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| - Colors = id:canvas value:rgb(0.937,0.937,0.937) id:linemark value:gray(0.8) id:linemark2 value:gray(0.9) BackgroundColors = canvas:canvas PlotData = mark:(line,linemark) from:start till:5 color:purple shift:(20,-5) text:Jackie Stewart (Laps 1-5) from:5 till:9 color:white shift:(20,-5) text:Jacky Ickx (Laps 6-9) from:9 till:end color:orange shift:(20,-5) text:Denny Hulme (Laps 10-65)
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| - Colors = id:canvas value:rgb(0.937,0.937,0.937) id:linemark value:gray(0.8) id:linemark2 value:gray(0.9) BackgroundColors = canvas:canvas PlotData = mark:(line,linemark) from:start till:5 color:purple shift:(20,-5) text:Jackie Stewart (Laps 1-5) from:5 till:9 color:white shift:(20,-5) text:Jacky Ickx (Laps 6-9) from:9 till:end color:orange shift:(20,-5) text:Denny Hulme (Laps 10-65) The 1969 Mexican Grand Prix, also known as the VIII Gran Premio de Mexico, was the eleventh and final round of the 1969 FIA Formula One World Championship, and was the final Grand Prix to be held in the 1960s. Staged at the Autódromo Magdalena Mixhuca on the 19th of October 1969, the race would see sixteen drivers go to battle for victory, with Jacky Ickx hunting down Denny Hulme in the closing stages. Qualifying had seen Jack Brabham dominate the session, taking pole by seven tenths of a second from teammate Ickx, suggesting that Brabham were the team to beat in the Sports City. Soon to be crowned World Champion Jackie Stewart would start from third, sharing the second row with Hulme, while privateer Jo Siffert bested the factory run sister car of Jochen Rindt at Lotus. When the flag fell to start the final race of the 1960s, it would be Stewart who reacted fastest to sprint into the lead, with Ickx and Brabham falling in behind. Rindt escaped into fourth before being repassed by a slow starting Hulme, while Ickx began to pressurise Stewart on lap two, eventually elbowing his way into the lead on lap six. Hulme steadily moved up the order over the following laps, and on the tenth tour slithered down the inside of Ickx on the brakes at the first corner. Hulme's rise coincided with Stewart's fall, the Scot falling behind both Brabham and Rindt, although the Austrian's race ended just a few moments later with a suspension failure. The rest of the race saw Hulme try to escape Ickx, with the Belgian constantly within a couple of seconds of the New Zealander until the flag. Brabham was a comfortable third when the flag fell to end the season, while new World Champion Stewart came home fourth. Jean-Pierre Beltoise had been promoted to fifth once Rindt retired, while the final point of the season went to Jackie Oliver, the Brit managing to beat a number of Ford Cosworth powered cars despite using the underdeveloped BRM P139.
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