Race details | |||
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Race 10 of 12 in the 1968 Formula One season | |||
Date | September 22, 1968 | ||
Official name | VIII Player's Canadian Grand Prix | ||
Location | Circuit Mont-Tremblant, Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada | ||
Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
Course length | 4.265 km (2.650 mi) | ||
Distance | 90 laps, 383.830 km (238.501 mi) | ||
Weather | Sunny with temperatures reaching up to 27.8 °C (82.0 °F) and wind speeds up to 10.1 kilometres per hour (6.3 mph); no precipitation reported throughout the day | ||
Pole position | |||
Driver | Brabham-Repco | ||
Time | 1:33.8 | ||
Fastest lap | |||
Driver | Jo Siffert | Lotus-Ford | |
Time | 1:35.1 on lap 22 | ||
Podium | |||
First | McLaren-Ford | ||
Second | McLaren-Ford | ||
Third | BRM |
The 1968 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Circuit Mont-Tremblant on September 22, 1968. It was the tenth round of the 1968 Formula One season. The 90-lap race was won by McLaren driver Denny Hulme after starting from sixth position. His teammate Bruce McLaren finished second and BRM driver Pedro Rodríguez came in third.
After the success of the 1967 Canadian Grand Prix, the event remained on the calendar, although for 1968, the race was moved from Mosport Park to the Mont-Tremblant at St. Jovite.
The attention was centred on the battle for the World Championship with Graham Hill, leading after his early season victories on 30 points. Jacky Ickx was second on 27 points, third was Jackie Stewart with 26 points and Denny Hulme on 24, fresh from his win last time out in Italy.
A total of 22 cars were entered for this event, the first of three races in the Americas.
Dan Gurney was present in a third Bruce McLaren Motor Racing prepared McLaren M7A, although entered by his Anglo American Racers team, having given up on his Eagle-Weslake project. Despite this, there was an Eagle T1F in Quebec, in the hands of local Formula A/5000 driver, Al Pease. Another local driver from this series, Bill Brack appeared in Team Lotus’s third car. Meanwhile, BRM ran just the one car for Pedro Rodríguez. Matra Sports expanded their operation to two cars, with Henri Pescarolo joining Jean-Pierre Beltoise, while Johnny Servoz-Gavin driving another prepared by Matra International, following his second place at Monza. Alongside Jackie Stewart, this made four Matras in the field.