XVIII Daytona 24 hours
Date
February 3, 1979
Circuit
Daytona International Speedway
Distance
6.23 Km x 684 Laps = 4,261.32 Km
Pole Position
Carlo Facetti , 1.46.113
Carl Shafer , 1.57.717
Yoshimi Katayama , 2.05.955
Fastest Lap
Peter Gregg , 1.49.477
Craig Carter , 2.01.690
Yoshimi Katayama , 2.05.403

Race Result

Race Result

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Pos Driver Laps
1 Danny Ongais Hurley Haywood Ted Field 684
2 John Morton Tony Adamowicz 635
3 Bruce Canepa Monte Shelton Rick Mears 627
4 Bill Whittington Don Whittington Jürgen Barth 622
5 Takashi Yorino Yojiro Terada Yoshimi Katayama 617
6 Amos Johnson Roger Mandeville Walt Bohren 615
7 Ren Tilton Rusty Bond 612
8 Alberto Vadia Juan Montalvo Tony Garcia 587
9 Ash Tisdelle Lance van Every Robert Overby 579
10 Enzo Calderari Angelo Pallavicini Marco Vanoli 577
11 Luis Gordillo Manuel Villa Mike Ramirez 560
12 Francisco Lopez Honorato Espinosa Jorge Cortés 551
13 Jack Refenning Peter Welter Richard Aten 550
14 Diego Febles Phil Currin 543
15 Charles Mendez Johnny Rutherford Paul Miller 529
16 Luis Sereix Ray Mummery Tom Sheehy 522
17 Bill Koll Jim Cook 511
18 Philip Dann Stephen Bond 509
19 Carl Shafer John Wood Tom Bagley 493
20 Bob Beasley Tom Ashby Bill Bean 493
21 Nort Northam Richard Weiss Terry Wolters 488
22 George Drolsom John Maffucci Mark Greb 482
23 C. C. Canada Russ Boykin Tom Ciccone 458
24 Al Cosentino Dick Starita Taku Akaike 444
DNF Anatoly Arutunoff Danny Sullivan José Marina 439
DNF Brian Redman Dick Barbour Paul Newman 410
DNF Herb Adams Louis Spoerl Peter Frey 408
DNF Don Sherman Jeff Kline Jim Mederer 393
DNF Dale Whittington Preston Henn R. D. Whittington 389
DNF Bill Scott 3 Mark Hutchins Pierre Honegger 388
DNF Earl Roe Steve Southard William Koch 385
DNF Bob Wollek Jacky Ickx Peter Gregg 342
DNF Klaus Bytzek Ludwig Heimrath Rudy Bartling 335
DNF Billy Hagan Hoyt Overbagh Ron Reed 331
DNF Herb Forrest Joseph Hamilton Rob Hoskins 329
DNF Howard Meister John Hotchkis Robert Kirby 328
DNF Alf Gebhardt Sepp Grinbold 299
DNF Ernesto Soto Francisco Romero Oscar Notz 241
DNF Dave White John Hamilton Kurt Roehrig 223
DNF Hal Shaw Jr. Norm Ridgely Tom Spalding 222
DNF Dave Panaccione Ron Case 210
DNF Guy Thomas Milton Moise Tom Nehl 201
DNF Al Levenson Gary Baker Lanny Hester 197
DNF Carson Baird Charlie Kemp Kees Nierop 168
DNF Carlo Facetti Gianpiero Moretti Martino Finotto 164
DNF Reinhold Jöst Rolf Stommelen Volkert Merl 162
DNF Bob Lee Rick Kump Sam Miller 156
DNF Gerry Wellik Joe Chamberlain Tom Bagley 147
DNF Craig Carter Murray Edwards Richard Valentine 144
DNF John Fitzpatrick Manfred Schurti Bob Wollek 135
DNF Bob Lapp John Tremblay 118
DNF Bob Akin Rob McFarlin Roy Woods 117
DNF Jean-Claude Andruet Spartaco Dini 103
DNF Claude Ballot-Léna Michel Leclère 101
DNF Don Yenko Graham Shaw Jerry Thompson 86
DNF Bonky Fernandez Chiqui Soldevilla Tato Ferrer 73
DNF Bob Tullius Jean-Pierre Delaunay Patrick Bedard 72
DNF Bill McDill Stephen Behr 59
DNF Albert Naon Mauricio de Narvaez Pedro de Narvaez 46
DNF Dave Cowart David McClain Kenper Miller 35
DNF Rick Knoop Stephen Earle Steve Griswold 25
DNF Gary Wonzer George van Arsdale Robert Whitaker 20
DNF Casey Mollett Frank Leary Steve Cook 13
DNF Al Holbert John Paul Michael Keyser 12
DNF Bob Bergström Brad Frisselle 9
DNF Clark Howey Dale Koch Tracy Wolf 4

