Race · Round 4 of 12 ·
1968 Belgian Grand Prix
Bruce McLaren won for McLaren from 6th on the grid at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. 10 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for McLaren, and the first championship podium for Jacky Ickx.
- Circuit
- Circuit de Spa-FrancorchampsStavelot, Belgium
- Winner
- Bruce McLarenMcLaren
- Pole
- Chris Amon
- Fastest lap
- John Surtees
- Entries
- 188 classified
Classification
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | Chassis | Grid | Laps | Out | Points | FL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bruce McLaren | McLaren | M7A | 6 | 28 | Finished | 9 | |
| 2 | Pedro Rodriguez | BRM | — | 8 | 28 | Finished | 6 | |
| 3 | Jacky Ickx | Ferrari | — | 3 | 28 | Finished | 4 | |
| 4 | Sir Jackie Stewart | Matra | — | 2 | 27 | Out of fuel | 3 | |
| 5 | Jackie Oliver | Team Lotus | — | 15 | 26 | Transmission | 2 | |
| 6 | Lucien Bianchi | Cooper | T86B | 12 | 26 | Finished | 1 | |
| 7 | Jo Siffert | Team Lotus | — | 9 | 25 | Oil pressure | 0 | |
| 8 | Jean-Pierre Beltoise | Matra | MS11 | 13 | 25 | Finished | 0 | |
| DNF | Piers Courage | BRM | P126 | 7 | 22 | Engine | 0 | |
| DNF | Denny Hulme | McLaren | M7A | 5 | 18 | Halfshaft | 0 | |
| DNF | John Surtees | Honda | — | 4 | 11 | Suspension | 0 | fastest lap |
| DNF | Chris Amon | Ferrari | — | 1 | 8 | Radiator | 0 | |
| DNF | Richard Attwood | BRM | — | 11 | 6 | Oil pipe | 0 | |
| DNF | Sir Jack Brabham | Brabham | — | 18 | 6 | Throttle | 0 | |
| DNF | Brian Redman | Cooper | T86B | 10 | 6 | Spun off | 0 | |
| DNF | Jochen Rindt | Brabham | — | 17 | 5 | Engine | 0 | |
| DNF | Graham Hill | Team Lotus | — | 14 | 5 | Halfshaft | 0 | |
| DNF | Jo Bonnier | McLaren | M5A | 16 | 1 | Wheel | 0 |
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.
Qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Time | Gap | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris Amon | Ferrari | 22 | 3:28.600 | — | — |
| 2 | Sir Jackie Stewart | Matra | 7 | 3:32.300 | +3.700 | +3.700 |
| 3 | Jacky Ickx | Ferrari | 23 | 3:34.300 | +5.700 | +2.000 |
| 4 | John Surtees | Honda | 20 | 3:35.000 | +6.400 | +0.700 |
| 5 | Denny Hulme | McLaren | 6 | 3:35.400 | +6.800 | +0.400 |
| 6 | Bruce McLaren | McLaren | 5 | 3:37.100 | +8.500 | +1.700 |
| 7 | Piers Courage | BRM | 14 | 3:37.200 | +8.600 | +0.100 |
| 8 | Pedro Rodriguez | BRM | 11 | 3:37.800 | +9.200 | +0.600 |
| 9 | Jo Siffert | Team Lotus | 3 | 3:39.000 | +10.400 | +1.200 |
| 10 | Brian Redman | Cooper | 16 | 3:41.400 | +12.800 | +2.400 |
| 11 | Richard Attwood | BRM | 12 | 3:45.200 | +16.600 | +3.800 |
| 12 | Lucien Bianchi | Cooper | 15 | 3:45.900 | +17.300 | +0.700 |
| 13 | Jean-Pierre Beltoise | Matra | 10 | 3:52.900 | +24.300 | +7.000 |
| 14 | Graham Hill | Team Lotus | 1 | 4:06.100 | +37.500 | +13.200 |
| 15 | Jackie Oliver | Team Lotus | 2 | 4:30.800 | +1:02.200 | +24.700 |
| 16 | Jo Bonnier | McLaren | 17 | 4:34.300 | +1:05.700 | +3.500 |
| 17 | Jochen Rindt | Brabham | 19 | 4:46.700 | +1:18.100 | +12.400 |
| 18 | Sir Jack Brabham | Brabham | 18 | — | — | — |
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
- 4 of 1968
- Grand Prix
- Belgian Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
- Original road circuit · 14.1 km · 19 turns
- Format
- Standard weekend
- Constructor
- McLaren
- Entrant
- McLaren-Ford
- 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.