Mugello 6-hour race in 1976

The Porsche 935 , here at the 6-hour race at Silverstone , made its racing debut at Mugello

The Mugello 6 Hours of 1976 , also March Trophy, Mugello 6 Hours , took place on March 21st at the Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello . The race was the first round of the sports car world championship this year.

The race

With the first race of the sports car world championship in 1976 , new sporting and technical regulations came into force. The FIA wrote out new rules for the world championship from 1976. The brand world championship was held with production cars from Group 5 and, at the same time, a sports car world championship with sports cars from Group 6 . Group 4 was advertised for GT motorsport. With the 935, Porsche had developed a Group 5 racing car that made its racing debut in Mugello. After the quarrels with the team of the Hessian real estate agent Dr. Hermann Dannesberger took over the races at Porsche again. Jacky Ickx and Jochen Mass were signed up as drivers . Even BMW sat with the BMW 3.5 CSL a Group 5 car one.

The first argument between Porsche and BMW ended with a clear success for Porsche. Jacky Ickx and Jochen Mass had a lead of six laps in the factory car over Bob Wollek and Hans Heyer , who drove a 935 registered by Kremer Racing . The best BMW was the eighth placed 3.5 CSL driven by John Fitzpatrick and Tom Walkinshaw .

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	Size 5	4th	Martini Racing	Jochen Mass Jacky Ickx	Porsche 935	174
2	Size 5	5	Porsche Kremer Racing	Bob Wollek Hans Heyer	Porsche 935	168
3	GT	7th	Egon Evertz Solingen	Leo Kinnunen Egon Evertz	Porsche 934	162
4th	Size 5	23	Joest Racing	Reinhold Joest Jürgen Barth Willi Bartels	Porsche Carrera RSR	161
5	Size 5	22nd	Kenneth glue	Kenneth Leim Kurt Simonsen	Porsche Carrera RSR	157
6th	GT	18th	Gelo Racing	Tim Schenken Rolf Stommelen	Porsche 934	155
7th	GT	9	Gabriele Gottifredi	Angelino Lepri Gabriele Gottifredi Girolamo Capra	Porsche 934	154
8th	Size 5	2	Hermetite BMW	John Fitzpatrick Tom Walkinshaw	BMW 3.5 CSL	151
9	Size 5	34	Jolly Club	Walter Dona Martino Finotto Umberto Grano	Ford Escort RS 2000 BDG	148
10	Size 5	3	BMW Faltz Alpina Essen	Sam Posey Harald Grohs	BMW 3.5 CSL	147
11	Size 5	33	Ciro Nappi	Ciro Nappi Ricciardo Ricci	BMW 2002 TII	144
12	Size 5	31	Giada car	Ferruccio Caliceti Carlo Brunner	Alpine A110 1600	139
Not classified
13	Size 5	37	Citta dei Mille	Duilio Ghislotti Romeo Camathias	Alfa Romeo GTV	118
Failed
14th	Size 5	1	Blunder	Dieter Quester Albrecht Krebs Brian Redman	BMW 3.5 CSL	169
15th	Size 5	36	Mario Ruoso	Mario Ruoso Paolo de Leonibus	Ford Escort	86
16	GT	24	Jolly Club	Carlo Facetti Emilio Paleari Gianfranco Ricci	Lancia Stratos	81
17th	Size 5	42	Cosimo Turizio	Cosimo Turizio Carlo Giorgio Ciro Nappi	Ford Escort	62
18th	GT	19th	Gelo Racing Tebernum	Toine Hezemans Clemens Schickentanz	Porsche 934	60
19th	T	16	Zip-up racing	Stuart Graham Reine Wisell Arturo Merzario	Chevrolet Camaro Z28	53
20th	T	15th	Zip-up racing	Arturo Merzario rune Tobiasson Stuart Graham	Chevrolet Camaro Z28	52
21st	Size 5	32	Jolly Club	Martino Finotto Renzo Zorzi Umberto Grano	Ford Escort	33
22nd	GT	38	Piercarlo Ghinzani	Piercarlo Ghinzani Giovanni Carminati	Porsche 914/6	32
23	GT	14th	Jolly Club	Giorgio Schön Giuseppe Bianco Giorgio Gargano	Porsche 934	7th
24	Size 5	25th	Michele di Gioia	Lella Lombardi Michele di Gioia Vittorio Bernasconi	Porsche Carrera RSR	5
Not started
25th	Size 5	21st	Lancia Corse	Carlo Facetti Vittorio Brambilla	Lancia Stratos Turbo	1
Not qualified
26th	ser. T	29	Giotto Bizzarrini	Goffredo Larini Giotto Bizzarrini	Opel Commodore GS / E	2

¹ car fire in training ² 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
27	Size 5	6th	Jean-Claude Aubriet	Jean-Claude Aubriet Jean-Claude Depince	BMW 3.5 CSL
28	GT	8th	Louis Meznarie	Hubert Striebig Anne-Charlotte Verney	Porsche 934
29	Size 5	11	Scuderia Brescia Corse	Maurizio Micangeli Carlo Pietromarchi Ruggero Parpinelli	De Tomaso Pantera
30th	Size 5	12	Scuderia Brescia Corse	Ruggero Parpinelli Gabriele Gottifredi Maurizio Micangeli	De Tomaso Pantera
31	Size 5	26th	Scuderia Brescia Corse	Mario Radicella Carlo Bilotti	Porsche Carrera RSR
32	Size 5	27	Carlo Rebai	Carlo Rebai Bruno Rebai	Porsche Carrera RSR
33	GT	28	Jolly Club	Kemal Nuri Pelit Giorgio Schön Giuseppe Bianco	Porsche Carrera RSR
34	GT	35	Emilio Pegger	Emilio Pegger	Porsche 914/6
35	T	39	Alessandro Fracastoro	Alessandro Fracastoro Moreno Baldi	Alfa Romeo GTV
36	ser. T	41	Mario Mura	Mario Mura Mauro Mura	Simca 1000 rally 2

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
Size 5	Jochen Mass	Jacky Ickx	Porsche 935	Overall victory
GT	Leo Kinnunen	Egon Evertz	Porsche 934	Rank 3
T	no participant in the finish
ser. T	no participant in the finish

Racing data

• Registered: 36
• Started: 24
• Valued: 12
• Race classes: 4
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: warm and dry
• Route length: 5.245 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 6:00: 53.070 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 174
• Total distance of the winning team: 912.680 km
• Winner's average: 151.724 km / h
• Pole position: Jochen Mass - Porsche 935 (# 4) - 1: 55.280
• Fastest race lap: Jacky Ickx - Porsche 935 (# 4) - 1: 58.700 = 159.073 km / h
• Racing series: 1st round of the 1976 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 results

Previous race 6 Hours of Watkins Glen 1975

Sports car world championship

Successor to the 6-hour race of Vallelunga 1976