Qualifying Result

Qualifying Result

Qualifying Result

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Pos Driver Time
1 Carlo Facetti Gianpiero Moretti Martino Finotto 1.46.113
2 John Fitzpatrick Manfred Schurti 1.46.746
3 Bob Wollek Jacky Ickx Peter Gregg 1.47.028
4 Reinhold Jöst Rolf Stommelen Volkert Merl 1.47.907
5 Al Holbert John Paul 1.48.426
6 Bill Whittington Don Whittington Jürgen Barth 1.49.397
7 Brian Redman Dick Barbour Paul Newman 1.51.625
8 Danny Ongais Hurley Haywood Ted Field 1.54.072
9 Bob Akin Rob McFarlin Roy Woods 1.54.500
10 Carson Baird Charlie Kemp Kees Nierop 1.56.726
12 Charles Mendez Johnny Rutherford Paul Miller 1.53.028
13 Claude Ballot-Léna Michel Leclère 1.57.376
14 Carl Shafer John Wood Tom Bagley 1.57.717
15 Jean-Claude Andruet Spartaco Dini 1.58.780
16 Bob Tullius Jean-Pierre Delaunay 1.58.823
17 Craig Carter Murray Edwards Richard Valentine 1.59.423
18 Billy Hagan Hoyt Overbagh Ron Reed 1.59.994
19 Bruce Canepa Monte Shelton Rick Mears 2.00.386
20 Bonky Fernandez Chiqui Soldevilla Tato Ferrer 2.00.948
21 Ernesto Soto Francisco Romero Oscar Notz 2.01.072
22 Dave Cowart David McClain Kenper Miller 2.01.412
23 Albert Naon Mauricio de Narvaez Pedro de Narvaez 2.01.586
24 John Morton Tony Adamowicz 2.05.791
25 Diego Febles Phil Currin 2.02.178
26 Gerry Wellik Joe Chamberlain 2.02.578
27 Francisco Lopez Honorato Espinosa Jorge Cortés 2.02.649
28 Klaus Bytzek Ludwig Heimrath Rudy Bartling 2.03.995
29 Clark Howey Dale Koch Tracy Wolf 2.04.328
30 Ash Tisdelle Lance van Every Robert Overby 2.04.607
31 Bill McDill Stephen Behr 2.05.621
32 Takashi Yorino Yojiro Terada Yoshimi Katayama 2.05.955
33 Alberto Vadia Juan Montalvo Tony Garcia 2.06.274
34 Amos Johnson Roger Mandeville Walt Bohren 2.06.804
35 Dale Whittington Preston Henn 2.06.847
36 Alf Gebhardt Sepp Grinbold 2.08.166
37 Howard Meister John Hotchkis Robert Kirby 2.08.292
38 Dave White John Hamilton Kurt Roehrig 2.08.508
39 Bill Koll Jim Cook 2.09.314
40 Enzo Calderari Angelo Pallavicini Marco Vanoli 2.09.383
41 Bill Scott 3 Mark Hutchins Pierre Honegger 2.09.451
42 Hal Shaw Jr. Norm Ridgely Tom Spalding 2.09.852
43 Don Sherman Jeff Kline Jim Mederer 2.10.099
44 Luis Sereix Ray Mummery Tom Sheehy 2.10.219
45 Bob Beasley Tom Ashby Bill Bean 2.10.600
46 Herb Forrest Joseph Hamilton Rob Hoskins 2.10.618
47 George Drolsom John Maffucci Mark Greb 2.11.186
48 Al Cosentino Dick Starita Taku Akaike 2.11.757
49 Luis Gordillo Manuel Villa Mike Ramirez 2.12.600
50 Ren Tilton Rusty Bond 2.12.729
51 Guy Thomas Milton Moise Tom Nehl 2.12.783
52 Dave Panaccione Ron Case 2.13.041
53 Anatoly Arutunoff Danny Sullivan José Marina 2.13.226
54 C. C. Canada Russ Boykin Tom Ciccone 2.13.721
55 Jack Refenning Peter Welter Richard Aten 2.13.905
56 Bob Lee Rick Kump Sam Miller 2.14.460
57 Al Levenson Gary Baker Lanny Hester 2.14.960
58 Casey Mollett Frank Leary Steve Cook 2.15.453
59 Earl Roe Steve Southard William Koch 2.15.466
60 Gary Wonzer George van Arsdale Robert Whitaker 2.16.117
61 Rick Knoop Stephen Earle Steve Griswold -
62 Don Yenko Graham Shaw Jerry Thompson -
63 Bob Lapp John Tremblay -
64 Bob Bergström Brad Frisselle -
65 Herb Adams Louis Spoerl Peter Frey -
66 Philip Dann Stephen Bond -
67 Nort Northam Richard Weiss Terry Wolters -

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