Imola 500 km race in 1976

Racing debut of the Alfa Romeo T33 / SC / 12

The 500 km race of Imola 1976 , also Trofeo Ignazio Giunti, Imola 500 Kilometres , took place on May 23 at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari and was the sixth round of the sports car world championship of that year. The race was named after the Italian Ferrari works driver Ignazio Giunti , who had a fatal accident at the 1000 km race in Buenos Aires in 1971 .

The race

With the Alfa Romeo T33 / SC / 12 , Alfa Romeo returned to the sports car world championship in 1976 . Thus, the received Porsche - works team another opponent. The fastest in qualifying was neither a Porsche nor an Alfa Romeo driver, but Jean-Pierre Jarier in the Alpine-Renault A442 in front of teammate Jody Scheckter . In the race, both Alpines retired after engine damage, so that victory went to Porsche again. Jochen Mass and Jacky Ickx won in the Porsche 936 after three hours driving time ahead of the Alfa Romeo of Vittorio Brambilla and Arturo Merzario .

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	S 3.0	7th	Martini Racing	Jochen Mass Jacky Ickx	Porsche 936	100
2	S 3.0	1	Autodelta SpA	Vittorio Brambilla Arturo Merzario	Alfa Romeo T33 / SC / 12	96
3	S 3.0	5	Joest Racing	Horst Godel Jürgen Barth Reinhold Joest	Porsche 908/3	94
4th	S 2.0	30th	Torino Corse	Roby Filannino Ermanno Pettiti	Osella PA4	93
5	S 2.0	23	Ateneo	Eugenio Renna Armando Floridia	Osella PA4	92
6th	S 2.0	38	Dorset Racing Associates	Ian Bracey Tony Birchenhough	Lola T294S	91
7th	S 2.0	31	Torino Corse	Danilo Tesini Marco Crosina	Osella PA4	90
8th	S 2.0	40	Sesto Corse	Carlo Franchi Stanislao Sterzel	March 75S	89
9	S 3.0	9	Equator Cottages	Teodoro Zeccoli	Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 3	88
10	S 2.0	22nd	Racing Organization Course	François Sérvanin Laurent Ferrier	Chevron B36	86
11	S 1.6	67	Mendola	Arcadio Pezzali Giuseppe Ranzolin	Chevron B23	85
12	S 1.6	62	Rododendri	Luigi Pozzo Franco Milano	Osella PA3	84
13	S 2.0	33	Torino Corse	Spartaco Dini Giovanni Anzeloni	Osella PA4	82
14th	S 1.3	78	Nord-Ovest	Pasquale Anastasio Giuseppe Tambone	Chevron B26	82
15th	S 3.0	2	Renault Sport	Jean-Pierre Jarier Jacques Laffite	Alpine-Renault A442	74
16	S 3.0	4th	Joest Racing	Reinhold Joest Ernst Kraus	Porsche 908/4	71
Not classified
17th	S 3.0	10	Sports Car Team of Austria	Eberhard Braun	KMW SP30	67
18th	S 1.6	60	Marcello Gallo	Marcello Gallo	Chevron B23	64
19th	S 1.6	63	"Gates"	Gianfranco Trombetti	Osella PA3	64
Failed
20th	S 3.0	12	John Blanckley	Manrico Zanuso	Chevron B31	52
21st	S 2.0	25th	PP Sauber Racing	Herbert Müller Rodolfo Cescato	Clean C5	39
22nd	S 1.3	76	Mendola	Alessandro Guidetti Fabio Siliprandi	Dallara 1300 cmc	28
23	S 2.0	34	Giuseppe Piazzi	Giuseppe Piazzi Sandro Cinotti	Chevron B36	21st
24	S 2.0	37	Dorset Racing Associates	Claude Crespin Simon Phillips	Lola T294S	20th
25th	S 2.0	21st	Gianfranco Palazzoli	Duilio Truffo Gianfranco Palazzoli	Osella PA4	19th
26th	S 2.0	39	Aretusa	"King"	March 75S	18th
27	S 1.6	64	San Marco	Ubaldo Smittarello Giuseppe Bottura	Osella PA3	10
28	S 3.0	6th	Nettuno	Mario Casoni Marco Capoferri	Lola T380	6th
29	S 3.0	3	Renault Sport	Jody Scheckter Henri Pescarolo	Alpine-Renault A442	3
Not started
30th	S 3.0	11	Sports Car Team of Austria	Axel Ahrens Eberhard Braun	KMW SP30	1
31	S 2.0	24	Nettuno	Claudio Francisci Giancarlo Naddeo	Alpine A441	2
32	S 3.0	T	Renault Sport	Jody Scheckter Henri Pescarolo Jean-Pierre Jarier Jacques Laffit	Alpine-Renault A442	3
Not qualified
33	S 2.0	29	Jolly Club	Giorgio Pianta Anna Cambiaghi	Osella PA2	4th
34	S 1.6	61	Equator Cottages	Vitto Carbonara Antonio Petruzzi	GRD S74	5
35	S 1.6	66	Nord-Ovest	Luigi de Angelis Pier-Ugo Prati	AMS 71	6th
36	S 1.6	68	San Marco	Egidio Nicolosi Giulio Dubrini	Chevron B21	7th
37	S 1.0	91	Nettuno	Fernando Spreafico Tiziano Serattini	GiPi 1000	8th

