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Mugello 100 Giri

Autodromo del Mugello, Italy

Date: 9/4/1978
Track length: 5.245 m
Attendance: unknown
Entries accepted: unknown
Starters: 30? 33?
Finishers: unknown

Pole position: Finotto/Facetti in 2.06,55 = 149,264 kmh
Fastest lap: Facetti in 2.08,3 = 147,170

Distance: unknown
Average speed: 139,196 kmh
Weather:
Ruleset: Group 2/76
Car info: 1978 Cars

 

John Fitzpatrick and his Italian partner Umberto Grano won the third round of the European Touring Car Championship run over 100 laps of Mugello on Sunday. Slowed in the early stages by a loose gearlever and towards the end by a bad vibration from the back end, their BMW CSL finished a little over two minutes in front of the Luigi entered BMW CSL of Jean Xhenceval and Sandro Uberti. Third, several laps down, was the ex-Finotto BMW CSL of 1976 vintage now driven by Fracastoro, Bogani and Lara. Giorgio Francia and Amerigo Bigliazzi took a class winning fourth place with their Autovama Alfetta 2000 GTV after the quicker VW Sciroccos had both encountered trouble. Willi Bergmeister and Jorg Siegrist struggled home fifth with theirs, delayed towards the finish by gearbox failure, while the other Scirocco of Stocker and Novak broke its rear suspension twice. Sixth was the 2-litre Alfa Romeo of Massa/Chiardi, and seventh the 1300 class winning Alfa GTA of the Chiapparini brothers.
In practice, Carlo Facetti and Martino Finotto had been fastest in the latter's very fast BMW CSL. At 2m06.5s, it was 1.1s faster than Grano's car. In the race Facetti and Fitzpatrick diced over the lead for the first five laps, but then the Englishman dropped away when his gearlever came loose. Fitz retook the lead when Facetti had to stop after an hour for fresh tyres, having started on very soft Goodyears. Soon afterwards, Finotto's car began to overheat, forcing it to stop frequently for water and leaving Fitzpatrick/Grano with a big lead. The AMG Mercedes did not appear, being in urgent need of new brake parts that were held up by the German metal workers' strike, but it should definitely go to Salzburgring on Sunday week.

