1982 Can-Am season

The 1982 Can Am Series season was the fifteenth running of the Sports Car Club of America's prototype series, and the sixth running of the revived series. 1982 brought new competition for Chevrolet in the form of Hart and Cosworth. Hart would podium in three races while Cosworth would podium in two. The most dominant chassis were Frissbee, Marguey, March, VDS-001, and Ensign. Al Unser Jr. would win at Road Atlanta,^[1] Laguna Seca,^[2] and Mosport^[3] twice,^[4] with a podium at Mid Ohio,^[5] at Riverside,^[6] and at Caesar's Palacae.^[7] Unser would be declared champion.

1982 Can-Am season

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Bertil Roos would take the two liter class in his Hart.

The scoring system was 90-60-40-30-20-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 points for the first fifteen classified drivers. All results counted.

Results

Round	Circuit	Winning driver	Team	Car
1	Road Atlanta	Al Unser Jr.	Galles Racing	Frissbee-Chevrolet
2	Mosport	Al Unser Jr.	Galles Racing	Frissbee-Chevrolet
3	Mid-Ohio	Al Holbert	Racing Team VDS	VDS-Chevrolet
4	Road America	Al Holbert	Racing Team VDS	VDS-Chevrolet
5	Trois-Rivières	Al Holbert	Racing Team VDS	VDS-Chevrolet
6	Mosport	Al Unser Jr.	Galles Racing	Frissbee-Chevrolet
7	Caesars Palace	Danny Sullivan	Newman/Budweiser	March-Chevrolet
8	Riverside	Al Holbert	Racing Team VDS	VDS-Chevrolet
9	Laguna Seca	Al Unser Jr.	Galles Racing	Frissbee-Chevrolet

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