1968 French Grand Prix

F1 France French 7 July 1968 Rouen track layout 1955-1971.gif The Rouen Les Essarts circuit in 1968 LIV Grand Prix de France Rouen-Les-Essarts, Grand-Couronne, France Permanent racing facility 4.065 6.542 60 243.901 392.520 Wet Jochen Rindt Brabham-Repco 1:56.1 Austria Pedro Rodríguez BRM 2:11.5 19 Mexico 1934 Jacky Ickx Ferrari Belgium John Surtees Honda United Kingdom Jackie Stewart Matra-Ford United Kingdom FRA The 1968 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Rouen-Les-Essarts Circuit on 7 July 1968. It was race 6 of 12 in both the 1968 World Championship of Drivers and the 1968 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 60-lap race was won by Ferrari driver Jacky Ickx after he started from third position. John Surtees finished second for the Honda team and Matra driver Jackie Stewart came in third. The French driver Jo Schlesser had a fatal accident on the third lap of the race,France 1968 • lap by lap https://www.statsf1.com/en/1968/france/tour-par-tour.aspx 4 May 2024French GP, 1968 https://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr167.html 4 May 2024 when he lost control in the then-new Honda RA302 chassis which overturned and caught fire partially due to its magnesium content.June 2012 He was chosen as driver when regular Honda F1 driver John Surtees refused to drive the new car, opting for the older RA301 chassis, on the grounds that the new car was unsafe. This race was a turning point in Formula One as the death of Schlesser prompted many safety precautions in later races. This was also the last F1 race to take place at Rouen-Les Essarts. Classification Qualifying Pos No Driver Constructor Time Gap 1 2 AUT Jochen Rindt Brabham-Repco 1:56.1 — 2 28 UK Jackie Stewart Matra-Ford 1:57.3 +1.2 3 26 Belgium Jacky Ickx Ferrari 1:57.7 +1.6 4 8 NZL Denny Hulme McLaren-Ford 1:57.7 +1.6 5 24 NZL Chris Amon Ferrari 1:57.8 +1.7 6 10 NZL Bruce McLaren McLaren-Ford 1:58.0 +1.9 7 16 UK John Surtees Honda 1:58.2 +2.1 8 6 FRA Jean-Pierre Beltoise Matra 1:58.9 +2.8 9 12 UK Graham Hill Lotus-Ford 1:59.1 +3.0 10 20 MEX 1934 Pedro Rodríguez BRM 1:59.3 +3.2 11 14 UK Jackie Oliver Lotus-Ford 2:00.2 +4.1 12 34 SUI Jo Siffert Lotus-Ford 2:00.3 +4.2 13 22 UK Richard Attwood BRM 2:00.8 +4.7 14 4 AUS Jack Brabham Brabham-Repco 2:00.8 +4.7 15 36 UK Piers Courage BRM 2:01.1 +5.0 16 32 FRA Johnny Servoz-Gavin Cooper-BRM 2:01.2 +5.1 17 18 FRA Jo Schlesser Honda 2:04.5 +8.4 18 30 UK Vic Elford Cooper-BRM 2:05.5 +9.4 Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 26 Belgium Jacky Ickx Ferrari 60 2:25:40.9 3 9 2 16 UK John Surtees Honda 60 + 1:58.6 7 6 3 28 UK Jackie Stewart Matra-Ford 59 + 1 lap 2 4 4 30 UK Vic Elford Cooper-BRM 58 + 2 laps 17 3 5 8 NZL Denny Hulme McLaren-Ford 58 + 2 laps 4 2 6 36 UK Piers Courage BRM 57 + 3 laps 14 1 7 22 UK Richard Attwood BRM 57 + 3 laps 12   8 10 NZL Bruce McLaren McLaren-Ford 56 + 4 laps 6   9 6 FRA Jean-Pierre Beltoise Matra 56 + 4 laps 8   10 24 NZL Chris Amon Ferrari 55 + 5 laps 5   11 34 SUI Jo Siffert Lotus-Ford 54 + 6 laps 11   NC Not classified 20 MEX 1934 Pedro Rodríguez BRM 53 + 7 laps 10   Ret Retired 2 AUT Jochen Rindt Brabham-Repco 45 Fuel leak 1   Ret Retired 4 AUS Jack Brabham Brabham-Repco 15 Fuel pump 13   Ret Retired 12 UK Graham Hill Lotus-Ford 14 Halfshaft 9   Ret Retired 32 FRA Johnny Servoz-Gavin Cooper-BRM 14 Accident 15   Ret Retired 18 FRA Jo Schlesser Honda 2 Fatal accident 16   DNS Did not start 14 UK Jackie Oliver Lotus-Ford Accident in practice Sources:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1968/560/ 1968 French Grand Prix formula1.com 26 September 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150118232452/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1968/560/ 18 January 2015http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr167.html Grand Prix Results: French GP, 1968 Grandprix.com 5 February 2016thumb|right|Jo Schlesser's Honda RA302 crashes at Virage des Six Frères, igniting the magnesium body and killing Schlesser. Notes This was the Formula One World Championship debut for British driver Vic Elford. This race saw the first pole position for Jochen Rindt and an Austrian driver, the first fastest lap for Pedro Rodríguez and a Mexican driver and the first Grand Prix win for Jacky Ickx and a Belgian driver. Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 United Kingdom Graham Hill 24 10px 6 2 Belgium Jacky Ickx 16 10px 1 3 United Kingdom Jackie Stewart 16 10px 1 4 New Zealand Denny Hulme 12 10px 1 5 Mexico 1934 Pedro Rodríguez 10Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1968/france/championnat.aspx France 1968 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 15 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 10px 1 UK Lotus-Ford 29 10px 2 UK McLaren-Ford 19 10px 2 3 Italy Ferrari 19 10px 4 France Matra-Ford 19 10px 2 5 UK BRM 17Source: 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 70–71 0-85429-321-3 French Grand Prix 1968 1968 Dutch Grand Prix 1968 British Grand Prix 1967 French Grand Prix 1969 French Grand Prix French Grand Prix Category:French Grand Prix Category:1968 in French motorsport