The 1969 Guards Formula 5000 Championship was a motor racing competition for Formula 5000 cars and cars with unrestricted racing engines of up to 2000cc capacity.[1] The championship was organized in the United Kingdom but also included European rounds.[2] It was the first and only series to carry the Guards Formula 5000 Championship name and the first in a sequence of seven annual European Formula 5000 Championships to be contested between 1969 and 1975.[3] The championship was won by Peter Gethin, driving a McLaren M10A.[4]