At the end of the year, despite Rodríguez's good performances, BRM team manager Louis Stanley released him to the Reg Parnell Racing privately entered BRM team for 1969. Jackie Oliver replaced him for . The first race of the year was the South African Grand Prix when the Englishman qualified 14th and finished 7th. At Spain Oliver qualified 10th and retired with a broken oil pipe. The Monaco Grand Prix saw the Englishman qualify 13th and retire when he crashed into the back of Richard Attwood's Lotus. At Holland Oliver qualified 13th and retired with a broken gearbox. The team skipped the French Grand Prix but entered the British Grand Prix when Oliver qualified 13th and retired when his transmission failed.