1969 New Zealand Grand Prix
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The 1969 New Zealand Grand Prix was a race held at the Pukekohe Park Raceway
on January 4, 1969. The race had 20 starters.
It was the 16th New Zealand Grand Prix
, and doubled as the opening round of the 1969 Tasman Series
. Chris Amon
won his second NZGP, leading home Austrian star Jochen Rindt
.
Pukekohe Park Raceway
Although Pukekohe Park Raceway is better known internationally as a motor racing circuit, it is primarily a horse racing circuit in New Zealand. It is located south of Auckland City in the North Island. The track is now owned by Pukekohe Park Limited...
on January 4, 1969. The race had 20 starters.
It was the 16th New Zealand Grand Prix
New Zealand Grand Prix
The New Zealand Grand Prix, sometimes known as the New Zealand International Grand Prix, is an annual motor racing event held in New Zealand first run in 1950. Currently it is the signature race of the Toyota Racing Series. It is one of only two current national Grand Prix events that are not part...
, and doubled as the opening round of the 1969 Tasman Series
1969 Tasman Series
The 1969 Tasman Series was the sixth Tasman Series season. It commenced on 4 January 1969 and ended on 16 February 1969 after seven rounds. It was won by Chris Amon, driving a Ferrari 246T.-Results:-Races:- Standings :...
. Chris Amon
Chris Amon
Christopher Arthur Amon MBE is a former motor racing driver. He was active in Formula One - racing in the 1960s and 1970s - and is widely regarded to be one of the best F1 drivers never to win a championship Grand Prix...
won his second NZGP, leading home Austrian star Jochen Rindt
Jochen Rindt
Karl Jochen Rindt was a German racing driver who represented Austria during his career. He is the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship , after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix...
.
Classification
Results as follows:| Pos | No. | Driver | Team | Car | Laps | Time | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Chris Amon Chris Amon Christopher Arthur Amon MBE is a former motor racing driver. He was active in Formula One - racing in the 1960s and 1970s - and is widely regarded to be one of the best F1 drivers never to win a championship Grand Prix... |
SEFAC Ferrari | Ferrari Ferrari Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles as Ferrari S.p.A. in 1947... 246T / Ferrari Ferrari Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles as Ferrari S.p.A. in 1947... V6 2.4 |
58 | 57m 55.4s | 9 |
| 2 | 4 |  Jochen RindtJochen Rindt Karl Jochen Rindt was a German racing driver who represented Austria during his career. He is the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship , after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix... |
Team Lotus Team Lotus Team Lotus was the motorsport sister company of English sports car manufacturer Lotus Cars. The team ran cars in many motorsport series including Formula One, Formula Two, Formula Ford, Formula Junior, IndyCar and sports car racing... |
Lotus 49 Lotus 49 The Lotus 49 was a Formula One racing car designed by Colin Chapman and Maurice Philippe for the 1967 F1 season. It was designed around the Cosworth DFV engine that would power most of the Formula One grid through the 1970s and was the first successful Formula One car to feature the engine as a... B / Cosworth DFW V8 2.5 |
58 | 58m 15.5s | 6 |
| 3 | 8 | Piers Courage Piers Courage Piers Raymond Courage was a racing driver from England. He participated in 29 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 2 January 1967. He achieved 2 podiums, and scored a total of 20 championship points.- Biography :Piers Courage was the eldest son and heir of the Courage brewing... |
Frank Williams Racing | Brabham BT24 / Cosworth DFW V8 2.5 | 58 | 58m 46.2s | 4 |
| 4 | 2 | Derek Bell Derek Bell (auto racer) Derek Reginald Bell MBE is a former racing driver from England who was extremely successful in sportscar racing, winning five times at Le Mans. He also raced in Formula One for the Ferrari, McLaren, Surtees and Tecno teams... |
SEFAC Ferrari | Ferrari Ferrari Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles as Ferrari S.p.A. in 1947... 246T / Ferrari Ferrari Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles as Ferrari S.p.A. in 1947... V6 2.4 |
57 | 3 | |
| 5 | 9 |  Leo GeogheganLeo Geoghegan Leo Geoghegan is a retired Australian racing driver.Geoghegan is the elder of two sons of New South Wales car dealer Tom Geoghegan, who went on to become two of the dominant names in Australian motor racing in the 1960s... |
Geoghegan Racing | Lotus 39 Lotus 39 The Lotus 39 was a single seat racing car produced by Team Lotus. It was originally intended for use in Formula One, to be powered by the Coventry Climax 1.5 litre flat-16 engine... / Repco V8 2.5 Repco Repco is an Australian automotive engineering company. Its name is an abbreviation of Replacement Parts Company and it is best known for spare parts and motor accessories.... |
56 | 2 | |
| 6 | 14 |  Graeme LawrenceGraeme Lawrence Graeme Lawrence is a former race car driver from New Zealand.Lawrence was the first New Zealander to win a race in the Tasman Series, in 1970. Although he won only the one race that year, he was Tasman Series champion, driving Chris Amon's old Ferrari 246T.... |
