1967 World Sportscar Championship

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.

1967 World Sportscar Championship
Previous: 1966 Next: 1968
Ferrari won the Manufacturers Championship with the 330 P3 (pictured) & 330 P4

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 realistic chances to defend the championship without those points, Ford concentrated the solely on Le Mans and did not send its prototypes to the Nurburgring or Brands Hatch events.

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.
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