Vallelunga 6-hour race in 1978

Porsche 935/78 , Jacky Ickx and Manfred Schurti cars

The 6-hour race of Vallelunga 1978 , also 6 Ore di Vallelunga, Vallelunga , took place on September 3rd at the Autodromo Vallelunga and was the twelfth round of the sports car world championship of that year.

The race

The racetrack in Campagnano di Roma was considered badly maintained and neglected in the 1970s. The asphalt was wavy and always dusty. With no run-off zones , the asphalt section went directly into uncut meadows. The factory team of Porsche just reported a vehicle to race after the German sports car manufacturer after only seven wins this season as the winner of the brands World Cup it was clear. Jacky Ickx and Manfred Schurti drove this factory 935/78 . After a superior pole position and a clear lead in the race, he retired shortly before the end of the race with a defective fuel pump. The overall victory for the Porsche brand was never in jeopardy in this race either. The best BMW 320i , driven by Marc Surer and Freddy Kottulinsky , was six laps behind the victorious Kremer -935 driven by Henri Pescarolo and Bob Wollek in the final classification and finished fourth.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	Size 5	3	Porsche Kremer Racing	Henri Pescarolo Bob Wollek	Porsche 935 / 77A	267
2	Size 5	8th	Gelo Racing Team	Toine Hezemans Hans Heyer John Fitzpatrick	Porsche 935 / 77A	267
3	Size 5	9	Gelo Racing	Klaus Ludwig John Fitzpatrick Toine Hezemans	Porsche 935 / 77A	266
4th	Size 5	34	BMW Switzerland	Marc Surer Freddy Kottulinsky	BMW 320i	261
5	Size 5	5	Jolly Club	Carlo Facetti Piercarlo Ghinzani Luigi Moreschi	Porsche 935	254
6th	Size 5	6th	Porsche Kremer Racing	Dieter Schornstein Louis Krages	Porsche 935 / 77A	247
7th	Size 5	19th	Konrad Racing	Franz Konrad Volkert Merl	Porsche 935 / 77A	238
8th	Size 5	24	Max Moritz	Edgar Dören Gerhard Holup	Porsche 934	238
9	GT	12	Angelo Pallavicini	Angelo Pallavicini Marco Vanoli	Porsche 934	237
10	GT	22nd	Angelo Pallavicini	Enzo Calderari Athos Severi	Porsche Carrera RS	231
11	Size 5	4th	Vittorio Coggiola	Vittorio Coggiola Piero Monticone	Porsche 935	226
12	Size 5	36	BMW Sweden	Bo Emanuelsson Eje Elgh	BMW 320i	203
13	Size 5	23	Jolly Club	Gabriele Gottifredi Girolamo Capra Michele di Gioia	Porsche 934	190
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14th	Size 5	1	Martini Racing	Jacky Ickx Manfred Schurti	Porsche 935/78	259
15th	Size 5	31	BMW Belguim	Harald Grohs Eddy Joosen	BMW 320i	193
16	Size 5	33	BMW Austria	Dieter Quester Markus Höttinger	BMW 320i	155
17th	Size 5	7th	Meccarillos Racing Team	Claude Haldi Herbert Müller	Porsche 935	117
18th	Size 5	18th	Micangeli Brothers	Maurizio Micangeli Carlo Pietromarchi	De Tomaso Pantera	99
19th	Size 5	32	BMW Italia Osella	Giorgio Francia Eddie Cheever	BMW 320i	54
20th	Size 5	38	Giuseppe Piazzi	Giuseppe Piazzi Renzo Zorzi Giovanni Alberti	Fiat X1 / 9	39
21st	Size 5	15th		Mario Radicella Corrado Agrippino	Porsche Carrera	20th
21st	Size 5	2	BMW Motorsport GmbH	Hans-Joachim Stuck Ronnie Peterson	BMW 320i Turbo	9
22nd	GT	16		Gérard Bleynie Claude Ballot-Léna	Porsche 911	8th
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23	Size 5	26th	Vastkuststugan	Jan Lundgardh Kurt Simonsen	Porsche 935	1

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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
24	Size 5	11	Lombardi glue	Kenneth Leim Lella Lombardi	Porsche 934
25th	GT	14th		Bernard Salam Jean-Pierre Delaunay	Porsche Carrera
26th	GT	21st	Angelo Pallavicini	Angelo Pallavicini	Porsche 934
27	Size 5	35		Christian Bussi Jacques Guérin Bernard Salam	Porsche Carrera
28	Size 5	27	Charles Geeraerts	Charles Geeraerts	BMW 320i

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
Size 5	Henri Pescarolo	Bob Wollek	Porsche 935 / 77A	Overall victory
GT	Angelo Pallavicini	Marco Vanoli	Porsche 934	Rank 9

Racing data

• Registered: 28
• Started: 22
• Rated: 13
• Race classes: 2
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: warm and dry
• Route length: 3,200 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 6:01:00, 400 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 267
• Total distance of the winning team: 854,400 km
• Winner's average: 142.003 km / h
• Pole position: Jacky Ickx - Porsche 935/78 (# 1) - 1: 12.800 = 158.242 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Jacky Ickx - Porsche 935/78 (# 1) - 1: 15.140 = 152.785 km / h
• Racing series: Round 12 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 results

Previous race 6 Hours of Watkins Glen 1978

Sports car world championship

Succession race 6-hour race at Road Atlanta in 1978