1968 Monaco Grand Prix
| Racing data | ||
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| 3rd of 12 races of the 1968 World Automobile Championship | ||
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| Surname: | XXVI Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco | |
| Date: | May 26, 1968 | |
| Place: | Monaco | |
| Course: | Circuit de Monaco | |
| Length: | 251.6 km in 80 laps of 3.145 km
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| Weather: | sunny and warm | |
| Pole position | ||
| Driver: |
 Graham Hill
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lotus
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| Time: | 1: 28.2 min | |
| Fastest lap | ||
| Driver: |
Richard Attwood
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BRM
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| Time: | 1: 28.1 min | |
| Podium | ||
| First: |
Graham Hill
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lotus
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| Second: |
Richard Attwood
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BRM
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| Third: |
 Lucien Bianchi
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cooper
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The 1968 Monaco Grand Prix took place on May 26th and was the third race of the 1968 World Automobile Championship .
Reports
background
After Lorenzo Bandini's fatal accident the year before, the harbor chicane on the Monaco Grand Prix circuit was defused and the race distance was shortened from 100 to 80 laps. Nevertheless, Scuderia Ferrari did not take part in the race, allegedly because it considered these safety improvements to be insufficient.
The Team Lotus announced two cars of Graham Hill and Jackie Oliver were gone. The two Lotus 49s showed signs of aerodynamic modifications at the front and rear. These were the first signs of extensive developments that would follow later in the season.
At BRM it was planned to sign Chris Irwin as the successor to the fatally injured works driver Mike Spence , but a serious accident during training for the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring on the weekend before the Monaco GP ended Irwin's racing career. Instead, Richard Attwood was given the free cockpit.
As Jackie Stewart continued to recover from injuries sustained in a Formula 2 race, Formula 1 debutant Johnny Servoz-Gavin was given the chance to replace him on the Matra customer team Tyrrell . The Matra factory team competed for the first time with a V12 engine developed in-house.
Brian Redman was active on the weekend of the Monaco GP in the parallel 1000 km race in Spa-Francorchamps and was therefore represented on the Cooper works team by Lucien Bianchi . Denis Hulme also had other commitments in qualifying for the Indianapolis 500 , but managed to commute between Monaco and Indianapolis during the weekend .
training
Graham Hill secured pole position 0.6 seconds ahead of the impressive debutant Johnny Servoz-Gavin. The second row of the grid was shared by Jo Siffert and John Surtees . Jochen Rindt and Richard Attwood qualified for the third row.
As factory drivers, Dan Gurney and Ludovico Scarfiotti had a guarantee of participation in the starting field, which was limited to 16 vehicles for safety reasons. Therefore, the private drivers Joakim Bonnier and Silvio Moser did not qualify for the race, although they had achieved faster training times.
run
Servoz-Gavin initially took over the lead and thus experienced the only three leading laps of his Formula 1 career, as he had an accident on the fourth lap due to a technical defect. This put Hill in the top position, which he did not give up for the rest of the race.
Due to numerous accidents and technical defects, only five vehicles were left in the race after 16 laps. Since Hulme had to make a pit stop, Attwood came in second and Bianchi in third. For both of them this was the first and only podium finish in their Grand Prix careers. Scarfiotti finished fourth. He did not experience another Grand Prix because he died two weeks later while training for a hill climb on the Roßfeldhöhenringstrasse .
Registration list
Classifications
Starting grid
| Item | driver | constructor | time | Ø speed | begin |
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| 1 |
Graham Hill
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Lotus Ford
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1: 28.2 | 128.367 km / h | 1 |
| 2 |
 Johnny Servoz-Gavin
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Matra Ford
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1: 28.8 | 127.500 km / h | 2 |
| 3 |
 Jo Siffert
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Lotus Ford
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1: 28.8 | 127.500 km / h | 3 |
| 4th |
John Surtees
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 Honda
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1: 29.1 | 127.071 km / h | 4th |
| 5 |
 Jochen Rindt
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Brabham-Repco
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1: 29.2 | 126.928 km / h | 5 |
| 6th |
Richard Attwood
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BRM
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1: 29.6 | 126.362 km / h | 6th |
| 7th |
 Bruce McLaren
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McLaren-Ford
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1: 29.6 | 126.362 km / h | 7th |
| 8th |
Jean-Pierre Beltoise
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Matra
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1: 29.7 | 126.221 km / h | 8th |
| 9 |
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BRM
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1: 30.4 | 125.243 km / h | 9 |
| 10 |
Denis Hulme
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McLaren-Ford
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1: 30.4 | 125.243 km / h | 10 |
| 11 |
Piers Courage
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BRM
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1: 30.6 | 124.967 km / h | 11 |
| 12 |
 Jack Brabham
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Brabham-Repco
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1: 31.2 | 124.145 km / h | 12 |
| 13 |
Jackie Oliver
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Lotus Ford
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1: 31.7 | 123.468 km / h | 13 |
| 14th |
Lucien Bianchi
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Cooper-BRM
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1: 31.9 | 123.199 km / h | 14th |
| DNQ |
 Joakim Bonnier
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McLaren BRM
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1: 32.1 | 122.932 km / h | - |
| DNQ |
Silvio Moser
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Brabham-Repco
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1: 32.4 | 122.532 km / h | - |
| 17th |
 Ludovico Scarfiotti
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Cooper-BRM
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1: 32.9 | 121.873 km / h | 15th |
| 18th |
 Dan Gurney
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Eagle-Weslake
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1: 32.9 | 121.873 km / h | 16 |
run
| Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap | Failure reason |
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| 1 |
Graham Hill
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Lotus Ford
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80 | 0 | 2: 00: 32.3 | 1 | ||
| 2 |
Richard Attwood
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BRM
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80 | 0 | + 2.2 | 6th | 1: 28.1 | |
| 3 |
Lucien Bianchi
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Cooper-BRM
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76 | 0 | + 4 rounds | 14th | ||
| 4th |
Ludovico Scarfiotti
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Cooper-BRM
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76 | 2 | + 4 rounds | 15th | ||
| 5 |
Denis Hulme
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McLaren-Ford
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73 | 1 | + 7 rounds | 10 | ||
| - |
John Surtees
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Honda
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16 | 0 | DNF | 4th | Gearbox damage | |
| - |
Pedro Rodríguez
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BRM
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16 | 0 | DNF | 9 | accident | |
| - |
Jo Siffert
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Lotus Ford
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12 | 0 | DNF | 3 | Differential damage | |
| - |
Jean-Pierre Beltoise
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Matra
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11 | 0 | DNF | 8th | accident | |
| - |
Piers Courage
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BRM
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11 | 1 | DNF | 11 | accident | |
| - |
Dan Gurney
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Eagle-Weslake
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9 | 0 | DNF | 16 | Engine failure | |
| - |
Jochen Rindt
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Brabham-Repco
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8th | 0 | DNF | 5 | accident | |
| - |
Jack Brabham
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Brabham-Repco
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7th | 0 | DNF | 12 | Suspension damage | |
| - |
Johnny Servoz-Gavin
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Matra Ford
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3 | 0 | DNF | 2 | defective half-wave | |
| - |
Bruce McLaren
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McLaren-Ford
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0 | 0 | DNF | 7th | accident | |
| - |
Jackie Oliver
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Lotus Ford
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0 | 0 | DNF | 13 | accident |
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" ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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)
- ^ "Report" (accessed on August 14, 2011)
- ↑ "World Cup stands" ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2008 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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