1978 Formula Atlantic season

1978 Formula Atlantic season

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The 1978 Formula Atlantic Labatts Championship Series season was contested over 7 rounds. In this one-make engine formula all drivers had to utilize Ford engines.

Calendar

Race No	Track	State	Date	Laps	Distance	Time	Speed	Winner	Pole Position	Fastest Race Lap
1	Long Beach	California	April 6, 1978	50	3.250786=162.5393 km	1'14:18.682	131.236 km/h	Howdy Holmes	Bobby Rahal	?
2	Westwood	Canada	April 23, 1978	56	2.89674=162.21744 km	1'08:47.021	141.502 km/h	Keke Rosberg	Jeff Wood	?
3	Québec City	Canada	June 11, 1978	80	2.0293273=162.346184 km	?	? km/h	Keke Rosberg	Bobby Rahal	?
4	Lime Rock	Connecticut	July 4, 1978	65	2.462229=160.044885 km	0'54:55.024	174.858 km/h	Bobby Rahal	Howdy Holmes	?
5	Elkhart Lake	Wisconsin	July 23, 1978	25	6.4372=160.93 km	0'56:05.360	172.150 km/h	Howdy Holmes	Bobby Rahal	?
6	Hamilton	Canada	August 7, 1978	39	2.09209=81.59151 km	0'47:24.585	103.259 km/h	Keke Rosberg	Bill Brack	Price Cobb (1:05.694)
	Trois-Rivières	Canada	September 3, 1978	did not count for the championship					Bill Brack
7	Montréal	Canada	September 24, 1978	35	4.409482=154.33187 km	1'02:08.582	149.010 km/h	Jeff Wood	Price Cobb	Price Cobb (1:44.650)

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 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	Howdy Holmes	United States	Shierson Racing	March	131	30	9	19	24	30	-	19
2	Keke Rosberg	Finland	Fred Opert Racing	Chevron	114	-	30	30	15	9	30	-
3	Price Cobb	United States	Ecurie Canada	March	103	-	19	24	12	-	24	24
4	Jeff Wood	United States	Great Plains Racing	March	88	15	24	-	19	-	-	30
5	Bobby Rahal	United States	Pierre's Motors Racing	Ralt	68	-	-	-	30	19	19	-
6	Tom Gloy	United States	Lane Sports	March	60	24	6	-	10	12	-
			Shea Racing	Chevron								8
7	Bertil Roos	Sweden	AME Racing	March	57	7	7	9	9	10	-	15
8	Bill Brack	United States	Shierson Racing	March	52	10	-	10	8	24	-	-
	Danny Sullivan	United States	?	March	52	-	10	-	-	15	15	12
10	Kevin Cogan	United States	Cogan Racing	Ralt	49	19	15	15	-	-	-	-
11	Chip Mead	United States	Pierre's Motors Racing	Ralt	45	-	12	12	4	7	10	-
12	Bobby Brown	United States	?	March	28	-	-	7	6	8	-	7
13	Chris Gleason	United States	Gleason Racing	March	23	6	5	2	-	4	-	6
	John Mortensen	United States	Shierson Racing	March	23	-	-	6	3	-	9	5
15	Bob Earl	United States	Tourte Racing	Chevron	19	12	-	-	-	-	7	-
16	Mike Rocke	United States	?	March	18	9	-	5	-	-	4	-
	Robert Nelkin	United States	Nelkin Racing	March	18	-	-	8	-	6	-	4
18	Rick Bell	United States	?	Ralt	16	-	-	4	2	3	6	1
19	Divina Galica	United Kingdom	Fred Opert Racing	Chevron	15	3	-	-	-	-	12	-
20	Skeeter McKitterick	United States	?	March	14	4	-	-	-	-	-
			AME Racing	March								10
	Ken Duclos	United States	?	Ralt	14	-	-	-	5	-	-	9
	Rick Koehler	United States	?	Excalibur (March)	14	-	3	-	-	-	8	3
23	Dan Marvin	United States	Norman Racing	March	10	2	8	-	-	-	-	-
24	Carl Liebich	United States	Liebrau Racing	Lola	9	8	-	-	1	-	-	-
25	James Crawley	United States	Fred Opert Racing	Chevron	7	-	-	-	7	-	-	-
26	Bruce Jensen	Canada	?	Ralt	6	-	-	1	-	5	-	-
	Gilles Léger	Canada	?	Ralt	6	-	-	3	-	-	3	-
28	Terry Vidger	United States	?	March	5	5	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Jean-Pierre Alamy	Canada	?	March	5	-	-	-	-	-	5	-
30	Ken Briggs	United States	?	March	4	-	4	-	-	-	-	-
31	Rick Shea	Canada	Shea Racing	Chevron	2	-	2	-	-	-	-	-
	Peter Robinson	United States	?	Chevron	2	-	-	-	-	2	-	-
	Jeff Smith	Canada	Starr Racing	Chevron	2	-	-	-	-	-	2	-
	Jon Norman	United States	Norman Racing	March	2	-	1	-	-	-	1	-
	Giovanni Distasio	United States	?	March	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
36	Willy T. Ribbs	United States	?	March	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
	John Bauer	United States	?	March	1	-	-	-	-	1	-	-