1968 Tasman Series

1968 Tasman Series

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Template:Flagicon Jim Clark

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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 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.

Schedule

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

Points system

Points were awarded at each race on the following basis:

Position	1	2	3	4	5	6
Points	9	6	4	3	2	1

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

Championship standings

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