Jackie Stewart won his first Formula One Drivers' Championship in 1969, with Matra becoming the only French constructor to win both F1 titles.
Key Facts
- Season number
- 23rd FIA Formula One season
- Championship races
- 11 races
- Season span
- 1 March – 19 October 1969
- Stewart's race wins
- More than half of the 11 races
- Manufacturers' Cup
- 12th International Cup for F1 Manufacturers
- Non-championship races
- 4 races
By the Numbers
Cause → Event → Consequence
Ken Tyrrell's privateer Matra International team entered Jackie Stewart in a Matra-Ford Cosworth for the 1969 season, while the Matra works team abstained from competition, leaving the championship effort entirely to the privateer outfit.
Over eleven World Championship rounds between March and October 1969, Jackie Stewart dominated the season, winning more than half the races aboard his Matra-Ford Cosworth to claim his first Drivers' Championship, while Matra International simultaneously secured the Manufacturers' Cup.
Matra became the first French constructor to win both the Drivers' and Manufacturers' titles in Formula One, a distinction that has never been repeated by any car built in France or entered by a privateer team, cementing Stewart's status as a world champion.