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The 1967 Tasman Series was a motor racing competition open to racing cars complying with the Tasman Formula. Officially known as the Tasman Championship for Drivers, it was organised by the Motorsport Association, New Zealand Inc. and the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport and was contested over six races in New Zealand and Australia between 7 January and 6 March 1967.

The series, which was the fourth annual Tasman Series, was won by Jim Clark driving a Lotus 33.

Races

The series was contested over six races with two additional races at Levin and Teretonga not counting for points.

Round		Name	Circuit	Date	Winning driver	Car	Entrant	Report
New Zealand	1	New Zealand Grand Prix	Pukekohe	7 January	Jackie Stewart	BRM P261	Owen Racing Organisation	Report
		Levin International	Levin	14 January	Jim Clark	Lotus 33 Coventry Climax	Team Lotus (Overseas) Ltd	Report
	2	Lady Wigram Trophy	Wigram	21 January	Jim Clark	Lotus 33 Coventry Climax	Team Lotus (Overseas) Ltd	Report
		Teretonga International	Teretonga	28 January	Jim Clark	Lotus 33 Coventry Climax	Team Lotus (Overseas) Ltd	Report
Australia	3	Eagers-Craven Filter Lakeside International 99	Lakeside	12 February	Jim Clark	Lotus 33 Coventry Climax	Team Lotus (Overseas) Ltd	Report
	4	Australian Grand Prix	Warwick Farm	19 February	Jackie Stewart	BRM P261	Owen Racing Organisation	Report
	5	Sandown International	Sandown	26 February	Jim Clark	Lotus 33 Coventry Climax	Team Lotus (Overseas) Ltd	Report
	6	South Pacific Trophy	Longford	6 March	Jack Brabham	Repco Brabham BT23A	Ecurie Vitesse	Report

Points system

Points were awarded at each race as shown in the following table:

All points scored were counted.

Series standings

Pos Driver Car Entrant Puk Wig Lak War San Lon Pts 1 Jim Clark Lotus 33 Coventry Climax Team Lotus (Overseas) Ltd 2 1 1 2 1 2 45 2 Jackie Stewart BRM P261 Owen Racing Organisation 1 Ret Ret 1 Ret Ret 18 = Jack Brabham Repco Brabham BT22 Repco Brabham BT23A Jack Brabham Racing Ecurie Vitesse Ret 13 2 4 NC 1 18 = Frank Gardner Repco Brabham BT16 Coventry Climax Alec Mildren Racing Pty Ltd DNS 4 3 3 3 4 18 5 Richard Attwood BRM P261 Owen Racing Organisation 3 2 10 6 Kevin Bartlett Repco Brabham BT11A Coventry Climax Alec Mildren Racing Pty Ltd Ret 5 5 6 5 5 9 7 Leo Geoghegan Lotus 39 Coventry Climax Geoghegan Racing Division Ret 5 2 DNS 8 8 Denny Hulme Repco Brabham BT7A Coventry Climax Repco Brabham BT22 FH Stanton Jack Brabham Racing Ecurie Vitesse Ret 3 4 Ret Ret Ret 7 = Chris Irwin BRM P261 Owen Racing Organisation Ret 4 3 7 10 Jim Palmer Repco Brabham BT22 Coventry Climax Jim Palmer Motor Racing 4 Ret 3 = John Harvey Repco Brabham BT14 Ford RC Phillips Sports Car World Pty Ltd 6 DNS 6 6 3 12 Graeme Lawrence Repco Brabham BT14 Ford Lawrence Motors 5 12 2 13 Dene Hollier Lotus 27 Ford Dene Hollier Ltd 6 Ret 1 = Roly Levis Repco Brabham BT14 Ford Levis Racing Team 9 6 1 — Jim Boyd Repco Brabham BT4 Coventry Climax SH Jensen 7 7 0 — Bill Stone Repco Brabham BT6 Ford Levis Racing Team 8 8 0 — Ken Sager Repco Brabham BT16 Ford JH Sager 10 0 — Laurence Brownlie Repco Brabham BT6 Ford 11 DNS 0 — John Weston Repco Brabham BT2 Ford 12 11 0 — Don MacDonald Repco Brabham BT10 Ford 13 Ret 0 — Grahame Harvey Repco Brabham BT6 Ford Ret 10 0 — Ken Smith Lotus 22 Ford Ret 0 — Pat McLoughlin Cooper T53 Coventry Climax Ret 0 — Dennis Marwood Cooper T66 Coventry Climax Ecurie Rothmans Ret Ret 0 — Red Dawson Repco Brabham BT7A Coventry Climax DNS 9 0 — Kerry Grant Repco Brabham BT11A Coventry Climax Grant & Liddle DNS 0 — Peter Yock Repco Brabham BT6 Ford DNQ 0 — Paul Bolton Repco Brabham BT7A Coventry Climax Stanton Motors DNQ Ret DNS 0 — Glyn Scott Lotus 27 Ford Glyn Scott Motors 7 7 8 0 — Mel McEwin Elfin Mono Ford M McEwin 8 Ret Ret 0 — Piers Courage BRM P261 Owen Racing Organisation Ret 0 — Spencer Martin Repco Brabham BT11A Coventry Climax Bob Jane Racing Team Ret Ret Ret Ret 0 — Greg Cusack Lotus 32B Coventry Climax Castrol Team Ret 0 — Ian Cook Elfin Mono MkIIB Ford I Cook Ret Ret 7 0 — Mike Champion Repco Brabham BT2 Ford Competition Cars Australia 8 0 — Graham Hill Lotus 48 Ford Cosworth FVA Team Lotus (Overseas) Ltd Ret 0 — Peter Macrow Cheetah Mk3 Ford RP Creed NC 0 — Jack Hunnam Elfin Mono MkIID Ford Jack Hunnam Motors Ret 0 Pos Driver Car Entrant Puk Wig Lak War San Lon Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (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 practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX)

References

1. Official Programme, Tasman Championship – International Meeting, Sandown, Sunday, February 26, page 29
2. ^ The Tasman Championship for Drivers – Season 1967, CAMS Manual of Motor Sport – 1967, pages 65–68
3. ^ Tasman Cup 1967 & linked race result pages, www.oldracingcars.com Retrieved on 17 March 2021
4. ^ Tasman Series 1967, www.sergent.com.au Retrieved on 24 March 2015
5. ^ Official Programme, Eagers-Craven Filter Lakeside International 99 , February 12, 1967
6. Names of drivers who did not score points in the series have been obtained from race results pages linked from Tasman Cup 1967, www.oldracingcars.com
7. As all Brabham cars listed in the official programmes for the Warwick Farm and Sandown races were entered as Repco Brabhams, the latter term has been used throughout this article
8. ^ Official Programme, 32nd Australian Grand Prix, Warwick Farm, Sunday, February 19, 1967, page 37
9. ^ Official Programme, Tasman Championship – International Meeting, Sandown, Sunday, February 26, page 51

Further reading

• 1967, The Official 50-race history of the Australian Grand Prix, 1986, pages 320–326
• In The Mirrors, Australian Motor Racing Annual, 1967, pages 6–13 & 57–62
• Jim Shepherd, A History of Australian Motor Racing, 1980, pages 40–41

External links

• 1967 Season, www.sergent.com.au

• Tasman Series seasons
• 1967 in Australian motorsport
• 1967 in New Zealand motorsport