1969 Spanish Grand Prix
Racing data | ||
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2nd of 11 races of the 1969 Automobile World Championship | ||
Surname: | Gran Premio de España | |
Date: | 4th May 1969 | |
Place: | Barcelona | |
Course: | Circuit de Montjuïc | |
Length: | 341.173 km in 90 laps of 3.791 km
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Weather: | sunny and warm | |
Pole position | ||
Driver: | Jochen Rindt | lotus |
Time: | 1: 25.7 min | |
Fastest lap | ||
Driver: | Jochen Rindt | lotus |
Time: | 1: 28.3 min | |
Podium | ||
First: | Jackie Stewart | Matra |
Second: | Bruce McLaren | McLaren |
Third: | Jean-Pierre Beltoise | Matra |
The 1969 Spanish Grand Prix took place on May 4th at the Circuit de Montjuïc in Barcelona and was the second race of the 1969 World Cup .
Reports
background
The racetrack on Montjuïc in Barcelona, on which the Spanish Grand Prix was held between 1968 and 1975, alternating annually with the Circuito del Jarama near Madrid , was equipped with guard rails for the 1969 Grand Prix. Nevertheless, it was still considered one of the most difficult and dangerous tracks in Formula 1 history.
In the two months between the first round of the World Championship in South Africa and the Spanish GP, two Formula 1 races that were not part of the World Championship had taken place in Great Britain. Jackie Stewart and Jack Brabham each won one of these events.
Only 14 drivers were registered for the Spanish Grand Prix, as local private drivers who had completed the field in South Africa were not available. There were no significant changes within the factory team. This time, Lotus decided not to use a third factory car. For the first time, Frank Williams' private racing team competed in a World Championship run, with driver Piers Courage .
As in the first run, the teams competed with the cars, some with lavish wing constructions.
training
In his best training lap , Jochen Rindt was the only driver this weekend to achieve a time of under 1:26 minutes, securing pole position in front of Chris Amon and Graham Hill . Jackie Stewart and Jack Brabham formed the second row, followed by Joseph Siffert , Jacky Ickx and Denis Hulme in row three.
run
Rindt took the lead from pole position and was able to quickly gain an advantage over second-placed Amon. It was followed by Hill, who had fought his way up to third, ahead of Siffert in fourth.
On the ninth lap, the wheel suspension and rear wing on Hills Lotus 49 broke in the area of a knoll at the end of the start-and-finish straight at around 230 km / h . The car, which became uncontrollable as a result, hit the crash barriers several times on both sides of the route and finally came to a stop after around 150 meters. Hill was unharmed and walked back to the box. The wreckage of his car was not recovered, but - as was customary at the time - left on the edge of the track in front of the guardrail. Hill feared a similar break in the components of his team colleague Jochen Rindt's identical car and tried to warn Rindt with a show of hands, but this failed. Hill's assumption was confirmed on lap 20 when Rindt had an accident almost the same as he had a few minutes earlier. Rindt's car also hit the guardrails several times, slid several meters along them and finally rammed the wreckage of Hills Lotus at high speed, whereupon he overturned and lay upside down. Hill rushed back there and helped the marshals rescue the pilot, who was difficult to get out of his badly bent monocoque. With a broken nose and a concussion, Rindt got off relatively lightly.
Now Cris Amon was in the lead with a relatively comfortable margin. When his pit crew signaled to him a little later that runner-up Siffert had failed on lap 31, he slowed down as the lead over the now runner-up Stewart seemed unrecoverable. However, Amon had the misfortune that on lap 57 his cooling system failed and the engine failed as a result. From this point on, Stewart was in the lead, initially closely followed by Jacky Ickx, but the rear wing of his car could not withstand the load either and bent upwards. Ickx drove three more laps with the damaged wing before he had a new one fitted to the pits. Then he dropped back to third and had to leave second place to Bruce McLaren . A few laps before the end, Ickx finally had to give up after the lower left wishbone of the rear suspension was probably damaged by the downforce generated by the rear wing. Third place went to Jean-Pierre Beltoise .
Jackie Stewart ultimately won the race by more than two laps over the runner-up. A similar situation occurred only once in the further course of Formula 1 history, namely at the 1995 Australian Grand Prix , when Damon Hill won two laps ahead of Olivier Panis .
In view of the two severe accidents, a ban on the towering wings was discussed after the race.
