Gould Grand Prix |
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Saturday, September 15, 1979 |
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| Track: | Brooklyn, MI | Track Type: | Paved Oval | |||
| Race Distance: | 150 Miles | Lap Distance: | 2.000 Miles | |||
| Pole Pos.: | Bobby Unser 204.001 mph | Margin of Victory: | 0.000 sec. | |||
| Rank | SP | Car | Driver | Chassis | Q.Time | Laps | Reason | ||||||||
| Sponsor | Engine | Q.Spd. | |||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 12 | Bobby Unser | PC-7/79 | 0:35.294 | 75 | 0:51:22 175.211 | ||||||||
| Norton Spirit | CoswTC | 204.001 mph | |||||||||||||
| 2 | 6 | 1 | Tom Sneva | McLaren | 0:36.022 | 75 | Finished | ||||||||
| Sugaripe Prune | CoswTC | 199.878 mph | |||||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 9 | Rick Mears | PC-7/79 | 0:35.424 | 74 | Out of fuel | ||||||||
| Gould Charge | CoswTC | 203.252 mph | |||||||||||||
| 4 | 4 | 4 | Johnny Rutherford | McLaren | 0:35.726 | 74 | Finished | ||||||||
| Budweiser | CoswTC | 201.534 mph | |||||||||||||
| 5 | 10 | 11 | Tom Bagley | PC-6/78 | 0:36.915 | 74 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Dairy Queen - Kent Oil | CoswTC | 195.043 mph | |||||||||||||
| 6 | 7 | 40 | Wally Dallenbach | PC-6/78 | 0:36.065 | 73 | Engine | ||||||||
| Foreman Industries | CoswTC | 199.639 mph | |||||||||||||
| 7 | 15 | 60 | Steve Krisiloff | PC-6/78 | : . | 0 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Patrick Racing | CoswTC | ||||||||||||||
| 8 | 12 | 10 | Pancho Carter | Lightning | 0:37.937 | 71 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Alex XLNT Foods | OffyTC | 189.788 mph | |||||||||||||
| 9 | 11 | 41 | Bill Alsup | McLaren | 0:37.607 | 65 | Flagged | ||||||||
| WASP Racing | CoswTC | 191.454 mph | |||||||||||||
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Al Unser | Chaparral | 0:35.942 | 53 | Wrecked | ||||||||
| Pennzoil | CoswTC | 200.323 mph | |||||||||||||
| 11 | 8 | 55 | Spike Gehlhausen | Lightning | 0:36.260 | 48 | Ignition | ||||||||
| Frosty Acres | CoswTC | 198.566 mph | |||||||||||||
| 12 | 9 | 77 | Salt Walther | PC-6/78 | 0:36.698 | 38 | Brkn rear end link | ||||||||
| Dayton-Walther | CoswTC | 196.196 mph | |||||||||||||
| 13 | 3 | 20 | Gordon Johncock | PC-6/78 | 0:35.436 | 36 | Engine | ||||||||
| North American Van Lines | CoswTC | 203.183 mph | |||||||||||||
| 14 | 11 | 18 | Tom Frantz | Wildcat | 0:40.025 | 27 | Oil leak | ||||||||
| Kent Oil | DGS | 179.888 mph | |||||||||||||
| 15 | 16 | 95 | Larry Cannon | Wildcat | : . | 0 | Did not start | ||||||||
| Cannon Racing | OffyTC | ||||||||||||||
| 16 | 13 | 34 | Vern Schuppan | Wildcat | 0:39.732 | 0 | Did not start | ||||||||
| Wysard-Barrett | DGS | 181.214 mph | |||||||||||||
| 99 | Mario Andretti | PC-6/78 | : . | 0 | Wrecked practice | ||||||||||
| Gould Charge | CoswTC | ||||||||||||||
| 69 | Joe Saldana | Eagle | 0:40.026 | 0 | Lost oil pressure | ||||||||||
| Hoffman Racing | OffyTC | 179.883 mph | |||||||||||||
| 25 | Danny Ongais | Parnelli | 0:36.431 | 0 | Wrecked practice | ||||||||||
| Interscope/Panasonic | CoswTC | 197.634 mph | |||||||||||||
Race Information |
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| 1) CART Race #12 2) Margin of victory 10.6 seconds 3) Yellow Flag: 55-61 Al Unser wreck T1 | |||||||||||||||
Lap Leaders |
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| Driver | Total | Laps Led | |||||||||||||
| Tom Sneva | 1 | 29 | |||||||||||||
| Gordon Johncock | 25 | 10-28,30-35 | |||||||||||||
| Bobby Unser | 49 | 1-9,36-75 | |||||||||||||
| Data prepared by Phil Harms - Page created by Omega Timing - All rights reserved | |||||||||||||||