The 1968 Tasman Championship for Drivers was a motor racing series contested over eight races during January, February and March 1968, with four races held in New Zealand and four in Australia.[1] The championship was open to Racing Cars fitted with unsupercharged engines with a capacity equal or inferior to 2500cc.[1] It was the fifth annual Tasman Championship.
It was the third and final Tasman Championship win for Clark who was killed in a Formula 2 crash on the ultra fast Hockenheim circuit in West Germany just over a month after the series concluded. Clark won the last of his twelve career Tasman Series wins when he won the 1968 Australian Grand Prix at the Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, only 0.1 seconds in front of the Dino 246 Tasmania of Chris Amon after a famous duel between the pair.
Reigning 1967Formula One World Champion Denny Hulme finished equal seventh in the series in his Formula 2 Brabham with a best finish of third in Round 3 for the Lady Wigram Trophy, his first race of the series.
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won the 1968 Australian Grand Prix at the Sandown Raceway in Melbourne only 0 1 seconds in front of the Dino 246 Tasmania of Chris Amon after a famous duel between the pair Reigning 1967 Formula One World Champion Denny Hulme finished equal seventh in the series in his Formula 2 Brabham with a best finish of third in Round 3 for the Lady Wigram Trophy his first race of the series Contents 1 Schedule 2 Points system 3 Championship standings 4 ReferencesSchedule EditRound Name Circuit Date Winning driver Winning car Winning team ReportNewZealand 1 New Zealand Grand Prix Pukekohe 6 January nbsp Chris Amon Dino 246 Tasmania C Amon Report2 Levin International Levin 13 January nbsp Chris Amon Dino 246 Tasmania C Amon Report3 Lady Wigram Trophy Wigram 20 January nbsp Jim Clark Lotus 49T Team Lotus Report4 Teretonga International Teretonga 27 January nbsp Bruce McLaren BRM P126 Owen Racing Organisation ReportAustralia 5 Surfers Paradise 100 Surfers Paradise 11 February nbsp Jim Clark Lotus 49T Team Lotus Report6 Warwick Farm International Warwick Farm 18 February nbsp Jim Clark Lotus 49T Team Lotus Report7 Australian Grand Prix Sandown 25 February nbsp Jim Clark Lotus 49T Team Lotus Report8 South Pacific Trophy Longford 4 March nbsp Piers Courage McLaren M4A P Courage ReportPoints system EditPoints were awarded at each race on the following basis 1 Position 1 1 2 3 4 5 6Points 1 9 6 4 3 2 1Championship placings were determined by the total number of points scored by a driver in all races 1 Championship standings EditPos Driver Car 3 Puk Lev Wig Ter Sur War San Lon Pts1 nbsp Jim Clark Lotus 49T Cosworth Ret Ret 1 2 1 1 1 5 442 nbsp Chris Amon Dino 246 Tasmania 1 1 2 4 Ret 4 2 7 363 nbsp Piers Courage McLaren M4A Cosworth 3 2 4 5 3 3 5 1 344 nbsp Graham Hill Lotus 49T Cosworth 2 2 3 6 17 nbsp Frank Gardner Brabham BT23D Alfa Romeo 2 Ret Ret 3 9 Ret 4 3 176 nbsp Bruce McLaren BRM P126 Ret Ret 5 1 117 nbsp Pedro Rodriguez BRM P126 BRM P261 Ret Ret 6 Ret 10 6 Ret 2 8 nbsp Denny Hulme Brabham BT23 Cosworth 3 6 6 5 9 DNS 89 nbsp Jim Palmer McLaren M4A Cosworth 4 3 7 8 310 nbsp Richard Attwood BRM P126 Ret Ret 6 4 411 nbsp Leo Geoghegan Lotus 39 Repco 4 Ret 7 DNS 3 nbsp Roly Levis Brabham BT18 Ford 8 4 8 10 313 nbsp Kevin Bartlett Brabham BT11A Coventry Climax 5 Ret 8 DNS 2 nbsp Red Dawson Brabham BT7A Coventry Climax Ret 5 9 DNS 2 nbsp Paul Bolton Brabham BT22 Coventry Climax 4 5 Ret Ret 216 nbsp Graeme Lawrence Brabham BT18 Ford 6 9 Ret 9 1 nbsp Bill Stone Brabham BT6 Ford 10 6 10 Ret 0 nbsp Bryan Faloon Brabham BT4 Coventry Climax 7 7 13 DNS 0 nbsp David Oxton Brabham BT16 Ford Ret 10 Ret 7 0 nbsp Glyn Scott Lotus 27 Ford 7 10 0 nbsp Jack Brabham Brabham BT21E Repco 7 Ret 0 nbsp John Harvey Brabham BT11A Coventry Climax Ret Ret 8 0 nbsp Frank Radisich Lotus 22 Ford 8 DNS 0 nbsp Malcolm Aldred Lotus 22 Ford 8 0 nbsp Alfredo Costanzo Elfin Mono Ford 8 0 nbsp John Nicholson Lotus 27 Ford 9 DNS 0 nbsp Ian Ferguson Lotus 27 Ford 9 0 nbsp John McCormack Brabham BT4 Coventry Climax 9 0 nbsp Ken Smith Lotus 41 Ford 12 DNS 11 Ret 0 nbsp Don MacDonald Brabham BT10 Ford 11 12 DNQ 0 nbsp Graham McRae Brabham BT6 Ford Ret 14 Ret 0 nbsp Peter Yock Lotus 33 BRM Ret Ret DNQ Ret 0 nbsp Vince Anderson Brabham BT11A Coventry Climax Ret 0 nbsp Grahame Harvey Brabham BT6 Ford Ret 0 nbsp Greg Cusack Brabham BT23 Repco Ret Ret Ret DNS 0 nbsp Brian Page Brabham BT6 Ford Ret Ret 0 nbsp Max Stewart Rennmax Ford Ret 0 nbsp Fred Gibson Brabham Coventry Climax Ret 0 nbsp Mel McEwin Lotus 32B Coventry Climax Ret 0 nbsp Tony Batchelor Brabham BT6 Ford DNS 0Pos Driver Car Puk Lev Wig Ter Sur War San Lon Pts Colour ResultGold WinnerSilver Second placeBronze Third placeGreen Points finishBlue Non points finishNon classified finish NC Purple Retired Ret Red Did not qualify DNQ Did not pre qualify DNPQ Black Disqualified DSQ White Did not start DNS Withdrew WD Race cancelled C Blank Did not practice DNP Did not arrive DNA Excluded EX References Edit a b c d e f The Tasman Championship for Drivers Season 1968 1968 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport pages 66 to 69 IX South Pacific Trophy www tasman series com as archived at web archive org Tasman Series 1968 www sergent com au linked round results pages Retrieved 22 November 2017 www oldracingcars com Retrieved 22 November 2017 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1968 Tasman Series amp oldid 1149065792, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
