Cooper won 6 races out of 10, and the world title went to Jack Brabham.
This was the last season in which the Indianapolis 500 counted towards the World Championship. The rear-engined Cooper won six races, five of them for Jack Brabham, who won five in a row — in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Britain and Portugal.
Brabham wrapped up his second title early, finishing with 43 points, and his team-mate Bruce McLaren was second. The British teams boycotted the Italian Grand Prix, which was run on Monza’s dangerous banking, and it was won by Phil Hill in a Ferrari — the last win for a front-engined car.
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