1967 World Sportscar Championship

1967 World Sportscar Championship season
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Ferrari won the Manufacturers Championship with the 330 P3 (pictured) & 330 P4

The 1967 World Sportscar Championship season were the 15th season of FIA World Sportscar Championship racing. It featured the International Championship for Sports-Prototypes and the International Championship for Sports Cars.^[1] The former was open to Group 6 Sports-Prototypes and the latter to Group 4 Sports Cars. The season ran from 4 February 1967 to 3 September 1967 and comprised 14 races in total.

This was the last championship season to include a hill climb event, due to safety concerns. Also, growing speed at Le Mans caused a controversial CSI decision to limit the engine capacity of Group 6 Sports-Prototypes to 3 litres, beginning in 1968.

Schedule

Although the season was composed of 14 races, not all races counted as rounds for both championships^[2][3] and each class did not compete in all events. Some events also included classes for GT cars and Touring Cars although these cars were not eligible to score championship points.

ICSP Rd[2]	ICSC Div 1 Rd[2]	ICSC Div 2 Rd[2]	ICSC Div 3 Rd[2]	Race	Circuit or Location	Competitors	Date
1	-	1	1	24 Hours of Daytona	Daytona International Speedway	All	4 February 5 February
2	-	2	2	12 Hours of Sebring	Sebring International Raceway	All	1 April
3	-	3	3	1000km Monza	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	All	25 April
4	-	4	4	1000km Spa	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	All	1 May
5	-	5	5	Targa Florio	Circuito Piccolo delle Madonie	All	14 May
6	1	6	6	1000km Nürburgring	Nürburgring	All	28 May
7	-	7	7	24 Hours of Le Mans	Circuit de la Sarthe	All	10 June 11 June
-	2	-	-	Sports Car Grand Prix	Hockenheimring	Sports/GT	9 July
-	3	8	-	Mugello 500 km	Mugello Circuit	All	23 July
8	-	9	8	BOAC 500 (6 Hours)	Brands Hatch	Proto/Sports	30 July
-	4	-	-	Coppa Citta di Enna	Autodromo di Pergusa	Proto/Sports	6 August
-	5	10	9	Sports Car Grand Prix Österrich	Zeltweg Airfield	Sports	20 August
-	6	11	10	Swiss Mountain Grand Prix	Villars-sur-Ollon	All	27 August
-	7	-	-	500 km Nürburgring	Nürburgring	All	3 September

Races

A Chaparral 2F competing in the Group 6 category at the 1967 1000km Nürburgring.

Race	Circuit	Prototype Winning Team	Sportscar Winning Team	GT Winning Team	Results
		Prototype Winning Drivers	Sportscar Winning Drivers	GT Winning Drivers
1	Daytona	#23 SpA Ferrari SEFAC	#11 J.W. Automotive	#54 Jack Ryan	Results
		Lorenzo Bandini Chris Amon	Dick Thompson Jacky Ickx	Jack Ryan Bill Bencker
2	Sebring	#1 Ford Motor Co.	#19 Scuderia Brescia Corse	#46 Robert Kirby	Results
		Mario Andretti Bruce McLaren	Nino Vaccarella Umberto Maglioli	Robert Kirby Alan Johnson
3	Monza	#3 SpA Ferrari SEFAC	#33 Ford France	Paul Vestey	Results
		Lorenzo Bandini Chris Amon	Jo Schlesser Guy Ligier	Paul Vestey Carlos Gaspar
4	Spa	#6 J.W. Automotive	#41 Dawnay Racing	#71 British Motor Co.	Results
		Dick Thompson Jacky Ickx	Jackie Oliver Mike Salmon	Roger Enever Alec Poole
5	Piccolo delle Madonie	#184 Porsche System Eng.	#130 Ford France S.A.	#46 Porsche System Eng.	Results
		Rolf Stommelen Paul Hawkins	Jean-Michel Giorgi Henri Greder	Bernard Cahier Jean-Claude Killy
6	Nürburgring	#17 Porsche System Eng.	#70 Scuderia Lufthansa	#75 IGFA	Results
		Udo Schütz Joe Buzzetta	Hans-Dieter Dechent Robert Huhn	Helmut Kelleners Jürgen Neuhaus
7	La Sarthe	#1 Shelby-American Inc.	#37 Porsche System Eng.	#28 Scuderia Filipinetti	Results
		Dan Gurney A.J. Foyt	Vic Elford Ben Pon	Rico Steinemann Dieter Spoerry
8	Hockenheimring	Did Not Participate	#3 Abarth	#29 "Jean-Pierre"	Results
			Toine Hezemans	"Jean-Pierre"
9	Mugello	#1 Porsche System	#63 No Team Name	#133 No Team Name	Results
		Gerhard Mitter Udo Schütz	Leo Cella Giampiero Biscaldi	Luigi Cabella Giovanni Marini
10	Brands Hatch	#1 Chaparral Cars Inc.	#72 A.G. Dean Racing Ltd.	Did Not Participate	Results
		Phil Hill Mike Spence	Tony Dean Ben Pon
11	Pergusa	#62 No Team Name	#80 Scuderia Brescia Corse	Did Not Participate	Results
		Dieter Spoerry	Nino Vaccarella
12	Zeltweg	Did Not Participate	#5 Paul Hawkins	Did Not Participate	Results
			Paul Hawkins
13	Villars-sur-Ollon	#196 Porsche System	#160 OASC	Did Not Participate	Results
		Gerhard Mitter	Rudi Lins
14	Nürburgring	#2 Alpine	#42 Abarth	#58 Motor Racing Stables	Results
		Roger Delageneste	Ernst Furtmayer	Tetsu Ikuzawa

