1968 German Grand Prix

F1 West Germany German 4 August 1968 Circuit_N%C3%BCrburgring-1967-Nordschleife.svg XXX Großer Preis von DeutschlandXXVIII Grand Prix d'Europe Nürburgring, Nürburg, West Germany Permanent racing facility 14.189 22.835 14 198.646 319.690 Hazy, Wet Jacky Ickx Ferrari 9:04.0 BEL Jackie Stewart Matra-Ford 9:36.0 8 UK Jackie Stewart Matra-Ford UK Graham Hill Lotus-Ford UK Jochen Rindt Brabham-Repco AUT GER 250px|thumb|right|Winner Jackie Stewart in a Matra MS10 250px|thumb|right|Pedro Rodriguez in a BRM P133 thumb|right|BMW's Formula Two car and driver Hubert Hahne during practice The 1968 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Nürburgring on 4 August 1968. It was race 8 of 12 in both the 1968 World Championship of Drivers and the 1968 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The race was held in extremely wet and foggy conditions, and British driver Jackie Stewart, racing with a broken wrist, won the race by a margin of four minutes in what is widely considered to be one of the greatest victories in the history of Formula One. The race is also notable for Dan Gurney's choice of a full-face helmet, making him the first driver to do so in Grand Prix racing.http://www.allamericanracers.com/gurney_grand-prix/eagle_f1-photo.html Eagle Eye: The Eagle Gurney-Weslake F1 Effort Allamericanracers.com https://web.archive.org/web/20120428145632/http://www.allamericanracers.com/gurney_grand-prix/eagle_f1-photo.html 28 April 2012 9 January 2016 Report Background After Jo Siffert had surprisingly won the previous race at Brands Hatch, the paddock arrived at the Nürburgring almost unchanged. Equally unchanged was the weather: with rain over the entire weekend, this was to be the fifth wet race in a row. BMW entered a Lola-built Formula Two car driven by Hubert Hahne in order to evaluate their competitiveness in Formula One.GRAND PRIX RESULTS: GERMAN GP, 1968 http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr169.html grandprix.com 5 February 2015 Practice and qualifying On Saturday, conditions were so poor, with visibility down to mere ten yards, that the organizers scheduled an additional practice session for Sunday morning. Still many drivers slid off the track during the morning session.Masterful Stewart tames treacherous Nurburgring http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/story/56647.html espnf1.com 5 February 2015 Eventually, Jacky Ickx took pole positions by a full 10 seconds from second placed Chris Amon, both in a Ferrari. Jackie Stewart in his Matra MS10 was down in sixth place on the grid. At the time, Ickx became the youngest person ever to sit on pole, a record beaten 14 years later when Andrea de Cesaris achieved pole position at the 1982 United States Grand Prix West. Race Even with the conditions treacherous, 200,000 spectators turned up for the race on Sunday afternoon. The race turned out to be a one-man show by Scotsman Jackie Stewart. While Graham Hill took the lead at the start, by the end of the first lap Stewart had moved into first place and built a nine-second lead. He put his superior Dunlop wet tires to great effect and by the end of lap 2, had extended his lead to 34 seconds. When the race ended after 14 laps, Stewart crossed the line more than 4 minutes in front of second placed Hill. The eventual World Champion had spun on lap 11, but was able to get out of the car, push it into the right direction and keep going before third-placed Jochen Rindt could catch up. Chris Amon had battled with Hill for 11 laps over second place, rarely having more than a second between the two, until Amon spun out of the race on the same lap as Hill did. Reactions Stewart described the race as a "teeth gritting effort" in his autobiography. About the first lap he wrote: Visibility is so pathetically poor I can't even see Chris' car in front of me [...] I am simply driving into this great wall of spray. I pull out to pass him but the spray is dense and I'm driving blind. Jackie Stewart Winning Is Not Enough The race has been described as Stewart's best drive ever, with the Scot later confirming he felt the same way.Dougall Angus The Greatest Racing Driver: The Life and Times of Great Drivers 2013 BalboaPressAU Bloomington, IN 978-1452510965 85 https://books.google.com/books?id=u8BKAgAAQBAJ&q=The+Greatest+Racing+Driver:+The+Life+and+Times+of+Great+Drivers 5 February 