Automobile World Championship 1962

Automobile World Championship 1962

World Champion
Driver:	Graham Hill
Constructor:	BRM
Season dates
Number of races:	9
<1961 season	1963 season>

Graham Hill, 1962 world champion, at the German Grand Prix

Porsche 804 with Joakim Bonnier

The 1962 Automobile World Championship was the 13th season of the Automobile World Championship, which is now known as the Formula 1 World Championship . The drivers' world championship and the International Cup of Formula 1 Constructors were held within nine races from May 20, 1962 to December 29, 1962 .

The FIA honorary title Grand Prix of Europe was awarded to the Grand Prix of the Netherlands in 1962 .

Graham Hill won the Drivers' Championship for the first time. BRM became constructors' world champions for the first and only time.

This season, BRM performed convincingly after a long period of unsuccessful attempts. A double victory in Monza seemed to finally defeat the series of breakdowns and as a model of consistency, Graham Hill won his first world championship, while Jim Clark lost the title he believed to be safe due to a technical defect in the last race.

Another Brit created a sensation: Colin Chapman entered the first Formula 1 racing car with a monocoque and thus laid the foundation for a comprehensive change. Ferrari, on the other hand, had one of its weakest years.

With the Porsche 804 model, Porsche achieved the first Formula 1 victory in the company's history in the Grand Prix of the French Automobile Club in Rouen-les-Essarts .

On November 1, Ricardo Rodríguez had a fatal accident while training in Mexico City in a Lotus. In the Peraltada bend, he crashed into the lane and died on impact.

The world championship runs

GP Netherlands / GP Europe - Zandvoort (May 20, 1962)

→ Main article : Dutch Grand Prix 1962

space	driver	team	time
1	Graham Hill	BRM	2: 11: 02.0
2	Trevor Taylor	Lotus - Climax	+ 27.2
3	Phil Hill	Ferrari	+1: 21.1
4th	Giancarlo Baghetti	Ferrari	+ 1 lap
5	Tony Maggs	Lotus - Climax	+ 2 rounds
6th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	+ 4 rounds

GP Monaco - Monte Carlo (June 3, 1962)

→ Main article : Monaco Grand Prix 1962

space	driver	team	time
1	Bruce McLaren	Cooper - Climax	2: 46: 29.7
2	Phil Hill	Ferrari	+ 1.3
3	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	+1: 24.1
4th	John Surtees	Lola - Climax	+ 1 lap
5	Joakim Bonnier	Porsche	+ 7 rounds
6th	Graham Hill	BRM	+ 8 rounds

Belgian GP - Spa (June 17, 1962)

→ Main article : Belgian Grand Prix 1962

space	driver	team	time
1	Jim Clark	Lotus - Climax	2: 07: 32.3
2	Graham Hill	BRM	+ 44.1
3	Phil Hill	Ferrari	+ 2: 06.5
4th	Ricardo Rodríguez	Ferrari	+ 2: 06.6
5	John Surtees	Lola - Climax	+ 1 lap
6th	Jack Brabham	Lotus - Climax	+ 2 rounds

Jim Clark won the race ahead of Graham Hill and Phil Hill .

Willy Mairesse and Trevor Taylor collided badly, but were both only slightly injured.

French GP - Rouen (July 8, 1962)

→ Main article : 1962 French Grand Prix

space	driver	team	time
1	Dan Gurney	Porsche	2: 07: 35.5
2	Tony Maggs	Lotus - Climax	+ 1 lap
3	Richie Ginther	BRM	+ 2 rounds
4th	Bruce McLaren	Cooper - Climax	+ 3 rounds
5	John Surtees	Lola - Climax	+ 3 rounds
6th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	+ 3 rounds

GP England - Aintree (July 21, 1962)

→ Main article : 1962 British Grand Prix

space	driver	team	time
1	Jim Clark	Lotus - Climax	2: 26: 20.8
2	John Surtees	Lola - Climax	+ 49.2
3	Bruce McLaren	Cooper - Climax	+1: 44.8
4th	Graham Hill	BRM	+1: 56.8
5	Jack Brabham	Lotus - Climax	+ 1 lap
6th	Tony Maggs	Cooper-Climax	+ 1 lap

GP Germany - Nürburgring (August 5, 1962)

