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War Bonnet 250

War Bonnet Park, New Manford, Oklahoma, USA

Date: 12/5/1968 to: 12/5/1968
Track length: 3.698 m
Attendance: 15.000
Entries accepted: unknown
Starters: 20
Finishers: 13

Pole position: Jones in 1.36,0 = 138,69 kmh
Fastest lap: Jones in 1.35,4 = 139,22 kmh

Distance: 250 miles
Average speed: 132,74 kmh
Weather:
Ruleset: FIA Group 1 and 2
Car info:  

 

“Mark Donohue continued his early season dominance of major road races by winning the War Bonnet 250 at new Mannford, Oklahoma, a race in SCCA’s Trans-American Championship for Sports Sedan manufacturers. Donohue, driving a Camaro, gained 9 points for Chevrolet to stretch their lead in the championship to 7 points over Ford, 24 points to 17. Donohue won at 82.549 mph in the three-hour race. He had a 45 second margin over George Follmer driving a Javelin at the finish. The six points Follmer won for American Motors gave them a total of 8 in the championship.

Horst Kwech took the under 2 litre class victory winning 9 points for Alfa Romeo. He had a race-long battle with Tony Adamowicz (Porsche 911) who finished second.

The race was red flagged after Malcolm Starr went off course and into a fence. Two spectators suffered injuries, the most serious being a broken arm. It was restarted.

Donohue, Follmer, Parnelli Jones (Mustang), Peter Revson (Javelin) and Jerry Titus (Mustang) had a series of battles for the leading spots that kept the crowd of 15,000 on its feet. Jones was forced to make an early, unscheduled pit stop that dropped him two laps he was never able to make up on the leaders. But he passed everyone else in a long chase that won third place just ahead of Revson.”
(taken from TransAm box scores).


Under and Over 2000 cc
Pos Pos in class # Team / Entrant
Car- Engine
Drivers, Nationality Engine
vol. (cc)
Engine
Type
Group Distance,
time
Qualifying position Qualifying time Fastest lap Reason out
1 1 6 Penske-Hilton Racing
Chevrolet Camaro
Mark Donohue, USA
ca. 5000 V8 O 110 laps, 3:03.53,4 2      
2 2 4 Javelin Racing Team
AMC Javelin
George Follmer, USA
ca. 5000 V8 O 110 laps, 3:04.38 3      
3 3 2 Shelby Racing Corporation
Ford Mustang
Parnelli Jones, USA
ca. 5000 V8 O 108        
4 4 3 Javelin Racing Team
AMC Javelin
Peter Revson, USA
ca. 5000 V8 O 108 4      
5 1    
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA
Horst Kwech, USA
1570 L4 O 104        
6 2    
Porsche 911
Tony Adamowicz, USA
1991 B6 O 104        
7 3    
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA
Vic Provenzano, USA
1570 L4 O 102        
8 5    
Ford Mustang
John McComb, USA
ca. 5000 V8 O 102        
9 6    
Ford Mustang
Sam Posey, USA
ca. 5000 V8 O 100        
10 4    
Porsche 911
Marty Gifford, USA
1991 B6 O 99        
11 5    
Porsche 911
Bert Everett, USA
1991 B6 O 99        
12 6    
Austin Mini Cooper S
Hugh Grammer, USA
1293 L4 O 95        
13 7    
BMC Mini Cooper S
Richard McDaniel, USA
1293 L4 O 61        
DNF      
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA
Ed Wachs, USA
1570 L4 O 99       Differential
DNF      
Ford Mustang
Malcolm Starr, USA
ca. 5000 V8 O 63       Accident
DNF     Shelby Racing Corporation
Ford Mustang
Jerry Titus, USA
ca. 5000 V8 O 45       Engine
DNF      
Porsche 911
Pete Harrison, USA
1991 B6 O 36        
DNF      
Dodge Dart
Jim Hall, USA
ca. 5000 V8 O 18       Engine
DNF      
Chevrolet Camaro
Rusty Jowett, USA
ca. 5000 V8 O 18       Engine
DNF      
Chevrolet Camaro
Larry Wilcox, USA
ca. 5000 V8 O 6       Engine