1967 Italian Grand Prix

1967 Italian Grand Prix
Autodromo Nazionale di Monza layout
Autodromo Nazionale di Monza layout
Race details
Date 10 September 1967
Official name XXXVIII Gran Premio d'Italia
Location Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza, Italy
Course Permanent road course
Course length 5.75 km (3.573 miles)
Distance 68 laps, 391.006 km (242.960 miles)
Weather Warm, dry
Pole position
Driver Lotus-Ford
Time 1:28.5
Fastest lap
Driver United Kingdom Jim Clark Lotus-Ford
Time 1:28.5 on lap 26
Podium
First Honda
Second Brabham-Repco
Third Lotus-Ford
Lap leaders

The 1967 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza on 10 September 1967. It was race 9 of 11 in both the 1967 World Championship of Drivers and the 1967 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The race was won by British driver John Surtees driving a Honda. It was the sixth and final career victory for Surtees, as well as the first ever race for the Honda RA300 which he drove to victory. This was the first Formula One race where start lights were used.

This race is considered one of Jim Clark's greatest performances in Formula One.[citation needed] He led the race until lap 12 when he picked up a puncture and lost an entire lap. He then spent the next 48 laps recovering through the field, taking the lead on lap 60, and pulled away. But on the final lap, a lack of fuel[1] in Clark's Lotus 49 allowed Jack Brabham and Surtees to pass the Scotsman and finish first and second, with Surtees ahead by less than a car length at the line. This was the second victory for the Honda F1 team, and the last for the factory team until Jenson Button won the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix.

  1. ^ Motor Sport October 1967 - Denis Jenkinson