1966 Italian Grand Prix

1966 Italian Grand Prix
Race details
Date 4 September 1966
Official name XXXVII Gran Premio d'Italia
Location Autodromo Nazionale di Monza
Monza, Italy
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 5.750 km (3.573 miles)
Distance 68 laps, 391.000 km (242.964 miles)
Weather Warm, dry and sunny
Pole position
Driver Ferrari
Time 1:31.3
Fastest lap
Driver Italy Ludovico Scarfiotti Ferrari
Time 1:32.4 on lap 49
Podium
First Ferrari
Second Ferrari
Third Brabham-Repco
Lap leaders

The 1966 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 4 September 1966. It was race 7 of 9 in both the 1966 World Championship of Drivers and the 1966 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The race was the 36th Italian Grand Prix and the 32nd to be held at Monza. The race was held over 68 laps of the five kilometre circuit for a race distance of 391 kilometres.

The race was won by Italian driver Ludovico Scarfiotti driving a Ferrari 312 in his only Grand Prix victory. Scarfiotti led home his British team mate Mike Parkes by five seconds. Parkes only just defeated New Zealand racer Denny Hulme in his Brabham BT20, the pair separated by less than half a second.

While series points leader Jack Brabham stopped with an oil leak in his Brabham BT19 on lap seven, he secured his third world championship, and the unique achievement of becoming world champion in a car of his own make, when his only remaining points rival John Surtees stopped with a fuel leak in his Cooper T81 24 laps later.