{"id":185887,"date":"2016-07-08T16:02:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T15:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/opinion\/40-1967-dutch-gp\/"},"modified":"2019-09-19T08:23:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:23:50","slug":"40-1967-dutch-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/articles\/single-seaters\/f1\/40-1967-dutch-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"40 \u2013 1967 Dutch GP"},"content":{"rendered":"
A series taken from the 162-page <\/em>Motor Sport special <\/em>100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here<\/a><\/em>).<\/em><\/p>\n Was \u00a3100,000 ever better spent in Formula 1? It\u2019s hard to see how. Ford\u2019s top brass travelled to the circuit in the Dutch sand dunes to witness their big investment\u2019s bow, to be rewarded with a searing landmark in the history of Grand Prix racing.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The race itself was hardly thrill-a-minute, but that\u2019s irrelevant: this was a \u2018great\u2019 Grand Prix for what it represented. Cosworth\u2019s Double Four Valve V8, the most successful and important engine in F1 history, arrived in a blitz of fastest practice times and a stunning debut race victory. What\u2019s more, Colin Chapman\u2019s all-new Lotus<\/a> 49 to which it was bolted relied on the DFV for more than power. For the first time, both chassis and engine were mated as one, the block a fully integrated stressed member. Once again, Chapman had changed everything.<\/p>\n View the 1967 Dutch Grand Prix on the Database<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Perhaps true justice would have awarded Graham Hill<\/a> this historic win. After all, he\u2019d carried out the development tests in 49\/1. Indeed, it was Graham who set the practice pace while team-mate Jim Clark<\/a> lost learning time in newly minted 49\/2 with a hub failure. But despite taking a commanding lead from the start, Hill\u2019s DFV failed him, broken teeth on camshaft driving gears changing the passage of fate. Clark, catching up for lost time, played himself in and then struck, passing Jochen Rindt<\/a> and Jack Brabham <\/a>on consecutive laps. As Jenks described in Motor Sport<\/i>, from there he \u201cjust motored relentlessly into the distance\u201d.<\/p>\n Hill\u2019s failure was more indicative of the short-term frustrations of the DFV in that \u2018summer of love\u2019. But for now, the significance of Clark\u2019s peerless performance was clear to all: a new F1 superpower was born. DS<\/b><\/p>\n