1975 Tasman Series

1975 Tasman Series
Champion Warwick Brown
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The 1975 Tasman Series was the twelfth and final in the series, beginning on 5 January and ending on 23 February after eight races.

The series was won by Australian driver Warwick Brown in his fifth year of Formula 5000 racing with the Pat Burke Racing team, driving a Lola T332 Chevrolet.^[1] The series was resolved in a dramatic final race inwhat turned out to be the final Tasman Series race of all, at Sandown Raceway. Brown, fellow Australian Johnnie Walker and New Zealander Graeme Lawrence all sat on 30 points prior to the last race. All three struck trouble but with a sixth position Brown claimed the final point in Tasman Series history, breaking the deadlock to win the crown by one point. Race wins had been shared around with Brown and Lawrence each winning twice, with single victories going to Walker, Chris Amon who finished fifth in the points behind the winless but consistent John McCormack, and to Graham McRae and John Goss who each completed partial series runs focussed on their home country events.

In the aftermath of this series, the two legs of the Tasman Series broke apart. The New Zealand half became the Peter Stuyvesant Series and converted to Formula Atlantic in 1977. The Australian half became the Rothmans International Series.^[2]

Results

Races

Additional information sourced from:^[3]

Round		Name	Circuit	Date	Winning driver	Winning car	Winning team	Report
New Zealand	1	Levin International	Levin	5 January	Graeme Lawrence	Lola T332 Chevrolet	Marlboro/Wix/Singapore Airlines	Report
	2	New Zealand Grand Prix	Pukekohe	12 January	Warwick Brown	Lola T332 Chevrolet	Pat Burke Racing	Report
	3	Lady Wigram Trophy	Wigram	19 January	Graham McRae	McRae GM2 Chevrolet		Report
	4	Teretonga International	Teretonga	26 January	Chris Amon	Talon MR-1 Chevrolet	Jack MacCormack	Report
Australia	5	Oran Park 100	Oran Park	2 February	Warwick Brown	Lola T332 Chevrolet	Pat Burke Racing	Report
	6	Surfers Paradise 100	Surfers Paradise	9 February	Johnnie Walker	Lola T332 Repco-Holden	Walker Racing	Report
	7	Adelaide 100	Adelaide	16 February	Graeme Lawrence	Lola T332 Chevrolet	Marlboro/Wix/Singapore Airlines	Report
	8	Sandown Park Cup	Sandown	23 February	John Goss	Matich A53 Repco-Holden	John Goss Racing	Report

Standings

All scores from points-scoring races were counted

Pos Driver LEV PUK WIG TER ORA SUR ADE SAN Pts 1 Warwick Brown 2 1 Ret Ret 1 8 2 6 31 2 Graeme Lawrence 1 3 5 9 2 9 1 Ret 30 = Johnnie Walker 4 4 3 4 3 1 3 Ret 30 4 John McCormack 8 6 2 2 5 5 DNS 2 23 5 Chris Amon Ret 7 Ret 1 4 Ret 4 5 17 6 John Goss Ret 3 Ret 1 13 7 Graham McRae Ret Ret 1 DNS 8 4 12 = Kevin Bartlett 3 Ret Ret 3 10 6 Ret 4 12 9 Ken Smith 5 5 9 8 6 2 Ret 7 11 = Max Stewart Ret 8 4 5 7 Ret 5 3 11 11 Jim Murdoch 6 2 7 Ret DNS 7 Ret 7 12 Garrie Cooper Ret 7 6 8 1 = Baron Robertson 9 11 DNS 6 1 = David Oxton 6 Ret 1 Pos Driver LEV PUK WIG TER ORA SUR SAN ADE Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Finished, in points Blue Finished, no points Not classified (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate Excluded (EX)

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