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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33049, 17 October 1972, Page 30

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Follmer makes sure (N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) MONTEREY (California). The American, M. Donohue, led the Monterey Castrol Grand Prix almost all the way before letting through his team-mate, G. Follmer, on the last lap so that he could win and clinch the slm Can-Am road-racing championship. The last-lap shuffle in the race last night was a prearranged tactic between the two Roger Pennski L and M Porsche team cars, and the result marked the first time since the inception of the series in 1966, that a Team McLaren car has failed to win the Can-Am championship.

All Follmer had to do was finish second to secure the title after D. Huhne, of New Zealand, No. 2 in the points standings, dropped out with engine failure on the sixteenth of the 90 laps. Only one race—the “Los Angeles Times” grand prix at Riverside, California, on October 29, remains in the 1972 series.

F. Cevert (France), whose mechanical difficulties in qualifying on Friday and Saturday forced him to start on the last row of the grid, finished third in his McLaren Chevrolet, a lap behind the two Porsches. Another American, M. Minter, also driving a Porsche, was fourth, and another, S. Posey, fifth. The defending champion, P. Revson, of the United States, retired to the pits with transmission trouble on the eighthieth lap.