Misano 6-hour race in 1978

Autodromo di Santamonica

The 6-hour race of Misano 1978 , also called Misano 6 Hours , took place on June 25th at the Autodromo di Santamonica and was the ninth round of the sports car world championship of that year.

The race

The overall victory of Bob Wollek and Henri Pescarolo in Misano was unspectacular and safe. The competition decimated itself through technical inadequacies and errors. The Porsche 935s from Gelo Racing were particularly hard hit . With car number 8, the mechanics miscalculated the amount of fuel, so that John Fitzpatrick rolled out with an empty tank one lap before the pit stop planned for refueling. The Porsche with Toine Hezemans at the wheel was stopped by the race management with the black flag after the car lost a lot of oil.

The best-placed BMW 320i also retired. After an engine failure, Markus Höttinger's car spun on the leaking oil from the track. Due to the many failures, the two Italians Vittorio Coggiola and Piero Monticone achieved second place overall in a privately registered Porsche 935, four laps behind the winners.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	Size 5	7th	Porsche Kremer Racing	Bob Wollek Henri Pescarolo	Porsche 935 / 77A	261
2	Size 5	23	Vittorio Coggiola	Vittorio Coggiola Piero Monticone	Porsche 935	257
3	Size 5	12	Konrad Racing	Franz Konrad Volkert Merl	Porsche 935 / 77A	255
4th	Size 5	2	BMW Belgium	Patrick Nève Harald Grohs	BMW 320i	255
5	Size 5	1	BMW Faltz Essen	Dieter Quester Wolfgang Wolf	BMW 320i	246
6th	Size 5	4th	BMW Switzerland	Freddy Kottulinsky Markus Hotz	BMW 320i	240
7th	GT	18th	Angelo Pallavicini	Angelo Pallavicini Edi Kofel Marco Vanoli	Porsche 934	240
8th	GT	26th	Max Moritz	Edgar Dören Gerhard Holup Eckhard Schimpf	Porsche 934	239
9	GT	25th	Jolly Club	Girolamo Capra Gabriele Gottifredi Michele di Gioia	Porsche 934	230
10	Size 5	28	Giuseppe Piazzi	Giuseppe Piazzi Renzo Zorzi Renato Benusiglio	Fiat X1 / 9	227
11	Size 5	32		Sergio Rombolotti Eriberto Rossi Guido Daverio	Alpine A110	206
Disqualified
12	Size 5	6th	Gelo Racing Team	Toine Hezemans Klaus Ludwig John Fitzpatrick	Porsche 935 / 77A	137
Failed
13	GT	11	Preben Kristoffersen	Preben Kristoffersen Eberhard Sindel	Porsche 934	182
14th	GT	24	Kenneth glue	Kenneth Leim Kurt Simonsen	Porsche 934	121
15th	Size 5	9	Jolly Club	Carlo Facetti Martino Finotto Umberto Grano	Porsche 935	118
16	Size 5	3	BMW Italia Osella	Giorgio Francia Markus Höttinger	BMW 320i	109
17th	Size 5	19th	Scuderia Brescia Corse	Maurizio Micangeli Marco Micangeli	De Tomaso Pantera	104
18th	Size 5	8th	Gelo Racing Team	John Fitzpatrick Hans Heyer	Porsche 935 / 77A	58
19th	Size 5	5	BMW Sweden	Ingvar Carlsson Bo Emanuelsson	BMW 320i	32
Not started
20th	GT	15th	Mirabella	Felice Besenzoni Luciano Dal Ben	Ferrari 308 GTB	1

¹ not started

Only in the entry list

No further reports are known for this race.

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
Size 5	Bob Wollek	Henri Pescarolo		Porsche 935 / 77A	Overall victory
GT	Angelo Pallavicini	Edi Kofel	Marco Vanoli	Porsche 934	Rank 7

Racing data

• Registered: 20
• Started: 19
• Valued: 11
• Race classes: 2
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: warm and dry
• Route length: 3.488 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 6:00: 56,600 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 261
• Total distance of the winning team: 910.368 km
• Winner's average: 151.331 km / h
• Pole position: Bob Wollek - Porsche 935 / 77A (# 7) - 1: 16.640 = 163.841 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Toine Hezemans - Porsche 935 / 77A (# 8) - 1: 18.300 = 160.368 km / h
• Racing series: Round 9 of the 1978 World Sports Car 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 report
• Race results

Previous race of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1978

Sports car world championship

Successor to the 6 Hours of Daytona 1978