Grand Prix of Germany 1965

 Grand Prix of Germany 1965

Racing data
7th of 10 races of the 1965 World Automobile Championship
Surname:	XXVII Grand Prix of Germany
Date:	August 1, 1965
Place:	Nuerburg , Germany
Course:	Nürburgring
Length:	342.15 km in 15 laps of 22.81 km
Weather:	cloudy, rain
Spectator:	~ 320000
Pole position
Driver:	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax
Time:	8: 22.7 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Jim Clark (Round 10)	Lotus Climax
Time:	8: 24.1 min
Podium
First:	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax
Second:	Graham Hill	BRM
Third:	Dan Gurney	Brabham-Climax

The 1965 German Grand Prix took place on August 1, 1965 at the Nürburgring in Rhineland-Palatinate , Ahrweiler district , and was the seventh race of the 1965 World Automobile Championship .

Reports

background

In the lotus box in the paddock		Jim Clark 1965

First World Cup points for Jochen Rindt (on Cooper)

Jack Brabham on Brabham

The only race of the season for Gerhard Mitter in the Lotus

Four races before the end of the season, Jim Clark had the chance to become world champion early with a win. Clark had won all five previous races of the season except Monaco. He skipped the Monaco Grand Prix and instead took part in the Indianapolis 500 , which he also won. In the drivers' championship, Clark was clearly ahead of the two BRM drivers Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart , who only had theoretical chances of winning the world championship. Lotus also only needed one more victory to win the designer title .

Lotus entered three cars for the Grand Prix for the first time this season. In addition to the regular drivers Clark and Mike Spence , Gerhard Mitter received a car; for him it was the only race of the season. Mitter already drove a Lotus at the 1964 German Grand Prix . Also Brabham reported three vehicles, team owner Jack Brabham returned to a race break and drove next to his teammate Denny Hulme and Dan Gurney . Honda decided not to start and instead intensively prepared for the Italian Grand Prix .

For the teams with customer vehicles, the driver pairings also changed. DW Racing Enterprises drove with Bob Anderson and Paul Hawkins . Anderson then ended the season, for Hawkins it was the last race in the automobile world championship . Hawkins then continued his career in the World Sports Car Championship . At Reg Parnell Racing Innes Ireland paused for a race, for him Chris Amon contested his last race of the season. Amon last drove a Lotus in the World Automobile Championship and in 1966 he only contested one race for Cooper . The Scuderia Centro Sud reported two BRM P57s for masts Gregory and Roberto Businello . Gregory returned after a racing break, Businello after four years. Ian Raby Racing with Ian Raby was registered for a Grand Prix for the last time, Raby continued his career in Formula 2 in 1966 .

With Joakim Bonnier , Hill and John Surtees three former winners took part in the race, Surtees won the Grand Prix in 1963 and 1964. In the constructors' category, Ferrari won eight times, Lotus and BRM once each.

training

Originally four training sessions were planned, but the organizers reduced the number to three. The first training session took place on Friday morning and lasted two hours. Lotus set slow lap times at the beginning, but the competition quickly undercut the pole time of the previous year. Stewart was the fastest driver ahead of Surtees, Hill and Gurney. Stewart was nine seconds faster than the fastest lap of the previous year's event. Raby and Attwood got stuck on the track with technical problems and it took until the end of practice before the cars were brought back into the pit lane.

The second training session started on Friday afternoon. Clark improved the fastest time by another eight seconds. Stewart stopped with electronics damaged and missed the entire training session. Hill, Surtees and Gurney also drove times under 8:30 minutes and overtook Stewart in the ranking, but remained well behind Clark. Anderson had an accident after a spin, collided with some trees and damaged his Brabham. He survived the accident unharmed and was driven back into the pit lane by Joseph Siffert .

Another two-hour training session took place on Saturday; only a few drivers were able to improve their respective best times. Stewart lapped the track in 8: 26.1 minutes and was the new second; the other positions in the front field remained unchanged. Clark secured his fourth pole position of the season with a lead of more than three seconds. Stewart started from second in front of his team-mate Hill. Surtees was fourth ahead of Gurney and Spence, followed by Lorenzo Bandini and Jochen Rindt . As the best driver with a customer vehicle, Joakim Bonnier qualified in ninth place, the top ten was completed by Bruce McLaren . Hulme and Brabham started in the back field. 19 vehicles were approved for the race, so that two drivers, Businello and Raby, did not qualify for the race.

run

Before the start of the race it was raining lightly for a few minutes, but the track only got slightly wet and was completely dry at the start. Anderson decided not to start the race because his Brabham was too badly damaged by the training accident. Clark took the lead and built a bigger lead over the competition during the first lap. He broke the existing lap record and was three seconds faster than the competition. Surtees lost speed due to a problem when changing gears and fell back several places. After one lap he came into the pits, had the gearbox damage repaired and was then able to use the higher gears. Attwood also pitted for a successful engine repair. Hill improved to second place on the first lap, followed by Gurney and Stewart fighting for third place. Bandini and Spence followed a few seconds behind.

