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and Aldo Scribante, an Italian immigrant who owned a construction company in

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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 Aldo Scribante Circuit in

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.https://amsc.co.za

Complete Formula One World Championship results

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) (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