Results

Manufacturers' Championship

Porsche placed second in the Manufacturers Championship with the 910.

Ford placed third in the Manufacturers Championship with the Mk II and Mk IV (pictured).

All championships scored points to the top six competitors in each class, in the order of 9-6-4-3-2-1. Only the best five finishes counted towards the championship, with skipped points marked in parentheses.

Manufacturers were only awarded points for their highest finishing car, but other finishers from the same manufacturer could prevent competitors from scoring points. For example, at Daytona, Ferrari scored a 1-2-3 result with 9 points awarded in the P+2.0 category, followed by two 2000cc Porsche prototypes which received 3 points (plus 9 in the P2.0 Division), and the 6th-best prototype, a Ford Mk.II in 7th overall, collected a single point.

Prototypes over 2000 cc

This championship was for all Prototype class cars over 2000 cc.

Controversy arose about the Mirage of John Wyer, which had won at Spa. As it was a modified Ford GT40 with Ford engines, Ford argued that it should count towards Ford's tally.^[4] As the CSI declined and Ford had no remaining chances to defend the championship prior to the final round at Brands Hatch, Ford did not send its prototypes.

Pos[5]	Manufacturer[5]	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Rd 8	Total[5]
1	Ferrari	9		9	4	(3)		6	6	34
2	Porsche	(3)	4	4	6	9	9	(2)	(4)	32
3	Ford	1	9	1	(1)	2		9		22
4=	Mirage				9					9
4=	Chaparral								9	9
6	Lola				3					3
7	Alfa Romeo						2			2

Prototypes under 2000 cc

This championship was for all Prototype class cars under 2000 cc.

Pos[5]	Manufacturer[5]	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Rd 8	Total[5]
1	Porsche	9	9	9	9	9	(9)	(9)	(6)	45
2	Lotus								9	9
3	Alfa Romeo				4		3			7
4=	Alpine				2			4		6
4=	Chevron						2		4	6
6	Ferrari					4				4

International Championship for Sports Cars

Ford won the Over 2000cc Division of the International Championship for Sports Cars with the GT40.

Championship points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 for the first six positions in each relevant division at each race except for the Swiss Mountain Grand Prix at which half points were awarded.^[3] Only the highest placed car from each manufacturer in each division was eligible to score points for its manufacturer. Not all race results could be counted towards the championship totals and discarded points are shown within brackets in the table below.

Pos.[5]	Manufacturer[5]	Day	Seb	Mon	Spa	Tar	Nur	LeM	Hoc	Mug	Bra	Per	Zel	Vil	Nur	Total[5]
	Division I (1300cc)
1	Abarth	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	9	-	9	9	(4.5)	9	45
2	Diva	-	-	-	-	-	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	12
3	Austin-Healey	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	4
4	Saab	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1
5	Triumph	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.5	-	0.5
	Division II (2000cc)
1	Porsche	-	9	9	-	-	9	9	-	9	9	-	9	(4.5)	-	63
2	Alfa Romeo	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	9
3	Lotus	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.5	-	0.5
	Division III (+2000cc)
1	Ford	9	9	9	9	9	9	-	-	-	(6)	-	(9)	-	-	54
2	Ferrari	4	-	4	-	-	3	-	-	-	9	-	4	4.5	-	28.5
3	Shelby	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	6[6]
	Austin-Healey	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6

Notes and references

1. Denis Jenkinson, The Automobile Year Book of Sports Car Racing, 1982, page 222
2. János L Wimpffen. Time and Two Seats, 1999, page 708
3. Introduction: Starting the 1967 Season Retrieved from www.imca-slotracing.com on 21 February 2009
4. http://www.imca-slotracing.com/1967-PART3.htm
5. 1967 World Sportscar Championship tables Retrieved from wspr-racing.com on 21 February 2009
6. The points table at wspr-racing.com shows Shelby scoring only 3 points but gives its championship total as 6 points.

External links

• 1967 Championship race results at wspr-racing.com
• 1967 Championship images and race programs at www.racingsportscars.com