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[FLB]

One that was supposed to happen but didn't (for various reasons depending on what you read or who you talk to) was scheduled on Thursday October 5th, 1978, on what was then the Circuit de l'île Notre-Dame (now Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve). It was supposed to be a pre-qualifying session because the CSI wanted only 26 cars in the practice and qualifying sessions and 28 cars were present.

[Michael Ferner]

Teo was racing in the Indycar race at Cleveland that weekend, over 1,100 miles from Dallas. I suppose it’s logistically possible for him to have been in Dallas on the Thursday before going off to Cleveland (as there was only one day of qualifying at Cleveland), but what would have been the point? Unnecessary hassle for Teo, and surely Brabham would have wanted to give Corrado as much time in the car as possible. There’s certainly no mention of Teo in the Autosport report.

I agree, it doesnt look likely - why let Teo do the recce, when Corrado's supposed to drive all weekend? On the other hand, Teo had only just announced he wasn't going to drive for Forsythe in 1985, instead trying to stay with Brabham in F 1 for another year. Maybe he was hoping against hope that Forsythe would release him from his contractual obligations until virtually the last minute?

Interestingly, only four days before Dallas, Robin Miller wrote in his column in The Indianapolis Star:
 

Although he chooses not to discuss it, today's Meadowlands show figures to be Teo Fabi's final fling in an Indy car. The little Italian who won four CART races and the pole at Indy during his rookie year in 1983, has apparently decided to try and save his F 1 job with Brabham. Reliable sources claim Brabham boss Bernie Ecclestone told Fabi if he wasn't at the Dallas Grand Prix on July 8 (instead of the Cleveland CART race), he would be fired.

Tiny Teo has been trying to compete on both sides of the pond and hasn't hit a lick in either circuit all year. "You can tell his heart isn't in it over here", said Barry Green, team manager for Forsythe Racing. "He's been talking more and more about making a decision. Since F 1 is all he's ever wanted to do, I can't blame him."

Whether or not Gerry and John Forsythe accept this decision remains to be seen. Fabi is under contract to drive all of the CART PPG Industries Series for them. But it seems silly to try and keep a driver if he doesn't have any enthusiasm.

Sure enough, Teo dropped out of the Meadowlands race after five unenthusiastic laps. The next day, the same paper had this news flash to report:
 

Teo Fabi has probably driven his final Indy-Car race and the rumor has Emerson Fittipaldi replacing him on the Forsythe racing team.

While the local rival The Indianapolis News headlined, "Teo Fabi told to shape up". On July 5, the day of the Dallas recce session, Robin Miller wrote:
 

"Teo has asked to be released from his contract and when I find a capable substitute driver I will grant him (Fabi) that request", said Gerry Forsythe (...) "He wants to do Formula One win, lose or draw and I won't hold him to his contract and jeopardize his career."

And on July 6, the day of fist practice at Cleveland, the local Akron Beacon Journal headlined: "Fabi takes Grand Prix over Indy"! None of these or any other papers I've seen, however, are more specific about which Fabi drove the Brabham #2 at Dallas on Thursday morning (other than listing Teo in the rundown of practice times). There was plenty of time for Teo to make it from Dallas to Cleveland, for the first CART practice session was not due to start until 4pm on Friday afternoon. The only positive statement we have is from the Olivetti/Longines timing sheet, and it says Teo Fabi. I think it's entirely possible it really was him, trying to negotiate a deal up unitl the last minute, and upon failure to do so resuming his duty in Ohio the next day.

Edited by Michael Ferner, 10 February 2019 - 08:45.

[Tim Murray]

Autosport reported that Teo had initially wanted to leave Forsythe after Meadowlands, but after a meeting with Gerry Forsythe on the Sunday of the Meadowlands race he’d committed to doing the Cleveland race. Gerry Forsythe was quoted as saying ‘But if we can’t find the driver we want for the Michigan 500, he [Teo] will have to drive for us.’

In view of all this hoo-ha, if Teo did drive in the Thursday session at Dallas, I’d have expected either Nigel Roebuck in Autosport or Alan Henry in Motoring News to have picked up on it. Neither of them did.

[Collombin]

There is no mention of Teo in Peter Windsor's report in Autocar.

