1968 Canadian Grand Prix
| Racing data | ||
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| 10th of 12 races of the 1968 World Automobile Championship | ||
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| Surname: | VIII Player's Canadian Grand Prix | |
| Date: | 22nd September 1968 | |
| Place: | Saint-Jovite | |
| Course: | Circuit Mont-Tremblant | |
| Length: | 383.85 km in 90 laps of 4.265 km
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| Weather: | sunny and warm | |
| Spectator: | ~ 40,000 | |
| Pole position | ||
| Driver: |
 Jochen Rindt
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 Brabham
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| Time: | 1: 33.8 min | |
| Fastest lap | ||
| Driver: |
 Jo Siffert
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lotus
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| Time: | 1: 35.1 min | |
| Podium | ||
| First: |
 Denis Hulme
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McLaren
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| Second: |
Bruce McLaren
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McLaren
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| Third: |
.svg){kind=small} Pedro Rodríguez
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BRM
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The 1968 Canadian Grand Prix took place on September 22nd on the Mont-Tremblant Circuit and was the tenth race of the 1968 World Championship .
Reports
background
After the successful premiere of the Canadian Grand Prix last year at Mosport Park , the race took place for the first time on the Circuit Mont-Tremblant in the 1968 season .
In order to have a competitive advantage in the fight for the world championship, the Lotus team reported a third works car and occupied it with local guest starter Bill Brack , who thus made his Formula 1 debut.
Dan Gurney had meanwhile stopped using his Eagle T1G with Weslake engines and decided to contest the last three races of the year on his home continent with a McLaren M7A that he was driving himself . Instead, an unsupported Eagle racing car was reported for private driver Al Pease .
As an exception, BRM competed with only one works car, which was driven by Pedro Rodríguez . Cooper , on the other hand, upgraded to two cars again, as Lucien Bianchi was available again two weeks earlier after a break at the Italian Grand Prix .
Since the Matra customer team Tyrrell continued to bet on Johnny Servoz-Gavin alongside Jackie Stewart and the works team reported a second car with the debutant Henri Pescarolo , four Matra vehicles were at the start for the first time.
training
Jacky Ickx , who up to now still had theoretical chances for the world championship title, had a serious accident in training and was unable to take part in the race because of a broken leg. Besides him, Al Pease also refused to start.
Jochen Rindt confirmed the quality of the further developed Repco engine by securing a starting position in the front row at the same time as Chris Amon in the Ferrari 312 , for which Jo Siffert also qualified as the third driver in the private Lotus 49 of the Rob Walker team. The second row consisted of Dan Gurney and Graham Hill , the leader in the Drivers' Championship . Denis Hulme , John Surtees and Bruce McLaren qualified behind them . Thus, after training, all three participating McLaren M7As found themselves within the first three rows.
run
Joakim Bonnier was unable to start the race because he noticed problems with the fuel supply before the start.
Amon initially took the lead ahead of Siffert, Rindt, Gurney and Hill. Apart from Surtees, who fell in eighth place in the tenth lap, there were no position shifts among the top-placed drivers within the first laps.
On lap 14 Hill managed to overtake Gurney. This was canceled twelve laps later due to radiator damage. After Siffert and Rindt were eliminated due to technical problems, Hill reached second place without a fight, but could only defend it briefly against Hulme. He even fell behind Rodríguez and Servoz-Gavin within the following laps, but returned to fourth place after the Frenchman retired.
Amon was still in the lead when his transmission failed on lap 73 and he retired. This enabled McLaren to take their first double victory in team history. The second only followed 15 years later at the 1983 US Grand Prix .
Graham Hill, who, like Jack Brabham , contested his 100th Grand Prix this weekend, was tied with Denis Hulme at the top of the World Championship table after the race.
