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1962 Italian Grand Prix

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1962 Italian Grand Prix
Race details
Date 16 September 1962
Official name XXXIII Gran Premio d'Italia
Location Autodromo Nazionale di Monza
Monza, Italy
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 5.750 km (3.573 miles)
Distance 86 laps, 494.500 km (307.268 miles)
Weather Dry, with rain later
Pole position
Driver Lotus-Climax
Time 1:40.35
Fastest lap
Driver United Kingdom Graham Hill BRM
Time 1:42.30 on lap 3
Podium
First BRM
Second BRM
Third Cooper-Climax
Lap leaders

The 1962 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 16 September 1962. It was race 7 of 9 in both the 1962 World Championship of Drivers and the 1962 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 86-lap race was won by BRM driver Graham Hill after he started from second position. His teammate Richie Ginther finished second and Cooper driver Bruce McLaren came in third.

Race report

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Jim Clark started on pole position, but the Lotus team still looked worried as the team had gone through all of their gearboxes over the weekend. Two crates of spare parts were flown down, but nonetheless Clark and Trevor Taylor started with no more spares available. After only two laps Clark pitted with the expected transmission trouble; he made it back onto the track for another ten laps but that was it.[1] Teammate Taylor managed 25 laps before his race ended. Hill kept stretching his lead out and finished nearly a half minute before Richie Ginther in the other BRM. Ginther had been duelling with Surtees throughout the race, but on lap 38 Surtees slowed down and five laps later he retired with engine troubles.[1] Behind these two, there was a race long three-way fight between Dan Gurney's Porsche and the Coopers of McLaren and Maggs. The cars swapped positions constantly, coming down the straight on the fiftieth lap three abreast. Maggs had to stop for more fuel, unlike McLaren whose car had been fitted with 170-litre (45 US gal) fuel tanks to enable him to run the entire distance. Meanwhile, Willy Mairesse in the new non-sharknose Ferrari 156 had caught up to the third-place contenders and brought Jo Bonnier and Giancarlo Baghetti with him.[2]

Gurney's car was pressed too hard and he retired on the 66th lap with a broken rear differential. After this, the positions stabilized a bit, although not until after Baghetti had briefly led the pack to the appreciation of local fans.[2] Bonnier's clutch began slipping and Baghetti also fell back. Mairesse took third on the eightieth lap, and built up a three-second lead over McLaren. Stirling Moss, who was watching from the speaker tower, began betting people that McLaren would take third and he was right: in the first curve of the last lap, McLaren passed Mairesse and he took third by only 0.4 seconds.[2] Bonnier's clutch troubles allowed Baghetti to pass him for fifth place near the end of the race. Phil Hill had to suffer being lapped before half of the race was over, and had to make a long pit stop with engine troubles and finished twelfth. Rodríguez' Ferrari lost oil pressure, Innes Ireland had a good race until something snapped in the steering, and Masten Gregory's car was overheating and then only ran in fourth gear for the last laps. The fire extinguisher in Roy Salvadori's Bowmaker-Yeoman Lola exploded in his face during practice.[2]

Classification

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Giancarlo Baghetti placed fifth in the race driving a Ferrari 156

Qualifying

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Pos No Driver Constructor Qualifying times Gap
Q1 Q2
1 20 United Kingdom Jim Clark Lotus-Climax 1:41.5 1:40.35
2 14 United Kingdom Graham Hill BRM 1:40.7 1:40.38 +0.03
3 12 United States Richie Ginther BRM 1:42.8 1:41.1 +0.75
4 28 New Zealand Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax 1:41.8 1:41.8 +1.45
5 40 United Kingdom Innes Ireland Lotus-Climax 1:42.0 1:41.8 +1.45
6 38 United States Masten Gregory Lotus-BRM 1:41.9 No time +1.55
7 16 United States Dan Gurney Porsche 1:42.2 1:41.9 +1.55
8 46 United Kingdom John Surtees Lola-Climax 1:42.4 No time +2.05
9 18 Sweden Jo Bonnier Porsche 1:43.0 1:42.6 +2.25
10 8 Belgium Willy Mairesse Ferrari 1:42.9 1:42.8 +2.45
11 4 Mexico Ricardo Rodríguez Ferrari 1:43.1 No time +2.75
12 30 South Africa Tony Maggs Cooper-Climax 1:46.2 1:43.2 +2.85
13 44 United Kingdom Roy Salvadori Lola-Climax 1:43.9 1:43.3 +2.95
14 24 Italy Nino Vaccarella Lotus-Climax 1:50.8 1:43.4 +3.05
15 10 United States Phil Hill Ferrari 1:43.4 No time +3.05
16 22 United Kingdom Trevor Taylor Lotus-Climax 1:45.4 1:44.2 +3.85
17 6 Italy Lorenzo Bandini Ferrari 1:44.4 1:44.3 +3.95
18 2 Italy Giancarlo Baghetti Ferrari 1:45.1 1:44.4 +4.05
19 36 France Maurice Trintignant Lotus-Climax 1:44.4 No time +4.05
20 32 Netherlands Carel Godin de Beaufort Porsche 1:47.4 1:46.8 +6.45
21 48 United States Tony Settember Emeryson-Climax 1:49.1 No time +8.75
22 60 New Zealand Tony Shelly Lotus-BRM No time 1:51.6 +11.25
23 56 United Kingdom Keith Greene Gilby-BRM 1:52.0 No time +11.65
24 52 United Kingdom Gerry Ashmore Lotus-Climax 1:54.2 1:52.9 +12.55
25 62 United Kingdom Ian Burgess Cooper-Climax 1:53.1 No time +12.75
26 42 Switzerland Jo Siffert Lotus-BRM 1:55.8 No time +15.45
27 54 Italy Ernesto Prinoth Lotus-Climax 1:57.7 No time +17.35
28 50 Italy Roberto Lippi De Tomaso-O.S.C.A. 1:58.6 No time +18.25
29 26 United States Jay Chamberlain Lotus-Climax 1:59.7 No time +19.35
30 34 Argentina Nasif Estéfano De Tomaso 6:18.4 No time +4:38.05
Source:[3]

