Race · Round 1 of 12 · 1 January 1968

1968 South African Grand Prix

Jim Clark won for Team Lotus from pole at Kyalami. 14 of the starters were not classified. With this win, Jim Clark set a new record of 25 championship Grand Prix wins.

Circuit: KyalamiMidrand, South Africa
Winner: Jim ClarkTeam Lotus
Pole: Jim Clark
Fastest lap: Jim Clark
Entries: 239 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	—	1	80	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	—	2	80	Finished	6
3	Jochen Rindt	Brabham	—	4	80	Finished	4
4	Chris Amon	Ferrari	—	8	78	Finished	3
5	Denny Hulme	McLaren	M5A	9	78	Finished	2
6	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	MS7	18	77	Finished	1
7	Jo Siffert	Cooper	T81	16	77	Finished	0
8	John Surtees	Honda	—	6	75	Finished	0
9	John Love	Brabham	BT20	17	75	Finished	0
NC	Jackie Pretorius	Brabham	BT11	23	70	NC	0
DNF	Dan Gurney	Eagle	T1G	12	58	Oil leak	0
DNF	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	—	11	51	Oil leak	0
DNF	Jo Bonnier	Cooper	T81	19	47	Overheating	0
DNF	Sir Jackie Stewart	Matra	—	3	43	Engine	0
DNF	Sam Tingle	LDS	Mk 3	22	35	Overheating	0
DNF	Basil van Rooyen	Cooper	T79	20	22	Engine	0
DNF	Pedro Rodriguez	BRM	—	10	20	Fuel system	0
DNF	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	—	5	17	Engine	0
DNF	Andrea de Adamich	Ferrari	—	7	13	Accident	0
DNF	Mike Spence	BRM	—	13	8	Fuel system	0
DNF	Brian Redman	Cooper	—	21	4	Oil leak	0
DNF	Dave Charlton	Brabham	BT11	14	3	Differential	0
DNF	Ludovico Scarfiotti	Cooper	—	15	2	Water pipe	0

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

F1DB layout kyalami-1 · 4.094 km · 9 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
Jim Clark	1	1	80
Graham Hill	2	2	80
Jochen Rindt	4	3	80
Chris Amon	8	4	78
Denny Hulme	9	5	78
Jean-Pierre Beltoise	18	6	77
Jo Siffert	16	7	77
John Surtees	6	8	75
John Love	17	9	75
Jackie Pretorius	23	NC	70
Dan Gurney	12	DNF	58
Jacky Ickx	11	DNF	51
Jo Bonnier	19	DNF	47
Sir Jackie Stewart	3	DNF	43
Sam Tingle	22	DNF	35
Basil van Rooyen	20	DNF	22
Pedro Rodriguez	10	DNF	20
Sir Jack Brabham	5	DNF	17
Andrea de Adamich	7	DNF	13
Mike Spence	13	DNF	8
Brian Redman	21	DNF	4
Dave Charlton	14	DNF	3
Ludovico Scarfiotti	15	DNF	2

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	4	1:21.600	—	—
2	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	5	1:22.600	+1.000	+1.000
3	Sir Jackie Stewart	Matra	16	1:22.700	+1.100	+0.100
4	Jochen Rindt	Brabham	3	1:23.000	+1.400	+0.300
5	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	2	1:23.200	+1.600	+0.200
6	John Surtees	Honda	7	1:23.500	+1.900	+0.300
7	Andrea de Adamich	Ferrari	10	1:23.600	+2.000	+0.100
8	Chris Amon	Ferrari	8	1:23.800	+2.200	+0.200
9	Denny Hulme	McLaren	1	1:24.000	+2.400	+0.200
10	Pedro Rodriguez	BRM	11	1:24.900	+3.300	+0.900
11	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	9	1:24.900	+3.300	+0.000
12	Dan Gurney	Eagle	6	1:25.600	+4.000	+0.700
13	Mike Spence	BRM	12	1:25.900	+4.300	+0.300
14	Dave Charlton	Brabham	22	1:26.200	+4.600	+0.300
15	Ludovico Scarfiotti	Cooper	15	1:26.300	+4.700	+0.100
16	Jo Siffert	Cooper	19	1:26.400	+4.800	+0.100
17	John Love	Brabham	17	1:27.000	+5.400	+0.600
18	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	21	1:27.200	+5.600	+0.200
19	Jo Bonnier	Cooper	20	1:27.300	+5.700	+0.100
20	Basil van Rooyen	Cooper	25	1:27.800	+6.200	+0.500
21	Brian Redman	Cooper	14	1:28.000	+6.400	+0.200
22	Sam Tingle	LDS	18	1:28.600	+7.000	+0.600
23	Jackie Pretorius	Brabham	23	1:29.000	+7.400	+0.400

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.

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

Where this comes from

Round: 1 of 1968
Grand Prix: South African Grand Prix
Dates: 1 Jan 1968
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Team Lotus
Entrant: Lotus-Ford
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.