SCCA/USAC F5000 Championship Round

Watkins Glen, 14 Jul 1974

All cars are 5-litre F5000 unless noted.

Notes on the cars:

1. Lola T332 [HU29] (Mario Andretti): See full history: Lola T332 HU29.
2. Lola T332 [HU42] (Brian Redman): See full history: Lola T332 HU42.
3. Lola T332 [HU31] (Eppie Wietzes): See full history: Lola T332 HU31.
4. Lola T332 [HU41] (Graham McRae): See full history: Lola T332 HU41.
5. Lola T332 [HU32] (Evan Noyes): See full history: Lola T332 HU32.
6. Chevron B24 [24-73-02] (Roger Bighouse): New for 1973 season. Doug Shierson for Peter Gethin: raced in UK 1973 (won Race of Champions) and US 1973. To Roger Bighouse (Eastlake, OH): raced in US 1974 (7 races); US 1975 (4 races + 1 DNS) - Pat McGonegle (Cincinnati, OH): raced in US 1976 (1 race) and Can-Am 1977 (4 races + 1 DNS); probably the car entered by McGonegle as 'Mannix MX-2' in Can-Am 1978; advertised April 1979 - Danny Johnson (Kewanee, IL) 1979: raced in Can-Am 1979 (1 race), Can-Am 1981 (5 races), Can-Am 1982 (6 races) - Brian R Taylor (now Clive, Iowa) for Mike Engstrand (Des Moines, Iowa): raced in Can-Am 1985 (3 races) - Chuck Haines (St Louis, MO) - Anthony Taylor (Blackburn, UK) 2001: due to be rebuilt and raced in FORCE Historic F5000 series (UK) 2001. Then unknown until owned by Greg Thornton in 2011 and raced in UK and New Zealand 2011/12. Badly damaged in a fire at Thornton's garage in June 2012 but completely reconstructed.
7. Lola T300 [HU15] (Horst Kroll): Invoice date 30 Mar 1972 (sold to 'Haas', colour 'Yellow'). Horst Kroll (Canada) US 1972-1974; driven by Bert Kuehne US 1975 (5 races); Kroll US 1976; damaged in crash at Watkins Glen but rebuilt and converted to Can-Am. Kroll Can-Am 1977; rental car thereafter: e.g. Marcel Talbot Can-Am 1978 (1 race: Trois-Rivieres - 04 Sep 1978), Can-Am 1979 (1 entry in "T300": Road Atlanta - 06 May 1979, entry list only); Mike Freberg 1981; Duff Hubbard 1982; John Macaluso 1983; Walter Lechner 1984; Joe DeMarco 1985 and 1986; John Graham 1986. Rebuilt as "Frissbee KR5" for 1986. Mike Engstrand recalls driving Kroll's T300-based Can-Am car at St Louis and Hallet in 1986; used until 1987 - Chuck Haines (St Louis, MO) 1989 - Don Jensen (US) about 1998: used extensively in vintage racing still in Can-Am specification until 2007 - Andrew Kluver (Sydney, Australia) August 2007.
8. Lola T332 [HU44] (Mike Mosley): See full history: Lola T332 HU44.
9. FA 101 ['1'] (Robert Fischetti): New for Robert Fischetti to drive in 1973. It first raced in Cal Club Region SCCA Regional at Riverside on 19 August 1973, where Finish Line called it the "Adam-Chevy". He then drove it in the L&M F5000 Championship round at Seattle at the end of September, where he finished tenth of the 13 finishers, four laps behind the winner. He returned with the car for the 1974 Pro series, racing it at Watkins Glen in July. After qualifying 20th, he finished 10th out of 12 in his heat, and then finished 13th out of 17 finishers in the final. He finished tenth in his heat again at Road America in the next round, again qualifying for the final, but did not start. In a much larger field at Ontario Motor Speedway, he qualified only 32nd and was eliminated when finishing only 15th in his heat. He again failed to start the final at Laguna Seca and did not compete at Riverside. The car was next seen in 1989, when it was advertised in Victory Lane by Mike McComas (Pampa, TX) as "1972 Fischetti F5000" which was "completely restored" with Hewland LG500 gearbox. It then moved to the UK, where it was owned by Marcos racer David Bennett. Another Marcos man, Dave Methley, raced it for him in HSCC races in 1993. In March 1998, it was offered for sale in Autosport by Nicholas Overall and Steven Jewell of Teknis Classics (Midhurst, West Sussex). It was listed as "Fischetti F5000", described as a 1971 car, and it was said to have "HSCC Papers". By 1999, the car was in the workshop of John Bladon in the UK, and from him it had moved to Frank Lyons by 2001.
