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After F1 upgraded to 3000 cm³ in 1966, the Tasman Formula regulations continued to specify a 2500 cm³ limit for another four years. Usually, the chassis of the previous F1 season were fitted with "Tasman" engines, and entered "down under". In what many consider Tasman's zenith season, 1968,
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Unfortunately for the Tasman Series, F1's "return to power", coupled to ever increasing costs, reduced the cachet of its Antipodean sister and after 1969 teams became increasingly unwilling to invest significant funds into what many perceived as a lesser championship. Only one Cosworth DFW 2.5
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specified open-wheel single-seater racing cars similar to Formula One cars, yet retaining F1 engine rules that were in effect until 1960. Thus, engines of 2500 cm³ that were obsolete for the contemporary Formula One class were eligible for the Tasman Formula.
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cars from 1970 and the limit on pure racing engines was reduced from 2.5 litres to 2.0 litres from 1972. Even these changes failed to contain spiralling costs and at the end of the 1975 event the series folded.
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powered car appeared in the 1970 and 1971 Tasman series, Bell driving an uncompetitive Goodyear shod Wheatcroft Brabham BT26 in 3 rounds in 1970 and Amon and fellow
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from 1976 to 1979 (still under Formula 5000 regulations). The four New Zealand races became the 'Peter Stuyvesant Series' and after 1976 changed to
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which lies between the two countries. The Tasman Series races were held in January through to late February or early March of each year, during the
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strongly challenged the work teams in a Frank Williams Cosworth 2.5 BT24 Brabham which beat the Lotus and Ferrari teams at
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Note: values in parentheses include the results from all races, not all of which counted towards the championship.
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Tasman Championship for Drivers, CAMS Manual of Motor Sport with National Competition Rules 1974, pages 80 to 83
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cars which used F2 chassis fitted with modernised versions of the late 1950s F1 2.4 Dino V6 engine.
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took part in their home events, but the series also attracted international F1 stars like
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For two brief years beginning in 1999 the Tasman Series was revived as a series for
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In an attempt to reduce costs, the Tasman Formula was extended to incorporate
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won the 1965 Tasman Series with a Lotus 32B, the Tasman Series variant of the
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The Tasman initially started in 1960 as a series of unrelated races between
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each contesting 2 rounds of 1971 series in the ex Andretti March 701.
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equipped its cars with a reduced capacity version of their F1
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1964–1975, a motor racing series in Australia and New Zealand
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winning the two series held exclusively in New Zealand.
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was the permanent trophy awarded to the winning driver.
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to attract many top drivers to summer in the south. The
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Many high-profile local drivers from that era, such as
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Index

Tasman Formula
Tasman (disambiguation) § Sport
F5000
Australia
New Zealand
Australia
Warwick Brown

Jim Clark
Formula Two
Lotus 32
New Zealand
Australia
Tasman Sea
Formula One
Northern Hemisphere
Australia
New Zealand
Cosworth
DFV
V8
BRM
V12
Jochen Rindt
Graham Hill
Lotus 49B
Chris Amon
Derek Bell
Dino 246 Tasmania
Piers Courage

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