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. The team mostly competed in the South African Grand Prix from 1962 to 1975. After fielding a Lotus customer car, Scribante ran

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on the occasion of the

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in 1965. Brabham won the non-championship race, and Scribante agreed on switching to

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cars for the following two seasons. In 1970 Scribante returned to Lotus and purchased the

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who had won the Formula One World Championship with

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in 1968. The very same year

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won the

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, the first of six consecutive titles. In 1972 the team decided to enter three European Formula One races with scarce results. In 1975 Aldo Scribante founded the

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Complete Formula One World Championship results

( key) (Results in bold indicate pole position; results in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap.)

References

{{reflist Formula One entrants South African auto racing teams Auto racing teams established in 1961