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500 Chilometri di Pergusa

Autodromo di Pergusa, Enna, Sicily, Italy

Date: 22/5/1977
Track length: 4.950 m
Attendance: unknown
Entries accepted: 102
Starters: unknown
Finishers: unknown

Pole position: Facetti/Finotto in 1.50,6
Fastest lap: Facetti in 1.51,2

Distance: 500 km
Average speed: 156,037 kmh
Weather:
Ruleset: Group 2/76
Car info: 1977 Cars

 

The BMW CSLs of Luigi Racing came first, second and third in the ETCC round at Enna on Sunday, with the older 1976 car of Martino Finotto and Carlo Facetti leading from start to finish.
Second, and only 1.37 minutes behind at the end of the 102 lap - 500 km race round the shores of Lake Pergusa in Sicily, were Belgians Jean Xhenceval and Pierre Dieudonné, while third and a lap behind was the other Luigi crew of Claude de Wael and Eddy Joosen.

These three crews also dominated practice, with Facetti capturing pole by 0.1s from Dieudonné and Joosen 0.2s slower. Fourth for half the race, which was the fourth round of the ETCC Championship, was the Eggenberger BMW 320 shared by Dieter Quester and Jürgen Reinke. However, their car was then afflicted by a fuel pressure problem, and though the fuel pump was changed, they dropped out soon afterwards with a blown head gasket, leaving fourth place to the class winning VW Scirocco of Willi Bergmeister and Helmut Henzler. Quester, incidentally, should have been racing one of the Heyco BMW 320s with Walter Brun, but Brun rolled it at high speed during practice, wrecking the car and breaking his collar bone, an arm and some ribs. Fifth place fell to the Scirocco of Anton Stocker and Jörg Siegrist, while Amerigo Bigliazzi and Spartaco Dini were sixth in the former’s’ 2-litre Alfetta Coupe.

Both Alpina and Jaguar gave the race a miss, the latter testing the new wheel flanges.


Division 1-5
Pos Pos in class # Team / Entrant
Car- Engine
Drivers, Nationality Engine
vol. (cc)
Engine
Type
Group Distance,
time
Qualifying position Qualifying time Fastest lap Reason out,
remarks
1 1 3 Luigi Racing UFO
BMW 3.0 CSL
Carlo Facetti, I
Martino Finotto, I
3196 L6 Div. 5 102 laps, 3:14.08,9 1 1.50,6 1.51,2  
2 2   Luigi Racing UFO
BMW 3.0 CSL
Jean Xhenceval, B
Pierre Dieudonné, B
3196 L6 Div. 5 102 laps, 3:15.46 2 1.50,7    
3 3   Luigi Racing UFO
BMW 3.0 CSL
Eddy Joosen, B
Claude De Wael, B
(Martino Finotto, I)
3196 L6 Div. 5 101 3 1.50,9    
4 1   Spiess
VW Scirocco
Willi Bergmeister, D
Helmut Henzler, D
1596 L4 Div. 2 96 5 1.59,2    
5 2    
VW Scirocco
Anton Stocker, CH
Jörg Siegrist, CH
1596 L4 Div. 2 95 8 2.00,7    
6 1   Autovama Firenze
Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV
Amerigo "Joe" Bigliazzi, I
Spartaco Dini ("Paco"), I
1985 L4 Div. 3 92 7 1.59,9    
7 3   Abex Pagid Racing
Audi 80 GT
Freddy Kottulinsky, S
Hans-Joachim Nowak, D
1596 L4 Div. 2 91 10 2.02,3    
8 1   Team 43-70
Alfa Romeo Alfasud Sprint
Eduardo Marquez, RA
Nando Parrado, ROU
1299 L4 Div. 1 90 16 2.06,2    
9 4    
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTV
Gaudenzio Uboldi, I
Carlo Giani, I
1570 L4 Div. 2 87 18 2.06,9    
10 2    
Alfa Romeo 1300 GT Junior
Angelo Chiapparini, I
Carlo Franchi ("Gimax"), I
1290 L4 Div. 1 87 21 2.07,4    
11 2    
Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV
Arno Ariotti, I
Piero Donato, I
1962 L4 Div. 3 86 28 2.12,8    
12 3    
Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV
Guido Pucci, I
Pucci, I
? Mario Vigneri, I
1962 L4 Div. 3 86 27 2.11,9    
13 5    
VW Scirocco
Eugenio Renna ("Amphicar"), I
Klaus Bieler, D
1596 L4 Div. 2 85 11 2.03,4    
14 4    
Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV
Richard Mattozza, B
Edgar Gillessen, B
1962 L4 Div. 3 85 19 2.06,9    
15 5    
Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV
Tarcisio Fornera, CH
Ruedi Franz, CH
1962 L4 Div. 3 85 13 2.05,0    
16 6    
Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV
Mario de Luca, I
Montalto, I
Di Trapani
1962 L4 Div. 3 83 26 2.11,1    
17 1    
Ford Capri RS 2600
Bernd Siller, D
Kurt Pöschkö, A
ca. 2600 V6 Div. 4 82 25 2.09,9    
       
VW Scirocco
Drago Regvart, YU
Dagmar Suster, YU
1596 L4 Div. 2   15 2.06,2    
       
Opel Commodore GS/E
? Pierluigi Grassetto, I
Salvatore Ferlito, I
2784 L6 Div. 4   20 2.07,4    
       
Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV
Mario Litrico, I
Pietro Villa, I
1962 L4 Div. 2   22 2.08,6    
       
BMW 2002
"Robrk"
Mario de Luca, I
1990 L4 Div. 3   23 2.09,4    
       
BMW 2002
Bellino
"Boomerang"
1990 L4 Div. 3   24 2.09,4    
       
Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV
Pietro Clemente, I
Asciutto
1962 L4 Div. 3   26 2.11,1    
       
Alfa Romeo ?2000 GTV
Di Pasquale, I
Mineo
1962 L4 Div. 3   30 2.13,5    
       
BMW 1602
? Guglielmo Manini, I
Guiseppe Virgillio, I
1573 L4 Div. 2   31 2.15,1    
DNF     Eggenberger Motorsport
BMW 320
Kalli Hufstad, D
Jürgen Reinke, D
Dieter Quester, A
1998 L4 Div. 3 73 4 1.58,1   Head gasket
DNS   28 Eggenberger Motorsport
BMW 320
Walter Brun, CH
Dieter Quester, A
1998 L4 Div. 3         Accident
DNF     Team 43-70
Alfa Romeo Alfasud Sprint
Juan-Pablo Zampa, RA
Eugenio Breard, RA
1299 L4 Div. 1   17 2.06,5   Accident
DNF      
BMW 2002
Kurt Mirer, CH
Armin Buschor, CH
1990 L4 Div. 3 20 6 1.59,8   Blown engine
DNF      
BMW 2002
Cesare Garrone, I
Antonio Vallebona, I
1990 L4 Div. 3   9 2.00,7   Fuel injection
DNF      
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTV
Luigi Colzani, I
Chiapparini, I
1570 L4 Div. 2   12 2.03,5   Engine
DNF      
VW Scirocco
Floridia, I
Helmut Hinse, D
1596 L4 Div. 2 ca. 50 14 2.05,4   Engine