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Originally Posted by bkreigsr
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Originally Posted by p911dad
Watkins Glen, F1 1978 (?) |
Maybe Formula 5000?
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Nope. it's not F5000, it's F1. The Wolf with 21 on in the foreground is Bobby Rahal. He ran the last two races of the year, USA, and Canada for Walter Wolf. I recall in his autobiography that at one of the races he had a crash, or some other issue that put his car out of action, and they grabbed a display car that had been a race car but had sat in a store somewhere for the last 12 months. They basically dusted it off, fueled it up and sent him out in it. It didn't last.
The Williams behind is Alan Jones. Williams only ran one car that year with Jones. He finished 2nd in the race, which was the highest finish by the team to date, although Jones had won with Shadow the year before. The FW06 was also the first Williams car as Williams Grand Prix Engineering, they had run a March the prior year.
A fun link between the two cars in the pic is that Frank Williams had founded Frank Williams Racing Cars in 1969, which he eventual sold to Walter Wolf. So Frank started both teams shown in this pic.
Also other than Bobby Rahal, other American drivers in the race were Mario Andretti (obviously), and Brett Lunger. Bobby finished 12, Lunger 13th, and Mario retired after qualifying on pole.