Race · Round 3 of 9 · 3 July 1966

1966 French Grand Prix

Sir Jack Brabham won for Brabham from 4th on the grid at Reims-Gueux. 9 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Mike Parkes and Denny Hulme.

Circuit: Reims-GueuxGueux, France
Winner: Sir Jack BrabhamBrabham
Pole: Lorenzo Bandini
Fastest lap: Lorenzo Bandini
Entries: 188 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	—	4	48	Finished	9
2	Mike Parkes	Ferrari	—	3	48	Finished	6
3	Denny Hulme	Brabham	—	9	46	Finished	4
4	Jochen Rindt	Cooper	T81	5	46	Finished	3
5	Dan Gurney	Eagle	Mk 1	14	45	Finished	2
6	John Taylor	Brabham	BT11	15	45	Finished	1
7	Bob Anderson	Brabham	BT11	12	44	Finished	0
8	Chris Amon	Cooper	T81	7	44	Finished	0
NC	Guy Ligier	Cooper	T81	11	42	NC	0
DNF	Pedro Rodriguez	Team Lotus	33	13	40	Oil leak	0
NC	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	—	1	37	NC	0	fastest lap
NC	Jo Bonnier	Brabham	—	17	32	NC	0
DNF	Graham Hill	BRM	—	8	13	Engine	0
DNF	Jo Siffert	Cooper	T81	6	10	Fuel system	0
DNF	Mike Spence	Team Lotus	33	10	8	Clutch	0
DNF	John Surtees	Cooper	T81	2	5	Fuel system	0
DNF	Peter Arundell	Team Lotus	—	16	3	Gearbox	0
DNS	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	33	—	—	Accident	0

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

F1DB layout reims-2 · 8.302 km · 7 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
Sir Jack Brabham	4	1	48
Mike Parkes	3	2	48
Denny Hulme	9	3	46
Jochen Rindt	5	4	46
Dan Gurney	14	5	45
John Taylor	15	6	45
Bob Anderson	12	7	44
Chris Amon	7	8	44
Guy Ligier	11	NC	42
Pedro Rodriguez	13	DNF	40
Lorenzo Bandini	1	NC	37
Jo Bonnier	17	NC	32
Graham Hill	8	DNF	13
Jo Siffert	6	DNF	10
Mike Spence	10	DNF	8
John Surtees	2	DNF	5
Peter Arundell	16	DNF	3

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	20	2:07.800	—	—
2	John Surtees	Cooper	10	2:08.400	+0.600	+0.600
3	Mike Parkes	Ferrari	22	2:09.100	+1.300	+0.700
4	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	12	2:10.200	+2.400	+1.100
5	Jochen Rindt	Cooper	6	2:10.900	+3.100	+0.700
6	Jo Siffert	Cooper	38	2:12.200	+4.400	+1.300
7	Chris Amon	Cooper	8	2:12.400	+4.600	+0.200
8	Graham Hill	BRM	16	2:12.800	+5.000	+0.400
9	Denny Hulme	Brabham	14	2:13.300	+5.500	+0.500
10	Mike Spence	Team Lotus	32	2:14.200	+6.400	+0.900
11	Guy Ligier	Cooper	42	2:15.400	+7.600	+1.200
12	Bob Anderson	Brabham	36	2:15.600	+7.800	+0.200
13	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	2	2:15.600	+7.800	+0.000
14	Pedro Rodriguez	Team Lotus	2	2:16.500	+8.700	+0.900
15	Dan Gurney	Eagle	26	2:17.900	+10.100	+1.400
16	John Taylor	Brabham	44	2:19.200	+11.400	+1.300
17	Peter Arundell	Team Lotus	4	2:19.600	+11.800	+0.400
18	Jo Bonnier	Brabham	30	2:23.500	+15.700	+3.900

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: 3 of 1966
Grand Prix: French Grand Prix
Dates: 3 Jul 1966
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Brabham
Entrant: Brabham-Repco
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.