1962 Monaco Grand Prix
43°44′4.74′′N 7°25′16.8′′E / 43.7346500°N 7.421333°E / 43.7346500; 7.421333
| 1962 Monaco Grand Prix | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race details | |||
| Date | 3 June 1962 | ||
| Official name | XX Grand Prix de Monaco | ||
| Location |
Circuit de Monaco Monte Carlo | ||
| Course | Temporary street circuit | ||
| Course length | 3.145 km (1.954 miles) | ||
| Distance | 100 laps, 314.500 km (195.421 miles) | ||
| Weather | Cloudy | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Lotus-Climax | ||
| Time | 1:35.4 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver | United Kingdom Jim Clark | Lotus-Climax | |
| Time | 1:35.5 on lap 42 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Cooper-Climax | ||
| Second | Ferrari | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
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Lap leaders | |||
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The 1962 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monaco on 3 June 1962. It was race 2 of 9 in both the 1962 World Championship of Drivers and the 1962 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 100-lap race was won by Cooper driver Bruce McLaren after he started from third position. Phil Hill finished second for the Ferrari team and his teammate Lorenzo Bandini came in third.
Report
[edit ]Lotus's Jim Clark claimed the first pole position of his career, ahead of BRM's Graham Hill, Cooper's Bruce McLaren and Ferrari's Willy Mairesse. The organisers guaranteed two spots on the grid for each of the 5 works teams, leaving six grid spots for the remaining entries to fight over. This explains why some drivers with faster qualifying times failed to qualify whereas drivers with slower times qualified.[1]
Mairesse got an excellent start from fourth on the grid and led into the first corner, the Gasworks hairpin, but braked too late and skidded around it. The concertina effect of the cars behind trying to avoid Mairesse's skidding car led to a collision further behind which eliminated Dan Gurney, Maurice Trintignant and Richie Ginther. A marshal, Ange Baldoni, was killed by the dislodged right rear wheel of Richie Ginther's BRM when it collided with the Lotuses of Maurice Trintignant, Innes Ireland and Trevor Taylor, as well as Dan Gurney's Porsche at the Gasometer hairpin on lap 1.
McLaren and Graham Hill both passed Mairesse on the exit of Gasworks hairpin; the New Zealander ended the first lap in the lead from the Englishman. Meanwhile, Mairesse spun at the station hairpin on the first lap, dropping down the order.
McLaren led until the seventh lap when he was passed by Graham Hill; the BRM driver held the lead all the way until lap 92, when an engine failure handed the lead back to McLaren who held on to win ahead of Ferrari's Phil Hill, who recovered from a spin earlier in the race. Hill's Ferrari team mate Lorenzo Bandini completed the podium places.[2]
Classification
[edit ]Qualifying
[edit ]| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Qualifying times | Gap | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | |||||
| 1 | 18 | United Kingdom Jim Clark | Lotus-Climax | 1:37.4 | 2:07.2 | 1:35.4 | — |
| 2 | 10 | United Kingdom Graham Hill | BRM | 1:37.7 | 1:58.3 | 1:35.8 | +0.4 |
| 3 | 14 | New Zealand Bruce McLaren | Cooper-Climax | 1:39.1 | 2:23.7 | 1:36.4 | +1.0 |
| 4 | 40 | Belgium Willy Mairesse | Ferrari | 1:48.2 | 1:59.4 | 1:36.4 | +1.0 |
| 5 | 4 | United States Dan Gurney | Porsche | 1:38.2 | 2:22.4 | 1:36.4 | +1.0 |
| 6 | 22 | Australia Jack Brabham | Lotus-Climax | 1:39.1 | No time | 1:36.5 | +1.1 |
| 7 | 30 | France Maurice Trintignant | Lotus-Climax | 1:41.8 | 2:04.7 | 1:36.8 | +1.4 |
| 8 | 34 | United Kingdom Innes Ireland | Lotus-Climax | 1:39.9 | 2:07.4 | 1:37.0 | +1.6 |
| 9 | 36 | United States Phil Hill | Ferrari | 1:38.0 | 2:01.0 | 1:37.1 | +1.7 |
| 10 | 38 | Italy Lorenzo Bandini | Ferrari | 1:42.2 | 2:01.3 | 1:37.2 | +1.8 |
| 11 | 28 | United Kingdom John Surtees | Lola-Climax | 1:37.9 | 2:22.3 | 1:44.9 | +2.5 |
| 12 | 26 | United Kingdom Roy Salvadori | Lola-Climax | 1:40.1 | No time | 1:38.5 | +3.1 |
| 13 | 46 | Switzerland Jo Siffert | Lotus-Climax | 1:48.0 | 2:01.3 | 1:38.9 | +3.5 |
| 14 | 8 | United States Richie Ginther | BRM | 1:44.9 | 2:04.5 | 1:39.0 | +3.6 |
| 15 | 24 | United Kingdom Jackie Lewis | BRM | 1:40.5 | 2:23.9 | 1:39.0 | +3.6 |
| 16 | 32 | United States Masten Gregory | Lotus-BRM | 1:39.8 | 2:03.5 | 1:39.2 | +3.8 |
| 17 | 20 | United Kingdom Trevor Taylor | Lotus-Climax | 1:40.0 | 2:11.0 | 1:43.2 | +4.6 |
| 18 | 38 | Mexico Ricardo Rodríguez | Ferrari | 1:40.1 | 2:00.8 | No time | +4.7 |
| 19 | 2 | Sweden Jo Bonnier | Porsche | 1:43.5 | 2:05.7 | 1:42.4 | +7.0 |
| 20 | 16 | South Africa Tony Maggs | Cooper-Climax | 1:43.3 | 2:05.5 | 1:42.7 | +7.3 |
| 21 | 44 | Netherlands Carel Godin de Beaufort | Porsche | 1:45.9 | 2:07.4 | 1:44.4 | +9.0 |
| 22 | 42 | Italy Nino Vaccarella | Lotus-Climax | No time | 2:01.8 | No time | +26.4 |
| Source:[3] | |||||||
- Drivers that had to qualify on speed: only the six fastest would race.
Race
[edit ]Notes
[edit ]- This was the first of many pole positions for Jim Clark in a Formula One World Championship race.
- Future Formula One World Championship Grand Prix winner Jo Siffert made his debut in this race.
- This was the third win of a Monaco Grand Prix for Cooper; thereby breaking the old record of two wins set by Maserati at the 1957 Monaco Grand Prix.
- It was also a fifth win of a Monaco Grand Prix for a Coventry Climax-powered car.
Championship standings after the race
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- Notes: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
References
[edit ]- ^ Lang, Mike (1981). Grand Prix! Vol 1. Haynes Publishing Group. p. 200. ISBN 0-85429-276-4.
- ^ Denis Jenkinson (July 1962). "1962 Monaco Grand Prix race report: Kiwi survives hunting red shark". Motorsport Magazine.
- ^ "1962 Monaco GP". chicanef1.com. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
- ^ "1962 Monaco Grand Prix". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- ^ a b "Monaco 1962 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
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