Misano 6-hour race in 1978
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
Previous race of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1978 |
Sports car world championship |
Successor to the 6 Hours of Daytona 1978 |