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300 Miles Charlotte

Charlotte Motor Speedway, Charlotte, New York, USA

Date: 18/8/1974
Track length: 3.630 m?
Attendance: 7.500
Entries accepted: unknown
Starters: 33
Finishers: 15?

Pole position: Gregg in 1.14,406 = 172,21 kmh
Fastest lap:

Distance: 300 miles, 133 laps
Average speed: 162,19 kmh
Weather: Hot and clear
Ruleset: IMSA GT
Car info:  

 

Charlotte’s oval had a new infield section, somewhat similar to Daytona’s and Minter (Corvette) looked a good bet here. Sadly, he was forced out with a broken rear end and Gregg and Haywood duked out in their Carrera’s. Gregg spun and that seemed to be it, but then Haywood spun and Gregg passed his former team-mate for the win. The gap to the third-placed Behr was three laps.


GTO, GTU
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 59 Brumos Porsche-Audi
Porsche Carrera RSR
Peter Gregg, USA
  B6 GTO 133 laps, 2:40.57,3 1 1.14,406    
2 2 4 Applejack Racing
Porsche Carrera RSR
Hurley Haywood, USA
  B6 GTO 133 laps, 2:41.34,0        
3 3 65 Gregg Loomis
Porsche Carrera RSR
Steve Behr, USA
  B6 GTO 130        
4 4 96  
Chevrolet Camaro
Gene Felton, USA
Buddy Baker, USA
  V8 GTO 125        
5 5 30  
Porsche Carrera RSR
George Dyer, USA
  B6 GTO 124        
6 6 14 Holbert’s Porsche-Audi
Porsche Carrera RSR
Al Holbert, USA
Elliot Forbes-Robinson, USA
  B6 GTO 123        
7 7 41  
Chevrolet Camaro
Herb Jones Jr, USA
Steve Faul, USA
  V8 GTO 115        
8 8 99  
Chevrolet Corvette
Phil Currin, USA
  V8 GTO 115        
9 1 46  
Datsun 240Z
Spencer Buzbee, USA
Craig Ross, USA
  L6 GTU 114        
10 2 66 Comer Racing
BMW 2002
Russell Norburn, USA
Frederick Miller
1990 L4 GTU 114        
11 9 10  
Jaguar E-Type
Glenn Bunch, USA
    GTO 111        
12 3 85  
VW-Porsche 914/6
John Hulen, USA
Ron Coupland, USA
Dave Causey, USA
1991 B6 GTU 107        
13 10 11  
Chevrolet Corvette
Elmo Langley
Al Cartlidge
  V8 GTO 105        
14 11 63  
Chevrolet Corvette
Barry Ruble
Mark Nicolet
  V8 GTO 98        
15 12 23  
Porsche Carrera RSR
Charlie Kemp, USA
  B6 GTO 83        
16 13 1 Toad Hall Racing
Porsche Carrera RSR
Michael Keyser, USA
  B6 GTO 68        
17 14 21  
Chevrolet Camaro
Carl Shafer, USA
  V8 GTO 64        
18 15 81 Far West Racing
Porsche Carrera RSR
Grey Egerton, USA
David Pearson, USA
  B6 GTO 60        
19 16 62 Sports Limited Racing
Porsche Carrera RSR
Bob Bergstrom, USA
  B6 GTO 58        
20 4 00  
Porsche 911 S
Volker Brochhof
Don Lindley, USA
  B6 GTU 56        
21 17 80  
Chevrolet Camaro
Ken Stoddard, USA
Gary Grubb
  V8 GTO 48        
22 18 48 John Greenwood Racing
Chevrolet Corvette
Milt Minter, USA
John Greenwood, USA
  V8 GTO 44        
23 19 6  
Chevrolet Corvette
Lawrence Whyte
Babe Headley, USA
  V8 GTO 37        
24 20 93  
Chevrolet Camaro
Gene Harrington, USA
Bobby Isaac
  V8 GTO 31        
25 21 98  
Chevrolet Camaro
Maurice Carter, CDN
  V8 GTO 27        
26 22 20  
Chevrolet Corvette
Rick Thompkins, USA
Bud Sherk, USA
  V8 GTO 22        
27 23 50  
De Tomaso Mangusta
Bob McGraw, USA
Max Sebba, USA
5763 V8 GTO 22        
28 24 40 Go-Ten Racing
Chevrolet Corvette
Joe Pirrotta, USA
Larry Bock, USA
  V8 GTO 16        
29 25 29  
Porsche Carrera RSR
Elliot Forbes-Robinson, USA
Cale Yarborough, USA
  B6 GTO 9        
30 26 47 Trancendental Racing
Datsun 260Z
Brad Frisselle, USA
John Morton, USA
  L6 GTO 4        
31 27 79  
Chevrolet Corvette
Don Haines, USA
  V8 GTO 4        
32 28 7  
Chevrolet Nova
Eddie Johnson, USA
Clay Young, USA
  V8 GTO 2        
33 29    
AMC AMX
Steven Shepherd, USA
  V8 GTO 1        
DNS   64  
Chevrolet Camaro
C.C. Canada, USA
Jack Conely
  V8 GTO