The 1966 World Sportscar Championship season was the 14th season of the

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" motor racing.World Championship - final positions and tables at wspr-racing.com
Retrieved on 12 December 2010 It featured the 1966 International Manufacturers' Championship and the 1966 International Sports Car Championship, which were contested between 5 February 1966 and September 11, 1966, over a total of thirteen races. The International Manufacturers' Championship was open to

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and was contested in two engine capacity divisions, P1 (Up to 2000cc) and P2 (Over 2000cc).FIA's new rules starting the 1966 season
Retrieved on 12 December 2010 The International Sports Car Championship was open to Group 4 Sports Cars and was contested in three engine capacity divisions, S1 (Up to 1300cc), S2 (1301 to 2000cc) and S3 (Over 2000cc).

Schedule

The 13 championship races each counted towards one or more of the five divisions. Both championships scored points to the top six competitors in each class, under four different tables or Baréme'. Baréme I'' corresponded with the old order of 9-6-4-3-2-1. ''Baréme II'' was in the order 10-7-5-4-3-2. ''Baréme III'', valid only for Le Mans, was in the order 12-9-7-5-4-3. ''Baréme 0'', valid only for the Grosser Bergpreis der Schweiz, was half of ''Baréme I'': 4.5-3-2-1.5-1-0.5. Constructors were only awarded points for their highest finishing car. Other finishers from the same manufacturer were merely skipped in the points count. Only the best 4 results counted towards the championship (5 in S3, 6 in S2). Points earned but not counted towards the championship total are listed in (brackets). Note: The Hockenheim 500 km race did not count towards the Over 2000cc division of the International Manufacturers Championship.

Results

International Manufacturers Championship

International Sports Car Championship

The cars

The following models contributed to the nett points awarded to their respective manufacturers in the two championships. International Manufacturers Championship - Over 2000cc * Ford Mk II and Ford X-1 * Ferrari 365P2/3, Ferrari 330P3 &

Ferrari 250 LM The Ferrari P was a series of Italian sports prototype racing cars produced by Ferrari during the 1960s and early 1970s. Although Enzo Ferrari resisted the move even with Cooper dominating F1, Ferrari began producing mid-engined racing cars i ...

* Chaparral 2D International Manufacturers Championship - Up to 2000cc *

Porsche 906 The Porsche 906 or Carrera 6 is a street-legal racing car from Porsche. It was announced in January 1966 and 50 examples were subsequently produced, thus meeting the homologation requirements of the FIA's new Group 4 Sports Car category to the ...

Dino 206 S The Dino 206 S is a sports prototype produced by Ferrari in 1966–1967 under the Dino marque. Ferrari intended to produce at least fifty examples for homologation by the CSI in the Sport 2.0 L Group 4 category. As only 18 were made, the car ha ...

* Alpine-Renault A210 *

Austin-Healey Sprite The Austin-Healey Sprite is a small open sports car produced in the United Kingdom from 1958 until 1971. The Sprite was announced to the press in Monte Carlo by the British Motor Corporation on 20 May 1958, two days after that year's Monaco Gran ...

Triumph LM The Roman triumph (Latin triumphus) was a celebration for a victorious military commander in ancient Rome. For later imitations, in life or in art, see Trionfo. Numerous later uses of the term, up to the present, are derived directly or indirectl ...

* Abarth 1300 OT * ASA 411 *

Lotus 23B The Lotus 23 was designed by Colin Chapman as a small-displacement sports racing car. Nominally a two-seater, it was purpose-built for FIA Group 4 racing in 1962–1963. Unlike its predecessors Lotus 15 and 17, the engine was mounted amidship ...

BMW International Sports Car Championship - Division 1 * Abarth 1300 OT * Alpine Renault M65 & Alpine Renault A110 *

Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ The Alfa Romeo Giulietta (''Tipo 750'' and ''Tipo 101'', meaning "Type 750" and "Type 101") is a family of automobiles made by Italian car manufacturer Alfa Romeo from 1954 until 1965 which included a 2+2 coupé, four-door saloon, estate, spide ...

International Sports Car Championship - Division 2 * Porsche 904 GTS &

Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ2 The Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (also known as the Alfa Romeo TZ or Tubolare Zagato) was a sports car and racing car manufactured by Alfa Romeo from 1963 to 1967. It replaced the Giulietta SZ. In 2011, the name was reduced from Giulia TZ to TZ in the ...

Lotus Elan Lotus Elan is the name of two separate ranges of automobiles produced by Lotus Cars. The first series of cars was produced between 1962 and 1975 as a rear-wheel drive vehicle. The second series was produced between 1989 and 1995 as a front-wheel ...

Volvo P1800 The Volvo P1800 (pronounced ''eighteen-hundred'') is a 2+2, front-engine, rear-drive sports car manufactured and marketed by Volvo Cars between 1961 and 1973. Originally a coupé (1961–1972), it was also offered in a shooting-brake configuratio ...

International Sports Car Championship - Division 3 *

Ford GT40 The Ford GT40 is a high-performance endurance racing car commissioned by the Ford Motor Company. It grew out of the "Ford GT" (for Grand Touring) project, an effort to compete in European long-distance sports car races, against Ferrari, which ...

Ferrari 250 GTO The Ferrari 250 GTO is a GT car produced by Ferrari from 1962 to 1964 for homologation into the FIA's Group 3 Grand Touring Car category. It was powered by Ferrari's ''Tipo 168/62'' Colombo V12 engine. The "250" in its name denotes the displa ...

Shelby Cobra The AC Cobra, sold in the United States as the Shelby Cobra and AC Shelby Cobra, is a sports car manufactured by British company AC Cars, with a Ford V8 engine. It was produced intermittently in both the United Kingdom and later the Unite ...

References

External links

1966 Sports Car racing images at www.racingsportscars.com
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