1968 Formula One season Formula One World Champion Denny Hulme and team founder Bruce McLaren. McLaren won the non-championship Brands Hatch Race of Champions, then the Belgian Grand Prix was the scene of the team's first Championship win. In doing so, McLaren became only the third driver to win a race in a car manufactured by his own team – Jack Brabham having done it in 1966 and Dan Gurney in 1967 at Spa Francorchamps. Hulme won the Italian Grand Prix and Canadian Grand Prix later in the year. Repco produced a more powerful version of their V8 to maintain competitiveness against Ford's new
1981 Formula One World Championship Grand Prix", only 350 miles from Long Beach/Los Angeles. Reutemann took pole position, but made a poor start in the race and eventually finished out of the points in eighth, while Laffite could only manage sixth and Piquet battled to fifth – which was enough for the Brazilian driver to win the championship by one point from Reutemann. Jones' final drive with Williams ended with the 12th and final win of his career in this difficult and demanding race, which caused Piquet to vomit over himself in the cockpit. Championship points were awarded on a 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis to the top