1962 Dutch Grand Prix

 1962 Dutch Grand Prix

Racing data
1st of 9 races of the 1962 Automobile World Championship
Surname:	XI Grote Prijs van Nederland
Date:	May 20, 1962
Place:	Zandvoort , the Netherlands
Course:	Circuit Park Zandvoort
Length:	335.44 km in 80 laps of 4.193 km
Weather:	sunny, dry
Pole position
Driver:	John Surtees	Lola-Climax
Time:	1: 32.5 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Bruce McLaren (Round 5)	Cooper-Climax
Time:	1: 34.4 min
Podium
First:	Graham Hill	BRM
Second:	Trevor Taylor	Lotus Climax
Third:	Phil Hill	Ferrari

The 1962 Dutch Grand Prix took place on May 20, 1962 at Circuit Park Zandvoort near Zandvoort and was the first race of the 1962 World Cup . The Grand Prix also had the FIA ​​honorary title of European Grand Prix .

Reports

background

Debut race of the Lotus 25 - first car with monocoque

Debut race of the BRM P57

Debut race of the Cooper T60

Debut race of the Porsche 807

First pole position for John Surtees

last fastest race lap in Bruce McLaren's career

The only time in the history of the automobile world championship was the season opener at the Dutch Grand Prix. From the next season, the Monaco Grand Prix was the first race of the season again. After the points regulation of the driver and constructors' classification had differed in the previous year, this was adjusted. From 1962 onwards, the designers also received nine points for a victory, but only the result of the best-placed driver of a designer counted.

Jack Brabham , who had driven for Cooper since the beginning of his career and won the World Championship with this team in 1959 and 1960, left the team and founded his own racing team, Brabham , and competed for it as a driver. He registered a private Lotus 24 for the race, and only later in the season did he use the first car he had designed, the Brabham BT3 . A new designer made his debut in the automobile world championship, Lola Cars . The Yeoman Credit Racing Team was taken over by the Bowmaker Racing Team and drove the new Lola Mk4 for the entire season . With John Surtees and Roy Salvadori , the team took over the drivers from the previous season. Lola used the new Climax V8 engines in her car.

Ferrari started the new season with the slightly revised Ferrari 156 , with which they had won both world championships in the 1961 automobile world championship. Phil Hill extended his contract and Ricardo Rodríguez became the new regular driver. Ferrari also signed Giancarlo Baghetti . When Lotus was Jim Clark with Trevor Taylor a new teammates, for both drivers two cars each were reported. Taylor used the old Lotus 24 with the new Climax V8 unit. Clark, on the other hand, used the new Lotus 25 in training , which revolutionized the automobile world championship because it was the first to have a monocoque . This aluminum monocoque made the car lighter, more stable in the curves and also safer and was also installed in all other vehicles in the following years. In addition, Clark became world champion for the first time in the following season with the Lotus 25. At Cooper , Tony Maggs became Bruce McLaren's new teammate . While Maggs drove the old Cooper T55 , the McLaren-driven Cooper T60 made its debut . Due to the new Climax engine, the car was longer than its predecessor, otherwise it looked similar to the Cooper T55. Porsche extended the contracts of its two drivers, Jo Bonnier and Dan Gurney . The Porsche 804 made its debut and was used throughout the season. This car was the last to be produced by Porsche for formula racing, as the team withdrew after the season. The Porsche 804 had a new engine and was visually very different from its predecessor. Overall, the vehicle had become narrower and wider and the rear was significantly lower than its predecessor, the Porsche 718 . As with Lotus and Cooper, only one driver received the new car from BRM . Graham Hill drove the first race with the BRM P57 . Under the time pressure and the threat of the team boss to withdraw from the automobile world championship, the new car was again unable to win, the P57 was developed. The car was similar to its predecessor, but was designed with a new, own BRM unit and had vertical tailpipes in the rear of the car, which were replaced by conventional horizontal exhausts over the course of the season. Graham Hill's new team-mate was Richie Ginther , who moved from Ferrari to BRM.

In addition to the works team, some teams with private vehicles were also registered. The UDT Laystall Racing Team reported a Lotus 24 for Innes Ireland and a Lotus 18/21 for Masten Gregory . Both drivers drove for the team the entire season. The Ecurie Maarsbergen registered three different vehicles for Carel Godin de Beaufort , Wolfgang Seidel and Ben Pon , who contested his only race in the automobile world championship. The Ecurie Galloise also reported a Cooper T53 for Jackie Lewis .

