VI WARWICK FARM INTERNATIONAL
 Location - Warwick Farm Aust  Laps - 45  Distance - 162.95 km  Date - 13/02/66  Weather - Overcast/Rain
ENTRY LIST
No. DRIVER ENTRANT MAKE ENGINE
4 Frank Gardner Alec Mildren Racing Brabham BT11A Climax FPF
? Jack Brabham Brabham Racing Org. Brabham BT19 Repco V8 2.5
6 Andy Buchanan Wilson Motors Brabham BT7A Climax FPF
7 Spencer Martin Scuderia Veloce Brabham BT11A Climax FPF
14 Greg Cusack Castrol Team Brabham BT10 Ford 1.5
15 Roly Levis Roly Levis Brabham BT6 Ford 1.5
16 John Harvey R.C. Phillips Brabham BT14 Ford 1.5
17 Kevin Bartlett Alec Mildren Racing Brabham BT2 Ford 1.5
18 Paul Bolton Town & Country Garage Brabham BT6 Ford 1.5
2 Graham Hill Owen Racing Org. BRM 261 BRM V8 1.9
3 Jackie Stewart Owen Racing Org. BRM 261 BRM V8 1.9
8 Don O'Sullivan F.D. O'Sullivan Cooper T53 Climax FPF
9 John McDonald Bill Patterson Motors Cooper T70/79 Climax FPF
10 Dennis Marwood Ecurie Rothmans Cooper T66 Climax FPF
22 Bob Jane Bob Jane Autoland Elfin Mono 100 Ford 1.5
23 Mel McEwin Mel McEwin Elfin Mono 100 Ford 1.5
24 Peter Williamson Jim McGuire Elfin FJ Hillman Imp 1.0
1 Jim Clark Team Lotus Lotus 39 Climax FPF
11 Jim Palmer George Palmer Lotus 32B Climax FPF
21 Leo Geoghegan Total Team Lotus 32 Ford 1.5
19 Les Howard Howard & Sons Racing Lotus 27 Ford 1.5
20 Glyn Scott Glyn Scott Motors Lotus 27 Ford 1.5
26 Max Stewart Max Stewart Motors Renmax BN2 Ford 1.5
Jim Clark makes his customary lightning startTwice World Champion Jim Clark took his second successive International 100 when he won as he liked at the Farm in the 1966 event. The BRMs, which had dominated the season to that time, failed to live up to expectations, with Graham Hill finishing more than 20 seconds behind Clark.

Clark had looked the man to beat right from the start. On the Wednesday before the race, he had obtained permission from the Club to use the short circuit at the Farm, and was soon lapping under 39 seconds, getting the feel of his Lotus and new Firestone tyres.Clark leads the field round Paddock Bend

At the Friday practice session, Clark soon had his lap times down below 1:34, despite some problems with the carburetor. Hill and Stewart, in the BRMs, failed to better 1:34, lending credence to the comment Stewart had made in New Zealand that the BRMs didn't care for rapid directional changes, tending to slide rather than bite. While this provided spectacular cornering for the crowd, it also wasted precious time. The BRMs were also handicapped by their white spot Dunlop all-weather tyres, which were slightly slower that the all-dry tyres.

At the Saturday session, Clark lowered his old lap record by 0.4 seconds, but this time of 1:33.3 was nowhere Officials scramble to clear a shunt near the Essesnear as fast as he had hoped for. He reduced this to 1:33.2, which suggested that if his Climax old longstroke four-cylinder engine held together, he held a mortgage on the race. Frank Gardner laid down a 1:34.5 lap, slightly faster than Hill, and Stewart turned in 1:34.8 in the training car which he had driven successfully in New Zealand. In the 1500s, Greg Cusack and Leo Geoghegan recorded 1:35.1 and 1:35.7 respectively to lead Martin and Jim Palmer on 1:36.1. Hill and Stewart improved their times in the final session, Hill getting down to 1:33.6 and Stewart to 1:34.6, and Palmer turned in a 1:35.3 lap.

