Race · Round 4 of 9 · 16 July 1966

1966 British Grand Prix

Sir Jack Brabham won for Brabham from pole at Brands Hatch. 9 of the starters were not classified.

Wet · High of 17 °C, 3.2 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Brands HatchWest Kingsdown, Kent, United Kingdom
Winner: Sir Jack BrabhamBrabham
Pole: Sir Jack Brabham
Fastest lap: Sir Jack Brabham
Entries: 2011 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	—	1	80	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Denny Hulme	Brabham	—	2	80	Finished	6
3	Graham Hill	BRM	—	4	79	Finished	4
4	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	33	5	79	Finished	3
5	Jochen Rindt	Cooper	T81	7	79	Finished	2
6	Bruce McLaren	McLaren	M2B	13	78	Finished	1
7	Chris Irwin	Brabham	BT22	12	78	Finished	0
8	John Taylor	Brabham	BT11	16	76	Finished	0
9	Bob Bondurant	BRM	P261	14	76	Finished	0
10	Guy Ligier	Cooper	T81	17	75	Finished	0
11	Chris Lawrence	Cooper	T73	19	73	Finished	0
NC	Jo Siffert	Cooper	T81	11	70	NC	0
NC	Bob Anderson	Brabham	BT11	10	70	NC	0
DNF	John Surtees	Cooper	T81	6	67	Transmission	0
DNF	Jo Bonnier	Brabham	—	15	42	Clutch	0
DNF	Peter Arundell	Team Lotus	—	20	32	Gearbox	0
DNF	Sir Jackie Stewart	BRM	—	8	17	Engine	0
DNF	Mike Spence	Team Lotus	33	9	15	Oil leak	0
DNF	Dan Gurney	Eagle	Mk 1	3	9	Engine	0
DNF	Trevor Taylor	Shannon	SH1	18	0	Engine	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout brands-hatch-1 · 4.265 km · 9 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Sir Jack Brabham	1	1	80
Denny Hulme	2	2	80
Graham Hill	4	3	79
Jim Clark	5	4	79
Jochen Rindt	7	5	79
Bruce McLaren	13	6	78
Chris Irwin	12	7	78
John Taylor	16	8	76
Bob Bondurant	14	9	76
Guy Ligier	17	10	75
Chris Lawrence	19	11	73
Jo Siffert	11	NC	70
Bob Anderson	10	NC	70
John Surtees	6	DNF	67
Jo Bonnier	15	DNF	42
Peter Arundell	20	DNF	32
Sir Jackie Stewart	8	DNF	17
Mike Spence	9	DNF	15
Dan Gurney	3	DNF	9
Trevor Taylor	18	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	5	1:34.500	—	0 m	—
2	Denny Hulme	Brabham	6	1:34.800	+0.300	14 m	+0.300
3	Dan Gurney	Eagle	16	1:35.800	+1.300	59 m	+1.000
4	Graham Hill	BRM	3	1:36.000	+1.500	68 m	+0.200
5	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	1	1:36.100	+1.600	72 m	+0.100
6	John Surtees	Cooper	12	1:36.400	+1.900	86 m	+0.300
7	Jochen Rindt	Cooper	11	1:36.600	+2.100	95 m	+0.200
8	Sir Jackie Stewart	BRM	4	1:36.900	+2.400	108 m	+0.300
9	Mike Spence	Team Lotus	17	1:37.300	+2.800	126 m	+0.400
10	Bob Anderson	Brabham	21	1:37.500	+3.000	135 m	+0.200
11	Jo Siffert	Cooper	20	1:38.000	+3.500	158 m	+0.500
12	Chris Irwin	Brabham	7	1:38.100	+3.600	162 m	+0.100
13	Bruce McLaren	McLaren	14	1:38.500	+4.000	181 m	+0.400
14	Bob Bondurant	BRM	25	1:38.900	+4.400	199 m	+0.400
15	Jo Bonnier	Brabham	18	1:39.300	+4.800	217 m	+0.400
16	John Taylor	Brabham	22	1:40.000	+5.500	248 m	+0.700
17	Guy Ligier	Cooper	19	1:41.400	+6.900	311 m	+1.400
18	Trevor Taylor	Shannon	23	1:41.600	+7.100	320 m	+0.200
19	Chris Lawrence	Cooper	24	1:43.800	+9.300	420 m	+2.200
20	Peter Arundell	Team Lotus	2	1:54.300	+19.800	894 m	+10.500

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

1 more photograph

Where this comes from

Round: 4 of 1966
Grand Prix: British Grand Prix
Dates: 16 Jul 1966
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Brabham
Entrant: Brabham-Repco
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.