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1969 Dutch Grand Prix

Formula One motor race held in 1969

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ171806 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1969 Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Zandvoort Circuit on June 21, 1969. It was race 4 of 11 in both the 1969 World Championship of Drivers and the 1969 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 90-lap race was won by Matra driver Jackie Stewart after he started from second position. Jo Siffert finished second for the Lotus team and Ferrari driver Chris Amon came in third.

Qualifying

Qualifying

Race

Classification

Notes

This race marked the 10th podium finish for French constructor Matra.

Championship standings after the race

Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

Further reading

Lang, Mike (1982). Grand Prix! Vol 2. Haynes Publishing Group.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1969 Dutch Grand Prix” is formula One motor race held in 1969. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Dutch, Grand and Prix, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Dutch, Grand and Prix is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q171806. Authority coordinates are 52.388, 4.543. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1969 and 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “1969 Dutch Grand Prix” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.