1969 Formula One season

Briton Jackie Stewart won the first of his three championships.

The 1969 Formula One season was the 23rd season of the FIA's Formula One motor racing. It featured the 20th World Championship of Drivers, the 12th International Cup for F1 Manufacturers and four non-championship races open to Formula One cars. The World Championship was contested over eleven races between 1 March and 19 October 1969.

British driver Jackie Stewart, driving a Matra-Ford Cosworth, won more than half of the races and claimed his first Drivers' Championship.[1] The Matra works team did not compete in this season, but the privateer Matra International team, led by Ken Tyrrell, helped Matra win the Manufacturers' Cup.[2] Both titles were the first titles won by a French constructor, and still remain the only titles won by a car built in France[3] as well as a car entered by a privateer team.

  1. ^ "1969 Driver Standings". Formula1.com. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
  2. ^ "1969 Constructor Standings". Formula1.com. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
  3. ^ Jackie Stewart´s Matra MS80 was built in Vélizy-Villacoublay, France. Fernando Alonso's Renault R25 and Renault R26 were built in Enstone, UK.