[Michael Ferner]

In view of all this hoo-ha, if Teo did drive in the Thursday session at Dallas, I’d have expected either Nigel Roebuck in Autosport or Alan Henry in Motoring News to have picked up on it. Neither of them did.

I'm exactly with you, there, but playing the devil's advocate, there's no way this would hold up in a court of law, if we play it that way. So far, there's exactly zero evidence that it was Corrado in the car on Thursday, and even though the evidence that it was Teo is rather weak, it's all we've got at the moment. I'd love to get to the bottom of this - this being an international forum, perhaps someone has access to Italian sources which are a bit more specific about the Fabis on that one special day?

[Blue6ix]

An Acclimatisation session was run on Thursday 5th July between 11.30am -12.30pm 

Times:   From Olivetti-Longines timing sheet.

 

D.Warwick           1'38.617"

N.Mansell            1'39.531"

A.Prost                1'40.062"

E.de Angelis        1'40.379"

R.Arnoux             1'40.437"

T.Fabi                   1'40.877"

N.Piquet               1'41.000"

A.de Cesaris        1'41.250"

T.Boutsen             1'41.323"

M.Alboreto           1'41.447"

S.Bellof                1'41.457"

A.Senna               1'41.614"

N.Lauda               1'41.804"

E.Cheever            1'41.885"

M.Brundle             1'41.977"

J.Laffite                 1'42.381"

M.Winkelhock       1'42.866"

K.Rosberg            1'42.884"

F.Hesnault            1'42.978"

J.Cecotto              1'43.181"

H.Rothengatter     1'44.424"

P.Tambay              1'44.681"

P.Ghinzani            1'44.782"

R.Patrese             1'45.131"

J.Palmer               1'45.230"

P.Alliot                  1'45.688"

M.Surer                1'47.522"

 

Aouocourse Annual in text reads on Warm up session " The warm-up had been postponed for two  hours and then cancelled altogether. Niki Lauda completed a a tour of inspection with Derek Ongaro and then reported to Race Control. Lauda wanted ten exploratory laps before making a decision. With eleven o'clock looming that news was not well received by Bernie Ecclestone. No, the final arrangement would be three warm-up laps followed immediately by the countdown to the start."

I do not know if the three laps were timed.

 

Those times do match for those few times that I do have.

 

It was confirmed when those times of Keke Rosberg and Huub Rothengatter did match with their position and their respective times.

 

It's delightful to see a complete set of times.

Edited by Blue6ix, 12 February 2019 - 10:03.

[Blue6ix]

Here are (Sadly only a two really confirmed and only a few other, very unsure times up to a 10th positioned driver.) the times from the 1978 Argentine Grand Prix Acclimatisation Session.

 

It was held at Buenos Aires in 12.1.1978.

 

That was of course a Thursday Practice Session and it was marked a little differently than in usual as for their timing:

 

Jan 12, Buenos Aires

 

Clasificasion Gran Premio de Argentina Extraoficial En Los Primeros Puestos

 

1 Mario Andertti 1.48.120/100 (That latter number digits most likely as of per hundreds of a seconds.)

 

2 Niki Lauda 1.49.390/100

 

3 Patrick Depailler 1.49.5/100 (Starting from this time, the rest of the times are only very unsure since they weren't said at their precise indicating numbers and only in regions or estimates.)

 

4 James Hunt 1.50.0/100

 

5 Ronnie Peterson 1.52.0/100

 

6 Patrick Tambay 1.53.0/100

 

7 Carlos Reutemann 1.55.0/100

 

8 Gilles Villeneuve 1.59.0/100

 

9 Emerson Fittipaldi 2.00.0/100

 

10 Jody Scheckter 2.05.0/100

Edited by Blue6ix, 12 February 2019 - 10:58.

[Blue6ix]

Also after long search, I managed to find out that in 1980, Brazilian Grand Prix had also a one Thursday Practice.

 

Even though I'm not absolutely sure about that thing, it seems to be so because of the FISA-FOCA related issues, also a because of the safety issues and a sudden change to Interlagos rather than racing at Rio de Janeiro. 1980 Brazilian Grand Prix Thursday Practice Session times are however, only partial as well as it was for 1978 Argentine Grand Prix Thursday Practice Session.

