1969 Madrid Grand Prix

1969 Madrid Grand Prix
Non-championship race in the 1969 Formula One season
Circuito Permanente del Jarama's layout
Race details
Date	13 April 1969 (1969-04-13)
Official name	III Gran Premio de Madrid
Location	Circuito Permanente del Jarama, Madrid
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	3.404 km (2.115 miles)
Distance	40 laps, 136.6 km (84.6 miles)
Pole position
Driver	Peter Gethin	McLaren-Chevrolet
Time	1:31.9
Fastest lap
Driver	Peter Gethin	McLaren-Chevrolet
Time	1:30.9
Podium
First	Keith Holland	Lola-Chevrolet
Second	Tony Dean	BRM
Third	Jock Russell	Lotus-Ford

The 1969 Madrid Grand Prix was a Formula One non-championship race held at Jarama, Madrid on 13 April 1969, run over 40 laps of the circuit. The field only included two Formula One cars, however, the remainder being Formula 5000 and Formula Two cars.

The entrants included Max Mosley, later to become president of the FIA, who drove a Formula Two Lotus.

The fastest combination in the event was clearly Peter Gethin in his F5000 McLaren-Chevrolet, but after an engine failure on the last lap, it was left to Keith Holland to take the victory, with the rest of the field at least a lap down. Contemporary reports listed Tony Dean (BRM P261) as finishing second having completed 39 out of 40 laps. However, Gethin broke down on lap 40 and some later reports classify him as second.

Qualifying

Note: a blue background indicates a Formula 5000 entrant and a pink background indicates a Formula Two entrant.

Pos	No.	Driver	Constructor	Lap	Gap
1	53	Peter Gethin	McLaren-Chevrolet	1:31.9	—
2	52	Keith Holland	Lola-Chevrolet	1:35.2	3.3
3	12	Tony Dean	BRM	1:35.8	3.9
4	16	Max Mosley	Lotus-Ford	1:38.3	6.4
5	54	Robert Lamplough	Lotus-Ford	1:39.0	7.1
6	14	Neil Corner	Cooper-Maserati	1:41.1	9.2
7	55	Jock Russell	Lotus-Ford	1:42.4	10.5
8	11	Bill Stone	Brabham-Lotus	No time	—
DNA	15	Graham McRae	Brabham-Ford
DNA	51	Mike Hailwood	Lola-Chevrolet

Classification

Pos	No.	Driver	Entrant	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired
1	52	Keith Holland	Alan Fraser Racing Team	Lola-Chevrolet	40	1.03:29.8
2	12	Tony Dean	A. G. Dean	BRM	39	1 lap
3	55	Jock Russell	Jock Russell	Lotus-Ford	38	2 laps
4	14	Neil Corner	Antiques Automobiles Racing	Cooper-Maserati	38	2 laps
Ret	53	Peter Gethin	Church Farm Racing Team	McLaren-Chevrolet	39	Engine ‡
Ret	11	Bill Stone	Jack Smith	Brabham-Lotus	36	Retired
Ret	16	Max Mosley	Len Street (Engineering)	Lotus-Ford	14	Injector trumpet
Ret	54	Robert Lamplough	Robert Lamplough	Lotus-Ford	0	Engine

• The fastest lap for a Formula One car during the race was 1:34.2 by Tony Dean.
• ‡Some websites mistakenly give Gethin second place based on the number of laps completed, but was a DNF because he broke an engine connecting rod one lap from the end while leading the race and couldn't finished it.

References

Footnotes

Sources

• "f1-images.de". Retrieved 2009-06-03.
• "F2.net". Retrieved 2024-01-15.