1969 Monaco Grand Prix

 1969 Monaco Grand Prix

Racing data
3rd of 11 races of the 1969 Automobile World Championship
Surname:	Grand Prix de Monaco
Date:	May 18, 1969
Place:	Monaco
Course:	Circuit de Monaco
Length:	251.583 km in 80 laps of 3.145 km
Weather:	dry and warm
Pole position
Driver:	Jackie Stewart	Matra
Time:	1: 24.6 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Jackie Stewart	Matra
Time:	1: 25.1 min
Podium
First:	Graham Hill	lotus
Second:	Piers Courage	Brabham
Third:	Joseph Siffert	lotus

The 1969 Monaco Grand Prix took place on May 18 and was the third race of the 1969 World Cup .

Reports

background

The field of participants largely corresponded to that of the previous Grand Prix in Spain with the exception that Jochen Rindt had not yet recovered from his nose injury there and was therefore represented by Richard Attwood .

In addition, the private team Antique Automobiles competed for the first time this season and, with driver Vic Elford , contested the last Grand Prix participation of a Cooper racing car. For Silvio Moser , who used a private Brabham, it was also the first GP participation of the year.

training

After the first training session, a ban on any wing was imposed in response to accidents and problems at the previous Spanish GP . The times from this first training session, which was completed with wings, were canceled and did not count towards qualification. Contrary to the fears of some teams that the cars, which were tuned with the aerodynamic aids, would hardly be drivable without wings, only slight losses of time were recorded.

Jackie Stewart achieved the first pole position of his career ahead of Chris Amon in a Ferrari and his Matra teammate Jean-Pierre Beltoise .

run

Stewart went into the first corner as the leader, closely followed by Amon. Behind Beltoise came under pressure from Graham Hill , who passed him on the third lap. Within the first ten laps, Stewart had a ten-second lead.

Meanwhile, John Surtees was struggling with a gearbox failure in the poorly lit tunnel. Jack Brabham overlooked this and collided with him. Both failed, but were unharmed. Amon and Beltoise, who were both in promising positions, retired in the first quarter of the race with technical problems. Shortly after Beltoise, the leading Stewart also had to retire, so that both Matra-Fords were eliminated within two laps with exactly the same defect.

Hill was now in the lead, twelve seconds ahead of Jacky Ickx and Piers Courage . Since Ickx had to give up on lap 49 due to a damage to the suspension, Courage finished the race in second place and thus ensured an unexpected success for the private team Frank Williams Racing Cars , which only contested its second Grand Prix outing. Joseph Siffert reached the destination in third place with his customer Lotus.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Gold Leaf Team Lotus	1	Graham Hill	Lotus 49B	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	F.
	2	Richard Attwood
Bruce McLaren Motor Racing	3	Denis Hulme	McLaren M7A		G
	4th	Bruce McLaren	McLaren M7C
Motor Racing Developments	5	Jack Brabham	Brabham BT26A		G
	6th	Jacky Ickx
Matra International (Tyrrell)	7th	Jackie Stewart	Matra MS80		D.
	8th	Jean-Pierre Beltoise
Rob Walker Racing Team	9	Joseph Siffert	Lotus 49B		F.
Reg Parnell Racing	10	Pedro Rodríguez	BRM P126	BRM P142 3.0 V12	D.
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	11	Chris Amon	Ferrari 312 (1969)	Ferrari 255C 3.0 V12	F.
Antique Automobiles	12	Vic Elford	Cooper T86B	Maserati 10 / F1 3.0 V12	G
Owen Racing Organization	14th	John Surtees	BRM P138	BRM P142 3.0 V12	D.
	15th	Jackie Oliver	BRM P133
Frank Williams Racing Cars	16	Piers Courage	Brabham BT26A	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	D.
Silvio Moser Racing Team	17th	Silvio Moser	Brabham BT24		G

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Jackie Stewart	Matra Ford	1: 24.6	133.830 km / h	01
02	Chris Amon	Ferrari	1: 25.0	133,200 km / h	02
03	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra Ford	1: 25.4	132.576 km / h	03
04th	Graham Hill	Lotus Ford	1: 25.8	131.958 km / h	04th
05	Joseph Siffert	Lotus Ford	1: 26.0	131.651 km / h	05
06th	John Surtees	BRM	1: 26.0	131.651 km / h	06th
07th	Jacky Ickx	Brabham-Ford	1: 26.3	131.194 km / h	07th
08th	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Ford	1: 26.4	131.042 km / h	08th
09	Piers Courage	Brabham-Ford	1: 26.4	131.042 km / h	09
10	Richard Attwood	Lotus Ford	1: 26.5	130.890 km / h	10
11	Bruce McLaren	McLaren-Ford	1: 26.7	130.588 km / h	11
12	Denis Hulme	McLaren-Ford	1: 29.5	126.503 km / h	12
13	Jackie Oliver	BRM	1: 28.4	128.077 km / h	13
14th	Pedro Rodríguez	BRM	1: 30.5	125.105 km / h	14th
15th	Silvio Moser	Brabham-Ford	1: 30.5	125.105 km / h	15th
16	Vic Elford	Cooper Maserati	1: 32.8	122.004 km / h	16

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Graham Hill	Lotus Ford	80	0	1: 56: 59.4	04th	1: 25.8
02	Piers Courage	Brabham-Ford	80	0	+ 17.3	09	1: 25.8
03	Joseph Siffert	Lotus Ford	80	0	+ 34.6	05	1: 26.2
04th	Richard Attwood	Lotus Ford	80	0	+ 52.9	10	1: 26.4
05	Bruce McLaren	McLaren-Ford	79	0	+ 1 lap	11	1: 26.8
06th	Denis Hulme	McLaren-Ford	78	0	+ 2 rounds	12	1: 26.7
07th	Vic Elford	Cooper Maserati	74	0	+ 6 rounds	16	1: 33.2
-	Jacky Ickx	Brabham-Ford	48	0	DNF	07th	1: 26.5	Suspension damage
-	Jackie Stewart	Matra Ford	22nd	0	DNF	01	1: 25.1	defective drive shaft
-	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra Ford	20th	0	DNF	03	1: 26.3	defective drive shaft
-	Chris Amon	Ferrari	16	0	DNF	02	1: 26.3	Differential damage
-	Pedro Rodríguez	BRM	15th	0	DNF	14th	1: 31.3	Engine failure
-	Silvio Moser	Brabham-Ford	15th	0	DNF	15th	1: 30.7	defective drive shaft
-	John Surtees	BRM	09	0	DNF	06th	1: 29.3	Gearbox damage
-	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Ford	09	0	DNF	08th	1: 29.2	accident
-	Jackie Oliver	BRM	00	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

Item driver constructor Points 01  Jackie Stewart Matra 18th 02  Graham Hill lotus 15th 03  Bruce McLaren McLaren 10 04th  Denis Hulme McLaren 8th 05  Joseph Siffert lotus 7th

Item driver constructor Points 06th  Piers Courage Brabham 6th 07th  Jean-Pierre Beltoise Matra 5 08th  Richard Attwood lotus 3 09  John Surtees BRM 2 010  Jacky Ickx Brabham 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Matra 18th 02  lotus 15th 03  McLaren 12 04th  Brabham 7th 05  BRM 2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Training" ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 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 June 18, 2011)  
2. ^ "Report" (accessed on June 18, 2011)
3. ↑ "World Cup stands" ( Memento of the original from May 18, 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 June 18, 2011)