The March 72A, also designated as the March 722A, and also known as the March 725, was an

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car, designed, developed, and built by British manufacturer and constructor,

March Engineering March Engineering was a Formula One constructor and manufacturer of customer racing cars from the United Kingdom. Although only moderately successful in Grand Prix competition, March racing cars enjoyed much better success in other categories ...

, for

Formula 5000 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 tha ...

racing, in 1972. It competed in both the

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and SCCA U.S. F5000 championships, being driven by Canadian John Cannon. It was itself based on a

March 722 The March 722 was a British open-wheel formula race car chassis, designed, developed and built by March Engineering, for both Formula 2 and Formula B Formula Atlantic is a specification of open-wheel racing car developed in the 1970s. It was us ...

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chassis, and was powered by a powerful

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