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 1 Luigi/BMW Italia
BMW 3.0 CSL		 Umberto Grano, I
John Fitzpatrick, GB
 3171 L6 Div. 5 100 laps, 3:46.05,0 2 2.07,64    
2 2 4 Luigi Racing
BMW 3.0 CSL		 Jean Xhenceval, B
Sandro Uberti, I
 3196 L6 Div. 5 99 3 2.10,03    
3 3 8 Scuderia Giglio Corse
BMW 3.0 CSL		 P. Lara ("Fracastoro"), I
Ettore Bogani, I
 3196 L6 Div. 5 97 4 2.13,13    
4 1 12 Autovama Firenze
Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV		 Giorgio Francia, I
Amerigo "Joe" Bigliazzi, I
 1985 L4 Div. 3 97 7 2.16,44    
5 1 45  
VW Scirocco		 Willi Bergmeister, D
Jörg Siegrist, CH
 1596 L4 Div. 2 94 5 2.14,92    
6 2 28 Jolly Club
Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV		 Ademaro Massa, I
Vittorio Ciardi, I
 1962 L4 Div. 3 94 11 2.20,54    
7 1 53  
Alfa Romeo 1300 GT Junior		 Giuseppe Chiapparini, I
Angelo Chiapparini, I
 1290 L4 Div. 1 93        
8 1 11 Autosas
Ford Capri		 David Fargion, I
Carlo Belli, I
 2993 V6 Div. 4 92        
9 3 21 Jolly Club
Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV		 Giordano Perego, I
Luigi Pozzo, I
 1962 L4 Div. 3 92        
10 2 3  
BMW 3.0		 Vittorio Pugliese, I
"Tarta", I
 2985 L6 Div. 4? 91 8 2.16,98    
11 2 65  
Alfa Romeo Alfasud Sprint		 Richard Mattozza, B
Jacques Berger, B
 1299 B4 Div. 1 90        
12 2 35 Kilian Tuning
Audi 80		 Wolfgang Sander, D
Dieter Schulz, D
 1596 L4 Div. 2 90        
13 4 22  
Opel Kadett GT/E		 Sabadini, I
Cazzaniga, I
 ca. 2000 L4 Div. 3 90        
14 3 56 Scuderia Trentina
Alfa Romeo 1300 GT Junior		 Roberto Biasolli, I
Franco Stefenelli, I
 1290 L4 Div. 1 89        
15 3 37  
VW Scirocco		 Camilio Citterio, I
Piero Caronni, I
 1596 L4 Div. 2 88        
16 4 59 Scuderia Pordenone Corse
Alfa Romeo Alfasud		 Renzo Zaghet, I
Massimo Albano, I
   B4 Div. 1 88        
17 5 63  
Alfa Romeo 1300 GTJ		 Ruggero Premoli, I
"Archimede", I
 1290 L4 Div. 1 88        
18 3? 2 Racing Corporation Vienna
BMW 530i		 Heribert Werginz, A
Harald Neger, A
 2985 L6 Div. 4 87        
19 4 42  
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTV		 Alfredo Santulli, I
G. Marcatelli, I
 1570 L4 Div. 2 87        
20   19  
Opel Kadett GT/E		 Goffredo Larini, I
Rafanelli, I
 1979 L4 Div. 3 87        
21 6 62  
Alfa Romeo 1300 GT Junior		 Abele Tanghetti ("Tango"), I
Gianfranco Esti, I
 1290 L4 Div. 1 87        
22 7 61 Scuderia Città dei Mille
Alfa Romeo 1300 GT Junior		 Giulio Rossi, I
Luigi Rossi, I
 1290 L4 Div. 1 81        
23 5? 7 Scuderia Balestrero
Opel Commodore GS/E		 "Nainfe", I
Rinaldo Drovandi, I
 2784 L6 Div. 4 80        
24 6? 5 Ferlito Salvatore
Opel Commodore GS/E		 Walter Dona, I
Francesco Migliorini, I
 2784 L6 Div. 4 78        
25 5 33  
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTV		 Tiziano Rizzi, I
Renato Benusiglio, I
 1570 L4 Div. 2 73        
26 6 43  
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTV		 Gaudenzio Uboldi, I
Giancarlo Galimberti, I
 1570 L4 Div. 2 73        
    23 Rhein-Ruhr Racing Team Düsseldorf
BMW 2002		 Dieter Hegels, D
Karl-Heinz Tibor, D
 1990 L4 Div. 3   10 2.20,05    
    38  
VW Scirocco		 Guido Fossati, I
Renato Crosti, I
 1596 L4 Div. 2   12 2.20,70    
DNF   9 Jolly Club Milano
BMW 3.0 CSL		 Carlo Facetti, I
Martino Finotto, I
 3171 L6 Div. 5   1 2.06,55 2.08,3 Overheating
DNF   64 Jolly Club
Fiat 128 coupé 1300		 Lella Lombardi, I
Carlo Giani, I
 1290 L4 Div. 1 19       Engine
DNF   67 Bohemia Crystal Team Czechoslovakia
Skoda 130 RS		 Milan Zapadlo, CS
Josef Michl, CS
Petr Samohyl, CS
 1298 L4 Div. 1 16       Engine
DNF   14 Eggenberger Motorsport
BMW 320		 Kurt König, D
Heinz Weltrowski, D
 1998 L4 Div. 3   9 2.17,63    
DNF   41 Spiess Tuning Stuttgart
VW Scirocco		 Anton Stocker, CH
Hans-Joachim Nowak, D
 1596 L4 Div. 2   6 2.16,07   Driveshaft