dynasales	John Carusso	Chevrolet Corvette	32
25th	GTO	8th		Irwin Ayes Al White	Chevrolet Corvette	27
26th	GTO	39		Glenn Worthington Rick Kump	Chevrolet Camaro	26th
27	GTO	42		Joe Cotrone	Chevrolet Corvette	24
28	GTU	22nd		Robert Overby	Porsche 914/6	22nd
29	GTO	15th	DL performance engineering	Doug Lutz	Porsche Carrera RSR	22nd
30th	GTO	78		Paul Metz	Plymouth Barracuda	17th
31	GTU	11	Dan Veach	Dan Veach	Mazda RX-7	11
32	GTX	44	Stratagraph Inc.	Billy Hagan	Chevrolet Camaro	9
33	GTX	00	Interscope Racing	Bill Whittington	Porsche 935K3 / 80	8th
34	GTU	66	Jack Dunham	Jack Dunham	Mazda RX-7	7th
35	GTU	71	Morgan Performance Group	Charles Morgan	Datsun 280ZX	3
36	GTO	05		Tico Almeida	Porsche Carrera RSR	3
37	GTX	97		Don Cummings	Chevrolet Monza	2
Not started
38	GTX		John Fitzpatrick Racing	John Fitzpatrick	Porsche 935K3 / 80	1

¹ accident in training

Only in the entry list

No further reports are known for this race.

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
GTX	Mauricio de Narváez	Hurley Haywood	Porsche 935J	Overall victory
GTO	Dave Cowart	Kenper Miller	BMW M1	Rank 2
GTU	Dick Davenport		Datsun 280ZX	Rank 5

Racing data

• Registered: 38
• Started: 37
• Rated: 20
• Race classes: 3
• Spectator: unknown
• Weather on race day: unknown
• Route length: 6.179 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 2: 17: 30.113 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 65
• Total distance of the winning team: 401.692 km
• Winner's average: 175.280 km / h
• Pole position: Hurley Haywood - Porsche 935J (# 46) - 1: 45.423 - 211.032 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Bill Whittington - Porsche 935K3 / 80 (# 00) - 1: 47.180 - 207.572 km / h
• Racing series: 12th 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