10. McLaren M22 [M22-3-72] (Thomas C. Jones): Bought by Tom Jones in the autumn of 1972 from Fred Opert as a kit, and built up by Jones and his father. Raced in the US series in 1973 and 1974. Sold to the father of Vic Todia (Parma Heights, OH) who raced in SCCA and 'Pro' events in 1976 and then SCCA events in 1977 and 1978. Acquired by Len Arnold (Greeley, Colorado) 1989, who restored the car and sold it to McLaren collector Harry Mathews in November 1990. Sold to Kiwi Tony Roberts (Auckland, New Zealand) to race in the 2007/08 F5000 Tasman Revival series. Sold to Tim Rush (Feilding, NZ), and raced in the 2009/10 Revival series. Later damaged at Hampton Downs in January 2015. More information about McLaren M22 M22-3-72
11. Lola T330 [HU19] (Dan Furey): See full history: Lola T330 HU19.
12. Lola T330 [HU7] (James Hawes): See full history: Lola T330 HU7.
13. March 73A [4-2] (Bill Tempero): See full history: March 73A/4.
14. Lola T300 [HU7] (Brad Blankenship): See full history: Lola T300 HU7.
15. Lola T332 [HU30] (David Hobbs): See full history: Lola T332 HU30.
16. March 73A [1] (John Gunn): Built for 1973 season (white). John Gunn: raced in US 1973, US 1974 (last race September 1974) - Les Hudelson mid-1974: raced by John Cannon US for the two Californian races in October 1974. Car then "put away"; retained by Hudelson in storage for nearly 20 years - Greg Wold (Maple Grove, MN) about 1993: restored to 1973 specification over next six years; raced in the SVRA series 2002. To Nick Smith (San Diego, CA) Feb 2007. To Roger Williams (New Zealand) Jan 2010. To Clark Proctor (Auckland, New Zealand) later in 2010 and raced in the Tasman Revival series in 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15.
17. Lola T330 [HU26] (John Benton): See full history: Lola T330 HU26.
18. McRae GM1 [005] (Randy Johnston): See full history: McRae GM1/005.
19. Lola T332 [HU43] (Johnny Rutherford): See full history: Lola T332 HU43.
20. Lola T332 [HU35] (Mario Andretti): See full history: Lola T332 HU35.

Sources

The identification of individual cars in these results is based on the material presented elsewhere in this site and may in some cases contradict the organisers' original results.

1968 US information has been taken from SCCA results sheets with additional information from Autoweek race reports and from some entry lists. Thanks to David McKinney and Wolfgang Klopfer for providing these. Identifying the classes and model of some entries has proved very difficult so all new information would be welcomed.

1969-1971 US information has been collated by Chris Townsend using Autoweek reports. All comments, clarifications, corrections and additions are most welcome.

1972-1976 US information was originally collated by Wolfgang Klopfer, converted to database format by Dawn Harrison and checked by Jim Thurman and Don Capps. Wolfgang's main sources are Autoweek and individual SCCA results bulletins but Autosport, Autocourse and Road Racing Annual have also been consulted.

US SCCA Runoffs, Nationals and Regionals results were collated by Wolfgang Klopfer from Autoweek reports. These reports were usually very brief so the information on the majority of races is limited just to the identity of the FA class winner.

Some race programs have also been used for entry lists and other information. My thanks to Richard Coe for the generous contributions from his collection.

All comments, clarifications, corrections and additions are most welcome. Please email Allen if you can add anything.