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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:end color:purple shift:(20,-5) text:Jackie Stewart (Laps 1-80) Qualifying would see Brabham-Ford Cosworth take pole, as Jack Brabham put his updated car onto the prime spot on the grid for the first time since 1966. He would share the front row with ex-teammates Jochen Rindt and Denny Hulme, who had survived two days of wing failures across the field.
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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:end color:purple shift:(20,-5) text:Jackie Stewart (Laps 1-80) The 1969 South African Grand Prix, otherwise known as the XIV South African Grand Prix, was the opening round of the 1969 FIA Formula One World Championship, staged on the Kyalami Circuit on the 1st of March 1969. The race would be remembered for the dominance, both in number and performance, of the Ford Cosworth DFV engine, with all of the point scorers using the Anglo-American badged unit. Qualifying would see Brabham-Ford Cosworth take pole, as Jack Brabham put his updated car onto the prime spot on the grid for the first time since 1966. He would share the front row with ex-teammates Jochen Rindt and Denny Hulme, who had survived two days of wing failures across the field. When the flag fell on race day it would be Brabham who leapt into the lead, shadowed by second row starter Jackie Stewart for Matra-Ford Cosworth. Those two would battle for the lead throughout the opening lap, although it would take a move early on during lap two for Stewart to finally take and hold the lead. Brabham would stalk Stewart over the following laps until he suffered a complete collapse of his rear wing and was forced to stop. Rindt inherited second but would soon tumble down the order, falling to defending Champion Graham Hill, Hulme, Jo Siffert and Mario Andretti over the following laps. Yet, out front, Stewart was in supreme form, ultimately taking victory by almost twenty seconds from Hill in second. Hulme, Siffert and Andretti battled for third until the latter dropped out with a transmission failure, with the New Zealander steadily pulling clear of the Swiss racer soon after. Bruce McLaren and Jean-Pierre Beltoise would complete the points scorers.
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