Road America 500 Miles 1979 - Qualifying Results

Event: Pabst 500, Road America Silver Anniversary		Date: 2.9.1979
Track: Road America, Elkhart Lake (United States), 6.437 kms	Organiser: unknown
Road America 500 Miles
Winston GT (round 13) FIA World Challenge for Endurance Drivers (round 9) IMSA GTO (round 13) IMSA GTU (round 13) International Motor Sport Association (round 13)

(Qualifying Results)

Pos.	No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant	Q Time	Km/h
1^st	86	Gregg / Haywood / Leven	Porsche 935/77A	Bayside Disposal Racing	2:14.9790	171.6896
2^nd	6	Redman / Barbour / McKitterick	Porsche 935	Dick Barbour Racing	2:15.6750
3^rd	07	Heimrath / Lunger	Porsche 935	Ludwig Heimrath	2:16.0000
4^th	2	Hobbs / Bell	BMW 320i Turbo	McLaren North America	2:16.5560
5^th	4	McKitterick / Garretson / *Marcus	Porsche 935	Dick Barbour Racing	2:19.3910
6^th	5	Mendez / Miller	Porsche 935	CMR, Inc.	2:20.1700
7^th	0	Field / Minter	Porsche 935/79	Interscope Racing	2:21.5440
8^th	3	Busby / Aase	BMW M1	Jim Busby Racing	2:21.9470
9^th	66	Nierop / Ridgely	Porsche 935	Renaissance Group	2:25.5230
10^th	48	Currin / Carusso	Chevrolet Corvette	Autodyne	2:27.8090	156.7871
11^th	9	McFarlin / Akin	Porsche 935	Dick Barbour Racing	2:29.6470
12^th	83	Devendorf / Adamowicz	Datsun 280ZX	Electramotive	2:29.8660	154.6354
13^th	89	Romero / Febles / *Soto	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	Hector Huerta	2:30.0450
14^th	44	Tullius / Fuerstenau	Triumph TR8	Group 44	2:30.5050
15^th	79	Bergstrom / Knoop	Mazda RX-7	Sports Ltd. Racing	2:32.0450
16^th	54	Garcia / Herman	Porsche Carrera RSR	Montura Racing	2:32.6100
17^th	46	DeNarvaez / Naon	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	Mauricio DeNarvaez	2:32.8170
18^th	03	Frank / Bartling	Porsche 934	Werner Frank	2:32.9550
19^th	17	Kline / Mederer	Mazda RX-7	Racing Beat	2:34.0390
20^th	77	Mandeville / Downing	Mazda RX-7	Roger T. Mandeville	2:34.2920
21^st	01	White / *Roehrig	BMW 320i	Roehrig Racing	2:35.7380
22^nd	72	Keirn / Errington	Chevrolet Corvette	Keirn Garage	2:36.3750
23^rd	14	Schmidt / Grunnet	Chevrolet Corvette	Corvettes Unlimited	2:36.5580
24^th	62	Koll / Cook	Porsche 914/6	Koll Motor Sports	2:36.6480
25^th	38	DeAscentis / Trotter	Chevrolet Corvette	DeAscentis Racing	2:37.0590
27^th	7	Bohren / Cortez	Mazda RX-7	Walt Bohren Racing	2:37.0590
26^th	31	Boand / Feldott	Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray	Bard Boand Racing	2:37.2320
28^th	42	Ashby / Bean	Porsche 911	Bullwinkele Racing	2:37.4630
29^th	56	Carter / *Laughlin	Chevrolet Camaro	Peerless Racing	2:37.5080
30^th	61	Lancaster / Luczyk	Chevrolet Corvette	L & L Racing Ent.	2:38.7520
31^st	25	Miller / *Cowart	BMW 3.5 CSL	Deren Automotive	2:41.4440
32^nd	39	Higgins / King / Seacrist	Porsche 911	Foreign Exchange	2:41.9630
33^rd	43	Gregg / Jones	Porsche 911	Bob Gregg	2:43.7910
34^th	85	Hulen / Coupland	Porsche 914/6	John E. Hulen	2:44.2370
35^th	45	Guffey / Buchinger	Datsun 280Z	Michael Guffey	2:44.4300
36^th	73	Howey / Koch	Chevrolet Camaro	Howey Farms	2:45.0680
37^th	34	Drolsom / Clark	Porsche 911	Drolsom Racing	2:45.2200
38^th	28	Irwin / Kivela	Chevrolet Corvette	Auto Concepts	2:46.5780
39^th	40	Southard / Roe	Porsche 914/6	Performance Specialists	2:46.7320
40^th	52	Baker / Haas / Smith-Haas	Porsche 914/4	Personalized Porsche	2:48.8970
41^st	8	Arutunoff / *Marina	Lancia Stratos	Automobile International	2:54.9140
42^nd	29	Cronin / Bolt	Fiat 128	Thomas E. Cronin	2:59.1140
43^rd	41	Leuzinger / Van der Werff	De Tomaso Pantera	B. R. Racing Team	no time
44^th	60	Bond / Tilton	Porsche 911	E. J. Pruitt & Sons	no time

Other present cars:

No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant
00		Porsche 935/77A	Interscope Racing

Entered cars that did not arrive:

No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant
13	Shaw, Jr. / Belcher	Porsche 935	Hal Shaw Racing
19	Cord / Adams	Chevrolet Monza	Chris Cord
49	Pirrotta / Lang	Chevrolet Corvette	Joseph Pirrotta
51	Kirby / Hotchkis	Porsche Carrera RSR	Kirby-Hitchcock Racing
98	Van Every / Tisdelle	Porsche Carrera RSR	Van Every Racing