1962 German Grand Prix

 1962 German Grand Prix

Racing data
6th of 9 races of the 1962 World Automobile Championship
Surname:	XXIV Grand Prix of Germany
Date:	5th August 1962
Place:	Nuerburg , Germany
Course:	Nürburgring
Length:	342.15 km in 15 laps of 22.81 km
Weather:	cloudy, heavy rain showers
Pole position
Driver:	Dan Gurney	Porsche
Time:	8: 47.2 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Graham Hill (Round 3)	BRM
Time:	10: 12.2 min
Podium
First:	Graham Hill	BRM
Second:	John Surtees	Lola-Climax
Third:	Dan Gurney	Porsche

The 1962 German Grand Prix took place on August 5, 1962 at the Nürburgring and was the sixth race of the 1962 World Cup .

Reports

background

Graham Hill, Surtees and Gurney in the Hatzenbach section

Winner Graham Hill, at the German Grand Prix

Jim Clark

Jo Bonnier in the Porsche 804

Brabham BT3 - first car from the designer Jack Brabham - debuted at the German GP in 1962

After Ferrari because of a strike of the metal processing industry in Italy at the French Grand Prix could not participate and the Grand Prix of Great Britain was launched only with a cart, the team had in this race again all vehicles available and started with four cars for Phil Hill , Giancarlo Baghetti , Ricardo Rodríguez and Lorenzo Bandini . Baghetti, Rodríguez and Bandini returned to the automobile world championship after several races break, for Bandini it was only the second race of the season.

Jack Brabham drove a private Lotus 24 until the British Grand Prix . The car that he himself designed for his Brabham team had not been used before because of technical difficulties. The car made its debut in this race and was named Brabham BT3 . Unlike Lotus with the Lotus 25 , the designer did without a monocoque and, like the other competitors, used a steel frame. This decision was made because a monocoque would be too difficult to repair if damaged. The cockpit interior was designed wider than that of the competition to give the driver more freedom of movement. The color of the car was recognizable by the light blue paneling with a gold stripe in the middle. The car was powered by a V8 Climax engine.

There were other changes in the teams with private cars. Jackie Lewis drove his last race for the Ecurie Galloise , which withdrew from the automobile world championship. Lewis intended to take a year off from racing but then decided to retire from racing altogether. The Equipe Nationale Belge was also registered for a final Grand Prix, Lucien Bianchi drove an ENB , the only car that had been designed by the team itself. For Wolfgang Seidel , too, the car world championship ended. After disputes about the entry fee, he criticized the organizer and received a lifelong ban, which was lifted after two years. But Seidel stopped racing after that. Gunther Seiffert was registered as the second driver for his Autosport Team Wolfgang Seidel , but he did not qualify and did not take part in any other Grand Prix. Bernard Collomb drove his last race of the season in a Cooper T53 , Keith Greene for Gilby Engineering his first in a Gilby 62 . The Ecurie Filipinetti reported three cars, Jo Siffert drove a Lotus 21 , Heinz Schiller a Lotus 24 and Heini Walter one in a Porsche 718 . For Schiller and Walter it was their only participation in a race. In addition, Maurice Trintignant drove again for the Rob Walker Racing Team and Nino Vaccarella for the Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia .

No former winner took part in the German Grand Prix, Ferrari had five successful constructors in previous years, Lotus once. In the drivers 'championship, Graham Hill was just ahead of Jim Clark and Bruce McLaren , in the constructors' championship Lotus was just ahead of BRM and Cooper .

training

A serious accident occurred in the Fuchsröhre section . A camera attached to the rear of Carel Godin de Beaufort's Porsche detached itself from the car and fell on the track. Graham Hill saw this camera too late and drove over it, damaging an oil pipe on his car. Graham Hill spun off the track and had a serious accident. Tony Maggs also had no chance to evade and also went off the track due to the leaking oil. Both drivers survived the accident unharmed, but the vehicles were badly damaged. Graham Hill had previously set a time that was sufficient for qualifying in second place, whereas Maggs started from the back field from position 23.

