Race · Round 9 of 9 · 23 October 1966

1966 Mexican Grand Prix

John Surtees won for Cooper from pole at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. 10 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 21 °C, no 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: Autodromo Hermanos RodriguezMexico City, Mexico
Winner: John SurteesCooper
Pole: John Surtees
Fastest lap: Richie Ginther
Entries: 198 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	John Surtees	Cooper	T81	1	65	Finished	9
2	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	—	4	65	Finished	6
3	Denny Hulme	Brabham	—	6	64	Finished	4
4	Richie Ginther	Honda	RA273	3	64	Finished	3	fastest lap
5	Dan Gurney	Eagle	Mk 1	9	64	Finished	2
6	Jo Bonnier	Cooper	T81	12	63	Finished	1
7	Peter Arundell	Team Lotus	—	17	61	Finished	0
8	Ronnie Bucknum	Honda	RA273	13	60	Finished	0
DNF	Pedro Rodriguez	Team Lotus	33	8	49	Differential	0
DNF	Bruce McLaren	McLaren	M2B	14	40	Engine	0
DNF	Jo Siffert	Cooper	T81	11	33	Suspension	0
DNF	Jochen Rindt	Cooper	T81	5	32	Suspension	0
DNF	Innes Ireland	BRM	P261	16	28	Transmission	0
DNF	Sir Jackie Stewart	BRM	—	10	26	Oil leak	0
DNF	Bob Bondurant	Eagle	Mk 1	18	24	Fuel system	0
DNF	Graham Hill	BRM	—	7	18	Engine	0
DNF	Moisés Solana	Cooper	T81	15	9	Overheating	0
DNF	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	—	2	9	Gearbox	0
DNS	Mike Spence	Team Lotus	33	—	—	Accident	0

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

F1DB layout mexico-city-1 · 5 km · 14 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
John Surtees	1	1	65
Sir Jack Brabham	4	2	65
Denny Hulme	6	3	64
Richie Ginther	3	4	64
Dan Gurney	9	5	64
Jo Bonnier	12	6	63
Peter Arundell	17	7	61
Ronnie Bucknum	13	8	60
Pedro Rodriguez	8	DNF	49
Bruce McLaren	14	DNF	40
Jo Siffert	11	DNF	33
Jochen Rindt	5	DNF	32
Innes Ireland	16	DNF	28
Sir Jackie Stewart	10	DNF	26
Bob Bondurant	18	DNF	24
Graham Hill	7	DNF	18
Moisés Solana	15	DNF	9
Jim Clark	2	DNF	9

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	John Surtees	Cooper	7	1:53.180	—	0 m	—
2	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	1	1:53.500	+0.320	14 m	+0.320
3	Richie Ginther	Honda	12	1:53.560	+0.380	17 m	+0.060
4	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	5	1:53.950	+0.770	34 m	+0.390
5	Jochen Rindt	Cooper	8	1:54.190	+1.010	45 m	+0.240
6	Denny Hulme	Brabham	6	1:54.210	+1.030	46 m	+0.020
7	Graham Hill	BRM	3	1:54.610	+1.430	63 m	+0.400
8	Pedro Rodriguez	Team Lotus	11	1:54.780	+1.600	71 m	+0.170
9	Dan Gurney	Eagle	15	1:54.930	+1.750	77 m	+0.150
10	Sir Jackie Stewart	BRM	4	1:55.900	+2.720	120 m	+0.970
11	Mike Spence	Team Lotus	18	1:55.980	+2.800	124 m	+0.080
12	Jo Siffert	Cooper	19	1:55.990	+2.810	124 m	+0.010
13	Jo Bonnier	Cooper	22	1:56.490	+3.310	146 m	+0.500
14	Ronnie Bucknum	Honda	14	1:56.590	+3.410	151 m	+0.100
15	Bruce McLaren	McLaren	17	1:56.840	+3.660	162 m	+0.250
16	Moisés Solana	Cooper	9	1:57.440	+4.260	188 m	+0.600
17	Innes Ireland	BRM	10	1:57.460	+4.280	189 m	+0.020
18	Peter Arundell	Team Lotus	2	2:00.790	+7.610	336 m	+3.330
19	Bob Bondurant	Eagle	16	2:02.880	+9.700	429 m	+2.090

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.

Where this comes from

Round: 9 of 1966
Grand Prix: Mexican Grand Prix
Dates: 23 Oct 1966
Layout raced: Original circuit · 5 km · 15 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Cooper
Entrant: Cooper-Maserati
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.