In qualifying, Kaufmann secured third place on the starting grid with a time of 1:36.549 minutes (average speed 157.57 km/h), behind James Lay in the 1976 March 762 (1:36.190) and Manfredo Rossi di Montelera in the 1978 Chevron B 42 (1:36.195). "I was still using tires from the Historic Grand Prix Zandvoort in qualifying, while the competition was on new tires," explains Wolfgang Kaufmann. "So, naturally, I had high hopes for the race. Misano is a cool, incredibly fast track that offers fantastic driving fun in Formula 2!" After the start of the first race, the driver from the Westerwald region initially stayed in the slipstream of the leading James Lay. "Rossi di Montelera was putting me under pressure behind me," Kaufmann describes his perspective from the cockpit. “I, in turn, built up the pressure on championship leader Lay lap after lap until he made a mistake, allowing me to finally take the lead and win. Rossi di Montelera also managed to overtake him later.” Kaufmann edged out the latter by a razor-thin margin of 0.106 seconds at the checkered flag. James Lay finished 4.328 seconds behind.

“Although I won the starting duel for race two,” Kaufmann continued, “James Lay squeezed right alongside me in Turn 2. I gave him enough space to avoid contact.” Lay and Kaufmann battled for the win for a while, but after three laps, the Briton had to retire with a technical problem. “As the race progressed, more of my direct rivals dropped out at the front. This allowed me to cruise to another victory with relative ease.” He built up a lead of more than 50 seconds over his current pursuers, Keith White in the March 76 B and Martin Wood in the March 73 B, within 16 laps. “Misano was the fantastic finale to a season in which I won five out of six races,” the “Piranha” enthusiastically concluded. "And even though I didn't start at Brands Hatch or Dijon, missing four races, I still finished third in the championship! Sometimes I think, if I could have driven in Formula 2 back then, who knows, maybe I would have become a Formula 1 driver..."