Porsche 917/30 spyder - 1973 Sightseeing in Stuttgart picture - At the beginning of the Seventies the 5 liter engine car was dismissed from the constructors world championship. The regulations only allowed 3 liter displacement engines. Therefore the 917 couldnt participate anymore. As a result of this Porsche entered races of the Canadian-American Championships series known as CanAm championships. The races were running over a distance of 200 miles and were hold ten to eleven times in the USA and Canada.
At the beginning of the Seventies the 5 liter engine car was dismissed from the constructors world championship. The regulations only allowed 3 liter displacement engines. Therefore the 917 couldnt participate anymore. As a result of this Porsche entered races of the Canadian-American Championships series known as CanAm championships. The races were running over a distance of 200 miles and were hold ten to eleven times in the USA and Canada.