With Brabham and Bonnier, two former winners took part in the race, Ferrari had previously been successful three times with the designers, Cooper and BRM once each. Between the US Grand Prix in 1961 and the Dutch Grand Prix in 1962, various Grand Prix not counted as part of the World Cup took place. Baghetti won the Coppa Italia in a Porsche , Clark won the Rand Grand Prix , Natal Grand Prix , the Grand Prix of South Africa , the Lombank Trophy and the Aintree 200 five races for Lotus. Graham Hill has won two BRM victories, the Glover Trophy and the BRDC International Trophy . These victories for Graham Hill and Clark were also a sign of the course of the season, as the World Championship was mainly decided between these two drivers. Willy Mairesse also won the Grand Prix de Bruxelles and the Gran Premio di Napoli for Ferrari . Taylor and Lotus won the Cape Grand Prix , McLaren and Cooper won the Lavant Cup and Maurice Trintignant won the Pau Grand Prix . Stirling Moss , who was always in the top three of the drivers' championship for the previous seven years, was seriously injured in an accident at the Glover Trophy and ended his career after a coma and a long recovery period.

training

The first practice session of the season was a close duel between Surtees on Lola and Graham Hill on BRM, which Surtees won with a tenth of a second ahead of Graham Hill's time. This was the first pole position for Surtees. In his first race, the designer Lola achieved the only pole position in the history of this racing car manufacturer. Both drivers were over half a second faster than the third placed, Clark. Brabham qualified fourth ahead of his former teammates McLaren and Ireland fifth. Six different teams were represented on the first six starting positions. Ginther in the second BRM qualified in seventh, the best Porsche driver was Gurney in eighth.

Ferrari, which dominated the 1961 automobile world championship and had achieved pole position six times in a row, only qualified for positions nine, eleven and 12. The Ferrari 156 was over two seconds slower than the competition in the front row, which was already clear that the car had lost its dominance and competitiveness compared to the previous season.

run

Graham Hill's first win

Clark overtook Surtees and Graham Hill at the start and for the first time in his career took the lead in a Grand Prix that was part of the automobile world championship. He was followed in second place by Graham Hill, followed by Gurney. Surtees, who started the race from pole position, already lost several positions on the first lap and had a serious accident on lap eight when his Lola's suspension broke and he spun off the track into a forest adjacent to the track. Another accident occurred on lap four when Rodríguez spun and Brabham hit his car. Brabham retired, Rodríguez continued the race, but retired later in the race on another spin. Both Graham Hill and Surtees survived their accidents unharmed. Due to the accidents in the leading group, Phil Hill improved to fourth. In the back field, Pon spun off the track and Salvadori gave up the race for safety reasons after his teammate's accident.

Clark built up a lead over the competition in the first few laps, which he lost again when his Lotus had gearbox problems. Graham Hill caught up by lap eleven and took the lead on the following lap. Clark dropped further positions and finished the race ten laps behind the winner in ninth place. After McLaren and Gurney also retired with gearbox damage, Graham Hill led Phil Hill and Taylor. While Graham Hill controlled the race and experienced a lead over his two opponents, they fought a duel for second place, which Taylor won. He almost lost this place when he met Ginther's Ferrari while lapping Ginther. But he was able to continue the race after the collision while Ginther was eliminated. Another accident occurred on lap 61 when Ireland lost control of its Lotus and spun off the track. The car overturned several times and landed in a chain link fence, Ireland survived the accident but was slightly injured.

Graham Hill crossed the finish line 27 seconds ahead of the runner-up, securing his first win of the season. BRM won the second Grand Prix after Bonnier had previously won the Dutch Grand Prix in 1959 . In the drivers 'and constructors' championships, both Graham Hill and BRM took the lead for the first time, but neither of them won the Dutch Grand Prix again in the following years. Taylor reached the first points of his career. It was the only place on the podium. Phil Hill completed the podium in third place ahead of his team-mate Baghetti. Maggs got the first points of his career for fifth, as did Beaufort in sixth. Bonnier, Lewis and Clark crossed the finish line outside of the points. McLaren drove the fastest lap of the race, for him it was the third and final fastest lap in the automobile world championship.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	01	Phil Hill	Ferrari 156	Ferrari 1.5 V6	D.
	02	Giancarlo Baghetti
	03	Ricardo Rodríguez
Team Lotus	04th	Jim Clark	Lotus 25	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
			Lotus 24	Climax 1.5 L4
	05	Trevor Taylor	Lotus 24	Climax 1.5 V8
				Climax 1.5 L4
Cooper Car Company	06th	Bruce McLaren	Cooper T60	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	07th	Tony Maggs	Cooper T55	Climax 1.5 L4
Brabham Racing Organization	08th	Jack Brabham	Lotus 24	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
UDT Laystall Racing Team	09	Innes Ireland	Lotus 24	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	10	Masts Gregory	Lotus 18/21	Climax 1.5 L4
Porsche System Engineering	11	Jo Bonnier	Porsche 804	Porsche 1.5 B8	D.
	12	Dan Gurney
Ecurie Maarsbergen	14th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche 718	Porsche 1.5 B4	D.
	15th	Ben Pon	Porsche 787
	16	Wolfgang Seidel	Emeryson 1006	Climax 1.5 L4
Owen Racing Organization	17th	Graham Hill	BRM P57	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	18th	Richie Ginther	BRM P48 / 57
Bowmaker Racing Team	19th	John Surtees	Lola Mk4	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	20th	Roy Salvadori
Ecurie Galloise	21st	Jackie Lewis	Cooper T53	Climax 1.5 L4	D.