 

Even though there are a few times more than in 1978 Argentine Grand Prix Thursday Practice Session.

 

One Unofficial Session were being held at Interlagos in 1980 and it was 2 hours long session most likely.

 

Normal Practice session were held at 10-11.30 o' clock and Official Practice session were held at 13-14 o' clock in Friday and Saturday.

 

Or at least they were supposed to be held at time even though shenaningans and red flags were a common thing.

 

Safety issues were a thing for the weekend in the 1980 edition of Brazilian Grand Prix.

 

They were apparently, so bad that race cancellation danger was imminent right up to the start of the race.

 

Even though luckily there was no boycott even though F1 didn't ever returned for the original Interlagos circuit after that year's race which was held in a year in advance and most likely because for it's too lax organizers it could have caused a lot of problems even in 1981 too had it been going according to the original plan.

 

Here are the partial times for that session which I for a long time, think that there weren't any special session for that years Brazilian Grand Prix weekend and these times are for the 10 fastest drivers:

 

1980

 

Grande Premio do Brasil Quinta-feira Treino Extra-Oficial

 

Jan 24, Interlagos

 

1 Didier Pironi 2'23''060 (Didier Pironi did drive 15 laps in this session.)

 

2 Jacques Laffite 2'23''430 (In this session Laffite also was said to have a time of 2.23.070. Some magazines like Argentine Hemeroteca El Litoral, did claim that time as a rightful, but some other magazines claimed that formentioned time was to be the real time.)

 

3 Elio de Angelis 2'23''860

 

4 Carlos Reutemann 2'24''200

 

5 Alan Jones 2'24''650

 

6 Mario Andretti 2'25''250

 

7 Jean-Pierre Jabouille 2'27''130

 

8 Jody Scheckter 2'27''300

 

9 Alain Prost 2'27''410

 

10 Rene Arnoux 2'27''860

 

Emerson Fittipaldi had a 13th fastest time, but it was not sadly said. Fittipaldi did drive for 21 laps and from them 15 laps were with his normal race car and 6 laps were with a spare car when Fittipaldi had quite a bad looking accident which he did survive with no visibly seen injuries. Nelson Piquet had a 18th fastest time, but it was also not sadly said. Piquet did drive only 10 laps, because of technical issues with fuel pick-up failure, fuel feed and motor.

Edited by Blue6ix, 12 February 2019 - 11:51.

[Blue6ix]

It certainly would not be allowed by the FIA now, but in the 1980's and 1990's when a new circuit was used in the Formula One World Championship or a circuit was radically modified, a special accimatisation practice sessions would be held. Often these were on the Thursday before Official Practice commenced on the Friday.

So far I have identified the following:

1981 Caesars Palace (Las Vegas) Autocourse Annual state Wednesday am session (time period?)
1982 Detroit (Detroit) Autocourse Annual state originally a Thursday 'familiarisation' practice session was arranged, but this was abandoned due to track safety issues.

1984 Dallas (Dallas) Thursday one time session known 11.30am to 12.30pm
1985 Australian (Adelaide) Autocourse Annual state Thursday pm session (time period?)
1986 Hungarian (Hungaroring) Autocourse Annual state Thursday two hour session
1986 Mexican (Mexico City) Autocourse Annual state Thursday two- two hour sessions
1992 South African (Kyalami) Thursday two sessions
1993 European (Donington Park) two sessions
1994 Pacific (TI Aida) Thursday (one session known of)
1995 Argentine (Buenos Aires) Thursday two sessions, 11.00am to 12.00am, 1.30pm to 2.30pm
1995 San Marino (Imola) Thursday two sessions
1995 European (Nurburgring) Thursday (one session known of)
1995 Australian (Melbourne) Thursday two sessions
1997 Austrian (Osterreichring) Thursay two sessions

Did any other Grand Prix's have acclimatisation sessions? Also has anyone got any times from these sessions?

 

What about 1993 European Grand Prix Second or First (Since one of those sessions have been stated already.) Acclimatisation Session results, First Acclimatisation Session of the 1995 San Marino Grand Prix results, 1995 European Grand Prix Acclimatisation Session results or 1997 Austrian Grand Prix Acclimatisation Session results?