Registration list
team | No. | driver | chassis | engine | tires |
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Gold Leaf Team Lotus | 1 | Graham Hill | Lotus 49B | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | F. |
2 | Jochen Rindt | ||||
Motor Racing Developments | 3 | Jack Brabham | Brabham BT26A | G | |
4th | Jacky Ickx | ||||
Bruce McLaren Motor Racing | 5 | Denis Hulme | McLaren M7A | G | |
6th | Bruce McLaren | McLaren M7C | |||
Matra International (Tyrrell) | 7th | Jackie Stewart | Matra MS80 | D. | |
8th | Jean-Pierre Beltoise | ||||
Reg Parnell Racing | 9 | Pedro Rodríguez | BRM P126 | BRM P142 3.0 V12 | D. |
Rob Walker Racing Team | 10 | Joseph Siffert | Lotus 49B | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | F. |
Frank Williams Racing Cars | 11 | Piers Courage | Brabham BT26A | D. | |
Owen Racing Organization | 12 | Jackie Oliver | BRM P133 | BRM P142 3.0 V12 | D. |
14th | John Surtees | BRM P138 | |||
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC | 15th | Chris Amon | Ferrari 312 (1969) | Ferrari 255C 3.0 V12 | F. |
Classifications
Starting grid
Item | driver | constructor | time | Ø speed | begin |
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1 | Jochen Rindt | Lotus Ford | 1: 25.7 | 159.249 km / h | 1 |
2 | Chris Amon | Ferrari | 1: 26.2 | 158.325 km / h | 2 |
3 | Graham Hill | Lotus Ford | 1: 26.6 | 157.594 km / h | 3 |
4th | Jackie Stewart | Matra Ford | 1: 26.9 | 157.049 km / h | 4th |
5 | Jack Brabham | Brabham-Ford | 1: 27.8 | 155.440 km / h | 5 |
6th | Joseph Siffert | Lotus Ford | 1: 28.2 | 154.735 km / h | 6th |
7th | Jacky Ickx | Brabham-Ford | 1: 28.4 | 154.385 km / h | 7th |
8th | Denis Hulme | McLaren-Ford | 1: 28.6 | 154.036 km / h | 8th |
9 | John Surtees | BRM | 1: 28.9 | 153.516 km / h | 9 |
10 | Jackie Oliver | BRM | 1: 29.2 | 153,000 km / h | 10 |
11 | Piers Courage | Brabham-Ford | 1: 29.3 | 152.829 km / h | 11 |
12 | Jean-Pierre Beltoise | Matra Ford | 1: 29.5 | 152.487 km / h | 12 |
13 | Bruce McLaren | McLaren-Ford | 1: 29.7 | 152.147 km / h | 13 |
14th | Pedro Rodríguez | BRM | 1: 34.1 | 145.033 km / h | 14th |
run
Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap | Failure reason |
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1 | Jackie Stewart | Matra Ford | 90 | 0 | 2: 16: 54.0 | 4th | 1: 29.5 | |
2 | Bruce McLaren | McLaren-Ford | 88 | 0 | + 2 rounds | 13 | 1: 31.6 | |
3 | Jean-Pierre Beltoise | Matra Ford | 87 | 1 | + 3 rounds | 12 | 1: 29.7 | |
4th | Denis Hulme | McLaren-Ford | 87 | 1 | + 3 rounds | 8th | 1: 29.3 | |
5 | John Surtees | BRM | 84 | 2 | + 6 rounds | 9 | 1: 30.0 | |
6th | Jacky Ickx | Brabham-Ford | 83 | 1 | DNF | 7th | 1: 30.5 | Suspension damage |
- | Pedro Rodríguez | BRM | 73 | 0 | DNF | 14th | 1: 32.7 | Engine failure |
- | Chris Amon | Ferrari | 56 | 0 | DNF | 2 | 1: 28.5 | Engine failure |
- | Jack Brabham | Brabham-Ford | 51 | 0 | DNF | 5 | 1: 30.5 | Engine failure |
- | Joseph Siffert | Lotus Ford | 30th | 0 | DNF | 6th | 1: 29.5 | Engine failure |
- | Jochen Rindt | Lotus Ford | 19th | 0 | DNF | 1 | 1: 28.3 | accident |
- | Piers Courage | Brabham-Ford | 18th | 0 | DNF | 11 | 1: 31.8 | Engine failure |
- | Graham Hill | Lotus Ford | 8th | 0 | DNF | 3 | 1: 29.4 | accident |
- | Jackie Oliver | BRM | 1 | 0 | DNF | box | - | defective oil pump |
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 May 19, 2015 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 June 18, 2011)
- ↑ 60 years of Formula 1 , Michael Schmidt, Motorbuch Verlag: Stuttgart, ISBN 978-3-613-03127-2 , pp. 70–73
- ↑ Fight at the limit. The Formula 1 Chronicle 1950–2000 , ed. v. Willy Knupp, RTL book edition: Zeitgeist Verlag: Düsseldorf / Gütersloh 2000, ISBN 3-89748-277-0 , p. 143
- ^ "Report" (accessed on June 18, 2011)
- ↑ "World Cup stands" ( 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 June 18, 2011)