¹ not started ² engine failure during training ³ training car ⁴ not qualified ⁵ not qualified ⁶ not qualified ⁷ not qualified ⁸ not qualified

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
38	S 3.0	8th	Guy Edwards	Guy Edwards John Lepp	March 76S
39	S 2.0	25th	Jolly Club	Giovanni Anzeloni Vincenzo Cazzago	Osella PA4
40	S 2.0	26th	Jolly Club	Giorgio Schön Giuseppe Bianco	Osella PA4
41	S 2.0	27	Jolly Club	Martino Finotto	Lola T294
42	S 2.0	28	Jolly Club	Renzo Zorzi	Chevron B23
43	S 2.0	29	Jolly Club	Luigi Colzani	Chevron B23
44	S 2.0	32	Torino Corse	Paolo Solinas	Osella PA4
45	S 2.0	36	Robin Smith	Robin Smith Richard Jones	Chevron B26
46	S 2.0	41	Giovanni Alberti	Giovanni Alberti Erasmo Bologna	Chevron B21
47	S 1.6	65	San Marco	Pier-Ugo Prati Luigi de Angelis	Chevron B21
48	S 1.6	69	Lloyd Centauro	Girolama Caci Giuseppe Oieni	Chevron B26
49	S 1.3	75	Nettuno	"Shark" Ferruccio Caliceti	Osella
50	S 1.3	77	Nord-Ovest	Salvatore Pellegrino	Lola
51	S 1.0	90	San Marco	Italo pain	Osella PA3

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
S 3.0	Jochen Mass	Jacky Ickx	Porsche 936	Overall victory
S 2.0	Roby Filannino	Ermanno Pettiti	Osella PA4	Rank 4
S 1.6	Arcadio Pezzali	Giuseppe Ranzolin	Chevron B23	Rank 11
S 1.3	Pasquale Anastasio	Giuseppe Tambone	Chevron B26	Rank 14

Racing data

• Registered: 51
• Started: 29
• Valued: 16
• Race classes: 4
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: warm and dry
• Route length: 5,000 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 2: 59: 57.900 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 100
• Total distance of the winning team: 500,000 km
• Winner's average: 166.699 km / h
• Pole position: Jean-Pierre Jarier - Alpine-Renault A442 (# 2) - 1: 40.230 = 179.587 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Jean-Pierre Jarier - Alpine-Renault A442 (# 2) - 1: 42.300 = 175.953 km / h
• Racing series: 6th round 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, the 6 Hours of Silverstone 1976

Sports car world championship

Successor 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1976