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jim Clark drove the Lotus 25 with the number 4 in practice sessions and in the race.
2. ↑ Trevor Taylor drove the Lotus 24 with V8 engine and the number 5 in practice sessions and in the race.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	John Surtees	Lola-Climax	1: 32.5	163.19 km / h	01
02	Graham Hill	BRM	1: 32.6	163.01 km / h	02
03	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	1: 33.2	161.96 km / h	03
04th	Jack Brabham	Lotus Climax	1: 33.3	161.79 km / h	04th
05	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	1: 33.9	160.75 km / h	05
06th	Innes Ireland	Lotus Climax	1: 34.1	160.41 km / h	06th
07th	Richie Ginther	BRM	1: 34.5	159.73 km / h	07th
08th	Dan Gurney	Porsche	1: 34.7	159.40 km / h	08th
09	Phil Hill	Ferrari	1: 35.0	158.89 km / h	09
10	Trevor Taylor	Lotus Climax	1: 35.4	158.23 km / h	10
11	Ricardo Rodríguez	Ferrari	1: 36.1	157.07 km / h	11
12	Giancarlo Baghetti	Ferrari	1: 36.3	156.75 km / h	12
13	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	1: 37.0	155.62 km / h	13
14th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	1: 37.4	154.98 km / h	14th
15th	Tony Maggs	Cooper-Climax	1: 37.5	154.82 km / h	15th
16	Masts Gregory	Lotus Climax	1: 38.0	154.03 km / h	16
17th	Roy Salvadori	Lola-Climax	1: 38.8	152.78 km / h	17th
18th	Ben Pon	Porsche	1: 40.9	149.60 km / h	18th
19th	Jackie Lewis	Cooper-Climax	1: 43.2	146.27 km / h	19th
20th	Wolfgang Seidel	Emeryson Climax	1: 46.0	142.40 km / h	20th

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Graham Hill	BRM	80		2: 11: 02.1	02	1: 35.7
02	Trevor Taylor	Lotus Climax	80		+ 27.2	10	1: 35.7
03	Phil Hill	Ferrari	80		+ 27.2	09	1: 36.7
04th	Giancarlo Baghetti	Ferrari	79		+ 1 lap	12	1: 37.3
05	Tony Maggs	Cooper-Climax	78		+ 2 rounds	15th	1: 39.0
06th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	75		+ 5 rounds	14th	1: 41.6
07th	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	75		+ 5 rounds	13	1: 40.0
08th	Jackie Lewis	Cooper-Climax	70		+ 10 rounds	19th	1: 42.3
09	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	70		+ 10 rounds	03	1: 37.2
-	Ricardo Rodríguez	Ferrari	73		DNF	11	1: 36.4	Lathe operator
-	Richie Ginther	BRM	71		DNF	07th	1: 38.3	Collision with Trevor Taylor
-	Innes Ireland	Lotus Climax	61		DNF	06th	1: 35.8	Lathe operator
-	Masts Gregory	Lotus Climax	54		DNF	16	1: 37.8	Power transmission
-	Wolfgang Seidel	Emeryson Climax	52		NC	20th	1: 49.8
-	Dan Gurney	Porsche	47		DNF	08th	1: 37.9	transmission
-	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	21st		DNF	05	1: 34.4	transmission
-	Roy Salvadori	Lola-Climax	12		DNF	17th	1: 44.8	task
-	John Surtees	Lola-Climax	08th		DNF	01	1: 38.9	Suspension / accident
-	Jack Brabham	Lotus Climax	04th		DNF	04th	1: 38.3	Collision with Ricardo Rodríguez
-	Ben Pon	Porsche	02		DNF	18th	1: 51.0	Lathe operator

World Cup stands after the race

The first six of the race got 9, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 points. Only the five best results from nine races counted. In the constructors' championship, only the points of the best placed driver on a team counted.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Graham Hill BRM 9 02  Trevor Taylor Lotus Climax 6th 03  Phil Hill Ferrari 4th 04th  Giancarlo Baghetti Ferrari 3 05  Tony Maggs Cooper-Climax 2 06th  Carel Godin de Beaufort Porsche 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  BRM 9 02  lotus 6th 03  Ferrari 4th 04th  cooper 2 05  Porsche 1

Web links

Commons : Dutch Grand Prix 1962  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Results at motorsportarchiv.de
• Photos at f1-facts.com
• Grand Prix Results: Dutch GP, 1962 at grandprix.com
• Hill triumphs at Zandvoort at espnf1.com