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1968 Tasman Series

United Kingdom Jim Clark The 1968 Tasman Championship for Drivers was a motor racing series contested over eight races during January, February and March 1968, with four races held in New Zealand and four in Australia. The championship was open to Racing Cars fitted with non-supercharged engines with a capacity equal or inferior to 2500cc. It was the fifth annual Tasman Championship.

The championship won by Jim Clark, driving a Lotus 49T.

It was the third and final Tasman Championship win for Clark who was killed in a Formula 2 crash on the ultra fast Hockenheim circuit in West Germany just over a month after the series concluded. Clark won the last of his fifteen career Tasman Series wins when he won the 1968 Australian Grand Prix at the Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, only 0.1 seconds in front of the Dino 246 Tasmania of Chris Amon after a famous duel between the pair.

Reigning Formula One World Champion Denny Hulme finished equal seventh in the series in his Formula 2 Brabham with a best finish of third in Round 3 for the Lady Wigram Trophy, his first race of the series.

Schedule

RoundNameCircuitDateWinning driverWinning carWinning teamReportNew
Zealand1234Australia5678
New Zealand Grand PrixPukekohe6 JanuaryNZL Chris AmonDino 246 TasmaniaC.Amon[Report](1968-new-zealand-grand-prix)
Levin InternationalLevin13 JanuaryNZL Chris AmonDino 246 TasmaniaC.Amon[Report](1968-levin-international)
Lady Wigram TrophyWigram20 JanuaryGBR Jim ClarkLotus 49TTeam Lotus[Report](1968-lady-wigram-trophy)
Teretonga InternationalTeretonga27 JanuaryNZL Bruce McLarenBRM P126Owen Racing Organisation[Report](1968-teretonga-international)
Surfers Paradise 100Surfers Paradise11 FebruaryGBR Jim ClarkLotus 49TTeam Lotus[Report](1968-surfers-paradise-100)
Warwick Farm InternationalWarwick Farm18 FebruaryGBR Jim ClarkLotus 49TTeam Lotus[Report](1968-warwick-farm-international)
Australian Grand PrixSandown25 FebruaryGBR Jim ClarkLotus 49TTeam Lotus[Report](1968-australian-grand-prix)
South Pacific TrophyLongford4 MarchGBR Piers CourageMcLaren M4AP.Courage[Report](1968-south-pacific-trophy)

Points system

Points were awarded at each race on the following basis:

**Position**123456**Points**
964321

Championship placings were determined by the total number of points scored by a driver in all races.

Championship standings

PosDriverCarPukLevWigTerSurWarSanLonPts1234=67=91011=13==16=———————————————————————PosDriverCarPukLevWigTerSurWarSanLonPts
GBR Jim ClarkLotus 49T CosworthRetRet121115**44**
NZL Chris AmonDino 246 Tasmania1124Ret427**36**
GBR Piers CourageMcLaren M4A Cosworth32453351**34**
GBR Graham HillLotus 49T Cosworth2236**17**
AUS Frank GardnerBrabham BT23D Alfa Romeo2RetRet39Ret43**17**
NZL Bruce McLarenBRM P126RetRet51**11**
MEX Pedro RodríguezBRM P126
BRM P261RetRet6Ret106Ret2**8**
NZL Denny HulmeBrabham BT23 Cosworth36659DNS**8**
NZL Jim PalmerMcLaren M4A Cosworth4378**3**
GBR Richard AttwoodBRM P126RetRet64**4**
AUS Leo GeogheganLotus 39 Repco4Ret7DNS**3**
NZL Roly LevisBrabham BT18 Ford84810**3**
AUS Kevin BartlettBrabham BT11A Coventry Climax5Ret8DNS**2**
NZL Red DawsonBrabham BT7A Coventry ClimaxRet59DNS**2**
AUS Paul BoltonBrabham BT22 Coventry Climax5RetRet**2**
NZL Graeme LawrenceBrabham BT18 Ford69Ret9**1**
NZL Bill StoneBrabham BT6 Ford10610Ret**0**
NZL Bryan FaloonBrabham BT4 Coventry Climax7713DNS**0**
NZL David OxtonBrabham BT16 FordRet10Ret7**0**
AUS Glyn ScottLotus 27 Ford710**0**
AUS Jack BrabhamBrabham BT21E Repco7Ret**0**
AUS John HarveyBrabham BT11A Coventry ClimaxRetRet8**0**
NZL Frank RadisichLotus 22 Ford8DNS**0**
AUS Malcolm AldredLotus 22 Ford8**0**
AUS Alfredo CostanzoElfin Mono Ford8**0**
NZL John NicholsonLotus 27 Ford9DNS**0**
AUS Ian FergusonLotus 27 Ford9**0**
AUS John McCormackBrabham BT4 Coventry Climax9**0**
NZL Ken SmithLotus 41 Ford12DNS11Ret**0**
NZL Don MacDonaldBrabham BT10 Ford1112DNQ**0**
NZL Graham McRaeBrabham BT6 FordRet14Ret**0**
NZL Peter YockLotus 33 BRMRetRetDNQRet**0**
NZL Vince AndersonBrabham BT11A Coventry ClimaxRet**0**
NZL Grahame HarveyBrabham BT6 FordRet**0**
AUS Greg CusackBrabham BT23 RepcoRetRetRetDNS**0**
AUS Brian PageBrabham BT6 FordRetRet**0**
AUS Max StewartRennmax FordRet**0**
AUS Fred GibsonBrabham Coventry ClimaxRet**0**
AUS Mel McEwinLotus 32B Coventry ClimaxRet**0**
NZL Tony BatchelorBrabham BT6 FordDNS**0**

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References

References

  1. The Tasman Championship for Drivers – Season 1968, 1968 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, pages 66 to 69
  2. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080723204810/http://www.tasman-series.com/races/1968/round8/round8.asp IX South Pacific Trophy, www.tasman-series.com, as archived at web.archive.org]
  3. [http://www.sergent.com.au/motor/tasman1968.html Tasman Series 1968, www.sergent.com.au (linked round results pages)] Retrieved 22 November 2017
  4. [http://www.oldracingcars.com/brabham/bt22/ic-1-66 www.oldracingcars.com] Retrieved 22 November 2017
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