Talk:1964 World Sportscar Championship

Please correct info about the 1964 prototype title

In the 1964 season the prototype title was won by Ferrari, as it did in the 1965 and 1967 seasons. In 1964, Porsche won only the 2l GT title. I don't know if this error is made on purpose or not but you can check this on The book by Brian Long "Porsche Racing Cars 1953-1975" Veloce pub. as well as in many other sources. For someone, who knows the history of this championship the excuse provided to cancel the title from Ferrari and adding it to Porsche tally is laughable, I'm citing from the 1964 seasons page "the Ferrari scored 46.8 points but was deemed ineligible for classification as it had not contested the Prototype category at all four races" Even if this strange rule (...) would have been in effect (and it would have caused much trouble because it was really difficult for the participants during that period to always provide works entries to all the races... see for example if Aston Martin could be declared champ in 1959 or if Ford could be declared champ in 1966... etc etc). In 1964, Ferrari was represented at the Targa Florio by private entry with a Dino prototype and that settles the matter. Also, the 1964 season of the Porsche 904/8 proto had been a real tough one with the car struggling to finish races and almost always behind 904 GTS that were running in the Gt category..... 151.68.208.8 (talk) 13:46, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

There seems to be a wider issue going on here. I've started a discussion relevant to this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sports Car Racing#Major discrepancies in 1962-65 World Sportscar Championship articles. A7V2 (talk) 11:00, 15 September 2022 (UTC)