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Austria-Trophäe Salzburgring

Salzburgring, Austria

Date: 23/4/1978
Track length: 4.255 m
Attendance: unknown
Entries accepted: unknown
Starters: 31
Finishers: 12, 6 classified

Pole position: Facetti in 1.25,46
Fastest lap: Facetti in 1.27,59 = 170,400 kmh

Distance: 3,5 hours
Average speed: 167,940 kmh
Weather:
Ruleset: Group 2/76
Car info: 1978 Cars

 

The fourth victory for BMW this year: Facetti and Finotto won the race, in front of the Zakspeed Escort of Hahne and Datzmann, with the AMG Mercedes third with Heyer and Schickentanz. The other competitive BMW of Grano/Fitzpatrick retired after only four laps.
Facetti’s pole time had been over a second faster than Nilsson in the very same car last year, with an engine revised by Facetti himself with some “Italian parts”. Alpina’s Bovensiepen couldn’t believe it and fell out with the Italians to the extent that he helped their competitors, the Belgian Luigi team, to cure problems with the front axle. But to no avail.

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 2 Jolly Club Milano
BMW 3.0 CSL		 Martino Finotto, I
Carlo Facetti, I
 3171 L6 Div. 5 139 laps, 3:30.42,90 1 1.25,46 1.27,59  
2 1 14 Ford Team Zakspeed
Ford Escort II RS		 Armin Hahne, D
Thomas Datzmann, D
 1840 L4 Div. 3 137 3      
3 2   AMG
Mercedes 450 SLC		 Hans Heyer, D
Clemens Schickentanz, D
 4520 V8 Div. 5 134 5      
4 1 25 VW Motorsport
VW Scirocco		 Willi Bergmeister, D
Jörg Siegrist, CH
 1596 L4 Div. 2 133        
5 2   Rhein-Ruhr Racing Team Düsseldorf
BMW 2002		 Dieter Hegels, D
Karl-Heinz Tibor, D
 1990 L4 Div. 3 130        
6 2    
VW Scirocco		 Drago Regvart, YU
Dagmar Suster, YU
 1596 L4 Div. 2 125       Engine
NC (7) (1)   Jolly Club
Fiat 128 coupé 1300		 Lella Lombardi, I
Carlo Giani, I
 1290 L4 Div. 1 124        
NC (2) 34  
Skoda 130 RS		 Josef Michl, CS
Milan Zapadlo, CS
 1298 L4 Div. 1          
NC (8) (3)   Jolly Club
Alfa Romeo 1300 GTA Junior		 Angelo Chiapparini, I
Giuseppe Chiapparini, I
 1290 L4 Div. 1 120        
NC (9) (4)   Bohemia Crystal Liberec
Skoda 130 RS		 Zdenek Vojtech, CS
Bretislav Enge, CS
 1298 L4 Div. 1 120        
NC      
BMW 530i		 Wolfgang May, D
 2985 L6 Div. 4          
NC      
Opel Kadett GT/E		 Heinrich Haag, D
Reiner Geiger, D
 ca. 2000 L4 Div. 3         Overheating
NC      
VW Scirocco		 Girolamo Capra, I
Angelino Leppi, I
 1596 L4 Div. 2          
DNF      
Ford Capri 3.0S Gr. 1B		 Bernd Herlitze, D
Henning Schmidt, D
 2993 V6 Div. 4          
DNF      
Mazda Savanna RX-3		 Unknown
 2 x 491 R2 Div. 4   6      
DNF     VW Motorsport
VW Scirocco		 Anton Stocker, CH
Hans-Joachim Nowak, D
 1596 L4 Div. 2         Driveshaft
DNF   1 Luigi/BMW Italia
BMW 3.0 CSL		 Umberto Grano, I
John Fitzpatrick, GB
 3196 L6 Div. 5 3 2 ca. 1.27   Suspension
DNF      
BMW 320		 Dieter Kindlmann, D
Ludwig Linder, D
 1990 L4 Div. 3         Valve spring
DNF      
Audi 80		 Unknown
 1596 L4 Div. 2         Oil loss
DNS      
BMW 3.0 CSL		 Claude De Wael, B
Raymond Van Hove, B
 3171 L6 Div. 5   4     Piston rod, no spare engine
DNS      
BMW 320		 Kurt König, D
Heinz Weltrowski, D
 1990 L4 Div. 3   7     Engine, no spare
DNQ      
Skoda 130 RS		 Petr Samohyl, CS
Susan Tucker-Peak, GB
 1298 L4 Div. 1