Race · Round 2 of 9 · 12 June 1966

1966 Belgian Grand Prix

John Surtees won for Ferrari from pole at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. 10 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Jochen Rindt.

Circuit: Circuit de Spa-FrancorchampsStavelot, Belgium
Winner: John SurteesFerrari
Pole: John Surtees
Fastest lap: John Surtees
Entries: 195 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	John Surtees	Ferrari	—	1	28	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Jochen Rindt	Cooper	T81	2	28	Finished	6
3	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	—	5	27	Finished	4
4	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	—	4	26	Finished	3
5	Richie Ginther	Cooper	T81	8	25	Finished	2
NC	Guy Ligier	Cooper	T81	12	24	NC	0
NC	Dan Gurney	Eagle	Mk 1	15	23	NC	0
DNF	Bob Bondurant	BRM	P261	11	0	Accident	0
DNF	Jo Bonnier	Cooper	T81	6	0	Accident	0
DNF	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	33	10	0	Engine	0
DNF	Graham Hill	BRM	—	9	0	Accident	0
DNF	Denny Hulme	Brabham	BT22	13	0	Accident	0
DNF	Jo Siffert	Cooper	T81	14	0	Accident	0
DNF	Mike Spence	Team Lotus	33	7	0	Accident	0
DNF	Sir Jackie Stewart	BRM	—	3	0	Accident	0
DNS	Phil Hill	McLaren	M3A	—	—	Camera car	0
DNS	Bruce McLaren	McLaren	M2B	—	—	Wheel bearing	0
DNS	Peter Arundell	Team Lotus	—	—	—	Engine	0
DNS	Vic Wilson	BRM	P261	—	—	Car raced by Bondurant	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout spa-francorchamps-1 · 14.12 km · 21 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
John Surtees	1	1	28
Jochen Rindt	2	2	28
Lorenzo Bandini	5	3	27
Sir Jack Brabham	4	4	26
Richie Ginther	8	5	25
Guy Ligier	12	NC	24
Dan Gurney	15	NC	23
Bob Bondurant	11	DNF	0
Jo Bonnier	6	DNF	0
Jim Clark	10	DNF	0
Graham Hill	9	DNF	0
Denny Hulme	13	DNF	0
Jo Siffert	14	DNF	0
Mike Spence	7	DNF	0
Sir Jackie Stewart	3	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	John Surtees	Ferrari	6	3:38.000	—	—
2	Jochen Rindt	Cooper	19	3:41.200	+3.200	+3.200
3	Sir Jackie Stewart	BRM	15	3:41.500	+3.500	+0.300
4	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	3	3:41.800	+3.800	+0.300
5	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	7	3:43.800	+5.800	+2.000
6	Jo Bonnier	Cooper	20	3:44.300	+6.300	+0.500
7	Mike Spence	Team Lotus	16	3:45.200	+7.200	+0.900
8	Richie Ginther	Cooper	18	3:45.400	+7.400	+0.200
9	Graham Hill	BRM	14	3:45.600	+7.600	+0.200
10	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	10	3:45.800	+7.800	+0.200
11	Bob Bondurant	BRM	24	3:50.500	+12.500	+4.700
12	Guy Ligier	Cooper	22	3:51.100	+13.100	+0.600
13	Denny Hulme	Brabham	4	3:51.400	+13.400	+0.300
14	Jo Siffert	Cooper	21	3:53.800	+15.800	+2.400
15	Dan Gurney	Eagle	27	3:57.600	+19.600	+3.800
16	Bruce McLaren	McLaren	24	3:57.600	+19.600	+0.000
17	Phil Hill	McLaren	28	4:01.700	+23.700	+4.100
18	Vic Wilson	BRM	8	4:26.000	+48.000	+24.300
19	Peter Arundell	Team Lotus	11	5:01.200	+1:23.200	+35.200

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Where this comes from

Round: 2 of 1966
Grand Prix: Belgian Grand Prix
Dates: 12 Jun 1966
Layout raced: Original road circuit · 14.1 km · 19 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.