Race · Round 8 of 12 · 4 August 1968

1968 German Grand Prix

Sir Jackie Stewart won for Matra from 6th on the grid at Nurburgring Nordschleife. 6 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Nurburgring NordschleifeNurburg, Germany
Winner: Sir Jackie StewartMatra
Pole: Jacky Ickx
Fastest lap: Sir Jackie Stewart
Entries: 2114 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sir Jackie Stewart	Matra	—	6	14	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	—	4	14	Finished	6
3	Jochen Rindt	Brabham	—	3	14	Finished	4
4	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	—	1	14	Finished	3
5	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	—	15	14	Finished	2
6	Pedro Rodriguez	BRM	—	14	14	Finished	1
7	Denny Hulme	McLaren	M7A	11	14	Finished	0
8	Piers Courage	BRM	P126	8	14	Finished	0
9	Dan Gurney	Eagle	T1G	10	14	Finished	0
10	Hubert Hahne	Lola	T102	18	14	Finished	0
11	Jackie Oliver	Team Lotus	—	13	13	Finished	0
12	Kurt Ahrens, Jr.	Brabham	BT24	17	13	Finished	0
13	Bruce McLaren	McLaren	M7A	16	13	Finished	0
14	Richard Attwood	BRM	—	20	13	Finished	0
DNF	Chris Amon	Ferrari	—	2	11	Accident	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	MS11	12	8	Accident	0
DNF	Lucien Bianchi	Cooper	T86B	19	6	Fuel leak	0
DNF	Jo Siffert	Team Lotus	—	9	6	Ignition	0
DNF	John Surtees	Honda	—	7	3	Ignition	0
DNF	Vic Elford	Cooper	T86B	5	0	Accident	0
DNS	Silvio Moser	Brabham	BT20	—	—	Oil pump	0

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

F1DB layout nurburgring-1 · 22.81 km · 160 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 Jackie Stewart	6	1	14
Graham Hill	4	2	14
Jochen Rindt	3	3	14
Jacky Ickx	1	4	14
Sir Jack Brabham	15	5	14
Pedro Rodriguez	14	6	14
Denny Hulme	11	7	14
Piers Courage	8	8	14
Dan Gurney	10	9	14
Hubert Hahne	18	10	14
Jackie Oliver	13	11	13
Kurt Ahrens, Jr.	17	12	13
Bruce McLaren	16	13	13
Richard Attwood	20	14	13
Chris Amon	2	DNF	11
Jean-Pierre Beltoise	12	DNF	8
Lucien Bianchi	19	DNF	6
Jo Siffert	9	DNF	6
John Surtees	7	DNF	3
Vic Elford	5	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	9	9:04.000	—	—
2	Chris Amon	Ferrari	8	9:14.900	+10.900	+10.900
3	Jochen Rindt	Brabham	5	9:31.900	+27.900	+17.000
4	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	3	9:46.000	+42.000	+14.100
5	Vic Elford	Cooper	20	9:53.000	+49.000	+7.000
6	Sir Jackie Stewart	Matra	6	9:54.200	+50.200	+1.200
7	John Surtees	Honda	7	9:57.800	+53.800	+3.600
8	Piers Courage	BRM	22	10:00.100	+56.100	+2.300
9	Jo Siffert	Team Lotus	16	10:03.400	+59.400	+3.300
10	Dan Gurney	Eagle	14	10:13.900	+1:09.900	+10.500
11	Denny Hulme	McLaren	1	10:16.000	+1:12.000	+2.100
12	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	12	10:17.300	+1:13.300	+1.300
13	Jackie Oliver	Team Lotus	21	10:18.700	+1:14.700	+1.400
14	Pedro Rodriguez	BRM	10	10:19.700	+1:15.700	+1.000
15	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	4	10:23.100	+1:19.100	+3.400
16	Bruce McLaren	McLaren	2	10:33.000	+1:29.000	+9.900
17	Kurt Ahrens, Jr.	Brabham	17	10:37.300	+1:33.300	+4.300
18	Hubert Hahne	Lola	18	10:42.900	+1:38.900	+5.600
19	Lucien Bianchi	Cooper	19	10:46.600	+1:42.600	+3.700
20	Richard Attwood	BRM	11	10:48.200	+1:44.200	+1.600
21	Silvio Moser	Brabham	23	—	—	—

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.

Photographs from this race

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At the 1968 German Grand Prix — BMW F2, 4-Zyl., 2 l - Hahne 1968 · Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de

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The cars in this race

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McLaren M7A
Hulme68 · Rtsanderson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · unchecked

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Where this comes from

Round: 8 of 1968
Grand Prix: German Grand Prix
Dates: 4 Aug 1968
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Matra
Entrant: Matra-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.