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Mugello 100 Giri

Autodromo del Mugello, Italy

Date: 15/4/1979
Track length: 5.245 m
Attendance: unknown
Entries accepted: unknown
Starters: unknown
Finishers: unknown

Pole position: Grano/Joosen/Giacomelli in 2.06,66
Fastest lap: Giacomelli in 2.08,0 = 147,515 kmh

Distance: 100 laps
Average speed: 140,51 kmh
Weather:
Ruleset: Group 2/76
Car info: 1979 Cars

 

Bruno Giacomelli, Umberto Grano and Eddy Joosen took their second consecutive victory in the European Touring Gar Championship on Saturday at Mugello. As at Vallelunga, their victory on the 500 Kilometre, 100 lap race was a very tight one, as overheating again afflicted their BMW CSL 20 laps from the finish. As a result Grano lost a lot of time to the rival CSL of Martino Finotto and Carlo Facetti in the closing stages, but he scraped home by 2.6 seconds. Also completing 100 laps, but 65.4 seconds behind the second placed BMW of Finotto/Facetti, was a third BMW CSL, the Luigi machine of Jean Xhenceval, Pierre Dieudonné and Raymond van Hove.
Grano/Giacomelli/Joosen now lead the ETCC Drivers Championship with 40 points, six more than Escort driver Walter Nussbaumer, who with Hans Heyer finished fourth on Saturday in the best of the Zakspeed Fords.


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   BMW Italia
BMW 3.0 CSL		 Umberto Grano, I
Eddy Joosen, B
Bruno Giacomelli, I
 3196 L6 Div. 5 100 1 2.06,66 2.08,0 Oil loss
2 2   Jolly Club Milano
BMW 3.0 CSL		 Martino Finotto, I
Carlo Facetti, I
 3196 L6 Div. 5 100 4 2.11,31    
3 3   Luigi Racing
BMW 3.0 CSL		 Raymond Van Hove, B
Jean Xhenceval, B
Pierre Dieudonné, B
 3196 L6 Div. 5 100 2 2.09,21    
4 1   D&W Zakspeed
Ford Escort II RS		 Walter Nussbaumer, CH
Hans Heyer, D
 1840 L4 Div. 3 99 5 2.13,03    
5 2   Eggenberger Motorsport
BMW 320		 Helmut Kelleners, D
Herbert Müller, CH
 1998 L4 Div. 3 97 6 2.13,63    
6 1   MSC Langenfeld
Audi 80 GTE		 Hans-Joachim Nowak, D
Willi Bergmeister, D
 1596 L4 Div. 2 97 9 2.16,48    
7 2   Kilian Tuning
Audi 80 GTE		 Manfred Trint, D
Fred Rosterg, D
 1596 L4 Div. 2 97 8 2.15,79    
8 1   Racing Corporation Vienna
BMW 530i		 Heribert Werginz, A
Roman Loibnegger, A
Harald Neger, A
 2985 L6 Div. 4 95 12 2.18,26    
9 2    
BMW 3.0 CSi		 Vittorio Pugliese, I
Biggi, I
Vallebuone
 2985 L6 Div. 4 95        
10 3    
Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV		 Spartaco Dini ("Paco"), I
Amerigo "Joe" Bigliazzi, I
 1985 L4 Div. 3 95 10      
  1    
Alfa Romeo Alfasud Sprint		 Luca Cesarini, I
 1299 B4 Div. 1          
       
Audi 80 GTE		 Jörg Siegrist, CH
Drago Regvart, YU
 1596 L4 Div. 2   11 2.17,69    
       
BMW 320		 Dieter Kindlmann, D
Ludwig Linder, D
 1998 L4 Div. 3   13 2.18,34    
DNF?     D&W Zakspeed
Ford Escort II RS		 Klaus Niedzwiedz, D
Siegfried Müller Jr, D
 1840 L4 Div. 3   7 2.15,30   Clutch
DNF      
BMW 3.0 CSL		 Vittorio Ciardi, I
Francastoro, I
 3196 L6 Div. 5   3 2.10,65   Lost wheel