 

Assuming that A1-Ring really did had another one?

Edited by Blue6ix, 03 March 2019 - 14:56.

[dgs]

What about 1993 European Grand Prix Second or First (Since one of those sessions have been stated already.) Acclimatisation Session results, First Acclimatisation Session of the 1995 San Marino Grand Prix results, 1995 European Grand Prix Acclimatisation Session results or 1997 Austrian Grand Prix Acclimatisation Session results?

 

Assuming that A1-Ring really did had another one?

I believe the 1997 Austrian Grand Prix was the last to have an Acclimatisation Session.

Known times (TAG-Heuer)

 

1st  D.Hill                1'12.553"

2nd  R.Barrichello   1'12.589"

3rd  J.Magnussen   1'12.823"

4th  J.Alesi              1'12.896"

10th  G.Fisichella    1'13.261"

[Blue6ix]

I believe the 1997 Austrian Grand Prix was the last to have an Acclimatisation Session.

Known times (TAG-Heuer)

 

1st  D.Hill                1'12.553"

2nd  R.Barrichello   1'12.589"

3rd  J.Magnussen   1'12.823"

4th  J.Alesi              1'12.896"

10th  G.Fisichella    1'13.261"

 

Actually, I do have complete session times for this one, but I did intend to ask that, if there were another one at all in Austria?

 

Complete session times were following unless even these times have some mistakes:

 

1 Damon Hill 1'12.553''
2 Rubens Barrichello 1'12.589''
3 Jan Magnussen 1'12.823''
4 Jean Alesi 1'12.896''
5 Jarno Trulli 1'13.025''
6 Mika Hakkinen 1'13.034''
7 David Coulthard 1'13.095''
8 Heinz-Harald Frentzen 1'13.108''
9 Johnny Herbert 1'13.251''
10 Giancarlo Fisichella 1'13.261''
11 Gerhard Berger 1'13.368''
12 Jacques Villeneuve 1'13.524''
13 Eddie Irvine 1'13.632''
14 Pedro Diniz 1'13.762''
15 Michael Schumacher 1'13.827''
16 Ralf Schumacher 1'14.060''
17 Shinji Nakano 1'14.176''
18 Jos Verstappen 1'14.266''
19 Ukyo Katayama 1'14.590''
20 Gianni Morbidelli 1'14.591''
21 Mika Salo 1'14.887''
22 Tarso Marques 1'16.502''

Edited by Blue6ix, 14 March 2019 - 20:23.

[Blue6ix]

The Olivetti-Longines timing sheet does say No 2 (Brabham-BMW  BT53  T.Fabi (no first name mentioned) on Acclimatisation sheet for July 5.

For Timing sheets both untimed and timed classification, plus race they all state no 2 (Brabham -BMW BT53) C.Fabi. That would be of course Corrado Fabi.

Of course the name shown for entry No 2 Brabham BT53 on acclimatisation sheet could have course been a mistake on timing sheet.

 

A mystery indeed !!

 

I think also that it really could have been a mistake on timing sheet.

 

I'm sure of it right after I managed to stumble at this site and following link that lists 15 best times with C. Fabi and in other words Corrado Fabi and some other Italian magazines at time also really suggested that indeed it was Corrado who was driving even on that day:

 

http://www.archiviol..._0032_14494102/

Edited by Blue6ix, 14 March 2019 - 21:28.

[Michael Ferner]

Excellent! That's exactly the sort of info I was hoping for.

[neilwhitedesign]

Hello

 

I've just been reading through this thread with interest and I was wondering if it was ever confirmed if there was an acclimatisation session at Magny Cours in 1991 prior to the French Grand Prix.

 

Thanks

[BiggestBuddyLazierFan]

Tilkedrome does not requie acclimatisation session since they are all the same. Huge piece of cra.. pardon asphalt with corners outlined with paint

Edited by BiggestBuddyLazierFan, 27 June 2019 - 14:34.

[Blue6ix]

Hello

 

I've just been reading through this thread with interest and I was wondering if it was ever confirmed if there was an acclimatisation session at Magny Cours in 1991 prior to the French Grand Prix.

 

Thanks

 

I think that there was one indeed like in Silverstone or Barcelona of the same year.

