Riverside 6 Hours 1979

Porsche 935/79 from the Whittington brothers

The 1979 Riverside 6-Hour Race , also known as the Los Angeles Times Grand Prix of Endurance, Riverside International Speedway , took place on April 22nd at Riverside International Raceway . The race was the sixth round of the sports car world championship this year.

The race

The event in Riverside was very different from the races of the World Challenge for endurance riders in Talladega and Daytona . Since the race was also part of the IMSA GT series , the starting field was larger and far more prominent. The races of the Brands World Championship did not reach a similarly high number of participants.

It was a race of the Porsche 935 , which took the first six places in the overall classification. The best non-Porsche was behind two Carrera and another 935 the Datsun 280ZX from Don Devendorf and Tony Adamowicz in tenth place in the overall standings. Overall winners were Don and Bill Whittington with a lead of 1 minute and 30 seconds on John Paul junior and Al Holbert .

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	GTX	94	Whittington Brothers Racing	Don Whittington Bill Whittington	Porsche 935/79	195
2	GTX	18th	JLP Racing	John Paul junior Al Holbert	Porsche 935 JLP-1	195
3	GTX	16	Vasek Polak	George Follmer Brett Lunger Derek Bell	Porsche 935 / 77A	189
4th	GTX	9	Dick Barbour Racing	Rob McFarlin Roy Woods Bob Akin	Porsche 935	189
5	GTX	59	Brumo's Porsche	Peter Gregg Klaus Ludwig	Porsche 935/79	185
6th	GTX	6th	Dick Barbour Racing	Rolf Stommelen Brian Redman Dick Barbour	Porsche 935 / 77A	183
7th	GTO	07	Morrison's	Dave Cowart Kenper Miller	Porsche Carrera	181
8th	GTO	54	Montura Racing	Tony Garcia Terry Herman	Porsche Carrera RSR	181
9	GTX	4th	Dick Barbour Racing	Skeeter McKitterick Bob Garretson Gary Belcher	Porsche 935	179
10	GTU	83	Electramotives	Don Devendorf Tony Adamowicz	Datsun 280ZX	178
11	GTO	23	Cerwin-Vega	Jim Cook Robert Kirby	Porsche Carrera	176
12	GTU	79	Sports Ltd. Racing	Bob Bergstrom Brad Frisselle	Mazda RX-7	175
13	GTU	62	Koll Motor Sports	Bill Koll Bill Bean	Porsche 914/6	174
14th	GTU	77	Roger Mandeville	Roger Mandeville Jim Downing	Mazda RX-7	174
15th	GTX		Vasek Polak	Steve Earle Pete Smith	Porsche Carrera	173
16	GTO	46	de Narvaez Racing	Mauricio de Narváez Albert Naon	Porsche Carrera RSR	173
17th	GTX	24	Tom Frank	Tom Frank Ralph Kent-Cooke	Chevrolet Monza	172
18th	GTU	35	JLC Racing	Stu Fisher Ed Parks	Mazda RX-7	171
19th	GTU	7th	Walt Drilling Racing	Walt Drilling Ron Cortez	Mazda RX-7	171
20th	GTU	06	Darrel Overstreet	Jon Milledge Darrel Overstreet	Porsche 914/6	170
21st	GTU	60	EJ Pruitt	Rusty Bond Ren Tilton	Porsche 911	167
22nd	GTU	82	Schneider dealership	Rodd Harrison William Brewster	Porsche 914/6	164
23	GTO	56	Rick Borlase	Rick Borlase Don Kravig	Porsche 911	158
24	GTU	39	Barrick Motor Racing	Cliff Hansen John Higgins	Porsche 911	156
25th	GTO	32	Luis Botero	Honorato Espinosa Francisco Lopez Jorge Cortes	Porsche Carrera	152
26th	GTO	38	Boricua Racing	Tato Ferrer Bonky Fernandez	Porsche Carrera RSR	143
27	GTU	8th	Automobile International	Anatoly Arutunoff José Marina	Lancia Stratos	141
28	GTX	10	Otis Chandler	Otis Chandler John Thomas	Porsche 935/79	136
29	GTU	17th	Racing beat	Jeff Kline Jim Mederer	Mazda RX-7	113
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30th	GTO		Alan Johnson	Howard Master Rick Knoop	Porsche Carrera RSR	166
31	GTU	64	Dennis Aase	Dennis Aase Alan Johnson	Porsche 911	127
32	GTU	52	Personalized car dealership	Wayne Baker Tom Winters	Porsche 914/4	123
33	GTU	52	Kurt Roehrig	Dave White Pat Bedard	BMW 320i	113
34	GTX	00	Interscope Racing	Ted Field Milt Minter	Porsche 935 / 77A	100
35	GTX	09	Thunderbird Swap Shop	Bob Bondurant Preston Henn	Porsche 935 / 77A	99
36	GTO	49	Autodyne	Phil Currin John Carusso	Chevrolet Corvette	90
37	GTX	5	Busch Beer Racing	Charles Mendez Paul Miller	Porsche 935	88
38	GTX	2	McLaren North America	Manfred Winkelhock David Hobbs	BMW 320i Turbo	55
39	GTX	19th	Chris Cord	Chris Cord Jim Adams	Chevrolet Monza	48
40	GTU	48	Frank Leary	Frank Leary Casey Mollett	Datsun 240Z	42
41	GTU	25th	Metal craft racing	Bob Zulkowski Bernie Storc	Porsche 914/6	42
42	GTX	30th	Electrodyne Moretti	Giampiero Moretti Hurley Haywood	Porsche 935/79	41
43	GTU	34	Craig Richie	Craig Richie Jeff Scott Mike Miller	Porsche 911	40
44	GTO	37	Doug Rippie	Gerry Wellik Doug Rippie	Chevrolet Corvette	39
45	GTU	33	Bob Sharp Racing	Sam Posey Paul Newman	Datsun 280ZX	37
46	GTO	26th	John Ware	John Ware Tony Rouff	Chevrolet Camaro	36
47	GTU	51	John Goodspeed	Tom Lawson John Goodspeed Robert Douglas	Porsche 914/6	34
48	GTU	63	Greg Gustafson	Greg Gustafson Pete Halsmer Harry Worley	Porsche 911	32
49	GTX	41	Jones Ind. Racing	Herb Jones Steve Lazy	Chevrolet Camaro	32
50	GTO	31	RSR Associates	Tom Alan Marx Marc Rothman Michael Hammond	Porsche Carrera RSR	13
51	GTU	11	Race Tech	Bobbee Nylander Gary Nylander	Porsche 911	13
52	GTX	3	Jim Busby Racing	Jim Busby Toine Hezemans	BMW 320i Turbo	8th
53	GTX	13	Hal Shaw Racing	Hal Shaw Charles Moran Mike Brockman	Porsche 935	6th
54	GTU	22nd	Cerwin-Vega	Rich Mandella Norm Ridgely Jeffrey Stephens	Porsche 914/6	5
55	GTU	36	Case Racing	Ron Case Tim Sharp	Porsche 911	1
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56	GTX	12	Vasek Polak	Mandy Gonzalez John Morton	Porsche 935 / 77A	1
57	GTO	15th	Bavarian Motors International	Alf Gebhardt Bruno Beilcke	BMW 3.5 CSL	2
58	GTX	20th	Larry Stephans	Larry Stephans	Chevrolet Corvette	3
59	GTU	45	Mike Perlin	Mike Perlin Ken McNicol	Porsche 911	4th
60	GTO	66	Joe Crevier	Joe Crevier Erich Laetsch Skeeter McKitterick	Ferrari 365 GTB / 4	5
61	GTU	78	Anthony's Auto Craft	Dave Burns Andy Scopazzi	Alfa Romeo GTV	6th
62	GTO	88	Crismark	Barry Maashoff Joe Korpiel Ted Maashoff	Porsche 911	7th
63	GTX	0T	Interscope Racing	Ted Filed Milt Minter	Porsche 935/79	8th
64	GTU	83T	Electramotives	Don Devendorf Tony Adamowicz	Datsun 240Z	9
65	GTU	14th	Veloce Motors West	David Vegher Tom Hines	Alfa Romeo GTV	10
66	GTO	75	Patrick Pearson	Patrick Pearson Ron Cortez	Ford Mustang	11

