The 1973 World Sportscar Championship season was the 21st season of

FIA World Sportscar Championship The World Sportscar Championship was the world series run for sports car racing by the FIA from 1953 to 1992. The championship evolved from a small collection of the most important sportscar, endurance, and road racing events in Europe and North ...

motor racing. It featured the 1973 World Championship for Makes and the 1973 Cup for GT Cars which were contested concurrently over a ten race series.Results of the 1973 FIA International Championships, 1974 FIA Yearbook, pages 105-106 The World Championship for Makes, which was open to

Group 5 Sports Cars Group 5 was an FIA motor racing classification which was applied to four distinct categories during the years 1966 to 1982. Initially Group 5 regulations defined a Special Touring Car category and from 1970 to 1971 the classification was applied to ...

and

Group 4 GT Cars Group 4 referred to regulations for sportscars and Grand tourer, grand touring (GT) cars used in sportscar racing, racing and rallying, as regulated by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, FIA. The group was introduced in 1954 and ...

, was won by

Matra Matra (an acronym for Mécanique Aviation Traction) was a French industrial conglomerate. During its years of operation, it was engaged in a wide range of business activities, primarily focused around automobiles, bicycles, aeronautics and we ...

and the Cup for GT Cars, which was open only to

, was won by

Porsche Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, usually shortened to Porsche (; see #Pronunciation, below), is a German automobile manufacturer specializing in high-performance sports cars, SUVs and sedans, headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany ...

Schedule

1973-05-27 Francois Cevert, Matra-Simca 670

The following races counted towards the 1973 World Championship for Makes and the 1973 Cup for GT Cars. † - No GT entries were received for the Österreichring event. The Buenos Aires 1000 km, scheduled to be held on 21 October, was canceled six weeks after the running of the Watkins Glen 6 Hours.

Results

Races

World Championship for Makes

Championship points were awarded to the top 10 finishers in the order of 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 but only for the highest placed car of each make. The 7 best results were retained Automobile Year, 1973/74, page 237 for each make. Discarded points are shown in the above table within brackets.

Cup for GT Cars

No GT entries were received for Round 9.

The cars

The following models contributed to the nett pointscores of their respective makes.

World Championship for Makes

* Matra Simca MS670 & Matra Simca MS670B * Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona &

Ferrari 312PB The Ferrari 312 PB was a Group 6 Prototype-Sports Car introduced in 1971 by Italian carmaker Ferrari. It was officially designated the 312 P, but often known as the 312 PB to avoid confusion with a previous car of the same name. It was ...

Porsche 911 Carrera RSR The original Porsche 911 (pronounced ''nine eleven'', german: Neunelfer) is a luxury sports car made by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. A prototype of the famous, distinctive, and durable design was shown to the public in autumn 1963. Pro ...

Porsche 908/3 The Porsche 908 was a racing car from Porsche, introduced in 1968 to continue the Porsche 906-Porsche 910-Porsche 907 series of models designed by Helmuth Bott (chassis) and Hans Mezger (engine) under the leadership of racing chief Ferdinand Pi� ...

* Mirage M6

Ford Cosworth Cosworth is a British automotive engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in high-performance internal combustion engines, powertrain, and electronics for automobile racing (motorsport) and mainstream automotive industrie ...

* Lola T282

& Lola T290

Chevron B21 The Chevron B21 is a 2-liter Group 5 sports prototype race car, designed, developed and built by British manufacturer Chevron, in 1972. Over its racing career, spanning 13 years, it won a total of 23 races (as well as 15 additional class wins), sco ...

Chevron B23 The Chevron B23 is a Group 6 sports prototype race car, designed, developed and built by British manufacturer Chevron, in 1973. Over its racing career, spanning 12 years, it won a total of 12 races (plus 15 additional class wins), scored 41 podium ...

* Alfa Romeo 33TT3 & Alfa Romeo Giulia GTAm *

Lancia Stratos The Lancia Stratos HF (''Tipo 829''), widely and more simply known as Lancia Stratos, is a rear mid-engined sports car designed for rally racing, made by Italian car manufacturer Lancia. The HF stands for ''High Fidelity''. It was a very successf ...

Chevrolet Corvette The Chevrolet Corvette is a two-door, two-passenger luxury sports car manufactured and marketed by Chevrolet since 1953. With eight design generations, noted sequentially from C1 to C8, the Corvette is noted for its performance and distinctive ...

Ligier JS2 The Ligier JS2 is a mid-engined sports coupé that was built by Ligier in the French commune of Abrest near Vichy in the department of Allier between 1971 and 1975. Road-going and competition versions were built. Conception and predecessor Guy ...

Maserati Maserati S.p.A. () is an Italian luxury vehicle manufacturer. Established on 1 December 1914, in Bologna, Italy, the company's headquarters are now in Modena, and its emblem is a trident. The company has been owned by Stellantis since 2021. Ma ...

Cup for GT Cars

Porsche 911S The original Porsche 911 (pronounced ''nine eleven'', german: Neunelfer) is a luxury sports car made by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. A prototype of the famous, distinctive, and durable design was shown to the public in autumn 1963. P ...

* Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona *

* Alfa Romeo Giulia GTAm

References

External links

World Championship 1973, wspr-racing.com, as archived at web.archive.org

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