Race · Round 12 of 12 · 3 November 1968

1968 Mexican Grand Prix

Graham Hill won for Team Lotus from 3rd on the grid at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. 11 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Jackie Oliver.

Dry · High of 23 °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: Graham HillTeam Lotus
Pole: Jo Siffert
Fastest lap: Jo Siffert
Entries: 2110 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	—	3	65	Finished	9
2	Bruce McLaren	McLaren	M7A	9	65	Finished	6
3	Jackie Oliver	Team Lotus	—	14	65	Finished	4
4	Pedro Rodriguez	BRM	—	12	65	Finished	3
5	Jo Bonnier	Honda	RA301	18	64	Finished	2
6	Jo Siffert	Team Lotus	—	1	64	Finished	1	fastest lap
7	Sir Jackie Stewart	Matra	—	7	64	Finished	0
8	Vic Elford	Cooper	T86B	17	63	Finished	0
9	Henri Pescarolo	Matra	MS11	20	62	Finished	0
10	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	—	8	59	Oil pressure	0
DNF	Johnny Servoz-Gavin	Matra	—	16	57	Ignition	0
DNF	Dan Gurney	McLaren	M7A	5	28	Suspension	0
DNF	Piers Courage	BRM	P126	19	25	Engine	0
DNF	Lucien Bianchi	Cooper	T86B	21	21	Engine	0
DNF	John Surtees	Honda	—	6	17	Overheating	0
DNF	Chris Amon	Ferrari	—	2	16	Transmission	0
DNF	Moisés Solana	Team Lotus	—	11	14	Broken wing	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	MS11	13	10	Suspension	0
DNF	Denny Hulme	McLaren	M7A	4	10	Suspension	0
DNF	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	—	15	3	Ignition	0
DNF	Jochen Rindt	Brabham	—	10	2	Ignition	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
Graham Hill	3	1	65
Bruce McLaren	9	2	65
Jackie Oliver	14	3	65
Pedro Rodriguez	12	4	65
Jo Bonnier	18	5	64
Jo Siffert	1	6	64
Sir Jackie Stewart	7	7	64
Vic Elford	17	8	63
Henri Pescarolo	20	9	62
Sir Jack Brabham	8	10	59
Johnny Servoz-Gavin	16	DNF	57
Dan Gurney	5	DNF	28
Piers Courage	19	DNF	25
Lucien Bianchi	21	DNF	21
John Surtees	6	DNF	17
Chris Amon	2	DNF	16
Moisés Solana	11	DNF	14
Jean-Pierre Beltoise	13	DNF	10
Denny Hulme	4	DNF	10
Jacky Ickx	15	DNF	3
Jochen Rindt	10	DNF	2

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Jo Siffert	Team Lotus	16	1:45.220	—	0 m	—
2	Chris Amon	Ferrari	6	1:45.620	+0.400	19 m	+0.400
3	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	10	1:46.010	+0.790	38 m	+0.390
4	Denny Hulme	McLaren	1	1:46.040	+0.820	39 m	+0.030
5	Dan Gurney	McLaren	14	1:46.290	+1.070	51 m	+0.250
6	John Surtees	Honda	5	1:46.490	+1.270	60 m	+0.200
7	Sir Jackie Stewart	Matra	15	1:46.690	+1.470	70 m	+0.200
8	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	3	1:46.800	+1.580	75 m	+0.110
9	Bruce McLaren	McLaren	2	1:47.000	+1.780	85 m	+0.200
10	Jochen Rindt	Brabham	4	1:47.070	+1.850	88 m	+0.070
11	Moisés Solana	Team Lotus	12	1:47.670	+2.450	116 m	+0.600
12	Pedro Rodriguez	BRM	8	1:47.800	+2.580	123 m	+0.130
13	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	21	1:48.380	+3.160	150 m	+0.580
14	Jackie Oliver	Team Lotus	11	1:48.440	+3.220	153 m	+0.060
15	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	7	1:49.240	+4.020	191 m	+0.800
16	Johnny Servoz-Gavin	Matra	23	1:49.270	+4.050	192 m	+0.030
17	Vic Elford	Cooper	18	1:49.480	+4.260	202 m	+0.210
18	Jo Bonnier	Honda	17	1:49.960	+4.740	225 m	+0.480
19	Piers Courage	BRM	22	1:50.280	+5.060	240 m	+0.320
20	Henri Pescarolo	Matra	9	1:50.430	+5.210	248 m	+0.150
21	Lucien Bianchi	Cooper	19	1:50.570	+5.350	254 m	+0.140

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.

McLaren M7A
Hulme68 · Rtsanderson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · unchecked

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.

Where this comes from

Round: 12 of 1968
Grand Prix: Mexican Grand Prix
Dates: 3 Nov 1968
Layout raced: Original circuit · 5 km · 15 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Team Lotus
Entrant: Lotus-Ford
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.