The pole position reached Dan Gurney at Porsche. For Gurney it was the first pole position of his career, for Porsche it was the only one. It was not until the 2008 Bahrain Grand Prix that a German designer was again on pole position with BMW Sauber . Clark was third ahead of John Surtees and McLaren. Jo Bonnier qualified in sixth ahead of Richie Ginther , Beaufort and Roy Salvadori . The best Ferrari driver was Rodríguez in tenth place, overall Ferrari qualified mainly in the midfield.

For safety reasons, the starting field was limited to 26 vehicles. Thus, out of 30 registered drivers, there were four who did not qualify. These four drivers were Tony Shelly , Seidel, Jay Chamberlain and Seiffert. In addition to the training time, the entry fee also played a role in the case of Seidel, or in the case of Shelly, whether other drivers such as Brabham, for example, were already considered qualified in advance.

Trevor Taylor did not drive enough practice laps to qualify for the race and was therefore initially not allowed to start. However, this decision was withdrawn by the race management and Taylor was allowed to start the race from last place on the grid.

run

On the day of the race there was heavy rain that made the track impassable. The race management decided to postpone the start by more than an hour. When the Grand Prix started after an exploration lap at 3:15 p.m., the track was still wet and more rain began to fall. Clark stopped at the start because he had forgotten to turn on the gasoline pump of his Lotus and fell back to the end of the field due to this mistake. This made Phil Hill third behind Gurney and Graham Hill. Surtees, Bonnier, McLaren and Rodríguez followed on the other places. Taylor had an accident during the first lap of the race and was eliminated.

Graham Hill took the lead on the third lap, setting the fastest lap of the race. After that the rain intensified and the lap times became slower overall. Surtees also overtook Gurney, who was affected by a loose battery, and then tried to close the gap to Graham Hill. But he never got close enough to overtake him. In the early stages of the race, other drivers also had different technical difficulties. Collomb, Trintignant and Salvadori dropped out with gearbox damage, and the oil pressure on Schiller's car dropped. In addition, the race for Bandini was over after the fourth lap after an accident. As the Nürburgring was very hilly and uneven, some drivers had problems with the suspension, as in previous years. Greene, Phil Hill and Lewis were therefore eliminated. For Brabham, too, the Grand Prix ended prematurely on lap nine; his new car had an accelerator pedal defect.

At the front, Graham Hill stayed a few seconds ahead of Surtees, while Clark had fought his way through the entire field to fourth. Graham Hill won his second race of the season after winning at Zandvoort . He later described the Grand Prix as one of his toughest, but also best races, as he had to drive with full concentration under the most difficult conditions and was completely exhausted both physically and mentally. With the victory, he extended his lead in the drivers' standings over Clark, who was fourth, to seven points. With second place in the race, Surtees improved to third and was only two points behind Clark. Gurney took third place, McLaren and Rodríguez scored points for Cooper and Ferrari.

