Rich's Atlantic Classic |
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Sunday, September 30, 1979 |
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| Track: | Atlanta, GA | Track Type: | Paved Oval | |||
| Race Distance: | 150 Miles | Lap Distance: | 1.522 Miles | |||
| Pole Pos.: | Bobby Unser 203.121 mph | Margin of Victory: | 0.000 sec. | |||
| Rank | SP | Car | Driver | Chassis | Q.Time | Laps | Reason | ||||||||
| Sponsor | Engine | Q.Spd. | |||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 9 | Rick Mears | PC-7/79 | 0:27.344 | 100 | 0:50:09 182.094 | ||||||||
| Gould Charge | CoswTC | 200.378 mph | |||||||||||||
| 2 | 10 | 20 | Gordon Johncock | PC-6/78 | 0:28.511 | 99 | Out of fuel | ||||||||
| North American Van Lines | CoswTC | 192.178 mph | |||||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 12 | Bobby Unser | PC-7/79 | 0:26.975 | 99 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Norton Spirit | CoswTC | 203.121 mph | |||||||||||||
| 4 | 9 | 40 | Wally Dallenbach | PC-6/78 | 0:28.287 | 99 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Foreman Industries | CoswTC | 193.701 mph | |||||||||||||
| 5 | 3 | 2 | Al Unser | Chaparral | 0:27.444 | 97 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Pennzoil | CoswTC | 199.650 mph | |||||||||||||
| 6 | 16 | 79 | Joe Saldana | Eagle | : . | 90 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Hoffman Racing | OffyTC | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | 11 | 42 | Herm Johnson | Eagle | 0:28.845 | 90 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Mergard 20th Century | OffyTC | 189.953 mph | |||||||||||||
| 8 | 7 | 1 | Tom Sneva | McLaren | 0:27.772 | 88 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Sugaripe Prune | CoswTC | 197.292 mph | |||||||||||||
| 9 | 13 | 50 | Frank Weiss | Manta | 0:29.869 | 86 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Intercomp-Bivouac Vans | OffyTC | 183.441 mph | |||||||||||||
| 10 | 14 | 41 | Bill Alsup | McLaren | : . | 79 | Flagged | ||||||||
| WASP Racing | OffyTC | ||||||||||||||
| 11 | 5 | 4 | Johnny Rutherford | McLaren | 0:27.522 | 75 | Engine | ||||||||
| Budweiser | CoswTC | 199.084 mph | |||||||||||||
| 12 | 12 | 95 | Larry Cannon | Wildcat | 0:29.847 | 54 | Oil leak | ||||||||
| Cannon Racing | OffyTC | 183.576 mph | |||||||||||||
| 13 | 15 | 10 | Pancho Carter | Lightning | : . | 52 | Engine | ||||||||
| Alex XLNT Foods | OffyTC | ||||||||||||||
| 14 | 6 | 36 | Mike Mosley | Eagle | 0:27.540 | 47 | Broken transaxle | ||||||||
| Theodore Racing | CoswTC | 198.954 mph | |||||||||||||
| 15 | 4 | 25 | Danny Ongais | Parnelli | 0:27.450 | 29 | Magneto | ||||||||
| Interscope Racing | CoswTC | 199.606 mph | |||||||||||||
| 16 | 8 | 55 | Spike Gehlhausen | Lightning | 0:27.966 | 8 | Brkn rear suspension | ||||||||
| Frosty Acres | CoswTC | 195.924 mph | |||||||||||||
Race Information |
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| 1) Yellow Flag: Gehlhausen wrecked T4 2) CART/SCCA Race #13 | |||||||||||||||
Lap Leaders |
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| Driver | Total | Laps Led | |||||||||||||
| Gordon Johncock | 2 | 41-42 | |||||||||||||
| Johnny Rutherford | 20 | 55-74 | |||||||||||||
| Rick Mears | 30 | 37-40,75-100 | |||||||||||||
| Bobby Unser | 48 | 1-36,43-54 | |||||||||||||
| Data prepared by Phil Harms - Page created by Omega Timing - All rights reserved | |||||||||||||||