 

However, information about it or them has been quite difficult to come across.

 

There is also a one other possibility besides those having not ever being held:

 

Those possible sessions could have been mistaken for FOCA/Goodyear/Pirelli Tyre Tests which also were preceeding or between those two Grand Prix, meaning French and British Grand Prix.

Edited by Blue6ix, 28 June 2019 - 04:49.

[dgs]

My understanding is that two one hour acclimatisation sessions were held at Magny-Cours on the Thursday (15.00pm-16.00pm & 17.00pm-18.00pm) but I do not have any times

[neilwhitedesign]

Thanks for your replies Blue6ix and dgs.

 

It's good to know there were sessions held on the Thursday at Magny Cours (as in Barcelona, and also Silverstone, which I wasn't aware of).

 

However, it's infuriating that there aren't any times available....

[Blue6ix]

Finally after a very long search and time, I managed to find out complete times for the 1980 Brazilian Grand Prix Acclimatisation Grand Prix session which confirms that it had also a one Thursday Practice.

 

Even though I'm not absolutely sure about what brought that thing to be organized at all, it seems to be so because of the FISA-FOCA related issues, also a because of the safety issues and a sudden change to Interlagos rather than racing at Rio de Janeiro. 1980 Brazilian Grand Prix Thursday Practice Session times were previously, only partial as well as it was for 1978 Argentine Grand Prix Thursday Practice Session.

 

Even though now there are complete times for anyone so that's the difference unlike that in the 1978 Argentine Grand Prix Thursday Practice Session.

 

One Unofficial Session were being held at Interlagos in 1980 and it was 2 hours long session most likely.

 

Normal Practice session were held at 10-11.30 o' clock and Official Practice session were held at 13-14 o' clock in Friday and Saturday.

 

Or at least they were supposed to be held at time even though shenaningans and red flags were a common thing.

 

Safety issues were a thing for the weekend in the 1980 edition of Brazilian Grand Prix.

 

They were apparently, so bad that race cancellation danger was imminent right up to the start of the race.

 

Even though luckily there was no boycott even though F1 didn't ever returned for the original Interlagos circuit after that year's race which was held in a year in advance and most likely because for it's too lax organizers it could have caused a lot of problems even in 1981 too had it been going according to the original plan.

 

Here are the complete times for that session which I for a long time, think that there weren't any special session for that years Brazilian Grand Prix weekend, they were also for a long time only including only the ten fastest times and these times are now for everyone:

 

1980

 

Grande Premio do Brasil Quinta-feira Treino Extra-Oficial

 

Jan 24, Interlagos

 

1 Didier Pironi 2'23''060 (Didier Pironi did drive 15 laps in this session.)

 

2 Jacques Laffite 2'23''430 (In this session Laffite also was said to have a time of 2.23.070. Some magazines like Argentine Hemeroteca El Litoral, did claim that time as a rightful, but some other magazines claimed that forementioned time was to be the real time. I have also searched some other magazines and they have confirmed that forementioned time was to be the real time.)

 

3 Elio de Angelis 2'23''860

 

4 Carlos Reutemann 2'24''200

 

5 Alan Jones 2'24''650

 

6 Mario Andretti 2'25''250

 

7 Jean-Pierre Jabouille 2'27''130

 

8 Jody Scheckter 2'27''300

 

9 Alain Prost 2'27''410

 

10 Rene Arnoux 2'27''860

 

11 John Watson 2'28''000 (Starting from the Watson to the last placed man Johansson every time is a new one to be told about because previously only the ten fastest times were found out.)

 

12 Jochen Mass 2'28''170

 

13 Emerson Fittipaldi 2'28''400 (Emerson Fittipaldi had a 13th fastest time as said earlier, but it was not sadly said previously for it's exact time. Fittipaldi did drive for 21 laps and from them 15 laps were with his normal race car and 6 laps were with a spare car when Fittipaldi had quite a bad looking accident which he did survive with no visibly seen injuries.)

