SCCA Continental Championship Formula A 1969
AAR sold ten more Eagle Mk 5s for the 1969 season, and Tony Adamowicz took Milestone Racing's example to a narrow championship victory. Sam Posey was his main challenger for most of the season, and would have ended closer if he hadn't wrecked one Eagle and lost a second one in a transporter accident. In July, Peter Gethin and David Hobbs transferred over from the British series in works McLaren M10A and works Surtees TS5 respectively, and this British invasion were greeted by Posey saying "they're going to be annihilated" and he was "going to blow the doors of them". Gethin took pole position at his first two races, and after electrical problems ruled him out at Road America, he won easily at Lime Rock, with Hobbs second and a chastened Posey lapped by both of them. Hobbs then took over, winning from pole at Donnybrooke and later repeating that performance at Mont Tremblant and Thompson. He took his fourth win at Sebring in December to end the year just a single point behind Adamowicz, who would prove to be the last American to take the F5000 title. Lotus and Lola both had their new 1970 cars at Sebring, and Gus Hutchison brought his F1 Brabham BT26 into second place behind Hobbs. Prospects for 1970 were excellent.
The races
20 Apr 1969 > Riverside Grand Prix
04 May 1969 > Monterey Grand Prix at Laguna Seca
08 Jun 1969 > Colorado Grand Prix at Continental Divide
22 Jun 1969 > Continental 49'er at Sears Point
06 Jul 1969 > Seattle Grand Prix
20 Jul 1969 > Road America 500
02 Aug 1969 > Lime Rock Schaefer Grand Prix at Lime Rock
10 Aug 1969 > Minnesota Grand Prix at Brainerd
23 Aug 1969 > Mosport Continental at Mosport Park
01 Sep 1969 > English Leather Grand Prix at Lime Rock
07 Sep 1969 > Le Circuit Continental at Mont-Tremblant
21 Sep 1969 > Thompson Schaefer Grand Prix at Thompson Speedway
28 Dec 1969 > Sebring International Raceway
1969 SCCA Continental Championship for Formula A cars table
| 1 | Tony Adamowicz | Eagle Mk 5 - Chevrolet V8 | 47 pts | 2 wins |
| 2 | David Hobbs | Surtees TS5 - Chevrolet V8 | 46 pts | 4 wins |
| 3 | Sam Posey | McLaren M10A - Chevrolet V8 | 41 pts | 2 wins |
| 4= | John Cannon | Eagle Mk 5 - Chevrolet V8 | 31 pts | 3 wins |
| 4= | George Wintersteen | Lola T142 - Chevrolet V8 | 31 pts | |
| 6 | Bobby Brown | Eagle Mk 5 - Chevrolet V8 | 16 pts | |
| 7 | Bud Morley | Lola T142 - Chevrolet V8 | 15 pts | |
| 8 | Dick Simon | Lola T142 - Chevrolet V8 | 11 pts | 1 win |
| 9 | Andrea de Adamich | Surtees TS5 - Chevrolet V8 | 10 pts | |
| 10 | Peter Gethin | McLaren M10A - Chevrolet V8 | 9 pts | 1 win |
| 11= | Chuck Dietrich | Lola T142 - Chevrolet V8 | 7 pts | |
| 11= | Jerry Hansen | McLaren M10A - Chevrolet V8 | 7 pts | |
| 11= | Lothar Motschenbacher | McLaren M10A - Chevrolet V8 | 7 pts | |
| 14= | John Cordts | McLaren M10A - Chevrolet V8 | 6 pts | |
| 14= | Gus Hutchison | Brabham BT26A - Cosworth DFV V8 | 6 pts | |
| 16= | George Eaton | McLaren M10A - Chevrolet V8 | 5 pts | |
| 16= | Horst Kroll | Lola T142 - Chevrolet V8 | 5 pts | |
| 18= | John Gunn | Lola T142 - Chevrolet V8 | 4 pts | |
| 18= | Mike Goth | Surtees TS5 - Chevrolet V8 | 4 pts | |
| 20= | Mike Hiss | Lola T140 - Chevrolet V8 | 3 pts | |
| 20= | Eppie Wietzes | Lola T142 - Chevrolet V8 | 3 pts | |
| 22= | John Mahler | Lola T140 - Chevrolet V8 | 2 pts | |
| 22= | Sherwood Johnston | Lola T142 - Chevrolet V8 | 2 pts | |
| 22= | Jon Ward | McLaren M10A - Chevrolet V8 | 2 pts | |
| 22= | Alan Bouverat | McLaren M10A - Chevrolet V8 | 2 pts | |
| 26= | Pete Lovely | Lotus 49B - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1 pt | |
| 26= | Kurt Reinold | McKee Mk 12 - Chevrolet V8 | 1 pt | |
| 26= | Michael Brockman | Lola T142 - Chevrolet V8 | 1 pt |
The points table is derived from Wolfgang Klopfer's excellent Formula A and Formula 5000 in America p20 with one modification: the addition of Jon Ward who should have got two points for fifth place at Sears Point in June. Note that Jo Bonnier did not get points for his third place finish at Sebring at the end of the season with Kroll (fourth) and Morley (fifth), Bouverat (sixth) and Brockman (seventh) getting one point more. This is because Bonnier was running on an FIA licence, not a SCCA licence.
There were two Schaefer Grands Prix in 1969, thanks to sponsorship by the F & M Schaefer Brewing Company of Brooklyn, New York, one at Lime Rock Park and one at New Thompson Speedway. This helped lift Schaefer Beer to the fifth best-selling beer in the US in 1970, overtaking Falstaff, another regular motor racing sponsor.