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Home / Seasons / 1968 F1 World Championship Season / 1968 Monaco Grand Prix

1968 Monaco Grand Prix

DateSunday, 26 May 1968
Winner
  • Graham Hill
  • Lotus-Ford Cosworth
Pole position
  • Graham Hill
  • Lotus-Ford Cosworth
Fastest lap
  • Richard Attwood
  • BRM
CircuitMonte Carlo, 80 laps
Round3 of 12
Race numbers

The 1968 Monaco Grand Prix was the:

  • 164th World Championship race
  • 15th World Championship Monaco Grand Prix
  • 15th World Championship race at Monte Carlo
More 1968 season
More Monaco Grands Prix

Race result

PosDriverConstructorLapsTimePoints
1 (GBR) Graham HillLotus-Ford Cosworth802hr 00m 32.300s9
2+4(GBR) Richard AttwoodBRM80+2.200s6
3+11(BEL) Lucien BianchiCooper-BRM76+4 laps4
4+11(ITA) Ludovico ScarfiottiCooper-BRM76+4 laps3
5+5(NZL) Denny HulmeMcLaren-Ford Cosworth73+7 laps2
R (GBR) John SurteesHonda16DNF 
R (MEX) Pedro RodriguezBRM16DNF 
R (GBR) Piers CourageBRM (privateer)12DNF 
R (FRA) Jean-Pierre BeltoiseMatra11DNF 
R (CHE) Jo SiffertLotus-Ford Cosworth (privateer)11DNF 
R (USA) Dan GurneyEagle-Weslake9DNF 
R (AUT) Jochen RindtBrabham-Repco8DNF 
R (AUS) Jack BrabhamBrabham-Repco7DNF 
R (FRA) Johnny Servoz-GavinMatra-Ford Cosworth (privateer)3DNF 
R (GBR) Jackie OliverLotus-Ford Cosworth0DNF 
R (NZL) Bruce McLarenMcLaren-Ford Cosworth0DNF 

Notes

  • Johnny Servoz-Gavin ended lap 3 as the race leader before retiring on the following lap.

Starting grid

Pole time: 1:28.200

PosDriverConstructor
1(GBR) Graham HillLotus-Ford Cosworth
2(FRA) Johnny Servoz-GavinMatra-Ford Cosworth (privateer)
3(CHE) Jo SiffertLotus-Ford Cosworth (privateer)
4(GBR) John SurteesHonda
5(AUT) Jochen RindtBrabham-Repco
6(GBR) Richard AttwoodBRM
7(NZL) Bruce McLarenMcLaren-Ford Cosworth
8(FRA) Jean-Pierre BeltoiseMatra
9(MEX) Pedro RodriguezBRM
10(NZL) Denny HulmeMcLaren-Ford Cosworth
11(GBR) Piers CourageBRM (privateer)
12(AUS) Jack BrabhamBrabham-Repco
13(GBR) Jackie OliverLotus-Ford Cosworth
14(BEL) Lucien BianchiCooper-BRM
15(ITA) Ludovico ScarfiottiCooper-BRM
16(USA) Dan GurneyEagle-Weslake

Non-qualifiers

DriverConstructor
(SWE) Jo BonnierMcLaren-BRM (privateer)
(CHE) Silvio MoserBrabham-Repco (privateer)

Championship standings

How the championship standings stood post-race.

Driver

PosDriverPoints
1(GBR) Graham Hill24
2(NZL) Denny Hulme10
3(GBR) Jim Clark9
4(GBR) Richard Attwood6
5(ITA) Ludovico Scarfiotti6
6(AUT) Jochen Rindt4
=(GBR) Brian Redman4
=(BEL) Lucien Bianchi4
9(NZL) Chris Amon3
10(FRA) Jean-Pierre Beltoise3

Constructor

PosConstructorPoints
1Lotus-Ford Cosworth27
2McLaren-Ford Cosworth8
3Cooper-BRM8
4BRM6
5Brabham-Repco4
6Ferrari3
7Matra-Ford Cosworth3
8McLaren-BRM2

Stats & milestones

Race debut
Jackie Oliver
Last start
Ludovico Scarfiotti
Wins
12th for Graham Hill
32nd for Lotus
Podiums
31st for Graham Hill
1st and only for Richard Attwood (93rd different podium finisher, 22nd British driver)
1st and only for Lucien Bianchi (94th different podium finisher, 4th Belgian driver; first Belgian driver to finish on the podium since 1960)
58th and last for Cooper
50th for Lotus (3rd constructor to score 50 podiums)
49th for BRM
Poles
12th for Graham Hill
42nd for Lotus
Fastest laps
1st and only for Richard Attwood (39th different fastest lap setter, 8th British driver)
12th for BRM (first since 1965)
Front row starts
38th for Graham Hill
1st and only for Johnny Servoz-Gavin (70th different front row starter, 4th French driver; first French front row starter since 1959)
Points finishes
5th and last for Ludovico Scarfiotti
Pole & win
4th and last for Graham Hill (first since 1965; only win from pole for Lotus)

See also

  • Monaco Grand Prix
  • Monte Carlo circuit
  • 1968 World Championship season

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