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[Doug Nye]

Can someone possibly assist a time traveller in certain distress? Was there, or was there not, a Mid-Ohio 500 Miles race run in 1979?

 

DCN  

[Vitesse2]

http://www.racingspo...1979-08-26.html

[Bob Riebe]

There were some formula Libre races run in the later seventies at Mid-Ohio and Road America but information on these seems to have disappeared from the net.

I really, really regret giving away my old AutoWeek and Competition Press now.

 

I see Vitesse2 knows where to look, I stand corrected.

Edited by Bob Riebe, 29 January 2018 - 21:25.

[Mallory Dan]

Wasn't this the CanAm & IMSA non-champ thingie?

[2F-001]

Don't recall this event at all, but the winner appears to be the early incarnation of Tony Cicale's Ralt-based "2nd gen CanAm" 2-litre car.

[Mallory Dan]

I remember it ran for 2-3 years, bit of a 'Money Race' as I recall

[2F-001]

Well, there were certainly some big-money 935s being humbled in that one.
Quite an impressive driver line-up though.

[Pablo Vignone]

Not 1979, but 1980. 

 

 

And 1981 as well...

 

[JacnGille]

I was there in '80 helping Vicki Smith with her Kelly Girl car and saw Hobbsie and Redman win.

[RA Historian]

There were some formula Libre races run in the later seventies at Mid-Ohio and Road America but information on these seems to have disappeared from the net.

I really, really regret giving away my old AutoWeek and Competition Press now.

Road America never had a Formula LIbre race per se. What I think you are remembering are the two non-points handicap races in 1975 and 1976. In 1975 it was the Road America 252 Handicap and was for sports racers. It was 252 miles and was won by Vern Schuppan in a Mirage. In 1976 it was 100 miles for F-5000 cars and was won by Vern Schuppan again, this time in the AAR Lola T-332.

[E1pix]

Wasn't there a bit of a "Libre" race at Road America in '77, won by a certain Lola T330?

[Doug Nye]

Thank you very much - some reference sources appear to list it, some present only the most fuzzy and sometimes misleading passing reference to it, and some others fail to mention it at all...  It has been bugging me.  

 

DCN

[RA Historian]

Wasn't there a bit of a "Libre" race at Road America in '77, won by a certain Lola T330?

No. Road America had three big weekends in 1977. The first was the June Sprints, an SCCA National. Second was the big pro weekend in July, with Can Am II. Third was the Trans Am weekend in Sept, billed as the "Trans Am Twin 80s" because there were two points paying Trans Am races, each of 80 miles, one on Saturday and the other on Sunday. There was no formula libre race that year. Or any year that I can remember.

 

Perhaps you are thinking of the SCCA sanctioned pro Formula race that ran that year as part of the Trans Am weekend. It was strictly for formula cars in the categories 5000, Atlantic (probably still called 'B' in the US at that time), and Super Vee. No fendered cars, midgets, dragsters, et al, not libre at all. It was won by Jerry Hansen in a Lola F-5000 car. Formula Fords had their own races that weekend. I seem to recall that the FFs had two heats and a final.

 

Tom

Edited by RA Historian, 01 February 2018 - 15:35.

[E1pix]

That's the race I meant.