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

1968 Monaco Grand Prix

DateSunday, 26 May 1968
Winner
  • United Kingdom flag lazyload Graham Hill
  • United Kingdom flag lazyload Lotus-Ford Cosworth
Pole position
  • United Kingdom flag lazyload Graham Hill
  • United Kingdom flag lazyload Lotus-Ford Cosworth
Fastest lap
  • United Kingdom flag lazyload Richard Attwood
  • United Kingdom flag lazyload 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 United Kingdom flag lazyload Graham HillLotus-Ford Cosworth802hr 00m 32.300s9
2+4United Kingdom flag lazyload Richard AttwoodBRM80+2.200s6
3+11Belgium flag lazyload Lucien BianchiCooper-BRM76+4 laps4
4+11Italy flag lazyload Ludovico ScarfiottiCooper-BRM76+4 laps3
5+5New Zealand flag lazyload Denny HulmeMcLaren-Ford Cosworth73+7 laps2
R United Kingdom flag lazyload John SurteesHonda16DNF 
R Mexico flag lazyload Pedro RodriguezBRM16DNF 
R United Kingdom flag lazyload Piers CourageBRM (privateer)12DNF 
R France flag lazyload Jean-Pierre BeltoiseMatra11DNF 
R Switzerland flag Jo SiffertLotus-Ford Cosworth (privateer)11DNF 
R USA flag lazyload Dan GurneyEagle-Weslake9DNF 
R Austria flag lazyload Jochen RindtBrabham-Repco8DNF 
R Australia flag lazyload Jack BrabhamBrabham-Repco7DNF 
R France flag lazyload Johnny Servoz-GavinMatra-Ford Cosworth (privateer)3DNF 
R United Kingdom flag lazyload Jackie OliverLotus-Ford Cosworth0DNF 
R New Zealand flag lazyload 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
1United Kingdom flag lazyload Graham HillLotus-Ford Cosworth
2France flag lazyload Johnny Servoz-GavinMatra-Ford Cosworth (privateer)
3Switzerland flag Jo SiffertLotus-Ford Cosworth (privateer)
4United Kingdom flag lazyload John SurteesHonda
5Austria flag lazyload Jochen RindtBrabham-Repco
6United Kingdom flag lazyload Richard AttwoodBRM
7New Zealand flag lazyload Bruce McLarenMcLaren-Ford Cosworth
8France flag lazyload Jean-Pierre BeltoiseMatra
9Mexico flag lazyload Pedro RodriguezBRM
10New Zealand flag lazyload Denny HulmeMcLaren-Ford Cosworth
11United Kingdom flag lazyload Piers CourageBRM (privateer)
12Australia flag lazyload Jack BrabhamBrabham-Repco
13United Kingdom flag lazyload Jackie OliverLotus-Ford Cosworth
14Belgium flag lazyload Lucien BianchiCooper-BRM
15Italy flag lazyload Ludovico ScarfiottiCooper-BRM
16USA flag lazyload Dan GurneyEagle-Weslake

Non-qualifiers

DriverConstructor
Sweden flag lazyload Jo BonnierMcLaren-BRM (privateer)
Switzerland flag Silvio MoserBrabham-Repco (privateer)

Championship standings

How the championship standings stood post-1968 Monaco Grand Prix.

Driver

PosDriverPoints
1United Kingdom flag lazyload Graham Hill24
2New Zealand flag lazyload Denny Hulme10
3United Kingdom flag lazyload Jim Clark9
4United Kingdom flag lazyload Richard Attwood6
5Italy flag lazyload Ludovico Scarfiotti6
6Austria flag lazyload Jochen Rindt4
=United Kingdom flag lazyload Brian Redman4
=Belgium flag lazyload Lucien Bianchi4
9New Zealand flag lazyload Chris Amon3
10France flag lazyload Jean-Pierre Beltoise3

Constructor

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

Statistics & 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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