Race of Champions
Brands Hatch, 16 Mar 1969
| Results | Laps | Time/Speed | |||||||
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| 1 | Jackie Stewart | Matra MS80 [01] - Cosworth DFV V8 #7 Matra International |
50 | 1h 13m 10.4s |
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| 2 | Graham Hill | Lotus 49B [R6-2] - Cosworth DFV V8 #1 Gold Leaf Team Lotus |
50 | 1h 13m 17.4s |
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| 3 | Denis Hulme | McLaren M7A [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 #3 Bruce McLaren Motor Racing |
50 | 1h 14m 08.3s |
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| 4 | Jo Siffert | Lotus 49B [R7] - Cosworth DFV V8 #14 Rob Walker & Jack Durlacher Racing |
50 | 1h 14m 26.7s |
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| 5 | Jackie Oliver | BRM P133 [01] - P101 V12 #11 Owen Racing Organisation |
48 | 1h 14m 16.7s |
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| 6 | Pete Lovely | Lotus 49B [R11] - Cosworth DFV V8 #15 Pete Lovely Volkswagen Incorporated |
46 | 1h 14m 09.4s |
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| R | Jochen Rindt | Lotus 49B [R9] - Cosworth DFV V8 #2 Gold Leaf Team Lotus |
37 | oil pressure | |||||
| R | Pedro Rodriguez | BRM P126 [01] - P101 V12 #12 Owen Racing Organisation [Parnell] |
30 | misfire | |||||
| R | Jacky Ickx | Brabham BT26A [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 #6 Brabham Racing Organisation |
20 | throttle linkage | |||||
| R | Jack Brabham | Brabham BT26A [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 #5 Brabham Racing Organisation |
17 | fuel leak & ignition | |||||
| R | Piers Courage | Brabham BT26A [1] - Cosworth DFV V8 #16 Frank Williams Racing Cars |
15 | fuel leak | |||||
| R | Bruce McLaren | McLaren M7B [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 #4 Bruce McLaren Motor Racing |
9 | ignition | |||||
| DNS | Roy Pike | (F1) 2.7-litre Brabham BT23B [3] - Climax FPF 4 #18 Jack Smith |
Did not start (fuel pump) |
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| DNS | John Surtees | BRM P138 [01] - P101 V12 #10T Owen Racing Organisation |
Did not start (mud in engine) |
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| T | Jackie Stewart | Matra MS10 [02] - Cosworth DFV V8 #7T Matra International |
(Only used in practice) | ||||||
| T/C | John Surtees | BRM P138 [02] - P142 V12 #10 Owen Racing Organisation |
(Crashed in practice) | ||||||
| DNA | Peter Gethin | BRM P261 [2615] - P101 V12 #17 A G Dean |
Did not arrive | ||||||
All cars are 3-litre F1 unless noted.
| Qualifying | |||||
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| 1 | Graham Hill | (F1) 3-litre Lotus 49B [R6-2] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 28.2s | ||
| 2 | Jackie Stewart | (F1) 3-litre Matra MS80 [01] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 28.3s | ||
| 3 | Jo Siffert | (F1) 3-litre Lotus 49B [R7] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 29.3s | ||
| 4 | Jochen Rindt | (F1) 3-litre Lotus 49B [R9] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 29.4s | ||
| 5 | Jack Brabham | (F1) 3-litre Brabham BT26A [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 29.5s | ||
| 6 | Bruce McLaren | (F1) 3-litre McLaren M7B [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 30.4s | ||
| 7 | Denis Hulme | (F1) 3-litre McLaren M7A [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 32.5s | ||
| 8 | Jackie Oliver | (F1) 3-litre BRM P133 [01] - BRM P101 V12 | 1m 33.8s | ||
| 9 | Pete Lovely | (F1) 3-litre Lotus 49B [R11] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 36.4s | ||
| 10 | John Surtees(T) | (F1) 3-litre BRM P138 [02] - BRM P142 V12 | 1m 38.7s | ||
| 10 | Jacky Ickx | (F1) 3-litre Brabham BT26A [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 39.1s | ||
| 11 | Pedro Rodriguez | (F1) 3-litre BRM P126 [01] - BRM P101 V12 | 1m 41.3s | ||
| 12 | Piers Courage | (F1) 3-litre Brabham BT26A [1] - Cosworth DFV V8 | no time | ||
| 13 | Roy Pike * | (F1) 2.7-litre Brabham BT23B [3] - Climax FPF 4 | no time | ||
| - | Jackie Stewart(T) | (F1) 3-litre Matra MS10 [02] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 38.9s | ||
| * Did not start | |||||
Sources
Note that the identification of individual cars in these results is based on the material presented elsewhere in this site and may in some cases contradict the organisers' published results.
3-litre Formula 1 Non-championship events 1966-1983
These results were initially compiled by Allen Brown, but these were in the very basic form required to track individual car histories. Since then further details, such as laps completed, qualifying times and so on, have been added from Rob Ryder's extensive database.
All comments, clarifications, corrections and additions are most welcome. Please email Allen (allen@oldracingcars.com) if you can help with our research.
Individual sources for this event
Autosport 21 Mar 1969 pp10-15 (report by Quentin Spurring). Motor Sport April 1969 pp331-333 (report by DSJ, Denis Jenkinson). Motoring News 20 Mar 1969 p12,14 (report by ARM, Andrew Marriott). Autosport gave full chassis numbers and even engine numbers. Motor Sport mentioned chassis numbers in the text of the report only.
16 cars were expected at the Race of Champions: Stewart's still unraced Matra MS80, the latest Ferrari for Amon, the 48-valve BRM P138 for Surtees, backed up by Oliver and Rodriguez again, Hill and Rindt in the Lotus 49Bs, McLaren and Hulme in the McLarens, and Brabham and Ickx in the Brabham BT26As. Of the works cars at Kyalami, only the second Matra was missing. The expected privateers were Siffert in the Walker/Durlacher Lotus, a newly-acquired red Lotus 49B for American privateer Pete Lovely, Piers Courage in Frank Williams' Brabham BT26, David Hobbs in the ex-Bernard White BRM P261 with V12 engine, now owned by Tony Dean, and Jack Smith's old Brabham BT23B for Roy Pike. Williams, following Lotus, Cooper, Brabham, McLaren and Tyrrell, became the sixth of the major British garagiste teams to compete in the 3-litre Formula 1 - or seventh if Rob Walker is included in the count. The new Williams team's Brabham was immaculately turned out, with the conversion work to Cosworth power having been carried out in its own workshops, and had a DG300 gearbox instead of the FG 'boxes on the works cars. The Ferrari could not attend due to a customs strike in Italy, and Dean's BRM could not be prepared in time.