Two World Championship titles were awarded, one for Drivers and one for Constructors. The race, held in wet but drying conditions, would be remembered for a dominant display of the race winner, despite some of his rivals starting on wet tyres. It featured the 1966 World Championship of Drivers and the 1966 International Cup for F1 Manufacturers which were contested concurrently over a nine-race series that commenced on 22 May and ended on 23 October. Click to rate! Practice/qualifying were held in perfect conditions on Friday and Saturday, and with the flowing nature of Brands Hatch, which only had a couple of truly straight straights, the underpowered runners were able to set times comparable to the 1966 machines.Sunday had dawned wet and windy, although the track was showing signs of drying as the cars assembled on the grid.The circuit began to dry quite quickly after the early laps, and so Rindt and Surtees came under attack from Hulme,But, out front, Brabham was untouched, and having collected the fastest lap on lap 60, the Australian swept home to collect a second win in a row, and a second career,The only major manufacturer effort not in Kent were the,Strongest of the British efforts were the Australian run.The rest of the field was made up of privateers with single car efforts, although a couple were self-built chassis and familiar faces.The full entry list for the 1966 British Grand Prix is outlined below:Qualifying/Practice would run together as normal, with the first session opening on Thursday at 10:30am, lasting until 1:00pm in the afternoon.When the circuit opened on Thursday it immediately became clear that the team to beat would be.Indeed, the 3.0 litre cars would also end up unchallenged by the underpowered runners using modified 1965 equipment, as they too encountered issues.For the afternoon the Brabhams put in an indentical programme of running as they had in the morning, with the two Antipodeans orbiting the circuit without issues all afternoon.Into Friday, and arguably the best sight of the session was that of,After the unofficial session on Friday afternoon, the timekeepers published the results of qualifying, which revealled that Brabham would start on pole for the first time since the.The full qualifying results for the 1966 British Grand Prix are outlined below:It was a wet and windy Saturday in Kent for the fourth round of the season, and the support races were filled with on, and frequently off-track action.When the Union Flag fell it was pole sitter.At the end of second lap Brabham was still leading from Rindt and Gurney, with Surtees chasing the leaders down having dealt with Clark and Hill.The opening stages saw Brabham's lead extended by a fair margin when Rindt spun for a second time which left the Austrian at the mercy of team mate Surtees after Gurney dropped out with engine issues.Bonnier's pace took a nose dive so that he was lapped by everyone within fifteen laps, while.As news of the struggles of the two Coopers filtered to Clark and Hill, the two called a mutual truce to go and hunt them down, with Hulme escaping from Spence/McLaren and joining the former pair in the hunt.Soon, the two Coopers were out of the fight entirely, as Hulme picked off Rindt before following Clark through past Surtees, with Hill and Clark then reopening their duel with the New Zealander just behind.The Hill/Clark battle resumed once Hulme went chasing off after Brabham, although it would only last for another five laps before Clark was in the pits with a brake issue.By this stage everyone was out of the hunt for victory, as Brabham and Hulme were well clear of the rest of the field, and despite both easing off, the times were going upwards as conditions improved.With that the race was well and truly done, although Hill was forced to drop to a crawl during the final lap when his oil pressure disappeared.Clark ended the race fourth, and if a couple more laps had been left to go he may well have taken Hill for third.The full results for the 1966 British Grand Prix are outlined below:Victory for the second race in a row left.The Formula 1 Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community.D.S.J., 'THE 19th BRITISH GRAND PRIX: A CLEAN SWEEP'.Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat.http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/august-1966/20/19th-british-grand-prix,http://www.statsf1.com/en/1966/grande-bretagne/engages.aspx,http://www.statsf1.com/en/1966/grande-bretagne/qualification.aspx,http://www.statsf1.com/en/1966/grande-bretagne/classement.aspx,https://f1.fandom.com/wiki/1966_British_Grand_Prix?oldid=86127. No front-engined car has won the race since.F1 World Champion, 1963 and 1965; runner-up, 1962,Indianapolis 500 winner, 1965; runner-up, 1963 and 1966,This page was last edited on 29 August 2020, at 16:42. Sport Betting; Yearly calendar; Latest results TheSports.org All sports Site. New rules for 1966 allowed the capacity of normally aspirated engines to double to 3-litres in 1966 and so marked Formula 1’s “return to power”. The winner was J. Clark (Lotus Ford), from.Clark had made an earlier FJ appearance in a one-off race at Brands Hatch on Boxing Day, 1959, driving a Gemini-B.M.C. The championship is split into four classes according to the vehicle's age and technical specification.The HFO Competition features classic Grand Prix racing cars from the 20-year period between 1966 and 1985. It was just that the man was very 'soft' on his car and so he tended to last the race distance as a result.Complete Formula One World Championship results.Goodwood Motor Circuit programme, June 7, 1965. According to Andrew Marriott of the classic journal.There is a large memorial to Clark at Hockenheim today, but because the track has been reduced in length and the old course reforested, the actual location of the crash is in a heavily wooded area.He was also able to master difficult Lotus sportscar prototypes such as the,Clark wrote an autobiography which was published just after his first world championship, titled,The Jim Clark Trophy was introduced in the.For reasons of space, only those Formula Two events which Clark attended are shown.There have been many stories about the tyres on Jim Clark's car lasting four races.