Registration list
Classifications
Starting grid
| Item | driver | constructor | time | Ø speed | begin |
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| 1 |
Jochen Rindt
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Brabham-Repco
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1: 33.8 | 163.689 km / h | 1 |
| 2 |
Chris Amon
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 Ferrari
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1: 33.8 | 163.689 km / h | 2 |
| 3 |
Jo Siffert
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Lotus Ford
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1: 34.5 | 162.476 km / h | 3 |
| 4th |
 Dan Gurney
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McLaren-Ford
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1: 34.5 | 162.476 km / h | 4th |
| 5 |
Graham Hill
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Lotus Ford
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1: 34.8 | 161.962 km / h | 5 |
| 6th |
Denis Hulme
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McLaren-Ford
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1: 34.9 | 161.791 km / h | 6th |
| 7th |
John Surtees
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 Honda
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1: 34.9 | 161.791 km / h | 7th |
| 8th |
Bruce McLaren
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McLaren-Ford
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1: 35.0 | 161.621 km / h | 8th |
| 9 |
Jackie Oliver
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Lotus Ford
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1: 35.2 | 161.282 km / h | 9 |
| 10 |
 Jack Brabham
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Brabham-Repco
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1: 35.4 | 160.943 km / h | 10 |
| 11 |
Jackie Stewart
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 Matra Ford
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1: 35.4 | 160.943 km / h | 11 |
| 12 |
Pedro Rodríguez
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BRM
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1: 35.7 | 160.439 km / h | 12 |
| 13 |
 Jacky Ickx
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Ferrari
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1: 36.6 | 158.944 km / h | DNS |
| 14th |
Johnny Servoz-Gavin
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Matra Ford
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1: 36.6 | 158.944 km / h | 13 |
| 15th |
Piers Courage
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BRM
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1: 37.3 | 157.801 km / h | 14th |
| 16 |
Jean-Pierre Beltoise
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Matra
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1: 38.7 | 155.562 km / h | 15th |
| 17th |
Vic Elford
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Cooper-BRM
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1: 39.4 | 154.467 km / h | 16 |
| 18th |
 Joakim Bonnier
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McLaren BRM
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1: 39.6 | 154.157 km / h | 17th |
| 19th |
Lucien Bianchi
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Cooper-BRM
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1: 40.5 | 152.776 km / h | 18th |
| 20th |
Henri Pescarolo
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Matra
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1: 41.2 | 151.719 km / h | 19th |
| 21st |
 Bill Brack
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Lotus Ford
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1: 41.2 | 151.719 km / h | 20th |
| 22nd |
Al Pease
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Eagle-Climax
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1: 49.6 | 140.091 km / h | DNS |
run
| Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap | Failure reason |
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| 1 |
Denis Hulme
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McLaren-Ford
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90 | 0 | 2: 27: 11.2 | 6th | ||
| 2 |
Bruce McLaren
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McLaren-Ford
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89 | 0 | + 1 lap | 8th | ||
| 3 |
Pedro Rodríguez
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BRM
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88 | 0 | + 2 rounds | 12 | ||
| 4th |
Graham Hill
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Lotus Ford
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86 | 1 | + 4 rounds | 5 | ||
| 5 |
Vic Elford
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Cooper-BRM
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86 | 0 | + 4 rounds | 16 | ||
| 6th |
Jackie Stewart
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Matra Ford
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83 | 1 | + 7 rounds | 11 | ||
| - |
Jean-Pierre Beltoise
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Matra
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77 | 2 | DNF | 15th | Gearbox damage | |
| - |
Chris Amon
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Ferrari
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72 | 0 | DNF | 2 | Gearbox damage | |
| - |
Johnny Servoz-Gavin
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Matra Ford
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71 | 0 | DNF | 13 | accident | |
| - |
Lucien Bianchi
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Cooper-BRM
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56 | 1 | NC | 18th | Unrated | |
| - |
Henri Pescarolo
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Matra
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54 | 0 | DNF | 19th | Oil pressure loss | |
| - |
Jochen Rindt
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Brabham-Repco
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39 | 0 | DNF | 1 | Engine failure | |
| - |
Jackie Oliver
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Lotus Ford
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32 | 0 | DNF | 9 | Gearbox damage | |
| - |
Jack Brabham
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Brabham-Repco
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31 | 0 | DNF | 10 | Suspension damage | |
| - |
Jo Siffert
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Lotus Ford
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29 | 0 | DNF | 3 | 1: 35.1 | Oil loss |
| - |
Dan Gurney
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McLaren-Ford
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29 | 0 | DNF | 4th | defective water cooler | |
| - |
Piers Courage
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BRM
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22nd | 0 | DNF | 14th | Gearbox damage | |
| - |
Bill Brack
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Lotus Ford
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18th | 0 | DNF | 20th | broken drive shaft | |
| - |
John Surtees
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Honda
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10 | 0 | DNF | 7th | Gearbox damage | |
| - |
Joakim Bonnier
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McLaren BRM
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- | 0 | DNS | 17th | not started |
World Cup stands after the race
The first six of the race got 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.
Driver ranking
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Constructors' championship
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Individual evidence
- ↑ "Training" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on August 14, 2011)
- ^ "Report" (accessed on August 14, 2011)
- ↑ “World Cup stands” ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on August 14, 2011)
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