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Los Angeles Times 500 |
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Sunday, August 30, 1981 |
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| Track: | Riverside, CA | |||
| Track Type: | Road Course | Lap Distance: | 3.300 Miles | |
| Race Distance: | 500 Miles | Margin of Victory: | 0.000 sec. | |
| Pole Pos.: | Geoff Brabham 129.559 mph | |||
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| Rank | SP | Car | Driver | Chassis | Q.Time | Laps | Reason | ||||||||
| Sponsor | Engine | Q.Spd. | |||||||||||||
| 1 | 3 | 6 | Rick Mears | PC-9B/81 | 1:33.580 | 95 | 2:43:40.98 108.300 | ||||||||
| Gould Charge | CoswTC | 126.950 mph | |||||||||||||
| 2 | 5 | 20 | Gordon Johncock | Wildcat | 1:35.042 | 95 | Finished | ||||||||
| STP Oil Treatment | CoswTC | 124.997 mph | |||||||||||||
| 3 | 10 | 7 | Bill Alsup | PC-9/80 | 1:36.928 | 94 | Flagged | ||||||||
| ABDick | CoswTC | 122.565 mph | |||||||||||||
| 4 | 9 | 74 | Michael Chandler | PC-7/79 | 1:36.625 | 94 | Flagged | ||||||||
| National Engineering | CoswTC | 122.949 mph | |||||||||||||
| 5 | 23 | 35 | Bob Lazier | PC-7/79 | 1:41.309 | 92 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Montgomery Ward | CoswTC | 117.265 mph | |||||||||||||
| 6 | 22 | 22 | Dick Simon | Watson | 1:40.834 | 90 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Vermont American | CoswTC | 117.817 mph | |||||||||||||
| 7 | 12 | 28 | Herm Johnson | Lightning | 1:37.842 | 88 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Menard Cashway Lumber | Chevy | 121.420 mph | |||||||||||||
| 8 | 20 | 37 | Scott Brayton | PC-7/79 | 1:40.421 | 87 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Forsythe-Brayton | CoswTC | 118.301 mph | |||||||||||||
| 9 | 4 | 3 | Bobby Unser | PC-9B/81 | 1:34.076 | 84 | Flagged | ||||||||
| Norton Spirit | CoswTC | 126.280 mph | |||||||||||||
| 10 | 14 | 5 | Pancho Carter | PC-7/79 | 1:38.704 | 63 | Engine | ||||||||
| Alex Foods | CoswTC | 120.359 mph | |||||||||||||
| 11 | 8 | 32 | Kevin Cogan | Phoenix | 1:36.013 | 53 | Spun out | ||||||||
| O'Connell Racing | CoswTC | 123.733 mph | |||||||||||||
| 12 | 11 | 55 | Josele Garza | PC-9/80 | 1:37.096 | 52 | Injector problem | ||||||||
| Garza Racing | CoswTC | 122.353 mph | |||||||||||||
| 13 | 27 | 66 | Roger Rager | Wildcat | 1:44.630 | 50 | Wrecked | ||||||||
| McCray Plastering | Chevy | 113.542 mph | |||||||||||||
| 14 | 2 | 8 | Al Unser | LR-2 | 1:33.309 | 45 | Gearbox | ||||||||
| Longhorn Racing | CoswTC | 127.318 mph | |||||||||||||
| 15 | 21 | 64 | Steve Chassey | Eagle | 1:40.686 | 42 | Engine | ||||||||
| Jet Engineering | Chevy | 117.991 mph | |||||||||||||
| 16 | 17 | 31 | Larry Dickson | PC-7/79 | 1:39.641 | 39 | Engine | ||||||||
| Machinist Union | CoswTC | 119.228 mph | |||||||||||||
| 17 | 13 | 33 | Vern Schuppan | March | 1:38.486 | 35 | Wrecked, turn 1 | ||||||||
| Thomas Barrett III | CoswTC | 120.626 mph | |||||||||||||
| 18 | 18 | 99 | Dick Ferguson | PC-7/79 | 1:39.693 | 32 | Pit fire | ||||||||
| Kraco Car Stereo | CoswTC | 119.165 mph | |||||||||||||
| 19 | 1 | 48 | Geoff Brabham | Eagle | 1:31.695 | 30 | Poor handling | ||||||||
| Pepsi Challanger | Chevy | 129.559 mph | |||||||||||||
| 20 | 25 | 89 | Phil Krueger | Eagle | 1:43.124 | 26 | Engine | ||||||||
| Joe Hunt Magneto | Chevy | 115.201 mph | |||||||||||||
| 21 | 6 | 1 | Johnny Rutherford | Chaparral | 1:35.106 | 22 | Wrecked | ||||||||
| Pennzoil | CoswTC | 124.913 mph | |||||||||||||
| 22 | 19 | 38 | Jerry Karl | Karl | 1:39.829 | 21 | Wrecked | ||||||||
| Tonco Trailer | Chevy | 119.003 mph | |||||||||||||
| 23 | 26 | 63 | Ken Hamilton | Riley | 1:43.615 | 14 | Engine | ||||||||
| Spirit of Idaho | Chevy | 114.655 mph | |||||||||||||
| 24 | 7 | 2 | Tom Sneva | March | 1:35.246 | 12 | Engine | ||||||||
| Bignotti-Cotter | CoswTC | 124.729 mph | |||||||||||||
| 25 | 15 | 12 | Gordon Smiley | Wildcat | 1:38.952 | 10 | Wrecked | ||||||||
| Intermedics | CoswTC | 120.058 mph | |||||||||||||
| 26 | 16 | 34 | Hurley Haywood | Eagle | 1:39.578 | 9 | Lost brakes | ||||||||
| Wysard Motors | CoswTC | 119.303 mph | |||||||||||||
| 27 | 28 | 92 | John Mahler | PC-7/79 | 1:44.838 | 8 | Engine | ||||||||
| Trench Shoring | OffyTC | 113.317 mph | |||||||||||||
| 28 | 24 | 15 | Bill Tempero | McLaren | 1:42.506 | 7 | Gearbox | ||||||||
| O'Hanlon-Tempero | Chevy | 115.895 mph | |||||||||||||
| 16 | Tony, Jr Bettenhausen | McLaren | 1:42.101 | 0 | Wrecked practice | ||||||||||
| Provimi Veal | CoswTC | 116.355 mph | |||||||||||||
| 24 | Wally Pankratz | King | 1:47.722 | 0 | Blown head | ||||||||||
| Luxury Cars | Chevy | 110.283 mph | |||||||||||||
| 42 | Billy Vukovich | Watson | 1:47.793 | 0 | DNQ, too slow | ||||||||||
| Rattlesnake Racing | OffyTC | 110.210 mph | |||||||||||||
| 77 | Ross Davis | Wildcat | 3:17.702 | 0 | DNQ, too slow | ||||||||||
| Davis Racing | Chevy | 60.090 mph | |||||||||||||
| 47 | Phil Caliva | McLaren | : . | 0 | Wrecked practice | ||||||||||
| CHC-Intersec | Chevy | ||||||||||||||
Race Information |
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Lap Leaders |
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| Driver | Total Laps Led | Laps Led | |||||||||||||
| Geoff Brabham | 17 | 1-17 | |||||||||||||
| Al Unser | 27 | 18-44 | |||||||||||||
| Rick Mears | 51 | 45-95 | |||||||||||||
| Data prepared by Phil Harms - Page created by Omega Timing - All rights reserved | |||||||||||||||