Gould Twin Dixie 125 |
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Sunday, April 22, 1979 |
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| Track: | Atlanta, GA | Track Type: | Paved Oval | |||
| Race Distance: | 125 Miles | Lap Distance: | 1.522 Miles | |||
| Pole Pos.: | Johnny Rutherford 201.693 mph | Margin of Victory: | 0.000 sec. | |||
| Rank | SP | Car | Driver | Chassis | Q.Time | Laps | Reason | ||||||||
| Sponsor | Engine | Q.Spd. | |||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 4 | Johnny Rutherford | McLaren | 0:27.166 | 82 | 0:47:28 157.758 | ||||||||
| Budweiser | CoswTC | 201.693 mph | |||||||||||||
| 2 | 9 | 21 | Lee Kunzman | Parnelli | 0:28.792 | 82 | Finished | ||||||||
| Conqueste | CoswTC | 190.302 mph | |||||||||||||
| 3 | 5 | 1 | Tom Sneva | McLaren | 0:27.717 | 82 | Finished | ||||||||
| Sugaripe Prune | CoswTC | 197.683 mph | |||||||||||||
| 4 | 2 | 20 | Gordon Johncock | PC-6/78 | 0:27.512 | 82 | Finished | ||||||||
| North American Van Lines | CoswTC | 199.156 mph | |||||||||||||
| 5 | 11 | 9 | Rick Mears | PC-6/78 | 0:27.879 | 82 | Finished | ||||||||
| Gould Charge | CoswTC | 196.535 mph | |||||||||||||
| 6 | 7 | 2 | Al Unser | Chaparral | 0:28.224 | 82 | Finished | ||||||||
| Pennzoil | CoswTC | 194.132 mph | |||||||||||||
| 7 | 8 | 12 | Bobby Unser | PC-6/78 | 0:28.341 | 82 | Finished | ||||||||
| Norton Spirit | CoswTC | 193.331 mph | |||||||||||||
| 8 | 16 | 11 | Tom Bagley | PC-6/78 | 0:29.315 | 81 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Kent Oil | CoswTC | 186.907 mph | |||||||||||||
| 9 | 13 | 10 | Pancho Carter | Lightning | 0:29.079 | 81 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Alex XLNT Foods | CoswTC | 188.079 mph | |||||||||||||
| 10 | 14 | 77 | Salt Walther | PC-6/78 | 0:29.097 | 80 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Dayton-Walther | CoswTC | 188.308 mph | |||||||||||||
| 11 | 6 | 40 | Wally Dallenbach | Lightning | 0:27.906 | 79 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Patrick Racing | CoswTC | 196.344 mph | |||||||||||||
| 12 | 18 | 34 | Vern Schuppan | Wildcat | 0:30.127 | 75 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Wysard Motors | OffyTC | 181.870 mph | |||||||||||||
| 13 | 15 | 69 | Joe Saldana | Lightning | 0:29.276 | 58 | Car on fire | ||||||||
| Snyder Industries | OffyTC | 187.156 mph | |||||||||||||
| 14 | 4 | 25 | Danny Ongais | Parnelli | 0:27.705 | 56 | Broken fuel line | ||||||||
| Interscope/Panasonic | CoswTC | 197.769 mph | |||||||||||||
| 15 | 12 | 7 | Steve Krisiloff | Lightning | 0:28.601 | 53 | Broken transmission | ||||||||
| Frosty Acres | CoswTC | 191.573 mph | |||||||||||||
| 16 | 17 | 41 | Bill Alsup | McLaren | 0:29.995 | 42 | Overheated | ||||||||
| WASP Racing | OffyTC | 182.670 mph | |||||||||||||
| 17 | 3 | 36 | Mike Mosley | Eagle | 0:27.611 | 20 | Broken gearbox | ||||||||
| Theodore Racing | CoswTC | 198.442 mph | |||||||||||||
| 18 | 10 | 19 | Spike Gehlhausen | Eagle | 0:28.812 | 12 | Ignition | ||||||||
| Sta-On KJ | OffyTC | 190.170 mph | |||||||||||||
| 92 | John Mahler | Eagle | : . | 0 | Wrecked practice | ||||||||||
| Sport Magazine | OffyTC | ||||||||||||||
| 18 | Tom Frantz | Wildcat | : . | 0 | Burned piston | ||||||||||
| Frantz-Hoffman | DGS | ||||||||||||||
| 35 | Larry Rice | Lightning | : . | 0 | DNQ, too slow | ||||||||||
| S&M Electric | OffyTC | ||||||||||||||
Race Information |
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| 1) CART Event #2 2) Yellow Flags: 35-39, Dallenbach spun; 60-68, Krisiloff stalled at pit entrance. | |||||||||||||||
Lap Leaders |
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| Driver | Total | Laps Led | |||||||||||||
| Bobby Unser | 1 | 61 | |||||||||||||
| Tom Sneva | 7 | 62-68 | |||||||||||||
| Lee Kunzman | 12 | 69-80 | |||||||||||||
| Johnny Rutherford | 30 | 1-10,43-60,81-82 | |||||||||||||
| Gordon Johncock | 32 | 11-42 | |||||||||||||
| Data prepared by Phil Harms - Page created by Omega Timing - All rights reserved | |||||||||||||||