1967 Mexican Grand Prix

 1967 Mexican Grand Prix

Racing data
11th of 11 races of the 1967 Automobile World Championship
Surname:	VII Gran Premio de México
Date:	October 22, 1967
Place:	Mexico city
Course:	Magdalena Mixhuca
Length:	325 km in 65 laps of 5 km
Weather:	sunny and warm
Spectator:	~ 80,000
Pole position
Driver:	Jim Clark	lotus
Time:	1: 47.56 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Jim Clark	lotus
Time:	1: 48.13 min
Podium
First:	Jim Clark	lotus
Second:	Jack Brabham	Brabham
Third:	Denis Hulme	Brabham

The 1967 Mexican Grand Prix took place in Mexico City on October 22nd and was the eleventh and final race of the 1967 Automobile World Championship .

Reports

background

Before the last World Championship round of the season, Denis Hulme was five points ahead of his teammate, defending champion Jack Brabham . Apart from the two, no other driver had the chance of winning the world championship. The Brabham team had been the constructors' world champions since the Italian Grand Prix .

For the first time since the Belgian Grand Prix , Scuderia Ferrari used a second works car alongside that of regular driver Chris Amon . Jonathan Williams contested the first and only Grand Prix of his racing career.

Pedro Rodríguez returned to the Cooper cockpit in time for his home race after his injury-related break . However, he was the only works driver there that weekend, as Jochen Rindt had already left the team and signed a Brabham contract for the following year.

training

The fastest of the training was Jim Clark for the sixth time this season . Thus, for the ninth time in a row, a Lotus 49 took first place on the grid. Chris Amon qualified for second place in a Ferrari 312 . Dan Gurney placed himself in the second row in front of Clark's team-mate Graham Hill . The third row consisted of the two Brabham of the title opponents, with Jack Brabham taking the slightly better starting place.

run

Guest starter Mike Fisher was unable to start the race due to a defect in his fuel pump . The 1967 Canadian Grand Prix was his only GP participation.

Shortly after take-off, Gurney hit Jim Clark's Lotus. Both were able to continue the race at first apparently unaffected. However, Gurney retired a few laps later because of his radiator damaged in the accident. In the first laps, Hill was in the lead, ahead of Amon. However, both were overtaken by Clark by the third lap, who from then on dominated the race even though his clutch failed.

Hill had to retire on the 18th lap because of a broken half-wave. As a result, Brabham came in third. However, since Hulme was right behind him in fourth place, he had no chance of the world title this way.

Amon defended second place until shortly before the end of the race. Then he was hampered by the misfiring of the Ferrari engine caused by lack of fuel. As a result, Brabham, Hulme and Surtees were able to pass him. Since Amon's last lap was too slow to be counted, he finally came in ninth.

Denis Hulme won the drivers' world championship for the first and only time. To this day he is the only New Zealander who has succeeded in doing this.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Brabham Racing Organization	1	Jack Brabham	Brabham BT24	Repco 740 3.0 V8	G
	2	Denis Hulme
Honda Racing	3	John Surtees	Honda RA300	Honda RA273E 3.0 V12	F.
Team Lotus	5	Jim Clark	Lotus 49	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	F.
	6th	Graham Hill
	18th	Moisés Solana
Owen Racing Organization	7th	Jackie Stewart	BRM P115	BRM P75 3.0 H16	G
	8th	Mike Spence	BRM P83
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	9	Chris Amon	Ferrari 312	Ferrari 242 3.0 V12	F.
	12	Jonathan Williams
Mike Fisher	10	Mike Fisher	Lotus 33	BRM P60 2.1 V8	F.
Anglo American Racers	11	Dan Gurney	Eagle T1G	Weslake 58 3.0 V12	G
Bruce McLaren Motor Racing	14th	Bruce McLaren	McLaren M5A	BRM P142 3.0 V12	G
Rob Walker Racing	15th	Jo Siffert	Cooper T81	Maserati 9 / F1 3.0 V12	F.
Joakim Bonnier Racing Team	16	Joakim Bonnier			F.
Reg Parnell Racing	17th	Chris Irwin	BRM P83	BRM P75 3.0 H16	F.
Guy Ligier	19th	Guy Ligier	Brabham BT20	Repco 620 3.0 V8	F.
Cooper Car Company	21st	Pedro Rodríguez	Cooper T81B	Maserati 10 / F1 3.0 V12	F.
Matra Sports	22nd	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra MS7	Ford-Cosworth FVA 1.6 L4	G

