1968 German Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 8 of 12 in the 1968 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 4 August 1968 | ||
| Official name | XXX Großer Preis von Deutschland XXVIII Grand Prix d'Europe |
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| Location | Nürburgring, Nürburg, West Germany | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 22.835 km (14.189 mi) | ||
| Distance | 14 laps, 319.690 km (198.646 mi) | ||
| Weather | Hazy, Wet | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Ferrari | ||
| Time | 9:04.0 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Jackie Stewart
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Matra-Ford | |
| Time | 9:36.0 on lap 8 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Matra-Ford | ||
| Second | Lotus-Ford | ||
| Third | Brabham-Repco | ||
The 1968 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Nürburgring on 4 August 1968. It was the eighth round of the 1968 Formula One season. The race was held in extremely wet and foggy conditions, and British driver Jackie Stewart, racing with a broken wrist, won the race by a margin of four minutes in what is widely considered to be one of the greatest victories in the history of Formula One.
The race is also notable for Dan Gurney's choice of a full face helmet, making him the first driver to do so in Grand Prix racing.
After Jo Siffert had surprisingly won the previous race at Brands Hatch, the paddock arrived at the Nürburgring almost unchanged. Equally unchanged was the weather: with rain over the entire weekend, this was to be the fifth wet race in a row. BMW entered a Lola-built Formula Two car driven by Hubert Hahne in order to evaluate their competitiveness in Formula One.
On Saturday, conditions were so poor, with visibility down to mere ten yards, that the organizers scheduled an additional practice session for Sunday morning. Still many drivers slid off the track during the morning session. Eventually, Jacky Ickx took pole positions by a full 10 seconds from second placed Chris Amon, both in a Ferrari. Jackie Stewart in his Matra MS10 was down in sixth place on the grid. At the time, Ickx became the youngest person ever to sit on pole, a record beaten 14 years later when Andrea de Cesaris achieved pole position at the 1982 United States Grand Prix West.
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