McLaren McLaren McLaren Racing Limited, trading as Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, is a British Formula One team based in Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom. McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed and won in the Indianapolis 500 and Canadian-American Challenge Cup... M4A / Cosworth FVA 1.6 |
54 | 1 | ||
| 7 | 12 | Roly Levis |
Team Lexington | Brabham BT23C / Cosworth FVA 1.6 | 53 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Red Dawson |
Brabham BT7a / Climax FPF 2.5 | 52 | |||
| 9 | 18 | David Oxton |
Team Lexington | Brabham BT16 / Ford 1.5 | 52 | ||
| 10 | 26 | Frank Radisich |
Henderson Central Motors | Lotus 22 Lotus 22 The Lotus 22 was a racing car built by Lotus cars in 1962, and a total of 77 cars were built. It was developed from the 1962 Lotus 20, with the major differences that it had disk brakes all round, had a top link to the rear suspension, and had a dry sump engine that was canted over to lower the... / Cosworth FVA 1.6 |
51 | ||
| 11 | 20 | Laurence Brownlie |
Team Lexington | Brabham BT23C / Cosworth FVA 1.6 | 51 | ||
| 12 | 43 | Bert Hawthorne |
Team Lexington | Brabham BT21 / Ford 1.5 | 50 | ||
| ?? | 17 | Vince Anderson |
Brabham BT11A / Climax FPF 2.5 | ||||
| ?? | 10 | Allan McCully |
Brabham BT18 / Ford 1.5 | ||||
| Ret | 36 | Graham McRae Graham McRae Graham McRae is a former racing driver from New Zealand.McRae's single outing in the Formula One World Championship was at the 1973 British Grand Prix on 14 July 1973, where he retired in the first lap... |
McRae 69 / Ford 1.5 | 34 | |||
| Ret | 19 | John Nicholson John Nicholson (racing driver) John Nicholson is a former racing driver from Auckland, New Zealand. He participated in 2 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 20 July 1974. He scored no championship points.... |
Brabham BT18 / Ford 1.5 | 26 | |||
| Ret | 6 | Frank Gardner Frank Gardner (driver) Frank Gardner OAM was a racing driver from Australia. He was best known as a Touring car racing and Sports car racing driver. He also participated in nine World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 11 July 1964. He scored no championship points... |
Alec Mildren Racing | Mildren Mono / Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo in motorsport During its history, Alfa Romeo has competed successfully in many different categories of motorsport, including Grand Prix motor racing, Formula One, sportscar racing, touring car racing and rallies. They have competed both as a constructor and an engine supplier, via works entries and private... V8 2.5 |
23 | ||
| Ret | 3 | Graham Hill Graham Hill Norman Graham Hill was a British racing driver and two-time Formula One World Champion. He is the only driver to win the Triple Crown of Motorsport — the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Indianapolis 500 and Formula One World Championship.Graham Hill and his son Damon are the only father and son pair both to... |
Team Lotus Team Lotus Team Lotus was the motorsport sister company of English sports car manufacturer Lotus Cars. The team ran cars in many motorsport series including Formula One, Formula Two, Formula Ford, Formula Junior, IndyCar and sports car racing... |
Lotus 49 Lotus 49 The Lotus 49 was a Formula One racing car designed by Colin Chapman and Maurice Philippe for the 1967 F1 season. It was designed around the Cosworth DFV engine that would power most of the Formula One grid through the 1970s and was the first successful Formula One car to feature the engine as a... B / Cosworth DFW V8 2.5 |
13 | ||
| Ret | 15 | Dennis Marwood |
Rorstan Motor Racing | Brabham BT22 / Climax FPF 2.5 | 3 | ||
| DNS | 7 | Peter Moloney |
Cooper Cooper Car Company The Cooper Car Company was founded in 1946 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, England in 1946... T66 / Climax FPF 2.5 |
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| DNS | 11 | Ken Smith |
Lotus 41 Lotus 41 The Lotus 41 was a Lotus Formula 3 and Formula 2 racing car which ran between 1966 - 1968.John Joyce, Bowin Cars founder, was the Lotus chief designer and was assisted by Dave Baldwin. They started with a clean sheet of paper. The chassis was a welded tubular steel space frame... / Ford 1.5 |
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| DNS | 16 | Peter Hughes |
Lotus 25/33 Lotus 25 The Lotus 25 was a racing car designed by Colin Chapman for the 1962 Formula One season. It was a revolutionary design, the first fully stressed monocoque chassis to appear in F1... / Daimler SP250 V8 |
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| DNS | 57 | Bryan Faloon |
Bryan Faloon Racing | Brabham BT4 / Climax FPF 2.5 | |||
| DNS | 27 | Jos Mahon |
Lotus 27 Lotus 27 Lotus 27 was a Formula Junior version of the Lotus 25 Formula One car for the 1963 Formula Junior season. All aluminum monocoque with steel bulkheads... / Ford 1.5 |
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| DNS | 29 | Jack Oakley |
Brabham BT2 / Ford 1.5 | ||||
| DNS | 41 | Jim Palmer |
Rorstan Mk.1 / Climax FPF 2.5 | ||||
| DNS | 61 | Brian Pellow |
Brabham BT6 / Fiat 1.5 | ||||
| DNS | 79 | Roy Lyme |
Brabham BT6 / Ford 1.5 | ||||
| Ret | 93 | Jim Kennedy |
Brabham BT22 / Climax FPF 2.5 |