Kent Oil 150 |
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Sunday, August 5, 1979 |
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| Track: | Watkins Glen, NY | Track Type: | Road Course | |||
| Race Distance: | 150 Miles | Lap Distance: | 0.000 Miles | |||
| Pole Pos.: | Al Unser, Sr 135.657 mph | Margin of Victory: | 0.000 sec. | |||
| Rank | SP | Car | Driver | Chassis | Q.Time | Laps | Reason | ||||||||
| Sponsor | Engine | Q.Spd. | |||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 12 | Bobby Unser | PC-7/79 | 1:04.88 | 62 | 1:14:42 120.889 | ||||||||
| Norton Spirit | CoswTC | 134.683 mph | |||||||||||||
| 2 | 4 | 9 | Rick Mears | PC-7/79 | 1:06.03 | 62 | Finished | ||||||||
| Gould Charge | CoswTC | 132.344 mph | |||||||||||||
| 3 | 5 | 20 | Gordon Johncock | PC-6/78 | 1:06.09 | 62 | Finished | ||||||||
| North American Van Lines | CoswTC | 132.234 mph | |||||||||||||
| 4 | 3 | 25 | Danny Ongais | Parnelli | 1:05.39 | 62 | Finished | ||||||||
| Interscope Racing | CoswTC | 133.639 mph | |||||||||||||
| 5 | 1 | 2 | Al Unser | Chaparral | 1:04.42 | 62 | Finished | ||||||||
| Pennzoil | CoswTC | 135.657 mph | |||||||||||||
| 6 | 9 | 11 | Tom Bagley | PC-6/78 | 1:07.54 | 60 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Dairy Queen - Kent Oil | CoswTC | 129.389 mph | |||||||||||||
| 7 | 8 | 34 | Vern Schuppan | Wildcat | 1:06.81 | 58 | Out of fuel | ||||||||
| Barrett Motors | DGS | 130.797 mph | |||||||||||||
| 8 | 15 | 35 | Tim Richmond | Lightning | 1:13.11 | 58 | Flagged | ||||||||
| S&M Electric | OffyTC | 119.523 mph | |||||||||||||
| 9 | 10 | 41 | Bill Alsup | McLaren | 1:08.28 | 57 | Out of fuel | ||||||||
| Claremont Ford | OffyTC | 127.988 mph | |||||||||||||
| 10 | 6 | 1 | Tom Sneva | McLaren | 1:06.21 | 55 | Gearbox | ||||||||
| Sugaripe Prune | CoswTC | 131.982 mph | |||||||||||||
| 11 | 18 | 18 | Tom Frantz | Wildcat | 1:17.86 | 54 | Spun out | ||||||||
| Kent Oil | DGS | 112.234 mph | |||||||||||||
| 12 | 13 | 36 | Mike Mosley | Eagle | 1:11.61 | 46 | Gearbox | ||||||||
| Theodore Racing | CoswTC | 122.037 mph | |||||||||||||
| 13 | 14 | 69 | Joe Saldana | Eagle | 1:12.72 | 29 | Broken oil hose | ||||||||
| Hoffman Racing | OffyTC | 120.170 mph | |||||||||||||
| 14 | 11 | 40 | Wally Dallenbach | PC-6/78 | 1:10.21 | 15 | Broken shift link | ||||||||
| Foreman Industries | CoswTC | 124.460 mph | |||||||||||||
| 15 | 7 | 4 | Johnny Rutherford | McLaren | 1:07.11 | 9 | Engine | ||||||||
| Budweiser | CoswTC | 130.215 mph | |||||||||||||
| 16 | 16 | 10 | Pancho Carter | Lightning | 1:13.88 | 6 | Clutch | ||||||||
| Alex XLNT Foods | OffyTC | 118.280 mph | |||||||||||||
| 17 | 17 | 19 | Spike Gehlhausen | Eagle | 1:15.75 | 1 | Broken cylinder head | ||||||||
| Sta-On Car Glaze | OffyTC | 115.366 mph | |||||||||||||
| 18 | 12 | 7 | Steve Krisiloff | Lightning | 1:10.47 | 0 | Broken starter drive | ||||||||
| Frosty Acres | CoswTC | 124.013 mph | |||||||||||||
Race Information |
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| 1) CART Race #9 2) Qualification times are calculated from qualification speeds. 3) Yellow Flags: 11-14 Rutherford blew engine | |||||||||||||||
Lap Leaders |
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| Driver | Total | Laps Led | |||||||||||||
| Al Unser | 26 | 1-12,28-31,38-47 | |||||||||||||
| Bobby Unser | 36 | 13-27,32-37,48-62 | |||||||||||||
| Data prepared by Phil Harms - Page created by Omega Timing - All rights reserved | |||||||||||||||