Pergusa 4-hour race in 1976

Fast, but technically unreliable: Alpine A442

The 4-hour race of Pergusa 1976 , also Coppa Florio, Enna 4 Hours, Pergusa , took place on June 27 at the Autodromo di Pergusa and was the ninth round of the sports car world championship of that year.

The race

The sports car race in Pergusa had the strongest line-up of the year to date. In addition to the plant - Porsche 936 by Jochen Mass and Rolf Stommelen two factory were Alpine-Renault A442 and one of Autodelta prepared Alfa Romeo T33 / SC / 12 reported. The two Alpines drove Jean-Pierre Jarier , Henri Pescarolo , Patrick Depailler and Jacques Laffite . Arturo Merzario and Mario Casoni drove the Alfa Romeo .

Both in practice and in the race, the two Alpines were the fastest cars, but as in the previous races suffered from a lack of reliability. Depailler and Laffite's car - the fastest in training - had an engine failure and Jarier and Pescarolo's vehicle broke down with a gearbox failure. The Alfa Romeo did not finish either, retired after 48 laps due to a suspension damage. After 3 hours of driving, Mass and Stommelen won with a lead of 10 laps on the 2-liter Osella PA4 run by Roby Filannino and Ermanno Pettiti . The race, which was originally supposed to last four hours, was stopped after three hours due to a violent thunderstorm and never restarted.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	S 3.0	4th	Martini Racing	Jochen Mass Rolf Stommelen	Porsche 936	102
2	S 2.0	35	Ermanno Pettiti	Roby Filannino Ermanno Pettiti	Osella PA4	92
3	S 2.0	32	Stanislao Sterzel	Stanislao Sterzel Carlo Franchi	March 75S	92
4th	S 2.0	31	Pasquale Barberio	Pasquale Barberio Carlo Bilotti	Osella PA4	90
5	S 3.0	7th	Joest Racing	Jürgen Barth Horst Godel	Porsche 908/3	90
6th	S 2.0	28	Ateneo	Armando Floridia Eugenio Renna	Osella PA4	89
7th	S 1.3	76	Pasquale Anastasio	Pasquale Anastasio Aldo Crovella	Chevron B23	86
8th	S 1.3	73	Ateneo	Giampaolo Ceraolo Luigi Sartorio	Chevron B23	80
9	S 3.0	3	Renault Sport	Jean-Pierre Jarier Henri Pescarolo	Alpine-Renault A442	74
10	S 1.3	72	Anastasi	Joe Anastasi Gianpiero Lauro	Dallara 1300 cmc	74
11	S 1.6	47	Etna	Attaguile Enrico Grimaldi	Chevron B23	70
Failed
12	S 3.0	5	Marco Capoferri	Marco Capoferri Spartaco Dini	Lola T380	56
13	S 3.0	8th	Bruno Ottomano	Teodoro Zeccoli Bruno Ottomano	Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 3	53
14th	S 3.0	2	Renault Sport	Patrick Depailler Jacques Laffite	Alpine-Renault A442	51
15th	S 3.0	1	Autodelta SpA	Arturo Merzario Mario Casoni	Alfa Romeo T33 / SC / 12	48
16	S 1.6	43	Marcello Gallo	Marcello Gallo Cristiano Del Balzo	Chevron B23	43
17th	S 2.0	27	Racing Organization Course	Laurent Ferrier François Sérvanin	Chevron B36	42
18th	S 2.0	33	Danilo Tesini	Lella Lombardi Danilo Tesini	Osella PA4	41
19th	S 2.0	26th	PP Sauber Racing	Herbert Müller Rodolfo Cescato	Clean C5	38
20th	S 1.6	46	Etna	Tregua Girolamo Perniciaro	AMS	34
21st	S 1.3	77	Cefalu	Paolo de Luca Mario Vigneri	Lola T290	29
22nd	S 2.0	21st	Aretusa	"King" Vito Veninata	March 75S	21st
23	S 2.0	25th	Gianfranco Palazzoli	Duilio Truffo Gianfranco Palazzoli	Osella PA4 / 3	11
24	S 1.6	45	Lloyd Italia	Girolama Caci Giuseppe Oieni	Osella PA3	9
25th	S 3.0	6th	Joest Racing Team	Reinhold Joest Ernst Kraus	Porsche 908/3 Turbo	8th
26th	S 1.3	74	Lloyd Italia	Vittorio Mascari Emanuele Trapani	AMS	1
Not started
27	S 1.6	44	Franco Milano	Franco Milano Luigi Pozzo	Osella PA3	1
28	S 1.3	75	Claudio Francisci	Claudio Francisci Bruno Del Fante	Chevron B31	2

¹ not started ² not started

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
29	S 1.6	42	Lloyd Italia	Mario Ruoso Vincenzo Mirto Randazzo	Lola

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
S 3.0	Jochen Mass	Rolf Stommelen	Porsche 936	Overall victory
S 2.0	Roby Filannino	Ermanno Pettiti	Osella PA4	Rank 2
S 1.6	Attaguile	Enrico Grimaldi	Chevron B23	Rank 11
S 1.3	Pasquale Anastasio	Aldo Crovella	Chevron B23	Rank 7

Racing data

• Registered: 29
• Started: 26
• Valued: 11
• Race classes: 4
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: hot, violent thunderstorm in the third hour of the race
• Route length: 4.950 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 2:57: 48,900 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 102
• Total distance of the winning team: 504,900 km
• Winner's average: 170.368 km / h
• Pole position: Jacques Laffite - Alpine-Renault A442 (# 2) - 1: 35.560 = 186.480 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Jean-Pierre Jarier - Alpine-Renault A442 (# 2) - 1: 36,000 = 185.625 km / h
• Racing series: Round 9 of the Sports Car World Championship in 1976

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

Previous race 1000 km race from Zeltweg 1976

Sports car world championship

Successor to the 6-hour race at Watkins Glen 1976