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[rdrcr]

As the title states, has one team/owner/operator ever won two different (major series) championships in the same year?

 

In 11 weeks we'll see if Penske can pull that off.

[Tim Murray]

In 1953, 1956 and 1958 Ferrari provided the car for that year's World Drivers' Champion and also won the World Sports Car Championship. Mercedes-Benz did the same in 1955. In 1961 Ferrari employed the World Drivers' Champion and won the World Constructors' and World Sports Car Chanpionships. In 1964 they repeated this treble, except that in this year the major sports car championship was the World GT Championship.

Edited by Tim Murray, 05 September 2014 - 16:44.

[Dick Dastardly]

Williams won the WDC & WCC with Villeneuve in 97.

They [Williams - Renault] also won the BTCC Drivers & Manufacturers titles with Alain Menu.

Edited by Dick Dastardly, 05 September 2014 - 17:08.

[ensign14]

Porsche - in 1984 and 1985, they won Group C, and provided the engines for McLaren's WCC and WDC winning car.

[mathaisbroucek]

Porsche won the Group 5 (935) and Group 6 (936) World Sportscar Championships in 1976

[mathaisbroucek]

Would March in CART and F3000 count?

 

And Dallara in multiple one-make series.  (I'll get my coat....)

[KWSN - DSM]

'Team / Owner / Operator' - I would not count Porche who supplied a commissioned engine, I would not count the chassis manufacturers in to a series.

 

[BRG]

But for Porsche, you should read Martini Racing in both G5 and G6, which was of course the works team.  So it surely meets the OP's criteria?

[KWSN - DSM]

But for Porsche, you should read Martini Racing in both G5 and G6, which was of course the works team.  So it surely meets the OP's criteria?

 

That one yes (even sort of a stretch to me), I was replying to Ensign's with the TAG Porche and Group C wins.

 

[D28]

1965 Colin Chapman/Team Lotus and Jim Clark won the WCC, WDC The Tasman Championship and the Indy 500 among other victories. Depending on your definition of "major" this would seem to qualify.

[rdrcr]

Thanks fellers -

 

I didn't know for sure, but might have assumed that this exhibit of single season dominance across two major series has been done.  In any case, it is certainly a rarity...  Ferrari, Mercedes, Williams, Porsche, some pretty stout company there.  That Team Penske has the chance to accomplish it with two, totally different casts (vehicle types and manufacturers, different engine suppliers, etc.) should be viewed as a testimony to their organizational capabilities.  Add in all the required ancillary duties these days; PR & public appearances, hospitality & sponsor support, etc.  It's quite a task to run at the sharp end in both series, I'd say... 

[ensign14]

Penske's actually done it before.  2006 Indycar champion (Sam Hornish) and ALMS LMP2 teams champion.

[Ross Stonefeld]

LMP2 wasn't particularly deep at times. Penske really showed their stuff fighting with Audi.

 

And in spirit I think Indycar and ALMS are kind of interchangeable. Winning NASCAR in any year is a hell of an achievement for a team. Doing it, and an Indycar championship, and at the same time requires some serious corporate management skills. Because pulling off that feat, at that level, is more about Penske Incorporated than Penske Racing, if you understand my distinction. You have to be 'on it' from the CEO down to the janitor. 

[E1pix]

In the Things Repeating Themselves category... in 1972, Penske Racing won both the Can-Am championship with the wicked-even-today L&M Porsche 917/10K, and the Trans-Am title with the less-so AMC Javelin.

With Mark Donohue hurt in testing at Road Atlanta, teammate George Follmer worked the pedals.

(FWIW, I don't see winning the WDC and the WMC in the same light)