 

14 Riccardo Patrese 2'29''320

 

15 Marc Surer 2'29''360

 

16 Keke Rosberg 2'29''740

 

17 Clay Regazzoni 2'29''950

 

18 Nelson Piquet 2'30''450 (Nelson Piquet had a 18th fastest time as said earlier, but it was not sadly said previously for it's exact time. Piquet did drive only 10 laps, because of technical issues with fuel pick-up failure, fuel feed and motor. Also Piquet had a tie with Giacomelli, but had faster second fastest time than Giacomelli.)

 

19 Bruno Giacomelli 2'30''450 (Giacomelli had a tie with Piquet, but had slower second fastest time than Piquet.)

 

20 Jean-Pierre Jarier 2'30''620

 

21 Gilles Villeneuve 2'31''180

 

22 Ricardo Zunino 2'31''480

 

23 Derek Daly 2'31''860

 

24 Patrick Depailler 2'32''930

 

25 David Kennedy 2'35''430

 

26 Jan Lammers 2'35''890

 

27 Eddie Cheever 2'43''510

 

28 Stefan Johansson 3'05'180

 

So that was for it then.

 

Hopefully there will be new ones eventually as well for still missing ones in future.

Edited by Blue6ix, 12 April 2022 - 15:51.

[Michael Ferner]

Those times are identical to the ones published in Grand Prix International #15, except that all times were in hundredths rather than thousandths, and Pironi was quoted with 2'29.06" which was in conflict with reports that he was fastest (e.g. in Grand Prix! by Mike Lang, p343, also reporting that the session lasted for three hours), so thanks for confirming my suspicion - in such cases, it's always difficult to know which is the correct time; sometimes it's simple solutions like transposed figures or an 8 for a 0 or a 3, but a 9 for a 3 was a new one for me!

 

 

 

Piquet had a tie with Giacomelli, but had faster second fastest time than Giacomelli.)

 

19 Bruno Giacomelli 2'30''450 (Giacomelli had a tie with Piquet, but had slower second fastest time than Piquet.)

 

 

This here I find remarkable: why would they go through the whole timing sheets to find the second fastest time for a driver (quite a major undertaking in the era before electronical processing), and that for a test session where ranking was not important at all?!? Do you have a source for that very unusual procedure?

[Michael Ferner]

After some break, I have found the complete lap times for the 1981 Brazilian Grand Prix Acclimatisation Session and even though some sources have labelled this to being held in Thursday, it actually was being held unless I'm not very badly mistaken, in Wednesday rather than Thursday even though the time setting had some strong-arm-words-wrestling with FISA and FOCA with the organizers of the event.

 

(...) 

 

18 Villeneuve 1'41.464 (Jones and Villeneuve had a tie with the best time, but Jones had a better second fastest lap than Villeneuve.)

 

 

I see you have the same kind of info for the following year's Brazilian GP test session - was that some sort of a local 'thing' at the time? Very weird.

[Michael Ferner]

A few more acclimatisation session times from the time period:

 

1979 US Grand Prix (Thursday)

 

 1'36.6" Jones; Alan  1'37.9" Jabouille; Jean-Pierre  1'38.4" Laffite; Jacques  1'38.5" Villeneuve; Gilles  1'39.1" Piquet; Nelson  1'40.4" Reutemann; Carlos  1'40.5" Zunino; Ricardo  1'40.8" Jarier; Jean-Pierre  1'41.2" Arnoux; René  1'41.3" Stuck; Hans-Joachim  1'41.9" Giacomelli; Bruno  1'42.0" Scheckter; Jody  1'42.0" Mass; Jochen  1'42.5" Patrese; Riccardo  1'42.8" Watson; John  1'42.8" Tambay; Patrick  1'43.6" Brambilla; Vittorio  1'44.3" Surer; Marc  1'45.0" Rebaque; Héctor  1'45.3" Fittipaldi; Emerson  1'46.7" Ribeiro; Alex  1'48.2" Merzario; Arturo no time Andretti; Mario no time Pironi; Didier no time Lammers; Jan no time de Angelis; Elio no time Rosberg; Keke no time Ickx; Jacky no time Regazzoni; Clay no time Daly; Derek

[Michael Ferner]

1980 Argentinian GP (Thursday, 3 hours)

 

