The Stardust Can-Am race featured a rare double-DNF by the McLaren team.   Team leader McLaren qualified on the pole,  Hulme was slowed by a mechanical problem during the qualifying session and started 5th. 

McLaren's engine blew on the 14th lap.  Hulme had to pit early with a puncture caused by on-track debris, but fought back to 4th place.  Then the usuually reliable engine in his McLaren M6A blew on lap 51, costing him the 1967 Can-Am Driver's Championship and delivering it his teammate McLaren..