1977 Formula Atlantic season

1977 Formula Atlantic season
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File:Villeneuve & Rosberg Formula Atlantic EIS 1977.jpg

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

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.

Calendar

Race No	Track	State	Date	Laps	Distance	Time	Speed	Winner	Pole Position	Fastest Race Lap
1	Mosport Park		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		June 26, 1977	75	2.140369=160.527675 km	1'09:23.009	138.818 km/h	Bobby Rahal	?	Bobby Rahal
3	Edmonton		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		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		August 7, 1977	65	2.57488=167.3672 km	1'12:23.4	138.721 km/h	Bill Brack	Gilles Villeneuve	?
6	St. Félicien		August 14, 1977	100	1.6093=160.93 km	1'11:56.955	134.203 km/h	Gilles Villeneuve	Gilles Villeneuve	?
	Trois-Rivières		September 4, 1977	did not count for the championship
7	Québec City		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	Template:Flagicon	Template:Flagicon	Template:Flagicon	Template:Flagicon	Template:Flagicon	Template:Flagicon	Template:Flagicon
1	Gilles Villeneuve		Ecurie Canada	March	114	24	-	30	-	-	30	30
2	Bobby Rahal		Morgan Racing	March	92	9	30	15	6	5	3
			Pierre's Motors Racing	Ralt								24
3	Bill Brack		Shierson Racing	March	87	-	19	12	24	30	2	-
4	Keke Rosberg		Fred Opert Racing	Chevron	82	-	24	24	30	-	-	4
	Price Cobb		Hansen Racing	March	82	30	-	19	-	24	-	9
6	Tom Gloy		Shea Racing	March	68	12	8	-	12	12	24	-
7	Chip Mead		Pierre's Motors Racing	Ralt	60	15	9	1	3	3	19	10
8	Kevin Cogan		?	Ralt	59	19	6	-	19	-	15	-
9	Richard Spénard		Ecurie Canada	March	48	8	7	9	-	19	-	5
10	Howdy Holmes		Shierson Racing	March	46	-	-	8	1	15	10	12
11	David Oxton		Team Tui	Tui	39	-	5	6	15	1	12	-
12	Marcel Talbot		Hine Racing	March	31	1	15	-	9	-	6	-
	Cliff Hansen		Hansen Racing	March	31	-	12	7	4	8	-	-
	Gregg Young		Fred Opert Racing	Chevron	31	4	2	4	5	9	7	-
15	Craig Hill		Team Ralt American	Ralt	25	-	-	-	-	10	8	7
16	Jeff Wood		R&R Racing	March	23	-	4	5	-	6	-	8
17	Juan Cochesa		Pierre's Motors Racing	Ralt	21	-	10	10	-	-	1	-
18	Steve Saleen		Clayton Racing	Ralt	19	6	3	3	7	-	-	-
	Patrick Depailler		Fred Opert Racing	Chevron	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	19
20	Jacques Laffite		Fred Opert Racing	Chevron	15	-	-	-	-	-	-	15
21	Peter Ferguson		?	Chevron	10	10	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Jon Norman		Norman Racing	March	10	-	-	-	10	-	-	-
23	Didier Pironi		Fred Opert Racing	Chevron	9	-	-	-	-	-	9	-
24	Carl Liebich		Liebrau Racing	Lola	8	-	-	-	8	-	-	-
	Brad Abbott		Stimola Racing	March	8	-	-	-	-	4	4	-
	Dan Marvin		Norman Racing	March	8	-	-	-	2	-	-
			?	Chevron								6
27	Bruce Jensen		?	Chevron	7	7	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Dave McMillan		Team Ralt American	Ralt	7	-	-	-	-	7	-	-
	Robert Nelkin		Nelkin Racing	March	7	-	1	-	-	-	5	1
30	Francisco Romero		Fred Opert Racing	Chevron	5	5	-	-	-	-	-	-
31	Mike Rocke		R&R Racing	March	4	-	-	2	-	2	-	-
32	Tim Cooper		?	March	3	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Rick Bell		Bell Racing	Chevron	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
34	Bob Fisher		?	March	2	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Gilles Léger		?	Ralt	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	2

External links

• oldracingcars.com