They lined up on the grid
Clark (Lotus), Hill (BRM), Gardner (Repco-Brabham) ; Stewart (BRM), Cusack (Repco-Brabham) ; Geoghegan (Lotus-Ford), Palmer (Lotus-Climax), Martin (Repco-Brabham) ; Bartlett (Repco-Brabham), McDonald (Cooper-Climax) ; Jane (Elfin-Ford), Marwood (Cooper-Climax), Scott (Lotus-Ford) ; Howard (Lotus-Ford) ; Buchanan (Repco-Brabham) ; McEwin (Elfin-Ford), Levis (Repco-Brabham, O'Sullivan (Cooper-Climax) ; Bolton (Repco-Brabham), Stewart (Rennmax-Ford), Williamson (Elfin-Imp), Harvey (Repco-Brabham).

Clark was quickest away, but into the straight the first time, Hill passed him. However, Hill ran wide at the hairpin, and Clark regained the lead and at the end of lap one had established a clear margin. His time for the standing lapGraham Hill laps Leo Geoghegan was 1:38 with full tanks. Behind him were Hill, Stewart, Gardner, Palmer, Cusack, Geoghegan and Martin, who had begun very slowly.

On lap two, Stewart put himself out of major contention when he clipped the fence off the Causeway, damaging his right rear wheel and spinning. The incident put him back into ninth place: his was a sterling effort to finish as close as he eventually did.

Stewart later described the International as one of his toughest races. His BRM handled badly throughout and he was feeling ill. While his fellow Scot, Clark, was having things easy out front, Stewart gave a dour exhibition of his class. First he took Bartlett in the 1.5 Repco Brabham, then passed Cusack, who was soon to retire with gearbox troubles, and Geoghegan. By lap six Stewart had moved to sixth place. He stuck grimly to his task and 25 laps later finally took Martin to gain fifth spot. Three laps later, he passed Palmer under brakes at the bottom of the straight for fouth spot, which he was to JYS lines up to take Jim Palmermaintain until the finish, a grand effort under the circumstances.

Out front, Jim Clark was coasting and had built up a four-second lead on Hill after 10 laps. Eighteen seconds back was Gardner, three seconds ahead of Palmer, Martin, then Stewart, the three running only a second apart most of the time.

About a third way through the race, light rain started to fall, causing a flurry of activity in the pits as Clark's crew brought out the wet weather tyres in case the rain got any worse. Gardner slowed because his Goodyear tyres were useless in rain, but the weather soon cleared up and he quickly drew away again from the challenge of Palmer, Martin and Stewart.Clark downs a Beer after taking the chequered flag

By now there was little doubt, barring mechanical problems, how the major placings would be filled. The two world champions, Clark and Hill, were lapping consistently, their times varying only in tenths of seconds. Clark was gradually drawing further ahead of Hill, by about half a second lap, and Hill, in turn, was consistently increasing his margin on Gardner.

Spectator interest turned to the dice between Palmer, Martin and Stewart. Martin, who had had a mediocre tour in New Zealand, seemed content to re-establish his confidence and trailed hard on the back of Palmer lap after lap. Stewart was one second back, but it was he who made the successful pass, taking both. Martin took Palmer in the 37th lap and drew clear, holding his margin to the flag.

At the end of the 45 laps it was Clark by 20.9 seconds from Hill. Frank Gardner in the ex-Stillwell Repco Brabham was 38.3 seconds back in third spot - a good performance as the car was a replacement for a Maserati V12 engined Repco Brabham, which had failed to perform to expectations in practice. Fourth was Stewart, who finished with a damaged right rear wheel.
RACE RESULTS
POSITION LAPS TIME
1. Clark 45 1:11'03.6 FL:1'34.0
2. Hill 45 1:11'24.5
3. Gardner 45 1:12'02.8
4. Stewart 45 1:12'18.4
5. Martin 45 1:12'23.1
6. Palmer 45 1:12'28.0
7. Geoghegan 44 .
8. Harvey 43 .
9. Jane 43 .
10. Marwood 43 .
11. Levis 41 .
12. Williamson 39 .
13. Howard 39 .
McDonald 38 DNF:Accident
Scott 28 DNF:Steering
Bolton ? DNF:?
Bartlett 24 DNF:Quill Shaft
McEwin 24 DNF:?
Cusack 16 DNF:Gearbox
O'Sullivan 05 DNF:Accident

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