Vallelunga 6-hour race 1979

Race winner Lella Lombardi

The 6-hour race of Vallelunga 1979 , also Trofeo Ignazio Giunti, 6 Ore Vallelunga, Vallelunga , took place on September 16 at the Autodromo Vallelunga and was the 16th round of the sports car world championship of that year.

The race

After her success in the 6-hour race in Pergusa , Lella Lombardi also won the endurance race in Vallelunga. This is the second time in the history of the sports car world championship that a woman has won a race. Your team partner in the Osella PA7 was Giorgio Francia . The race, for which a surprising number of reports had been received, was dominated by Giorgio Pianta and Markku Alén in the factory - Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo for a long time , before the car retired after 179 laps with a gearbox failure.

The event in Vallelunga was the last race of the brand world championship of this year, which ended with the overwhelming overall victory of Porsche .

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	S 2.0	7th	Enzo Osella	Giorgio Francia Lella Lombardi	Osella PA7	265
2	S 2.0	12	Gerardo Vatielli	Enzo Coloni Gerardo Vatielli Pasquale Barberio	Osella PA6	261
3	S 2.0	1	Nicola Saponaro	Cristiano Del Balzo Nicola Saponaro	Osella PA3	250
4th	S 2.0	5	Racing Organization Course	Bernard Verdier Bruno Sotty	Chevron B36	248
5	S 2.0	3	"Gates"	"Goals" Marco Rocca	Osella PA7	247
6th	S 2.0	15th	Scuderia Ateneo	Luigi Moreschi Eugenio Renna	Osella PA7	245
7th	GT	54	Ecurie Biennoise	Enzo Calderari Willi Spavetti Rolf Maritz	Porsche Carrera RSR	243
8th	Size 5	44	Sekurit Racing Team	Dieter Schornstein Edgar Dören	Porsche 935 / 77A	235
9	GT	55	Bernard Salam	Bernard Salam Christian Bussi	Porsche 934	233
10	Size 5	33	Giuseppe Piazzi	Renzo Zorzi Stanislao Sterzel Giuseppe Piazzi	Fiat X1 / 9 Dallara	227
11	Size 5	51	Scuderia Basilea	Peter Zbinden Edi Kofel	Porsche 934	226
12	GT	53	Lubrifilm Racing	Marco Vanoli Rodolfo Cescato Angelo Pallavicini	Porsche Carrera RSR	212
13	S 2.0	8th	Daniel Brillat	Daniel Brillat Hubert Striebig Klaus Walz	Cheetah G601	208
14th	Size 5	37	Jan Lundgardh	Jan Lundgardh Wolfgang Braun	Porsche 935	191
15th	Size 5	61	Paul Mahlke	Klaus Böhm Uwe Köhler	Porsche 935	188
Failed
16	Size 5	32	ASA Corsa Marche 38	Giorgio Pianta Markku Alén	Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo	179
17th	S 2.0	14th	Mennato Boffa	Gennaro di Tonno Roberto Arfe Mennato Boffa	Osella PA5	175
18th	Size 5	34	Ciro Nappi	Ciro Nappi "Peppers" Pasquale Vecchione	Ford Escort	88
19th	S + 2.0	19th	Joest Racing	Reinhold Joest Mario Casoni Volkert Merl	Porsche 908/3 Turbo	65
20th	S 2.0	9	Marc Frischknecht	Marc Frischknecht Michel Guicherd	Cheetah G601	63
21st	S 2.0	4th	Racing Organization Course	Marc Sourd Laurent Ferrier	Chevron B36	55
22nd	S 2.0	11	Hubert Striebig	Hubert Striebig Klaus Walz Daniel Brillat	TOJ SC206	51
23	Size 5	31	ASA Corsa Marche 38	Eddie Cheever Walter Röhrl Giorgio Pianta	Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo	41
24	Size 5	41	Carlo Pietromarchi	Carlo Pietromarchi Maurizio Micangeli	De Tomaso Pantera	39
25th	S + 2.0	16	March Engines	Eje Elgh Teo Fabi	March-BMW M1	37
26th	GT	56	Georges Bourdillat	Georges Bourdillat Roland Ennequin	Porsche 934	30th
27	Size 5	35	Charles Geeraerts	Gianfranco Palazzoli Jacques Berenger Charles Geeraerts	BMW 320i	24
28	S 2.0	6th	Maurizio Flammini	Maurizio Flammini Secondo Ridolfi	Chevron B36	10
Not started
29	Size 5	36	Scuderia Ateneo	Eugenio Renna Luigi Moreschi	BMW 320i	1

¹ drove the Osella with the number 15

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
30th	S 2.0	2	Ranieri Randaccio	Ranieri Randaccio Stefano Sebastiani	Chevron
31	S 2.0	6th	Racing Organization Course	Bernard Verdier Bruno Chambas	Chevron B36
32	S + 2.0	18th	Rondini	Duilio Ghislotti	Lola T296
33	Size 5	42	Gelo Racing Team		Porsche 935 / 77A
34	Size 5	43	Gelo Racing Team		Porsche 935 / 77A
35	Size 5	45	Jan Lundgardh	Jan Lundgardh Eberhard Braun	Porsche 935 / 77A
36	GT	52	Angelo Pallavicini	Marco Vanoli Angelo Pallavicini	Porsche 934
37	Size 5	57	Felice Besenzoni	Felice Besenzoni Luciano Dal Ben	Ferrari 308 GTB
38	GT	58	Kenneth glue	Kenneth Leim Jean-Pierre Delaunay	Porsche 934
39	GT	59	Ecurie 13 Etoiles	Antoine Salamin Enzo Calderari	Porsche 930

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
S + 2.0	no participant in the finish
S 2.0	Giorgio Francia	Lella Lombardi		Osella PA7	Overall victory
Size 5	Dieter Chimney	Edgar Dören		Porsche 935 / 77A	Rank 8
GT	Enzo Calderari	Willi Spagetti	Rolf Maritz	Porsche Carrera RSR	Rank 7

Racing data

• Registered: 39
• Started: 28
• Valued: 15
• Race classes: 4
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: warm and dry
• Route length: 3,200 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 6:00: 19,300 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 265
• Total distance of the winning team: 848,000 km
• Winner's average: 141.207 km / h
• Pole position: Enzo Coloni - Osella PA6 (# 12) - 1: 12.650
• Fastest race lap: unknown
• Racing series: 16th round of the 1979 sports car world 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

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Sports car world championship

Successor to the 6-hour race of El Salvador 1979