1968 Tasman Series

1968 Tasman Series
Champion Jim Clark
Previous:	1967	Next:	1969

The 1968 Tasman Series was the fifth Tasman Series season. It began on 6 January 1968 and ended on 4 March after eight races. It was won by Jim Clark, driving a Lotus 49T.^[1]

It was the third and final Tasman Series 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 twelve 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 Ferrari 246T of Chris Amon after a famous duel between the pair.

Reigning 1967 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.

Results

Races

Round		Name	Circuit	Date	Winning driver	Winning car	Winning team	Report
New Zealand	1	New Zealand Grand Prix	Pukekohe	6 January	Chris Amon	Ferrari 246T	C.Amon	Report
	2	Levin International	Levin	13 January	Chris Amon	Ferrari 246T	C.Amon	Report
	3	Lady Wigram Trophy	Wigram	20 January	Jim Clark	Lotus 49T	Team Lotus	Report
	4	Teretonga International	Teretonga	27 January	Bruce McLaren	BRM P126	Owen Racing Organisation	Report
Australia	5	Surfers Paradise 100	Surfers Paradise	11 February	Jim Clark	Lotus 49T	Team Lotus	Report
	6	Warwick Farm International	Warwick Farm	18 February	Jim Clark	Lotus 49T	Team Lotus	Report
	7	Australian Grand Prix	Sandown	25 February	Jim Clark	Lotus 49T	Team Lotus	Report
	8	South Pacific Trophy	Longford	4 March	Piers Courage	McLaren M4A	P.Courage	Report

Standings

All scores from points-scoring races were counted

Pos Driver PUK LEV WIG TER SUR WAR SAN LON Pts 1 Jim Clark Ret Ret 1 2 1 1 1 5 44 2 Chris Amon 1 1 2 4 Ret 4 2 7 36 3 Piers Courage 3 2 4 5 3 3 5 1 34 4 Graham Hill 2 2 3 6 17 = Frank Gardner 2 Ret Ret 3 9 Ret 4 3 17 6 Bruce McLaren Ret Ret 5 1 11 7 Pedro Rodríguez Ret Ret 6 Ret 10 6 Ret 2 8 = Denny Hulme 3 6 6 5 9 DNS 8 9 Jim Palmer 4 3 7 8 3 10 Richard Attwood Ret Ret 6 4 4 11 Leo Geoghegan 4 Ret 7 DNS 3 = Roly Levis 8 4 8 10 3 13 Kevin Bartlett 5 Ret 8 DNS 2 = Red Dawson Ret 5 9 DNS 2 = Paul Bolton 5 Ret Ret 2 16 Graeme Lawrence 6 9 Ret 9 1 = Bill Stone 10 6 10 Ret 0 — Bryan Faloon 7 7 13 DNS 0 — David Oxton Ret 10 Ret 7 0 — Glyn Scott 7 10 0 — Jack Brabham 7 Ret 0 — John Harvey Ret Ret 8 0 — Frank Radisich 8 DNS 0 — Malcolm Aldred 8 0 — Alfredo Costanzo 8 0 — John Nicholson 9 DNS 0 — Ian Ferguson 9 0 — John McCormack 9 0 — Ken Smith 12 DNS 11 Ret 0 — Don MacDonald 11 12 DNQ 0 — Graham McRae Ret 14 Ret 0 — Peter Yock Ret Ret DNQ Ret 0 — Vince Anderson Ret 0 — Grahame Harvey Ret 0 — Greg Cusack Ret Ret Ret DNS 0 — Brian Page Ret Ret 0 — Max Stewart Ret 0 — Fred Gibson Ret 0 — Mel McEwin Ret 0 — Tony Batchelor DNS 0 Pos Driver PUK LEV WIG TER SUR WAR SAN LON Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Excluded (EX)

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