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After winning the 1967 SCCA title, Jerry used the Lola T-70 to win a
number of races in early 1968, including the Road America June Sprints,
the first of 12 feature wins at this prestigious race. He also
purchased a Lola T-140 for F-5000 (FA at this time in the US) and won
the 1968 Road America Badger 200, a round of that year's pro
championship series. He also won several other SCCA races in the T-140.
In August, 1968, he sold the Lola T-70 to Dick Kantrud, to whom he
had earlier sold his ex-Grant Lotus 19-Chev. Hansen then bought another
Lola T-70, this from Carroll Shelby. He won the Donnybrooke SCCA race in
this car before selling it to Jerry Rosbach. He then bought a McLaren
M6A from Roger Penske, and used it in the 1968 Can Am series, and to win
the 1968 SCCA Class A Sports Racing National Championship at that
year's Runoffs at Riverside.
For 1969 he sold the McLaren M6A to Dave Causey and bought a Lola
T-160 from George Bignotti. Again, a number of wins in this car before
he sold it at mid-season and bought another Lola T-160, this one from
Dan Gurney. More wins followed. The Penske McLaren M6B (M6A-3) also
passed through his hands briefly. For the 1969 Runoffs, this year at
Daytona, he rented George Eaton's McLaren M12 and won again. He rented
the M12 because it had a big block Chev in it, while his T-160 used a
small block.
Concurrently, he remained active in F-5000, buying a new McLaren
M10. This was the first car that Hansen drove which was orange, a color
which was on most of his cars for the next ten plus years.
Unfortunately, he rolled the M10 at Road America in the July pro race,
wrecking it. He rented a FA Eagle for the Runoffs, but did not win.
On to the 70s next installment.
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