Championship of the world of Formula 1 1967

The championship of the world of Formula 1 1967 was gained by the New Zealander Denny Hulme over a Brabham - Repco. Brabham gains the championship of the world of the manufacturers.

Sporting payment

the attribution of the points is carried out according to scale 9,6,4,3,2,1.
Seuls the 5 best results of the 6 first sleeves and the 4 best results of the 5 last sleeves are retained.

Technical payment

Driving atmospheric: 3.000 cm ³
Engine supercharged: 1.500 cm ³

Principal volunteers

the main new thing of the season 1967 is the arrival of the English motor mechanic Cosworth, which with the financial support of the giant Ford conceived V8 3 liters. Directly at the origin of the arrival of Cosworth in F1, the stable Lotus will profit from new V8 of exclusiveness. The arrival of Ford in the landscape of Formula 1 is not either without consequence on the choice of the pilots. Ford indeed required Colin Chapman which it associates with its star Jim Clark a fellow-member of very first plan. 8 years after having snap the door of Lotus to join BRM, Graham Hill thus carries out her return in the team of its beginnings.
to counter new the Lotuses, the stable Brabham (which gained the two titles in 1966) remains faithful to its tradition of rusticity: tubular frame (whereas almost all the teams have chosen the hull for already several years), driving Repco and the solid duet océanien Jack Brabham - Denny Hulme.
At BRM, where one persists with the engine H16 (which however did not convince anybody in 1966), the departure of Graham Hill, present in the stable since 1960 leaves a vacuum that should not fill the arrival of Mike Spence. But from now on first pilot, the young person Jackie Stewart affirms himself like controls it most gifted of his generation and like a credible rival for his compatriot Jim Clark.
At Ferrari (where the sport director Eugenio Dragoni paid the Surtees business of previous spring), Lorenzo Bandini will be in particular shouldered by Chris Amon.
Good surprise of the season 1966, the stable Cooper - Maserati lost John Surtees during the winter. To assist the impetuous Austrian Jochen Rindt, it is called upon the Mexican Pedro Rodriguez.
John Surtees has as for him to find refuge at Honda. For Surtees, they will be later actually meeting again with the Lola firm (for which he had controlled in 1962 in F1, then in Edge-Am) insofar as Honda decided to sub-contract the construction of the frame to the English manufacturer.
Left Honda, the American Richie Ginther joined stable AAR of its compatriot daN Gurney. Beautiful Eagle will be able to finally count on V12 Weslake, which had played Arlesiennes the previous year.

Summary of the championship of the world 1967

The season begins in Kyalami in South Africa by a small surprise, in fact the victory of the Mexican Pedro Rodriguez. However, one needed of them little which it is not about an enormous surprise since qualified in remarkable a fifth place on its Cooper-Climax private, the " local" John Love (it is actually rhodésien) offered the luxury at the head to parade of race after the troubles of the leader Denny Hulme before a gasoline breakdown obliges it with a hook by the stands for the arrival (Coils is classified finally second).

Absent in South Africa, Ferrari make their return to Monaco. Able to compete with dominating Brabham during the tests, Bandini misses its departure, which obliges it with an insane track race behind Hulme. But after having a time seemed able to operate the junction with the New Zealand pilot, Bandini, obviously exhausted, foot loses gradually before leaving to the fault to the baffle the port and running up against the safety fences. Atrociously flaring following the flashover of its Ferrari, Bandini will not survive its wounds.

In Zandvoort, all the attention is focused on the great beginnings of new the Lotus (Lotus 49) and of sound very new engine, V8 Ford-Cosworth (since the beginning of the season, the Lotus pilots juggled with an antique Climax engine like with BRM V8 and H16). First attempt, master stroke since Jim Clark makes triumph the new whole with a disconcerting facility. Third of the race, Denny Hulme consolidates its advance with the championship.

In Belgium, the new announced domination of the Lotuses is opposed by preoccupations with a reliability. Brabham also encountering problems, daN Gurney benefits from it to offer to beautiful Eagle-Weslake its very first victory. One year after Brabham, it is the second time that a " pilot-constructeur" impose yourself in Formula 1.

The domination of Brabham (at least in term of results because the Lotuses-Cosworth are incontestably fastest of the plate) continues in the middle of the summer since if Clark is essential on Silverstone, the duet Hulme-Brabham signs two new doubled in Germany and in Canada while Clark undergoes in same time two white results. The title thus will be played between the Brabham pilots. With only 9 points in advance on its owner and fellow-member Brabham Jack with three handles of the term of the championship, Hulme has only one reduced room for maneuver and its position within the team seems all the more fragile as he announced his departure of the stable to the end of the year.

In Italy, Brabham misses an occasion dreamed to fill its delay on Hulme since in a final sprint remained famous, there is made blow the victory by John Surtees and his Honda " made in Lola" and thus does not benefit fully from the abandonment from Hulme. To note during this Grand Prix of Italy the astonishing service of a Jim Clark at the top of his art, able following a puncture to catch up with a full rotation of delay on the leaders before having to give up.

In Watkins Glen, Hulme takes again two points with Brabham and takes a quasi final option on the world title. Not only it carries its advance at 5 points on Brabham, but in more the latter its quota of four results reaches on second half of season, which it implies that it will have to cut off from the points (two points of Watkins Glen precisely).

Brabham is thus condemned to the victory in Mexico City (while hoping that Hulme is not classified in the 4 first). The inversion of situation will not take place since for the second consecutive Grand Prix, Clark makes profitable a Lotus finally fiablilized to lock the first place. Third of the race behind Brabham, Denny Hulme gains the championship of the world thus.

Grand Prix of the season 1967

Classification of the pilots

Seuls the 5 best results of the first 6 races and the 4 best results of the 5 last races are entered for the championship. The numbers without parenthère are the points of the championship; the numbers with brackets are the total of the points obtenus.

Classification of the manufacturers

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