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Schuppan competed in three Indianapolis 500 races. These were 1976 (where he won the Rookie of the Year award), 1979 and 1981, with a best result of third in 1981 driving a McLaren-Ford. In all, he started 32 CART and USAC Championship races. He won the 1974 and 1976 Macau Grand Prix races, dominating the 1974 race by four laps. He also won the 1971 British Formula Atlantic Championship and the Singapore Grand Prix in 1973 and was second in 1972 and also second in the Malaysian Grand Prix in 1972. He raced Formula 5000 in Europe between 1974-1975 and in North America 1974-1976 with some success.
In his home country Australia in 1976 Schuppan won the Rothmans International Series Formula 5000 series, driving a Lola T332-Chevrolet and placed second in the 1976 Australian Grand Prix, only half a second behind John Goss driving a Matich A53-Repco Holden, the race run under F5000 regulations at Sandown Park in Melbourne. He was runner up in the 1978 Rothmans International Series driving an Elfin MR8-Repco Holden for the factory run Ansett Team Elfin.
When Schuppan was regularly returning home to Australia to race he was also a popular choice as a co-driver for top touring car teams such as Allan Moffat Racing, Dick Johnson Racing and the Peter Brock run Holden Dealer Team in the Sandown 400 and Bathurst 1000 races in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His best finish at Bathurst was a fifth place with Dick Johnson in 1978 driving a Ford Falcon XC. Allan Moffat and Schuppan started on pole and were leading the 1976 Bathurst 1000 when their XB Falcon GT Hardtop retired with engine failure in lap 87.
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