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Daytona Finale
Race story

IMSA Winston GT, Daytona Finale

25 november 1979

Winners average : 177,638km/h

67 starters

Time : 01:38:06:350

Categories

GTX

GTO

GTU

1	94	PORSCHE 935K3 930 990 0026	Bill Whittington	47 Laps	1.GTX
2	93	PORSCHE 935K3 009 00015	Don Whittington	47 Laps	2.GTX
3	5	PORSCHE 935 930 770 0911	Charles Mendez-Brian Redman	47 Laps	3.GTX
4	18	PORSCHE 935 930 890 0037	John Paul-Paul Miller	47 Laps	4.GTX
5	09	PORSCHE 935 930 890 0021	Preston Henn	47 Laps	5.GTX
6	05	PORSCHE 935 930 770 0957	Bob Akin-Roy Woods	46 Laps	6.GTX
7	46	PORSCHE CARRERA RSR 911 360 1099	Mauricio de Narvaez	46 Laps	1.GTO
8	21	CHEVROLET CAMARO	Carl Shafer	45 Laps	2.GTO
9	03	PORSCHE 934 930 670 0162	Werner Frank	45 Laps	3.GTO
10	83	DATSUN 280ZX	Don Devendorf	45 Laps	1.GTU
11	69	PORSCHE CARRERA RSR	Klaus Bytzek-Rudy Bartling	44 Laps	4.GTO
12	51	CHEVROLET CORVETTE	Lamar Mann	43 Laps	5.GTO
13	35	PORSCHE CARRERA RSR	Honorato Espinosa	43 Laps	6.GTO
14	7	MAZDA RX7	Walt Bohren	43 Laps	2.GTU
15	75	CHEVROLET CORVETTE	Dale Kreider	43 Laps	7.GTO
16	66	CHEVROLET CAMARO	Jeffrey Loving-Richard Small	43 Laps	8.GTO
17	79	MAZDA RX7	Bob Bergstrom	43 Laps	3.GTU
18	92	PORSCHE 935	Ricardo Londono	42 Laps	7.GTX
19	72	CHEVROLET CORVETTE	Murray Edwards	42 Laps	9.GTO
20	13	PORSCHE CARRERA RSR 911 460 9050	Angelo Pallavicini	42 Laps	10.GTO
21	88	CHEVROLET CORVETTE	Skip de Ascentis	42 Laps	11.GTO
22	19	DATSUN 280Z	Richard Kendrick	42 Laps	4.GTU
23	6	CHEVROLET CORVETTE	Tim Morgan-Marcus Opie	42 Laps	12.GTO
24	34	PORSCHE 911	George Drolsom	41 Laps	5.GTU
25	31	PORSCHE 911	Juan Lopez-Mandy Gonzales	41 Laps	6.GTU
26	37	PORSCHE CARRERA RSR	George Cortes	40 Laps	13.GTO
27	50	PORSCHE 911	Fritz Hochreuter-Rainer Brezinka	40 Laps	14.GTO
28	9	FERRARI 365GTB4 13367	Bonnie Henn-Hal Sahlman	39 Laps	15.GTO
29	33	PORSCHE 911	Richard Aten-Peter Welter	39 Laps	7.GTU
30	02	PORSCHE 911	J. Kurt Roehrig	39 Laps	8.GTU
31	08	PORSCHE 911 911 030 1263	Terry Wolters-Mark Speer	39 Laps	9.GTU
32	14	CHEVROLET CAMARO	Dick Neland	39 Laps	16.GTO
33	11	CHEVROLET NOVA	Kim Mason-Don Yenko	38 Laps	17.GTO
34	60	PORSCHE 911	Rusty Bond-Ren Tilton	38 Laps	10.GTU
35	76	DATSUN 240Z	Ken Williams-Mark Behm	37 Laps	11.GTU
36	17	MAZDA RX7	Jeff Kline	36 Laps	12.GTU
37	06	PORSCHE 911	Bill Gallup	36 Laps	13.GTU
38	06	DATSUN 240Z	Harry Chilcot	34 Laps	14.GTU
39	59	PORSCHE 935 930 990 0030	Peter Gregg-Hurley Haywood	33 Laps	8.GTX
40	63	MAZDA RX7	Bob Speakman	31 Laps	15.GTU
41	68	PORSCHE CARRERA RSR 005 0009	Luis Mendes-José Ares	31 Laps	11.GTO
42	52	PORSCHE 911	Fred Snow-Jack Swanson	31 Laps	16.GTU
43	27	FORD MUSTANG	Robert LaMay-Eric Orberg	25 Laps	19.GTO
44	23	DATSUN 280ZX	Frank Carney-Dick Davenport	23 Laps	17.GTU
45	65	CHEVROLET CORVETTE	William Wessel-Vince Gimondo	23 Laps	20.GTO
46	44	TRIUMPH TR8	Bob Tullius	21 Laps	21.GTO
47	00	PORSCHE 935 930 890 0019	Danny Ongais	20 Laps	9.GTX
48	38	PORSCHE CARRERA RSR 911 460 9113	Bonky Fernandez	20 Laps	22.GTO
49	89	PORSCHE 911	Joseph Hamilton	19 Laps	18.GTU
50	90	AMX SPIRIT	Rick Kump	19 Laps	23.GTO
51	80	CHEVROLET CAMARO	Maurice Carter	18 Laps	10.GTX
52	57	CHEVROLET CORVETTE	Dave Heinz	17 Laps	24.GTO
53	04	CHEVROLET CORVETTE	Rick Thompkins	16 Laps	25.GTO
54	71	CHEVROLET CORVETTE	Philip Keirn	16 Laps	26.GTO
55	95	PORSCHE 935 930 890 0023	Dale Whittington	14 Laps	11.GTX
56	8	PORSCHE CARRERA RSR	Chuck Grantham	9 Laps	27.GTO
57	77	MAZDA RX7	Jim Downing	8 Laps	19.GTU
58	99	CHEVROLET CORVETTE	Phil Currin	7 Laps	28.GTO
59	74	PORSCHE CARRERA RSR	Carlos Garza	6 Laps	29.GTO
60	58	PORSCHE CARRERA RSR	Diego Febles	5 Laps	30.GTO
61	2	BMW 320i Turbo 003	David Hobbs	4 Laps	12.GTX
62	39	AMC JAVELIN	Bob Fryer	3 Laps	31.GTO
63	64	CHEVROLET CORVETTE	Bob Baechle	2 Laps	32.GTO
64	20	ALFA ROMEO ALFETTA	Ernie Smith	2 Laps	20.GTU
65	10	PORSCHE 914/6 914 043 0945	Sydney Smith	1 Lap	21.GTU
66	48	CHEVROLET CORVETTE	John Caruso	1 Lap	33.GTO
67	54	PORSCHE CARRERA RSR	Terry Herman	0 Lap	34.GTO

Cars that did not start

PORSCHE 935 930 990 0029

Ted Field

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