1969 Guards Formula 5000 Championship

The 1969 Guards Formula 5000 Championship was a motor racing competition for Formula 5000 cars and cars with unrestricted racing engines of up to 2000cc capacity.[1] The championship was organized in the United Kingdom but also included European rounds.[2] It was the first and only series to carry the Guards Formula 5000 Championship name and the first in a sequence of seven annual European Formula 5000 Championships to be contested between 1969 and 1975.[3] The championship was won by Peter Gethin, driving a McLaren M10A.[4]

  1. ^ Wolfgang Kopfler, Formula 5000 in Europe - Race by Race, 2004, page 7
  2. ^ European Formula 5000 races 1969-1977, www.oldracingcars.com Retrieved on 10 August 2014
  3. ^ Wolfgang Kopfler, Formula 5000 in Europe - Race by Race, 2004, Table of Contents
  4. ^ Wolfgang Kopfler, Formula 5000 in Europe - Race by Race, 2004, page 9