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Line 1: {{Short description\|Sports car racing season}} The 1978 [[Can-Am]] season was the eleventh running of the [[Sports Car Club of America]]'s prototype based series and the second running of the revived series. [[Alan Jones]] was declared champion<ref>http://www.oldracingcars.com/canam/1978/</ref>, winning five of the ten rounds. [[Chevrolet]] again swept the season. Lola was not as dominant this season, as [[Elliot Forbes-Robinson]] won at Charlotte in a Spyder<ref>http://www.oldracingcars.com/results/result.php?RaceID=C78B</ref>, SCCA legend [[George Follmer]] at Mont Tremblant in a Prophet<ref>http://www.oldracingcars.com/results/result.php?RaceID=C78D</ref>, and Forbes-Robinson again at Trois-Rivieres<ref>http://www.oldracingcars.com/results/result.php?RaceID=C78H</ref>.▼ {{Motorsport season \|series = Can-Am \|title = [[Can-Am]] season \|link = Can-Am season \|year = 1978 \| next = 1979 }} ▲The 1978 [[Can-Am]] season was the eleventh running of the [[Sports Car Club of America]]'s prototype based series and the second running of the revived series. [[Alan Jones (racing driver)\|Alan Jones]] was declared champion,<ref>~~http~~{{Cite web\|url=https://www.oldracingcars.com/canam/1978/\|title=Can-Am 1978 « OldRacingCars.com\|first=Allen\|last=Brown\|website=OldRacingCars.com}}</ref>, winning five of the ten rounds. [[Chevrolet]] again swept the season. [[Lola Cars\|Lola]] was not as dominant this season, as [[Elliot Forbes-Robinson]] won at Charlotte in a Spyder,<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.oldracingcars.com/results/result.php?RaceID=C78B\|title = Charlotte, 27 May 1978 « Single-seater Can-Am}}</ref>, SCCA legend [[George Follmer]] at Mont Tremblant in a Prophet,<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.oldracingcars.com/results/result.php?RaceID=C78D\|title = Mont-Tremblant, 25 Jun 1978 « Single-seater Can-Am}}</ref>, and Forbes-Robinson again at Trois-Rivieres.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.oldracingcars.com/results/result.php?RaceID=C78H\|title = Trois-Rivières, 3 Sep 1978 « Single-seater Can-Am}}</ref>. ==~~Schedule~~Results== {\| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;" ~~The season began on May 14 and ran for ten rounds.~~ \|- ! Round [[Road Atlanta]]▼ ! Circuit [[Charlotte Motor Speedway]] ! Winning driver [[Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course]] ! Team [[Circuit Mont-Tremblant]] ! Car [[Watkins Glen International]] \|- [[Road America\|Elkhart Lake]] \| 1 [[Mosport Park]]▼ ▲[[\| Road Atlanta]] [[Circuit Trois-Rivieres]] \| {{flagicon\|AUえーゆーS}} [[Alan Jones (racing driver)\|Alan Jones]] [[Laguna Seca]]▼ \| {{flagicon\|USA}} [[Carl Haas\|Carl A. Haas Racing Team]] [[Riverside International Raceway]] \| Lola-Chevrolet \|- \| 2 \| Charlotte \| {{flagicon\|USA}} [[Elliot Forbes-Robinson]] \| {{flagicon\|USA}} [[Paul Newman\|Newman-Freeman Racing]] \| Spyder-Chevrolet \|- \| 3 \| Mid-Ohio \| {{flagicon\|AUえーゆーS}} [[Alan Jones (racing driver)\|Alan Jones]] \| {{flagicon\|USA}} [[Carl Haas\|Carl A. Haas Racing Team]] \| Lola-Chevrolet \|- \| 4 \| St. Jovite \| {{flagicon\|USA}} [[George Follmer]] \| {{flagicon\|USA}} U.S. Racing \| Prophet-Chevrolet \|- \| 5 \| Watkins Glen \| {{flagicon\|AUえーゆーS}} [[Warwick Brown]] \| {{flagicon\|USA}} Racing Team VDS \| Lola-Chevrolet \|- \| 6 \| Road America \| {{flagicon\|AUえーゆーS}} [[Alan Jones (racing driver)\|Alan Jones]] \| {{flagicon\|USA}} [[Carl Haas\|Carl A. Haas Racing Team]] \| Lola-Chevrolet \|- \| 7 ▲[[Mosport\| ~~Park]]~~Mosport \| {{flagicon\|AUえーゆーS}} [[Alan Jones (racing driver)\|Alan Jones]] \| {{flagicon\|USA}} [[Carl Haas\|Carl A. Haas Racing Team]] \| Lola-Chevrolet \|- \| 8 \| Trois-Rivières \| {{flagicon\|USA}} [[Elliot Forbes-Robinson]] \| {{flagicon\|USA}} [[Paul Newman\|Newman-Freeman Racing]] \| Spyder-Chevrolet \|- \| 9 ▲*[[\| Laguna Seca]] \| {{flagicon\|USA}} [[Al Holbert]] \| {{flagicon\|USA}} [[Hogan Racing]] \| Lola-Chevrolet \|- \| 10 \| Riverside \| {{flagicon\|AUえーゆーS}} [[Alan Jones (racing driver)\|Alan Jones]] \| {{flagicon\|USA}} [[Carl Haas\|Carl A. Haas Racing Team]] \| Lola-Chevrolet \|} <ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.wspr-racing.com/wspr/results/canam/canam1978.html \|title=Can-Am 1978 \|access-date=2012-04-02 \|archive-date=2011-06-06 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606043526/http://www.wspr-racing.com/wspr/results/canam/canam1978.html \|url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== Line 20 ⟶ 85: {{reflist}} [[Category: Can-Am seasons]] [[Category: 1978 in motorsport]] [[Category:1978 in American motorsport]] [[Category:1978 in Canadian motorsport]]