* Grid limited to 22 cars, provided their time was within 110% of 2nd place. As only 19 drivers managed to be fulfilled the requirements, the grid was reduced to 21 cars.

Race

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Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 14 United Kingdom Graham Hill BRM 86 2:29:08.4 2 9
2 12 United States Richie Ginther BRM 86 + 29.8 3 6
3 28 New Zealand Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax 86 + 57.8 4 4
4 8 Belgium Willy Mairesse Ferrari 86 + 58.2 10 3
5 2 Italy Giancarlo Baghetti Ferrari 86 + 1:31.3 18 2
6 18 Sweden Jo Bonnier Porsche 85 + 1 Lap 9 1
7 30 South Africa Tony Maggs Cooper-Climax 85 + 1 Lap 12  
8 6 Italy Lorenzo Bandini Ferrari 84 + 2 Laps 17  
9 24 Italy Nino Vaccarella Lotus-Climax 84 + 2 Laps 14  
10 32 Netherlands Carel Godin de Beaufort Porsche 81 + 5 Laps 20  
11 10 United States Phil Hill Ferrari 81 + 5 Laps 15  
12 38 United States Masten Gregory Lotus-BRM 77 + 9 Laps 6  
13 16 United States Dan Gurney Porsche 66 Differential 7  
14 4 Mexico Ricardo Rodríguez Ferrari 63 Ignition 11  
Ret 40 United Kingdom Innes Ireland Lotus-Climax 45 Suspension 5  
Ret 46 United Kingdom John Surtees Lola-Climax 42 Engine 8  
Ret 44 United Kingdom Roy Salvadori Lola-Climax 41 Engine 13  
Ret 22 United Kingdom Trevor Taylor Lotus-Climax 25 Gearbox 16  
Ret 48 United States Tony Settember Emeryson-Climax 18 Engine 21  
Ret 36 France Maurice Trintignant Lotus-Climax 17 Electrical 19  
Ret 20 United Kingdom Jim Clark Lotus-Climax 12 Gearbox 1  
DNQ 60 New Zealand Tony Shelly Lotus-BRM    
DNQ 56 United Kingdom Keith Greene Gilby-BRM    
DNQ 52 United Kingdom Gerry Ashmore Lotus-Climax    
DNQ 62 United Kingdom Ian Burgess Cooper-Climax    
DNQ 42 Switzerland Jo Siffert Lotus-BRM    
DNQ 54 Italy Ernesto Prinoth Lotus-Climax    
DNQ 50 Italy Roberto Lippi De Tomaso-O.S.C.A.    
DNQ 26 United States Jay Chamberlain Lotus-Climax    
DNQ 34 Argentina Nasif Estéfano De Tomaso        
WD 58 Germany Kurt Kuhnke Lotus-Borgward   Car not ready    
Source:[4]

Championship standings after the race

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  • Notes: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. Only the best 5 results counted towards the Championship. Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.

References

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  1. ^ a b Björklund, Bengt, ed. (October 1962). "Skyfall över Tysklands GP" [Deluge on German GP]. Illustrerad Motor Sport (in Swedish). No. 10. Lerum, Sweden. p. 4.
  2. ^ a b c d Skyfall..., p. 5
  3. ^ "1962 Italian GP Qualification". www.chicanef1.com. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  4. ^ "1962 Italian Grand Prix". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 2 December 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  5. ^ a b "Italy 1962 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 1 March 2019.


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