South African Formula 1 Championship 1967

The South African Formula 1 Championship in 1967 was the eighth season of this regional racing series , which was held according to regulations based on Formula 1 . The championship consisted of twelve races that took place from January 7th to December 3rd, 1967. Nine races were held in South Africa, two in Rhodesia and one in Mozambique .

The championship title went to John Love , who had won the series in the previous three years. Love initially used a Cooper T79 with a Climax engine; From the sixth championship run he had a Brabham BT20 with a 3.0 liter Repco engine.

Racing calendar

No.	date	Grand Prix (track)	Distance (km)	Pole position	Fastest race lap	winner
01	January 7th	Cape South Easter Grand Prix Killarney	163.350 km	Dave Charlton	John Love	John Love
02	4th of March	Rand Autumn Trophy Kyalami	163.760 km	John Love	Dave Charlton	Dave Charlton
03	27th of March	Coronation 100 Roy Hesketh	159.555 km	Dave Charlton	Dave Charlton	John Love
04th	April 8th	Killarney Grand Prix Killarney	163.350 km	Sam Tingle		Sam Tingle
05	May 7th	Bulawayo 100 Kumalo	165.750 km			John Love
06th	July 9	Natal Winter Grand Prix Roy Hesketh	174.060 km	John Love	John Love	John Love
07th	July 23	Governor General Cup Lourenço Marques Circuit	46.410 km		John Love	John Love
08th	the 9th of September	Van Riebeeck Trophy Killarney	163.350 km			John Love
09	October 7th	Rand Spring Trophy Kyalami	163.760 km	Dave Charlton		John Love
010	October 22nd	Pat Fairfield Trophy Roy Hesketh	191.466 km			John Love
011	3rd of December	Rhodesian Grand Prix Kumalo	191.466 km			John Love

They run

Cape South Easter Grand Prix

space	driver	Time / laps
1	John Love	50 rounds
2	Bob Anderson	50 rounds
3	Sam Tingle	40 rounds

Rand Autumn Trophy

space	driver	Time / laps
1	Dave Charlton	40 rounds
2	John Love	40 rounds
3	Luki Botha	38 laps

Coronation 100

space	driver	Time / laps
1	John Love	55 laps
2	Sam Tingle	55 laps
3	Jackie Pretorius	55 laps

Killarney Grand Prix

space	driver	Time / laps
1	Sam Tingle	50 rounds
2	Jackie Pretorius	50 rounds
3	Tony Jeffries	40 rounds

Bulawayo 100

space	driver	Time / laps
1	John Love	50 rounds
2	Dave Charlton	50 rounds
3	Sam Tingle	50 rounds

Rand Autumn Trophy

space	driver	Time / laps
1	John Love	50 rounds
2	Bob Anderson	50 rounds
3	Sam Tingle	40 rounds

Natal Winter Grand Prix

space	driver	Time / laps
1	John Love	60 rounds
2	Sam Tingle	59 laps
3	Dave Charlton	53 laps

Governor General Cup

space	driver	Time / laps
1	John Love	50 rounds
2	Bob Anderson	50 rounds
3	Sam Tingle	40 rounds

Van Riebeeck Trophy

space	driver	Time / laps
1	John Love	50 rounds
2	Sam Tingle	50 rounds
3	Tony Jeffries	50 rounds

Rand Spring Trophy

space	driver	Time / laps
1	Dave Charlton	40 rounds
2	Sam Tingle	39 laps
3	John Love	39 laps

Pat Fairfield Trophy

space	driver	Time / laps
1	John Love	66 laps
2	Tony Jeffries
3	Clive Puzey

Grand Prix of Rhodesia

space	driver	Time / laps
1	John Love	50 rounds
2	Dave Charlton	50 rounds
3	Jackie Pretorius	48 rounds

Driver ranking

space	driver	Points
1	John Love	82
2	Sam Tingle	50
3	Dave Charlton	34
4th	Tony Jeffries	26th
5	Jackie Pretorius	25th
6th	Clive Puzey	12
7th	Leo Dave	9
8th	Bob Anderson	6th
9	Luki Botha	4th
10	Trevor Blokdyk	4th
11	Gordon Littleford	3
12	John McNicol	3
13	Leo van Poperng	3
14th	George van States	2
15th	Joe Domingo	2
16	Rauten Hartmann	1

Web links

• Statistics of the races for the South African Formula 1 Championship 1967 on the website www.silhouet.com (accessed October 1, 2012)