Home Current Season Index This Season Index Live Timing Indy Lights

Copa Mexico 150

Sunday, October 18, 1981


Track:   Mexico City, Mexico
Track Type:   Road Course Lap Distance: 2.500 Miles
Race Distance:   150 Miles Margin of Victory: 5.000 sec.
Pole Pos.:   Bobby Unser 125.807 mph  

  Rank   SP   Car   Driver   Chassis   Q.Time   Laps   Reason
              Sponsor   Engine   Q.Spd.  
  1   6   6   Rick Mears   PC-9B/81   1:13.148   59   1:24:48 104.363
  Gould Charge   CoswTC   123.038 mph  
  2   5   8   Al Unser   LR-2   1:13.039   59   1:24:53 104.26
  Viceroy Longhorn   CoswTC   123.222 mph  
  3   3   20   Gordon Johncock   Wildcat   1:12.803   59   Finished
  STP Oil Treatment   CoswTC   123.621 mph  
  4   14   35   Bob Lazier   March   1:16.718   59   Finished
  Montgomery Ward   CoswTC   117.313 mph  
  5   10   7   Bill Alsup   PC-9/80   1:15.090   58   Flagged
  ABDick   CoswTC   119.856 mph  
  6   12   5   Pancho Carter   PC-7/79   1:15.768   58   Flagged
  Alex Food   CoswTC   118.784 mph  
  7   18   21   Mike Mosley   PC-6/78   1:17.394   58   Flagged
  Zurn-Indeck   CoswTC   116.288 mph  
  8   9   28   Herm Johnson   Eagle   1:14.168   58   Flagged
  Menard Cashway Lumber   Chevy   121.346 mph  
  9   2   48   Geoff Brabham   Eagle   1:12.487   57   Flagged
  Pepsi Challanger   Chevy   124.160 mph  
  10   13   99   Dick Ferguson   PC-7/79   1:16.288   57   Flagged
  Kraco Car Stereo   CoswTC   117.974 mph  
  11   22   16   Tony, Jr Bettenhausen   Phoenix   1:18.222   56   Flagged
  Provimi Veal   CoswTC   115.057 mph  
  12   24   15   Bill Tempero   McLaren   1:18.346   55   Flagged
  O'Hanlon-Tempero   Chevy   114.875 mph  
  13   20   23   Jim McElreath   Eagle   1:18.029   55   Flagged
  McElreath Racing   OffyTC   115.342 mph  
  14   23   89   Phil Krueger   Eagle   1:18.343   54   Flagged
  Joe Hunt Magneto   Chevy   114.879 mph  
  15   1   3   Bobby Unser   PC-9B/81   1:11.538   52   Wrecked
  Norton Spirit   CoswTC   125.807 mph  
  16   8   74   Michael Chandler   PC-7/79   1:13.707   51   Wrecked
  National Engineering   CoswTC   122.105 mph  
  17   15   34   Hurley Haywood   Eagle   1:16.940   47   Flagged
  Wysard Motors   CoswTC   116.974 mph  
  18   11   55   Josele Garza   PC-9/80   1:15.332   38   Flagged
  Garza Racing   CoswTC   119.471 mph  
  19   17   38   Jerry Karl   Karl   1:17.348   36   Engine
  Tonco Trailer   Chevy   116.357 mph  
  20   4   2   Tom Sneva   March   1:13.006   38   Broken rear end
  Texaco Star   CoswTC   123.278 mph  
  21   21   33   Vern Schuppan   McLaren   1:18.161   26   Engine
  Thomas Barrett III   CoswTC   115.147 mph  
  22   19   31   Larry Dickson   PC-7/79   1:17.601   23   Broken clutch line
  Machinist Uniion   CoswTC   115.478 mph  
  23   16   37   Scott Brayton   PC-7/79   1:16.977   23   Broken gearbox
  Zurn-Indeck   CoswTC   116.918 mph  
  24   27   93   Michel Jourdain   PC-6/78   1:22.496   18   Broken oil line
  Grupo-Acypsa   OffyTC   113.051 mph  
  25   25   22   Dick Simon   Watson   1:18.348   16   Broken fuel pump
  Vermont American   CoswTC   114.872 mph  
  26   7   1   Johnny Rutherford   Chaparral   1:13.701   9   Piston
  Pennzoil   CoswTC   122.115 mph  
  27   26   42   Billy Vukovich   Watson   1:19.904   4   Lost oil pressure
  Steve Vukovich Racing   OffyTC   112.635 mph  
          66   Orio Trice   Wildcat   : .   0   Too slow to start
  McCray Plastering   Chevy      

Race Information

1) Yellow flag: 38-47 Repair guard rails 2) Margin of victory 5 seconds

Lap Leaders

Driver Total Laps Led Laps Led
Al Unser 2 30-31
Rick Mears 23 26-29,41-59
Bobby Unser 34 1-25,32-40
Data prepared by Phil Harms - Page created by Omega Timing - All rights reserved

Home Current Season Index This Season Index Live Timing Indy Lights