In the constructors' championship, BRM took the lead ahead of Lotus and Cooper. Ferrari lost more places and was only sixth behind Porsche and Lola. It was the only victory at the German Grand Prix for both Graham Hill and BRM. All drivers who had already scored points in the season still had the theoretical chance of becoming world champions, with the constructors all still had the chance of the constructors' 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
	04th	Lorenzo Bandini
Team Lotus	05	Jim Clark	Lotus 25	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	06th	Trevor Taylor	Lotus 24
Porsche System Engineering	07th	Dan Gurney	Porsche 804	Porsche 1.5 B8	D.
	08th	Jo Bonnier
Cooper Car Company	09	Bruce McLaren	Cooper T60	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	10	Tony Maggs	Cooper T55	Climax 1.5 L4
			Cooper T60	Climax 1.5 V8
Owen Racing Organization	11	Graham Hill	BRM P57	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	12	Richie Ginther
Bowmaker Racing Team	14th	John Surtees	Lola Mk4	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
			Lola Mk4A
	15th	Roy Salvadori	Lola Mk4
Brabham Racing Organization	16	Jack Brabham	Brabham BT3	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
Rob Walker Racing Team	28	Maurice Trintignant	Lotus 24	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
Ecurie Maarsbergen	18th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche 718	Porsche 1.5 B4	D.
Ecurie Filipinetti	19th	Jo Siffert	Lotus 21	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
	28	Heinz Schiller	Lotus 24	BRM 1.5 V8
	32	Heini Walter	Porsche 718	Porsche 1.5 B4
Ecurie Galloise	20th	Jackie Lewis	Cooper T53	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Equipe Nationale Belge	21st	Lucien Bianchi	ENB	Maserati 1.5 L4	D.
Anglo-American Equipe	25th	Ian Burgess	Cooper T53 Special	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia	26th	Nino Vaccarella	Porsche 718	Porsche 1.5 B4	D.
Gilby Engineering	27	Keith Greene	Gilby 62	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
John Dalton	29	Tony Shelly	Lotus 18/21	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Ecurie Excelsior	30th	Jay Chamberlain	Lotus 18	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Bernard Collomb	31	Bernard Collomb	Cooper T53	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Autosport Team Wolfgang Seidel	34	Wolfgang Seidel	Lotus 24	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
		Gunther Seiffert

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Tony Maggs drove the Cooper T60 with the number 10 in the practice sessions. After an accident with the car, he drove the Cooper T55 with the number 10 in practice and in the race.
2. ↑ ^{a b} John Surtees drove the Lola Mk4 with the number 24 in practice sessions and in the race.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Wolfgang Seidel and Gunther Seiffert drove the Lotus with the number 24 in the training sessions, but neither did qualify for the race.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Dan Gurney	Porsche	8: 47.2	155.76 km / h	01
02	Graham Hill	BRM	8: 50.2	154.88 km / h	02
03	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	8: 51.2	154.59 km / h	03
04th	John Surtees	Lola-Climax	8: 57.5	152.77 km / h	04th
05	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	9: 00.7	151.87 km / h	05
06th	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	9: 04.0	150.95 km / h	06th
07th	Richie Ginther	BRM	9: 05.9	150.42 km / h	07th
08th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	9: 12.9	148.52 km / h	08th
09	Roy Salvadori	Lola-Climax	9: 14.1	148.20 km / h	09
10	Ricardo Rodríguez	Ferrari	9: 14.2	148.17 km / h	10
11	Maurice Trintignant	Lotus Climax	9: 19.0	146.90 km / h	11
12	Phil Hill	Ferrari	9: 24.7	145.42 km / h	12
13	Giancarlo Baghetti	Ferrari	9: 28.1	144.54 km / h	13
14th	Heini Walter	Porsche	9: 30.0	144.06 km / h	14th
15th	Nino Vaccarella	Porsche	9: 33.8	143.11 km / h	15th
16	Ian Burgess	Cooper-Climax	9: 39.2	141.77 km / h	16
17th	Jo Siffert	Lotus Climax	9: 39.3	141.75 km / h	17th
18th	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	9: 39.7	141.65 km / h	18th
19th	Keith Greene	Gilby-BRM	9: 47.1	139.87 km / h	19th
20th	Heinz Schiller	Lotus BRM	9: 51.9	138.73 km / h	20th
21st	Jackie Lewis	Cooper-Climax	9: 58.0	137.32 km / h	21st
22nd	Bernard Collomb	Cooper-Climax	10: 09.7	134.68 km / h	22nd
23	Tony Maggs	Cooper-Climax	10: 21.2	132.19 km / h	23
24	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Climax	10: 21.6	132.10 km / h	24
25th	Lucien Bianchi	ENB Maserati	10: 40.7	128.17 km / h	25th
26th	Trevor Taylor	Lotus Climax	9: 57.0	137.55 km / h	26th
DNQ	Tony Shelly	Lotus Climax	10: 18.6	132.74 km / h	-
DNQ	Wolfgang Seidel	Lotus BRM	10: 38.2	128.67 km / h	-
DNQ	Jay Chamberlain	Lotus Climax	11: 12.9	122.03 km / h	-
DNQ	Gunther Seiffert	Lotus BRM	11: 38.9	117.49 km / h	-

