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
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 .