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The 1977 Can Am season was the tenth running of the Sports Car Club of America's prototype-based series. Despite the revived name, however, the new series was entirely unrelated to the previous series which had folded in 1974. This series used Formula 5000 Lola T332s with fenders added. Patrick Tambay was declared champion,[1] winning six of the nine races that year for Carl Haas. While Lola chassis dominated the series, a Chevrolet powered Schkee DB1 driven by Tom Klausler won the first race at Mont Tremblant.[2] Formula One champion Gilles Villeneuve came in third at Road America in a Wolf.[3] While Chevrolet was not the only engine supplier, they swept the entire season.
The season began on June 12 and ran for nine rounds.[4]