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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
67	GTX	40	Bill Craine	Bill Craine Ted Mathey	Chevrolet Corvette
68	GTU	43	Bob Gregg	Bob Gregg Len Jones	Porsche 911
69	GTX	47	Bill Shaw	Bill Shaw Raul Cordoba Greg LaCava	Honda Civic
70	GTX	76	Arrow Racing	Joe Chamberlain	Chevrolet Corvette
71	GTO	85	Mark Pielsticker	Mark Pielsticker Dan Gallant	Chevrolet Monza

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
GTX	Don Whittington	Bill Whittington	Porsche 935/79	Overall victory
GTO	Dave Cowart	Kenper Miller	Porsche Carrera	Rank 7
GTU	Don Devendorf	Tony Adamowicz	Datsun 280ZX	Rank 10

Racing data

• Registered: 71
• Started: 55
• Rated: 29
• Race classes: 3
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: warm and dry
• Route length: 5.311 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 6: 01: 27.247 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 195
• Total distance of the winning team: 1035.613 km
• Winner's average: 171.909 km / h
• Pole position: Peter Gregg - Porsche 935/79 (# 59) = 189.680 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Peter Gregg - Porsche 935/79 (# 59) - 1: 43.870 = 184.067 km / h
• Racing series: 4th round of the IMSA GT series 1979
• Racing series: Round 6 of the 1979 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 at Racing Sports Cars

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Sports car world championship

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