1970 Tasman Series

New Zealand Graeme Lawrence

The 1970 Tasman Series was a motor racing competition staged in New Zealand and Australia for cars complying with the Tasman Formula. It was the seventh Tasman Series, beginning on 3 January and ending on 22 February after seven races. The series was won by Graeme Lawrence of New Zealand, driving the Ferrari 246T that fellow New Zealander Chris Amon raced to win the 1969 Tasman Series.

1970 was a transitional year for the series, being the first year not involving the European Formula One teams which had given the Tasman Series its distinctive style. It was also the first year in which stock production engines of up to five litres cubic capacity were allowed, in short, Formula 5000. Entries arrived from both Europe and the United States, although not of the same quality of the earlier Tasman Formula era. Traditional 2.5 litre Tasman cars, like Lawrence's Ferrari, continued to race along with the 1.6 litre cars that filled much of the lower end of the grids during the Tasman era.

Results

Races

The Bay Park International, held on 28 December 1969, one week before the first round, was a non-championship event.

Source:

Round	Name	Circuit	Date	Winning driver	Winning car	Winning team	Report	New
Zealand	1	2	3	4	Australia	5	6	7
	last1=Klopfer	first1=Wolfgang	title=Formula 5000 in New Zealand & Australia	date=2005	publisher=BoD – Books on Demand	isbn=978-3-8334310-12}}	Bay Park	28 December	USA Ron Grable	McLaren M10A Chevrolet		Report
Levin International	Levin	3 January	New Zealand Graeme Lawrence	Dino 246 Tasmania		Report
New Zealand Grand Prix	Pukekohe	10 January	Australia Frank Matich	McLaren M10A Chevrolet	Rothmans Team Matich	Report
Lady Wigram Trophy	Wigram	17 January	Australia Frank Matich	McLaren M10A Chevrolet	Rothmans Team Matich	Report
Teretonga International	Teretonga	24 January	New Zealand Graham McRae	McLaren M10A Chevrolet		Report
Rothmans 100	Surfers Paradise	8 February	New Zealand Graham McRae	McLaren M10A Chevrolet		Report
International 100	Warwick Farm	15 February	Australia Kevin Bartlett	Mildren Mono Waggott	Alec Mildren Racing	Report
Golden 100	Sandown	22 February	Australia Neil Allen	McLaren M10B Chevrolet		Report

Standings

All scores from points-scoring races were counted

Position	1	2	3	4	5	6	Points
9	6	4	3	2	1

Pos	Driver	LEV	PUK	WIG	TER	SUR	WAR	SAN	Pts	1	2	3	=	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	=	=	15	=	=	Pos	Driver	LEV	PUK	WIG	TER	SUR	WAR	SAN	Pts
New Zealand Graeme Lawrence	1	3	Ret	4	3	3	2	30
Australia Frank Matich	3	1	1		4	Ret	Ret	25
Australia Kevin Bartlett	Ret	5	Ret	5	2	1	Ret	19
Australia Max Stewart	2	9	3	Ret	9	2	4	19
New Zealand Graham McRae	DNS	Ret	Ret	1	1	Ret	Ret	18
USA Ron Grable	DNS	4	2	2	5	Ret	Ret	17
Australia Neil Allen	??	8	Ret			4	1	12
USA Mike Goth	4	7	5	3	8	6	Ret	10
Sweden Ulf Norinder	6	6	Ret	Ret	6	8	3	7
United Kingdom Derek Bell	9	2	Ret	DNS				6
USA Bill Simpson	Ret	Ret	4	Ret	Ret	Ret		3
New Zealand Dennis Marwood	5	Ret	Ret	Ret				2
Australia John Harvey						5	Ret	2
Australia Alfredo Costanzo						Ret	5	2
UK Derrick Williams	10	10	9	6	10	??	Ret	1
USA Mike Campbell	Ret	Ret	6	DNS	Ret	10	Ret	1
Australia Tony Stewart							6	1

Keys

Abbreviation	Circuit
LEV	Levin
PUK	Pukekohe
SAN	Sandown
SUR	Surfers Paradise
TER	Teretonga
WAR	Warwick Farm
WIG	Wigram

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