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Jim Clark	Lotus Ford	1: 47.56	167.348 km / h	01
02	Chris Amon	Ferrari	1: 48.04	166.605 km / h	02
03	Dan Gurney	Eagle-Weslake	1: 48.10	166.512 km / h	03
04th	Graham Hill	Lotus Ford	1: 48.74	165.532 km / h	04th
05	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Repco	1: 49.08	165.017 km / h	05
06th	Denis Hulme	Brabham-Repco	1: 49.46	164.444 km / h	06th
07th	John Surtees	Honda	1: 49.80	163.934 km / h	07th
08th	Bruce McLaren	McLaren BRM	1: 50.06	163.547 km / h	08th
09	Moisés Solana	Lotus Ford	1: 50.52	162.866 km / h	09
10	Jo Siffert	Cooper Maserati	1: 51.89	160.872 km / h	10
11	Mike Spence	BRM	1: 52.25	160.356 km / h	11
12	Jackie Stewart	BRM	1: 52.34	160.228 km / h	12
13	Pedro Rodríguez	Cooper Maserati	1: 52.85	159.504 km / h	13
14th	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra Ford	1: 53.08	159.179 km / h	14th
15th	Chris Irwin	BRM	1: 54.38	157.370 km / h	15th
16	Jonathan Williams	Ferrari	1: 54.80	156.794 km / h	16
17th	Joakim Bonnier	Cooper Maserati	1: 55.57	155.750 km / h	17th
18th	Mike Fisher	Lotus BRM	1: 57.41	153.309 km / h	18th
19th	Guy Ligier	Brabham-Repco	1: 58.45	151.963 km / h	19th

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Jim Clark	Lotus Ford	65	0	1: 59: 28.70	01	1: 48.13
02	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Repco	65	0	+1: 25.36	05	1: 49.89
03	Denis Hulme	Brabham-Repco	64	0	+ 1 lap	06th	1: 49.92
04th	John Surtees	Honda	64	0	+ 1 lap	07th	1: 50.22
05	Mike Spence	BRM	63	0	+ 2 rounds	11	1: 52.02
06th	Pedro Rodríguez	Cooper Maserati	63	0	+ 2 rounds	13	1: 52.49
07th	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra Ford	63	0	+ 2 rounds	14th	1: 53.20
08th	Jonathan Williams	Ferrari	63	0	+ 2 rounds	16	1: 53.56
09	Chris Amon	Ferrari	62	0	DNF	02	1: 49.10	Lack of fuel
10	Joakim Bonnier	Cooper Maserati	61	0	+ 4 rounds	17th	1: 55.55
11	Guy Ligier	Brabham-Repco	61	0	+ 4 rounds	19th	1: 57.34
12	Jo Siffert	Cooper Maserati	59	0	DNF	10	1: 53.21	overheated engine
-	Bruce McLaren	McLaren BRM	45	2	DNF	08th	1: 52.08	Oil pressure loss
-	Chris Irwin	BRM	33	0	DNF	15th	1: 55.96	Oil loss
-	Jackie Stewart	BRM	24	0	DNF	12	1: 54.30	Engine vibrations
-	Graham Hill	Lotus Ford	18th	0	DNF	04th	1: 51.17	broken half-wave
-	Moisés Solana	Lotus Ford	12	0	DNF	09	1: 52.62	Suspension damage
-	Dan Gurney	Eagle-Weslake	04th	0	DNF	03	1: 53.82	defective water cooler
-	Mike Fisher	Lotus BRM	-	0	DNS	18th	-	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

Item driver constructor Points 01  Denis Hulme Brabham 51 02  Jack Brabham Brabham 46 (48) 03  Jim Clark lotus 41 04th  John Surtees Honda 20th 05  Chris Amon Ferrari 20th 06th  Graham Hill lotus 15th 07th  Pedro Rodríguez cooper 15th 08th  Dan Gurney eagle 13 09  Jackie Stewart BRM 10 10  Mike Spence BRM 9 11  John Love cooper 6th

Item driver constructor Points 12  Jochen Rindt cooper 6th 13  Jo Siffert cooper 6th 14th  Bruce McLaren McLaren 3 15th  Joakim Bonnier cooper 3 16  Bob Anderson Brabham 2 17th  Mike Parkes Ferrari 2 18th  Chris Irwin BRM 2 19th  Guy Ligier Brabham 1 20th  Ludovico Scarfiotti Ferrari 1 21st  Jacky Ickx cooper 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Brabham 63 (67) 02  lotus 44 03  cooper 28 04th  Honda 20th

Item constructor Points 05  Ferrari 20th 06th  BRM 17th 07th  eagle 13 08th  McLaren 3

Individual evidence

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2. ^ "Report" (accessed on September 10, 2011)
3. ^ "World Cup stands" ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on September 10, 2011)  

Web links

• Race result on the official Formula 1 website