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The 1971 SCCA L&M Continental 5000 Championship was the fifth annual running of the Sports Car Club of America's professional open wheel racing series. [1] Liggett & Myers increased its support of the championship for 1971 through its L&M cigarette brand and now had series naming rights.
The SCCA Continental Championship was an annual, professional, open-wheel motor racing series organized by the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA), under various names, from 1967 to 1976. The inaugural series was staged in 1967 as the SCCA Grand Prix Championship . [ 1 ]
A 1974 Lola T330 Formula 5000 car. A 1971 Lola T192 Formula 5000 car. A 1973 Brabham BT43 F5000 car. Formula 5000 (or F5000) was an open wheel, single seater auto-racing formula that ran in different series in various regions around the world from 1968 to 1982. It was originally intended as a low-cost series aimed at open-wheel racing cars that ...
During the course of the season, Surtees withdrew from Formula 5000, since the entry into the Formula 1 World Championship was already pending, which required the full attention of the team. One car, a TS5A with chassis number 008, was sold to Irishman Alan Rollinson, who had little success with the car and switched to a Lotus 70 before the end ...
The 1975 Long Beach Grand Prix was the inaugural running of the Grand Prix of Long Beach. The race was held September 28, 1975, on a 2.02-mile (3.25 km) temporary street circuit . It was race 7 of the 1975 SCCA/USAC Formula 5000 Championship .
The first permanent course, known as the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course was constructed on 550 acres (2.2 km 2), overlapping part of the previous street course. Designed by Bill Milliken and engineering professors from Cornell University , the 2.350-mile (3.782 km) layout was used from 1956 to 1970.