Le Castellet 500 km race in 1977

Route layout 1977

The 500 km race of Le Castellet 1977 , also 500 km Paul Ricard, Le Castellet , took place on July 24th at the Circuit Paul Ricard and was the eleventh round of the sports car world championship of that year.

The race

In the Group 6 race car race at Le Castellet , Alfa Romeo was able to add another overall victory to its previous successes. Arturo Merzario and Jean-Pierre Jarier won two laps ahead of Jörg Obermoser and Pierre-François Rousselot in the TOJ SC302. The two Group 5 cars, which finished eighth and tenth overall, had no chance. The eighth-placed Porsche 935 driven by Martino Finotto and Romeo Camathias was already ten laps behind .

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	S 3.0	1	Autodelta SpA	Arturo Merzario Jean-Pierre Jarier	Alfa Romeo T33 / SC / 12	150
2	S 3.0	3	Jörg Obermoser	Jörg Obermoser Pierre-François Rousselot	TOJ SC302	148
3	S 2.0	28		Jean-Pierre Jaussaud Jacques Henry	Chevron B31	145
4th	S 2.0	11	Mogil Motors	Tony Charnell Robin Smith	Chevron B31	144
5	S 2.0	37	Francy Racing	Eugen Strähl Peter Bernhard	Clean C5	142
6th	S 2.0	23		Georges Morand Christian Blanc Fréderic Alliot	Lola T296	141
7th	S 2.0	17th		Danilo Tesini Ermanno Pettiti	Osella PA5	140
8th	Size 5	80	Jolly Club	Martino Finotto Romeo Camathias	Porsche 935	140
9	S 2.0	18th		Franco Milano Luigi Pozzo	Osella PA4	140
10	Size 5	42		Claude Haldi Laurent Ferrier	Porsche 934	137
11	S 2.0	15th		Bob Marsland Ian Bracey	Chevron B36	137
12	S 2.0	19th		Marco Onori Maurizio Orsi	Osella PA5	137
13	GT	40	Kurt Simonsen	Kurt Simonsen Kenneth Leim	Porsche Carrera RSR	133
14th	GT	46	Jolly Club	Giampiero Moretti Giorgio Beautiful	Porsche 934	128
15th	GT	47		Anne-Charlotte Verney Hubert Striebig	Porsche Carrera RSR	110
Disqualified
16	S 2.0	20th		Eric Vuagnat Daniel Brillat	Cheetah G601	45
Failed
17th	S 2.0	21st		Silvio Vaglio Rolando Vaglio	Osella PA1	132
18th	S 3.0	7th	Karl-Adolf Kneip	Kurt Hild Freddy Link	KMW SP30	124
19th	S 3.0	2	Autodelta SpA	Vittorio Brambilla	Alfa Romeo T33 / SC / 12	119
20th	S 2.0	27		Albert Dufréne François Sérvanin	Chevron B31	110
21st	S 2.0	29	Jean-Marie Lemerle	Jean-Marie Lemerle Alain Levié	Lola T294	109
22nd	S 2.0	16		John Morrison Richard Jenvey	Vogue SP2	107
23	S 2.0	33		Mario Luini Michel Gueissaz Sandro Plastina	Cheetah G501	86
24	S 2.0	10	Ultramar Racing Lola	Ray Mallock Jean-Pierre Wielemans	Lola T296	75
25th	S 2.0	34T	Osella Squadra Corse	Dieter Quester Duilio Truffo	Osella PA5	67
26th	S 3.0	4th	Jörg Obermoser	Leopold of Bavaria Klaus Walz	TOJ SC302	51
27	S 2.0	26th		Michel Pignard Michel Dubois Jean-Louis Bos	Chevron B31	22nd
28	S 2.0	25th		Max Cohen-Olivar Patrick Daire	Lola T294	12
29	S 2.0	24		Eugenio Renna Pasquale Anastasio	Osella PA5	11
Not started
30th	S 2.0	30th		Hervé Bayard Pascal Foix	Lola T296	1
31	S 2.0	34	Osella Squadra Corse	Dieter Quester	Osella PA5	2
Not qualified
32	GT	48	Thierry Perrier	Thierry Perrier	Porsche 911S	3
33	GT	49		Guido Agazzotti Cavazza Dino Mallet	Porsche 934	4th

¹ not started ² accident in training ³ not qualified ⁴ 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.

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis
34	S 3.0	5		Martin Raymond Rolf Götz	Chevron B31
35	S 3.0	5		Richard Bond Simon Phillips	Lola T380
36	S 3.0	8th		Bruno Ottomano Paolo Gargano	Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 3
37	S 2.0	12	Dorset Racing	Martin Birrane Ian Harrower	Lola T294S
38	S 2.0	14th	Dorset Racing	Skeeter McKitterick Ernst Berg	Lola T294S
39	S 2.0	14th	Dorset Racing	Skeeter McKitterick Ernst Berg	Lola T294S
40	S 2.0	31		Giorgio Schön	Osella PA5
41	S 2.0	32		Ruggero Parpinelli Anna Cambiaghi	Osella PA5
42	S 2.0	35		Rodolfo Cescato Herbert Müller	Chevron B21 / 23
43	S 2.0	38		Bruno Rebai	Lola
44	GT	41		Jacques Guérin Jean-Pierre Delaunay	Porsche Carrera
45	Size 5	43		Sepp Manhalter	BMW 3.5 CSL
46	Size 5	44		Hubert Striebig	Porsche Carrera

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
S 3.0	Arturo Merzario	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Alfa Romeo T33 / SC / 12	Overall victory
S 2.0	Jean-Pierre Jaussaud	Jacques Henry	Chevron B31	Rank 3
Size 5	Martino Finotto	Romeo Camathias	Porsche 935	Rank 8
GT	Kurt Simonsen	Kenneth glue	Porsche Carrera RSR	Rank 13

Racing data

• Reported: 46
• Started: 29
• Valued: 15
• Race classes: 4
• Spectators: 2000
• Race day weather: hot and dry
• Route length: 3.263 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 3:23: 14,900 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 150
• Total distance of the winning team: 489.450 km
• Winner's average: 144.488 km / h
• Pole position: Vittorio Brambilla - Alfa Romeo T33 / SC / 12 (# 2) - 1: 15.500 = 155.587 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Vittorio Brambilla - Alfa Romeo T33 / SC / 12 (# 2) - 1: 17.300 = 151.964 km / h
• Racing series: 11th round of the 1977 sports car world championship

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 of the 2:30 hour race at Estoril 1977

Sports car world championship

Successor to the 6-hour race at Mosport in 1977