1968 Spanish Grand Prix
The Grand Prix of Spain 1968 took place on May 12th at the Circuito del Jarama in San Sebastián de los Reyes, a suburb of Madrid, held and was the second race of the Formula 1 season 1968.
- 3.1 Start -up
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
- 4.2 Constructors' Championship
Reports
Background
It was not until about five months after the season opener in South Africa, the second World Cup race of the year took place.
In March, the won with his new self-construction McLaren M7A not for the World Cup scoring Race of Champions at Brands Hatch in the meantime Bruce McLaren. In this race the Lotus cars were the first time no longer competed in the classic British Racing Green, but in the red- white color scheme of the new main sponsor. The team established a new trend, which rapidly spread over the following months in motorsport.
Three weeks after this race, Jim Clark was killed in an accident during a Formula 2 race at the Hockenheimring. When, a few days later took another not for the World Cup scoring Formula 1 race in Silverstone, Lotus came for this reason only with a cart and Denis Hulme gave the McLaren team another victory. The same weekend, Jackie Stewart was killed in a Formula 2 race in Jarama hard and suffered in injury that forced him to a one-month break, so he could not participate in the Grand Prix of Spain.
By Mike Spence, another Formula 1 pilot came before the second world championship race killed. He died at pretest for the Indianapolis 500
Only 14 cars were finally reported for the first Grand Prix of Spain since 1954. BRM, Lotus and Matra International were exceptionally at with only one vehicle. In return, the same private team founded by Reg Parnell enriched the field by a BRM P126 was reported for Piers Courage. The private team of Rob Walker now had instead of a Cooper T81 from a Lotus 49 The Cooper works team had converted its vehicles by Maserati to BRM engines.
Training
Chris Amon in the Ferrari 312F1 for the first time in his Grand Prix career training fastest. He shared the three- vehicle front row with Pedro Rodríguez and Denis Hulme. Behind the Bruce McLaren and Jean -Pierre Beltoise qualified, took Jackie Stewart in the Matra - Tyrrell customer team. Graham Hill reached only the sixth in a favored Lotus 49.
Race
Rodríguez took over after the start of the lead right before Beltoise, Amon and Hulme. This order remained constant until the twelfth round, as Beltoise briefly took the lead. Four laps later he left, however, because of an engine problem and thus gave Amon, who had overtaken the meantime Rodríguez, the lead. 30 laps of the New Zealanders remained thereupon at the top. Until the 28th lap he was always harassed by Rodríguez, until it lost control of his car and crashed. This Hill came in second place ahead of Hulme and John Surtees. As in round 58 of Amon failed fuel pump, Hill took the lead and won ahead of Hulme and Brian Redman, who thus in his second Grand Prix reached its first and only podium finish.
Message list
Classifications
Line-up
Race
WM stands after the race
The first six of the race were 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s).