2015 Classification Qualifying Pos No Driver Constructor Time Gap1 9 BEL Jacky Ickx Ferrari 9:04.0 — 2 8 NZL Chris Amon Ferrari 9:14.9 +10.9 3 5 AUT Jochen Rindt Brabham-Repco 9:31.9 +27.9 4 3 UK Graham Hill Lotus-Ford 9:46.0 +42.0 5 20 UK Vic Elford Cooper-BRM 9:53.0 +49.0 6 6 UK Jackie Stewart Matra-Ford 9:54.2 +50.2 7 7 UK John Surtees Honda 9:57.8 +53.8 8 22 UK Piers Courage BRM 10:00.1 +56.1 9 16 SUI Jo Siffert Lotus-Ford 10:03.4 +59.4 10 14 USA Dan Gurney Eagle-Weslake 10:13.9 +1:09.9 11 1 NZL Denny Hulme McLaren-Ford 10:16.0 +1:12.0 12 12 FRA Jean-Pierre Beltoise Matra 10:17.3 +1:13.3 13 21 UK Jackie Oliver Lotus-Ford 10:18.7 +1:14.7 14 10 MEX 1934 Pedro Rodríguez BRM 10:19.7 +1:15.7 15 4 AUS Jack Brabham Brabham-Repco 10:23.1 +1:19.1 16 2 NZL Bruce McLaren McLaren-Ford 10:33.0 +1:29.0 17 17 FRG Kurt Ahrens Jr. Brabham-Repco 10:37.3 +1:33.3 18 18 FRG Hubert Hahne Lola-BMW 10:42.9 +1:38.9 19 19 BEL Lucien Bianchi Cooper-BRM 10:46.6 +1:42.6 20 11 UK Richard Attwood BRM 10:48.2 +1:44.2 21 23 CH Silvio Moser Brabham-Repco Source:https://www.chicanef1.com/race.pl?year=1968&gp=German%20GP&r=1&type=qual 1968 German GP Qualification www.chicanef1.com 28 August 2020https://database.motorsportmagazine.com/database/races/1968-german-grand-prix 1968 German Grand Prix Motor Sport Magazine 28 August 2020 Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 6 UK Jackie Stewart Matra-Ford 14 2:19:03.2 6 9 2 3 UK Graham Hill Lotus-Ford 14 + 4:03.2 4 6 3 5 AUT Jochen Rindt Brabham-Repco 14 + 4:09.4 3 4 4 9 BEL Jacky Ickx Ferrari 14 + 5:55.2 1 3 5 4 AUS Jack Brabham Brabham-Repco 14 + 6:21.1 15 2 6 10 MEX 1934 Pedro Rodríguez BRM 14 + 6:25.0 14 1 7 1 NZL Denny Hulme McLaren-Ford 14 + 6:31.0 11   8 22 UK Piers Courage BRM 14 + 7:56.4 8   9 14 USA Dan Gurney Eagle-Weslake 14 + 8:13.7 10   10 18 FRG Hubert Hahne Lola-BMW 14 + 10:11.4 18   11 21 UK Jackie Oliver Lotus-Ford 13 + 1 Lap 13   12 17 FRG Kurt Ahrens Jr. Brabham-Repco 13 + 1 Lap 17   13 2 NZL Bruce McLaren McLaren-Ford 13 + 1 Lap 16   14 11 UK Richard Attwood BRM 13 + 1 Lap 20   Ret Retired 8 NZL Chris Amon Ferrari 11 Accident 2   Ret Retired 12 FRA Jean-Pierre Beltoise Matra 8 Accident 12   Ret Retired 16 SUI Jo Siffert Lotus-Ford 6 Ignition 9   Ret Retired 19 BEL Lucien Bianchi Cooper-BRM 6 Fuel Leak 19   Ret Retired 7 UK John Surtees Honda 3 Ignition 7   Ret Retired 20 UK Vic Elford Cooper-BRM 0 Accident 5   DNS Did not start 23 CH Silvio Moser Brabham-Repco Oil Pump   WD Withdrawn 15 SWE Jo Bonnier McLaren-BRM   Sources:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1968/555/ 1968 German Grand Prix formula1.com 26 September 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150118235237/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1968/555/ 18 January 2015http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr169.html GRAND PRIX RESULTS: GERMAN GP, 1968 grandprix.com February 5, 2016 Notes This was the 100th race for a Lotus. In those 100 races, the British constructor had won 33 Grands Prix, had achieved 52 podiums, 43 pole positions, 35 fastest laps, 12 Grand Slams and had won 2 Driver's and 2 Constructor's World Championships. Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 United Kingdom Graham Hill 30 10px 1 2 United Kingdom Jackie Stewart 26 10px 1 3 Belgium Jacky Ickx 23 10px 4 New Zealand Denny Hulme 15 10px 5 Mexico 1934 Pedro Rodríguez 11Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1968/allemagne/championnat.aspx Germany 1968 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 18 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 10px 1 UK Lotus-Ford 44 10px 2 2 France Matra-Ford 29 10px 1 3 Italy Ferrari 28 10px 1 4 UK McLaren-Ford 22 10px 5 UK BRM 18Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. References 30em Further reading Lang Mike Grand Prix! Vol 2 Haynes Publishing Group 1982 74–75 0-85429-321-3 External links German Grand Prix 1968 motorsport-stats.com http://www.motorsport-stats.com/f1/history/1968/germany.html 26 September 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20080205094547/http://motorsport-stats.com/f1/history/1968/germany.html 5 February 2008 German Grand Prix 1968 1968 British Grand Prix 1968 Italian Grand Prix 1967 German Grand Prix 1969 German Grand Prix 1967 Italian Grand Prix 1972 British Grand Prix German Grand Prix Category:German Grand Prix Category:European Grand Prix German Grand Prix