| rdfs:comment | - 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:12 color:black shift:(20,-5) text:Jim Clark (Laps 1-12) from:12 till:20 color:purple shift:(20,-5) text:Jackie Stewart (Laps 13-20) from:20 till:end color:blue shift:(20,-5) text:Dan Gurney (Laps 21-28)
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| abstract | - 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:12 color:black shift:(20,-5) text:Jim Clark (Laps 1-12) from:12 till:20 color:purple shift:(20,-5) text:Jackie Stewart (Laps 13-20) from:20 till:end color:blue shift:(20,-5) text:Dan Gurney (Laps 21-28) The 1967 Belgian Grand Prix, officially known as the XXVII Grote Prijs van Belgie, was the fourth round of the 1967 FIA Formula One World Championship, staged at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit on the 18th of June, 1967. The race would be remembered as the first triumph for Dan Gurney in his self-built Eagle-Weslake, a week after he helped Ford to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The New Yorker's weekend had started brightly when he put the Eagle on the front row, although he was three seconds off of Jim Clark in the new Lotus 49. Graham Hill sandwiched the Eagle in the second Lotus 49 by taking third, while Chris Amon would start fifth as the best of the Ferraris who had been beaten badly at Le Mans a week earlier. At the start it was Clark who shot into the lead of the race while Gurney forgot to get his car into first gear, meaning he plummeted down the order. Jochen Rindt, Jackie Stewart and Mike Parkes, although at the end of the opening lap there would be a huge accident at Blanchimont that reduced the field. Stewart's BRM had started to drop oil on the circuit as the field began to make the return run to the pits on the opening lap, and it was Parkes who was first to hit the oil slick on the flat out Blanchimont corner. The Englishman lost control on the slick and was sent into the trees at over 150mph, the resulting impact writing off the car while Parkes would be thrown from the car with broken legs, a broken wrist and a nasty head injury which would end his F1 career. Parkes' accident promoted Gurney back into the top five, and when the New Yorker claimed both Amon and Rindt ahead, the latter being well off the pace, the Eagle was on for a podium. Stewart, meanwhile, was hunting down Clark for the lead until the Lotus stopped to have its spark plugs changed. That left Stewart in the lead from Gurney, the New Yorker having slowed in the pits when Clark stopped to report a fuel pressure issue. The twelve second gap that had opened was steadily coming down, until Stewart hit gearbox problems, requiring him to hold the lever in position to maintain the gear, allowing Gurney to close even more. The battle between them was short and decisive, with Gurney taking the lead on lap 21 and never looking back, crossing the finish line over a minute in arrears. Stewart claimed second despite having to run for half the race one handed, half a minute clear of third placed Amon. Rindt was the last man to stay on the lead lap, with Mike Spence and Clark completing the points.
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