1970 Tasman Series

The 1970 Tasman Series was the seventh in the 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 Dino 246 Tasmania[1] that fellow New Zealander Chris Amon raced to win the 1969 series.

1970 Tasman Series
Champion Graeme Lawrence
Previous:	1969	Next:	1971

It was a transitional year, 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 that 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 the 28th of December 1969, one week before the first round, was a non-championship event. Additional information sourced from:[2]

Round		Name	Circuit	Date	Winning driver	Winning car	Winning team	Report
New Zealand
		Bay Park International[3][4]	Bay Park	28 December	Ron Grable	McLaren M10A Chevrolet		Report
	1	Levin International	Levin	3 January	Graeme Lawrence	Dino 246 Tasmania		Report
	2	New Zealand Grand Prix	Pukekohe	10 January	Frank Matich	McLaren M10A Chevrolet	Rothmans Team Matich	Report
	3	Lady Wigram Trophy	Wigram	17 January	Frank Matich	McLaren M10A Chevrolet	Rothmans Team Matich	Report
	4	Teretonga International	Teretonga	24 January	Graham McRae	McLaren M10A Chevrolet		Report
Australia	5	Surfers Paradise 100	Surfers Paradise	8 February	Graham McRae	McLaren M10A Chevrolet		Report
	6	Warwick Farm 100	Warwick Farm	15 February	Kevin Bartlett	Mildren Mono Waggott	Alec Mildren Racing	Report
	7	Sandown Park Cup	Sandown	22 February	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 Graeme Lawrence 1 3 Ret 4 3 3 2 30 2 Frank Matich 3 1 1 4 Ret Ret 25 3 Kevin Bartlett Ret 5 Ret 5 2 1 Ret 19 = Max Stewart 2 9 3 Ret 9 2 4 19 5 Graham McRae DNS Ret Ret 1 1 Ret Ret 18 6 Ron Grable DNS 4 2 2 5 Ret Ret 17 7 Neil Allen ?? 8 Ret 4 1 12 8 Mike Goth 4 7 5 3 8 6 Ret 10 9 Ulf Norinder 6 6 Ret Ret 6 8 3 7 10 Derek Bell 9 2 Ret DNS 6 11 Bill Simpson Ret Ret 4 Ret Ret Ret 3 12 Dennis Marwood 5 Ret Ret Ret 2 = John Harvey 5 Ret 2 = Alfredo Costanzo Ret 5 2 15 Derrick Williams 10 10 9 6 10 ?? Ret 1 = Mike Campbell Ret Ret 6 DNS Ret 10 Ret 1 = Tony Stewart 6 1 Pos Driver LEV PUK WIG TER SUR WAR SAN Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd 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 participate (DNP) Excluded (EX)

Key

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

References

1. "sergent.com.au - Contains Tasman Series information". Archived from the original on 9 March 2000. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
2. Allen Brown. "Tasman Cup (F5000) races « Formula 5000 « OldRacingCars.com". Archived from the original on 4 September 2009. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
3. Klopfer, Wolfgang (2005). Formula 5000 in New Zealand & Australia. ISBN 978-3-8334310-12.
4. Brown, Allen. "Tasman Cup Formula 5000 1970". Old Racing Cars. Retrieved 16 July 2019.