1972 Can-Am season

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The 1972 Canadian-American Challenge Cup was the seventh season of the

Season results

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

Drivers Championship

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	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 M8F	Chevrolet				2	2					4
26=	Chuck Parsons	William Overhauser Racing Robert McCaig	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

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