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The later Alfa Romeo GTAm won further ETCC titles in 1970 and 1971 The 1750 GTAm and the 2000 GTAm cars were driven to victory by Toine Hezemans, who won the 24 hours of Francorchamps with this car. These cars won hundreds of races before competition grew stronger in 1971.
The Alfa Romeo 1750 GTAm (later called 2000 GTAm when the 2000 GTV was introduced) appeared in 1969. Unlike the Giulia Sprint GTA and GTA 1300 Junior, The GTAm was not built by Alfa Romeo, was never available from the factory and was never issued its own Tipo number.
Hezemans won the European Touring Car Championship in 1970 with Alfa Romeo GTAm and in 1973 with BMW 3.0 CSL and in 1975 the Euro GT class with Porsche 934. In the 1970s Hezemans drove also Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 prototype racers, winning the 1971 Targa Florio with Nino Vaccarella in an Alfa Romeo 33/3. [3]
Autodelta S.p.A. Alfa Romeo 2000 GTAm, Toine Hezemans 1970 ETCC Zandvoort Zandvoort ETCC 1978- Luigi/BMW Italia BMW 3.0 CSL - Umberto Grano, I Toine Hezemans, NL. The European Touring Car Challenge, as it was originally known, [1] was created in 1963 by Willy Stenger at the behest of the FIA.
The later Alfa Romeo GTAm won further ETCC titles in 1970, 1971 and 1972. [59] Among other victories, the GTA won the inaugural Sports Car Club of America's Under 2 Liter Trans-Am championship in 1966 with Horst Kwech and Gaston Andrey at the wheel. [60] repeating the feat in the 1970 season. [61]
Brian Patrick Foley (born 1934) is an Australian retired racing driver. He was active from the late 1950s through to 1974. [1] Foley competed in Touring Car, GT and Sports Sedan categories and also contested numerous production car endurance races. [1]
In the 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Galli and Giunti finished 4th in an Alfa Romeo T33/2. The following year at Le Mans, he shared a drive with Robin Widdows and they finished 7th in a Matra . Galli's final appearance at Le Mans was in 1970, where he shared an Alfa Romeo T33 /3 with Rolf Stommelen .
Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. (Italian: [ˈalfa roˈmɛːo]) ... 1970 1970–1977 Montreal 1972–1983 Alfasud 1972–1984 Alfetta saloon 1974–1987 Alfetta GT/GTV