1977 Formula Atlantic season

1977 Formula Atlantic season
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The 1977 CASC Formula Atlantic Labatts Championship Series season was contested over 7 rounds. In this one-make engine formula all drivers had to use Ford engines. 39 different drivers competed in 5 different chassis.

Gilles Villeneuve and Keke Rosberg at the Formula Atlantic race at Edmonton International Speedway, July 1977

Calendar

Race No	Track	State	Date	Laps	Distance	Time	Speed	Winner	Pole Position	Fastest Race Lap
1	Mosport Park	Canada	May 22, 1977	40	3.957=158.28 km	0'53:45.460	176.659 km/h	Price Cobb	Gilles Villeneuve	Gilles Villeneuve
2	Gimli	Canada	June 26, 1977	75	2.140369=160.527675 km	1'09:23.009	138.818 km/h	Bobby Rahal	?	Bobby Rahal
3	Edmonton	Canada	July 3, 1977	67	2.414=161.738 km	1'04:01.258	151.580 km/h	Gilles Villeneuve	Gilles Villeneuve	Price Cobb
4	Westwood	Canada	July 17, 1977	57	2.89674=165.11418 km	1'00:31.19	163.696 km/h	Keke Rosberg	Howdy Holmes	Howdy Holmes
5	Halifax	Canada	August 7, 1977	65	2.57488=167.3672 km	1'12:23.4	138.721 km/h	Bill Brack	Gilles Villeneuve	?
6	St. Félicien	Canada	August 14, 1977	100	1.6093=160.93 km	1'11:56.955	134.203 km/h	Gilles Villeneuve	Gilles Villeneuve	?
	Trois-Rivières	Canada	September 4, 1977	did not count for the championship
7	Québec City	Canada	September 25, 1977	80	2.0293273=162.346184 km	1'27:11.702	111.712 km/h	Gilles Villeneuve	Bill Brack	Howdy Holmes

Final points standings

Driver

For every race the points were awarded: 30 points to the winner, 24 for runner-up, 19 for third place, 15 for fourth place, 12 for fifth place, 10 for sixth place, 9 for seventh place, winding down to 1 point for 15th place. No additional points were awarded. All results count.

Place	Name	Country	Team	Chassis	Total Points
1	Gilles Villeneuve	Canada	Ecurie Canada	March	114	24	-	30	-	-	30	30
2	Bobby Rahal	United States	Morgan Racing	March	92	9	30	15	6	5	3
			Pierre's Motors Racing	Ralt								24
3	Bill Brack	Canada	Shierson Racing	March	87	-	19	12	24	30	2	-
4	Keke Rosberg	Finland	Fred Opert Racing	Chevron	82	-	24	24	30	-	-	4
	Price Cobb	United States	Hansen Racing	March	82	30	-	19	-	24	-	9
6	Tom Gloy	United States	Shea Racing	March	68	12	8	-	12	12	24	-
7	Chip Mead	United States	Pierre's Motors Racing	Ralt	60	15	9	1	3	3	19	10
8	Kevin Cogan	United States	?	Ralt	59	19	6	-	19	-	15	-
9	Richard Spénard	Canada	Ecurie Canada	March	48	8	7	9	-	19	-	5
10	Howdy Holmes	United States	Shierson Racing	March	46	-	-	8	1	15	10	12
11	David Oxton	New Zealand	Team Tui	Tui	39	-	5	6	15	1	12	-
12	Marcel Talbot	Canada	Hine Racing	March	31	1	15	-	9	-	6	-
	Cliff Hansen	United States	Hansen Racing	March	31	-	12	7	4	8	-	-
	Gregg Young	United States	Fred Opert Racing	Chevron	31	4	2	4	5	9	7	-
15	Craig Hill	Canada	Team Ralt American	Ralt	25	-	-	-	-	10	8	7
16	Jeff Wood	United States	R&R Racing	March	23	-	4	5	-	6	-	8
17	Juan Cochesa	Venezuela	Pierre's Motors Racing	Ralt	21	-	10	10	-	-	1	-
18	Steve Saleen	United States	Clayton Racing	Ralt	19	6	3	3	7	-	-	-
	Patrick Depailler	France	Fred Opert Racing	Chevron	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	19
20	Jacques Laffite	France	Fred Opert Racing	Chevron	15	-	-	-	-	-	-	15
21	Peter Ferguson	Canada	?	Chevron	10	10	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Jon Norman	United States	Norman Racing	March	10	-	-	-	10	-	-	-
23	Didier Pironi	France	Fred Opert Racing	Chevron	9	-	-	-	-	-	9	-
24	Carl Liebich	United States	Liebrau Racing	Lola	8	-	-	-	8	-	-	-
	Brad Abbott	United States	Stimola Racing	March	8	-	-	-	-	4	4	-
	Dan Marvin	United States	Norman Racing	March	8	-	-	-	2	-	-
			?	Chevron								6
27	Bruce Jensen	Canada	?	Chevron	7	7	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Dave McMillan	New Zealand	Team Ralt American	Ralt	7	-	-	-	-	7	-	-
	Robert Nelkin	United States	Nelkin Racing	March	7	-	1	-	-	-	5	1
30	Francisco Romero	Venezuela	Fred Opert Racing	Chevron	5	5	-	-	-	-	-	-
31	Mike Rocke	United States	R&R Racing	March	4	-	-	2	-	2	-	-
32	Tim Cooper	United States	?	March	3	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Rick Bell	United States	Bell Racing	Chevron	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
34	Bob Fisher	United States	?	March	2	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Gilles Léger	Canada	?	Ralt	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	2

External links

• oldracingcars.com