1972 Can-Am season

The 1972 Canadian-American Challenge Cup was the seventh season of the Can-Am auto racing series. It was contested by FIA Group 7 racing cars running two-hour sprint events. The series began June 11, 1972, and ended October 29, 1972, after nine rounds. It was jointly sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America and the Canadian Automobile Sports Club.^[1]

The series was won by George Follmer driving a Porsche 917/10 for Penske Racing.

Schedule edit

George Follmer won the series driving a Porsche 917/10 similar to the example pictured above

Denny Hulme placed second driving a McLaren M20

Rnd	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Labatt's Blue Trophy	Mosport Park	June 11
2	Road Atlanta Can-Am	Road Atlanta	July 9
3	Watkins Glen Can-Am	Watkins Glen International	July 23
4	Buckeye Can-Am	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	August 6
5	Road America Can-Am	Road America	August 27
6	Minneapolis Tribune Grand Prix	Donnybrooke International Raceway	September 17
7	Klondike 200	Edmonton Speedway Park	October 1
8	Monterey Castrol GTX Grand Prix	Laguna Seca Raceway	October 15
9	Los Angeles Times Grand Prix	Riverside International Raceway	October 29

Season results edit

Rnd	Circuit	Winning Team	Results
Rnd	Circuit	Winning Driver	Results
1	Mosport	#5 Bruce McLaren Motor Racing	Results
1	Mosport	Denny Hulme	Results
2	Road Atlanta	#6 Penske Racing	Results
2	Road Atlanta	George Follmer	Results
3	Watkins Glen	#5 Bruce McLaren Motor Racing	Results
3	Watkins Glen	Denny Hulme	Results
4	Mid-Ohio	#6 Penske Racing	Results
4	Mid-Ohio	George Follmer	Results
5	Road America	#6 Penske Racing	Results
5	Road America	George Follmer	Results
6	Donnybrooke	#22 Young American Racing	Results
6	Donnybrooke	François Cevert	Results
7	Edmonton	#6 Penske Racing	Results
7	Edmonton	Mark Donohue	Results
8	Laguna Seca	#7 Penske Racing	Results
8	Laguna Seca	George Follmer	Results
9	Riverside	#7 Penske Racing	Results
9	Riverside	George Follmer	Results

Drivers Championship edit

Points are awarded to the top ten finishers in the order of 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1.^[1] For classification, the four best results of the first five races and all four results of the last four races were retained.^[2]

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Engine	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Rd 8	Rd 9	Total
1	George Follmer	Penske Racing	Porsche 917/10	Porsche		20	8	20	20	10	12	20	20	130
2	Denny Hulme	Bruce McLaren Motor Racing	McLaren M20	Chevrolet	20		20	10			15			65
3	Milt Minter	Vasek Polak Racing Team	Porsche 917/10	Porsche	10	12	6	12	(4)	15		10		65
4	Mark Donohue	Penske Racing	Porsche 917/10	Porsche	15						20	15	12	62
5	François Cevert	Young American Racing Team	McLaren M8F	Chevrolet			12		15	20		12		59
6	Peter Revson	Bruce McLaren Motor Racing	McLaren M20	Chevrolet	12		15				6		15	48
7	David Hobbs	Carl Haas	Lola T310	Chevrolet		4	10	6			8	3	8	39
8	Jackie Oliver	Advanced Vehicle Systems	Shadow Mk.3	Chevrolet				15		12			10	37
9	Peter Gregg	Peter Gregg	Porsche 917/10	Porsche	8	8			12				6	34
10	Charlie Kemp	Bobby Rinzler	Lola T222	Chevrolet	2	10		8			1	6		27
11	Lothar Motschenbacher	Motschenbacher Racing	McLaren M8D	Chevrolet	6	6	4			6	4			26
12	Gregg Young	Young American Racing Team	McLaren M8F	Chevrolet		15			8					23
13	Jean-Pierre Jarier	North American Racing Team	Ferrari 712M	Ferrari			1		10					11
14	Bob Nagel	Bob Nagel	Lola T222	Chevrolet	1		3	1	3	3				11
15	José Carlos Pace	Advanced Vehicle Systems	Shadow Mk.3	Chevrolet							10			10
16	Gary Wilson	Gary Wilson	McLaren M8E	Chevrolet				3	6			1		10
17=	John Cordts	William Overhauser Racing	Lola T163 McLaren M8D	Chevrolet						8				8
17=	Sam Posey	Vasek Polak Racing Team	Porsche 917PA	Porsche								8		8
19	Scooter Patrick	Otto Zipper Alfa Racing	Alfa Romeo T33/4	Alfa Romeo		2						4	2	8
20	Gordon Dewar	JNO Racing	McLaren M8C	Chevrolet	3			4						7
21	Tom Heyser	Albert Heyser	Lola T260	Chevrolet						1	2	2		5
22=	Steve Durst	Steve Durst	McLaren M8E/D	Chevrolet	4									4
22=	Ed Felter	Ed Felter	McLaren M8E	Chevrolet						4				4
22=	Mike Hiss	Mike Hiss	McLaren M8F	Chevrolet									4	4
25	Warren Agor	Warren Agor	McLaren M8B McLaren M8F	Chevrolet				2	2					4
26=	Chuck Parsons	William Overhauser Racing Robert McCaig	Lola T163 McLaren M8FP	Chevrolet		3								3
26=	Hans Wiedmer	Wiedmer Racing Team	McLaren M8F	Chevrolet							3			3
26=	Willi Kauhsen	Willi Kauhsen Racing Team	Porsche 917/10	Porsche									3	3
29=	Tony Dean	A.G. Dean Racing	Porsche 908/02	Porsche			2							2
29=	Pete Sherman	Pete Sherman	McLaren M12	Chevrolet						2				2
31	Roger McCaig	Roger McCaig	McLaren M8FP	Chevrolet		1			1					2
32	Bob Peckham	Peckham Racing	McLaren M8C	Chevrolet									1	1

References edit

^ ^a ^b Can-Am 72 - The begininning of another era?, Automobile Year 1972/73, pages 178 to 187
^ Can-Am Chmapionship, Automobile Year 1972/73, page 247

"Canadian-American Challenge Cup 1972". World Sports Racing Prototypes. 2 October 2005. Archived from the original on 2013-09-29. Retrieved 2008-01-19.
"Can-Am - final positions and tables". World Sports Racing Prototypes. 2 October 2005. Archived from the original on 2008-05-31. Retrieved 2008-01-19.

[AY1-1] Can-Am 72 - The begininning of another era?, Automobile Year 1972/73, pages 178 to 187

[AY2-2] Can-Am Chmapionship, Automobile Year 1972/73, page 247

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