The 1967 World Sportscar Championship season was 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.
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.
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 | ICSC Div 1 Rd | ICSC Div 2 Rd | ICSC Div 3 Rd | 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 |
| 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 |
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.
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 | DAY | SEB | MZA | SPA | TGA | NÜR1 | LMS | BRH | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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-Ford | 9 | 9 | ||||||||
| 4= | Chaparral | 9 | 9 | ||||||||
| 6 | Lola-Chevrolet | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| 7 | Alfa Romeo | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| Source:[6] | |||||||||||
This championship was for all Prototype class cars under 2000 cc.
| Pos | Manufacturer | DAY | SEB | MZA | SPA | TGA | NÜR1 | LMS | BRH | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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. | Manufacturer | DAY | SEB | MZA | SPA | TGA | NÜR1 | LMS | HOC | MUG | BRH | PER | ZEL | VSO | NÜR2 | Total | |
| 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[7] | |
| Austin-Healey | - | - | - | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 |