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Graham Hill	BRM	15th		2: 38: 45.3	02	10: 12.2
02	John Surtees	Lola-Climax	15th		+ 2.5	04th	10: 15.2
03	Dan Gurney	Porsche	15th		+ 4.4	01	10: 13.9
04th	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	15th		+ 42.1	03	10: 13.5
05	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	15th		+1: 19.6	05	10: 17.7
06th	Ricardo Rodríguez	Ferrari	15th		+1: 23.8	10	10: 24.4
07th	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	15th		+ 4: 37.3	06th	10: 26.9
08th	Richie Ginther	BRM	15th		+ 5: 00.1	07th	10: 28.6
09	Tony Maggs	Cooper-Climax	15th		+ 5: 07.0	23	10: 27.8
10	Giancarlo Baghetti	Ferrari	15th		+ 8: 14.7	13	10: 51.2
11	Ian Burgess	Cooper-Climax	15th		+ 8: 15.3	16	10: 36.6
12	Jo Siffert	Lotus Climax	15th		+ 8: 18.5	17th	10: 37.4
13	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	15th		+ 9: 11.8	08th	10: 52.7
14th	Heini Walter	Porsche	14th		+ 1 lap	14th	11: 03.3
15th	Nino Vaccarella	Porsche	14th		+ 1 lap	15th	11: 13.1
16	Lucien Bianchi	ENB Maserati	14th		+ 1 lap	25th	11: 45.8
-	Jackie Lewis	Cooper-Climax	10		DNF	21st	11: 13.1	suspension
-	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Climax	09		DNF	24	10: 46.2	accelerator
-	Phil Hill	Ferrari	09		DNF	12	10: 26.9	suspension
-	Keith Greene	Gilby-BRM	07th		DNF	19th	10: 51.5	suspension
-	Heinz Schiller	Lotus BRM	04th		DNF	20th	11: 59.6	oil pressure
-	Roy Salvadori	Lola-Climax	04th		DNF	09	11: 13.2	transmission
-	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	04th		DNF	18th	10: 49.9	accident
-	Maurice Trintignant	Lotus Climax	04th		DNF	11	12: 47.9	transmission
-	Bernard Collomb	Cooper-Climax	03		DNF	22nd	13: 23.8	transmission
-	Trevor Taylor	Lotus Climax	00		DNF	26th		accident

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 28 02  Jim Clark Lotus Climax 21st 03  John Surtees Lola-Climax 19th 04th  Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax 18th 05  Phil Hill Ferrari 14th 06th  Dan Gurney Porsche 13 07th  Tony Maggs Cooper-Climax 9 08th  Trevor Taylor Lotus Climax 6th

Item driver constructor Points 09  Richie Ginther BRM 4th 10  Lorenzo Bandini Ferrari 4th 11  Ricardo Rodríguez Ferrari 4th 12  Giancarlo Baghetti Ferrari 3 13  Jack Brabham Lotus Climax 3 14th  Jo Bonnier Porsche 2 15th  Carel Godin de Beaufort Porsche 2

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  BRM 31 (32) 02  lotus 27 03  cooper 23 04th  Lola 19th 05  Porsche 16 06th  Ferrari 15th

Web links

• Results at motorsportarchiv.de
• Photos at f1-facts.com
• Grand Prix Results: German GP, ​​1962 at grandprix.com
• Hill produces masterclass in the wet at espnf1.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jörg-Thomas Födisch: Nürburgring . Verlagsunion Erich Pabel - Arthur Moewig, Rastatt 1991, ISBN 3-8118-3065-1 , p. 44.
2. ↑ Jörg-Thomas Födisch, Jost Neßhöfer, Michael Behrndt, Rainer Roßbach: Porsche 718 + 804 . Verlag Reinhard Klein, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-927458-43-7 , p. 57.