→ Main article : 1962 German Grand Prix

space	driver	team	time
1	Graham Hill	BRM	2: 38: 46.3
2	John Surtees	Lola - Climax	+ 2.5
3	Dan Gurney	Porsche	+ 4.4
4th	Jim Clark	Lotus - Climax	+ 42.1
5	Bruce McLaren	Cooper - Climax	+1: 19.6
6th	Ricardo Rodríguez	Ferrari	+ 1.23.8

The start of the 15 laps and a distance of 342.1 kilometers of the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring - Nordschleife was postponed by more than an hour due to heavy rain and released at 3:15 pm after a test lap. First, Dan Gurney took the lead in the Porsche 804 as the fastest in training (8: 47.2 min), but was overtaken by Graham Hill on BRM and later by John Surtees on Lola on the third lap after the battery in the Porsche had come loose and had to be held in place by the driver's foot.

Graham Hill won the race; behind Surtees and Gurney came Jim Clark (Lotus), Bruce McLaren (Cooper) and Ricardo Rodriguez (Ferrari) in fourth to sixth place. Joakim Bonnier in the second Porsche 804 was seventh. Graham Hill set the fastest race lap in 10: 12.2 minutes.

Italian GP - Monza (September 16, 1962)

→ Main article : 1962 Italian Grand Prix

space	driver	team	time
1	Graham Hill	BRM	2: 29: 08.4
2	Richie Ginther	BRM	+ 29.8
3	Bruce McLaren	Cooper - Climax	+ 57.8
4th	Willy Mairesse	Ferrari	+ 58.8
5	Giancarlo Baghetti	Ferrari	+1: 31.3
6th	Joakim Bonnier	Porsche	+ 1 lap

US GP - Watkins Glen (October 7, 1962)

→ Main article : 1962 United States Grand Prix

space	driver	team	time
1	Jim Clark	Lotus - Climax	2: 07: 13.0
2	Graham Hill	BRM	+ 29.8
3	Bruce McLaren	Cooper - Climax	+ 1 lap
4th	Jack Brabham	Brabham - Climax	+ 1 lap
5	Dan Gurney	Porsche	+ 1 lap
6th	Masts Gregory	Lotus - Climax	+ 1 lap

South African GP - East London (December 29, 1962)

→ Main article : 1962 Grand Prix of South Africa

space	driver	team	time
1	Graham Hill	BRM	2: 08: 03.3
2	Bruce McLaren	Cooper - Climax	+ 49.8
3	Tony Maggs	Cooper - Climax	+ 50.3
4th	Jack Brabham	Brabham - Climax	+ 58.0
5	Innes Ireland	Lotus - Climax	+ 1 lap
6th	Neville Lederle	Cooper - Climax	+ 4 rounds

World championship ratings

Driver ranking

1	Graham Hill	BRM	42 (52)
2	Jim Clark	Lotus - Climax	30th
3	Bruce McLaren	Cooper - Climax	27 (32)
4th	John Surtees	Lola - Climax	19th
5	Dan Gurney	Porsche	15th
6th	Phil Hill	Ferrari	14th
7th	Tony Maggs	Cooper - Climax	13
8th	Richie Ginther	BRM	10
9	Jack Brabham	Lotus / Brabham	9
10	Trevor Taylor	Lotus - Climax	6th
11	Giancarlo Baghetti	Ferrari	5
12	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	4th
13	Ricardo Rodríguez	Ferrari	4th
14th	Willy Mairesse	Ferrari	3
15th	Joakim Bonnier	Porsche	3
16	Innes Ireland	Lotus - Climax	2
17th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	2
18th	Masts Gregory	Lotus - BRM	1
19th	Neville Lederle	Lotus - Climax	1

The first six places got 9, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 points. Only the best five results of the nine races counted towards the championship.

Constructors' championship

1	BRM	42 (56)
2	Lotus - Climax	36 (38)
3	Cooper - Climax	29 (37)
4th	Lola - Climax	19th
5	Porsche	18 (19)
6th	Ferrari	18th
7th	Brabham - Climax	6th
8th	Lotus - BRM	1

For each race the highest number of points of all drivers of a designer was counted. The best five (of nine) individual results were added up and the constructors' rating was derived from them.

Web links

Commons : Automobile World Cup 1962  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Official Formula 1 website Results Season 1962 (English)