 1'45.56" Laffite; Jacques  1'45.81" Jones; Alan  1'45.91" Pironi; Didier  1'48.15" Reutemann; Carlos  1'48.23" Prost; Alain  1'48.30" Patrese; Riccardo  1'48.51" Giacomelli; Bruno  1'48.64" Arnoux; René  1'48.69" Villeneuve; Gilles  1'49.39" Piquet; Nelson  1'49.43" Scheckter; Jody  1'49.59" de Angelis; Elio  1'49.69" Watson; John  1'49.75" Jabouille; Jean-Pierre  1'50.19" Andretti; Mario  1'50.90" Zunino; Ricardo  1'50.93" Jarier; Jean-Pierre  1'51.39" Depailler; Patrick  1'51.55" Daly; Derek  1'52.50" Fittipaldi; Emerson  1'53.20" Lammers; Jan  1'54.56" Mass; Jochen  1'56.73" Cheever; Eddie  1'57.15" Kennedy; David  1'59.64" Johansson; Stefan  2'01.53" Rosberg; Keke  2'01.64" Regazzoni; Clay  2'13.21" Surer; Marc

[Michael Ferner]

1980 South African GP (Wednesday am, 3 hours)

 

 1'10.60" Jabouille; Jean-Pierre  1'11.39" Laffite; Jacques  1'12.26" Arnoux; René  1'12.46" Jones; Alan  1'12.50" Piquet; Nelson  1'12.53" Pironi; Didier  1'12.80" Reutemann; Carlos  1'13.15" Jarier; Jean-Pierre  1'13.40" Patrese; Riccardo  1'13.47" Giacomelli; Bruno  1'13.47" Watson; John  1'13.68" Villeneuve; Gilles  1'13.79" Depailler; Patrick  1'13.93" Zunino; Ricardo  1'13.95" Mass; Jochen  1'13.96" Scheckter; Jody  1'14.11" Prost; Alain  1'14.17" Regazzoni; Clay  1'14.54" de Angelis; Elio  1'14.57" Fittipaldi; Emerson  1'14.93" Rosberg; Keke  1'15.24" Daly; Derek  1'15.58" Andretti; Mario  1'15.73" Kennedy; David  1'15.74" Lees; Geoff  1'16.58" Cheever; Eddie no time Surer; Marc no time Lammers; Jan

[Michael Ferner]

1979 Argentinian GP (Thursday 2:00 pm, 3 hours)

 

 1'45.97" Depailler; Patrick  1'46.40" Andretti; Mario  1'46.43" Laffite; Jacques  1'46.77" Reutemann; Carlos  1'46.83" Jarier; Jean-Pierre  1'46.89" Villeneuve; Gilles  1'47.34" Watson; John  1'47.93" Pironi; Didier

[Michael Ferner]

1979 South African GP (Wednesday)

 

 1'13.02" Villeneuve; Gilles  1'13.70" Scheckter; Jody  1'13.87" Depailler; Patrick  1'13.95" Laffite; Jacques  1'13.99" Jabouille; Jean-Pierre  1'14.15" Lauda; Niki  1'14.33" Andretti; Mario  1'14.61" Piquet; Nelson  1'14.83" Arnoux; René  1'14.99" de Angelis; Elio  1'15.07" Watson; John  1'15.71" Pironi; Didier  1'15.76" Jones; Alan  1'16.01" Hunt; James  1'16.11" Patrese; Riccardo  1'16.23" Fittipaldi; Emerson  1'16.23" Regazzoni; Clay  1'16.25" Mass; Jochen  1'16.72" Reutemann; Carlos  1'16.76" Lammers; Jan  1'17.99" Stuck; Hans-Joachim  1'18.14" Jarier; Jean-Pierre  1'18.73" Rebaque; Héctor  1'19.13" Merzario; Arturo  1'20.99" Tambay; Patrick no time Daly; Derek

[dgs]

Well done, Michael Ferner and Blue6ix.

some hard to discover timings

[dgs]

1985 European Grand Prix, Brands Hatch, Friday 4th to Sunday 6th October 1985

 

According to quote in Richard Jenkins 'Tyrrell' book, by Ivan Capelli, on this first race for Ken Tyrrell, a 2 hour practice session was held on the Thursday (3rd October)  as it was a new race that had been added to the calendar.

 

This presumably would have been an acclimatisation session.

 

Does anyone have details and times recorded ?