On lap eight, Clark set another new course record and improved the existing one by nine seconds. Hill stayed in sight of Clark, behind which there was already a larger gap with Gurney. Stewart went off the track due to a driving mistake and damaged the suspension of his BRM. He pitted but the mechanics could not repair the damage and the race was over for Stewart. Gardner, Amon and Hawkins also retired on the first laps of the race due to various defects. Bandini, McLaren, Spence, Rindt, Siffert, Bonnier, Brabham, Hulme and Mitter formed a larger midfield that fought for fourth place. Hulme was eliminated from this duel on lap five due to fuel loss, McLaren followed him two laps later with a gearbox failure. Then Spence and Attwood on lap eight and Mitter parked their vehicles on lap nine. The cause of failure for Mitter was damage to the drive shaft. Siffert retired with engine failure.

Due to the failure of the competition and after a spin by Bandini, Rindt improved to fourth place ahead of Brabham. Clark set another lap record and was 25 seconds ahead of Hill. Only Surtees drove similar lap times at this time, but retired with a gearbox damage. Only eight vehicles were still in the race. Clark kept the distance to Hill constant at over 20 seconds and won the race by a superior margin. In addition to the fastest lap and the pole position, he had led all the racing laps, thus reaching his third Grand Slam of the season. After Clark, no driver managed to reach a Grand Slam three times in one season. It was the eighth and last Grand Slam of his career, a record that still stands. With the win, Clark secured his second and final drivers' world championship ahead of schedule. August 1st was the earliest point in time at which a world champion was determined ahead of time. Michael Schumacher only broke this record in the 2002 Formula 1 World Championship when he became world champion on July 21st. For Clark it was the fifth win in a row and the sixth of six races of the season in which he had participated. It was his only one at the German Grand Prix. As in the 1963 Automobile World Championship , he achieved the maximum number of points possible due to the deletion of results. No other driver succeeded in doing this later. Lotus became the constructors' world champion with the victory, also with the maximum possible number of points. For Climax as an engine supplier it was the last victory in the automobile world championship.

In the final laps, Gurney came within five seconds of Hill, who maintained his lead and crossed the finish line in second place. Gurney finished third for the second year in a row. Rindt finished fourth, three minutes behind Clark, and received the first points of his career in the automobile world championship. Rindt became the first Austrian driver to succeed. The other points went to Brabham and Bandini. Bonnier was ranked seventh, Gregory eighth. In the drivers' championship, the first four positions remained unchanged, Hill extended his lead over team-mate Stewart to five points. In the constructors' championship, the positions did not change either, BRM was 18 points ahead of Ferrari in second.

After the race, Clark said in an interview that 1965 was the best year of his career and that he will remember it as his "Magic Year" as he won both the Indianapolis 500 and the World Championship.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Team Lotus	01	Jim Clark	Lotus 33	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	02	Mike Spence
	03	Gerhard Mitter	Lotus 25
Brabham Racing Organization	04th	Jack Brabham	Brabham BT11	Climax 1.5 V8	G
	05	Dan Gurney
	06th	Denis Hulme	Brabham BT7
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	07th	John Surtees	Ferrari 1512	Ferrari 1.5 B12	D.
	08th	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari 158	Ferrari 1.5 V8
Owen Racing Organization	09	Graham Hill	BRM P261	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	10	Jackie Stewart
Cooper Car Company	11	Bruce McLaren	Cooper T77	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	12	Jochen Rindt
Rob Walker Racing Team	16	Joakim Bonnier	Brabham BT7	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	17th	Joseph Siffert	Brabham BT11	BRM 1.5 V8
DW Racing Enterprises	18th	Bob Anderson	Brabham BT11	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	22nd	Paul Hawkins	Lotus 33
Reg Parnell Racing	19th	Chris Amon	Lotus 25	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	20th	Richard Attwood
John Willment Automobiles	21st	Frank Gardner	Brabham BT11	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
Ian Raby Racing	23	Ian Raby	Brabham BT3	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
Scuderia Centro Sud	24	Masts Gregory	BRM P57	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	25th	Roberto Bussinello

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	8: 22.7	163.35 km / h	01
02	Jackie Stewart	BRM	8: 26.1	162.25 km / h	02
03	Graham Hill	BRM	8: 26.8	162.03 km / h	03
04th	John Surtees	Ferrari	8: 27.8	161.71 km / h	04th
05	Dan Gurney	Brabham-Climax	8: 29.0	161.33 km / h	05
06th	Mike Spence	Lotus Climax	8: 33.4	159.95 km / h	06th
07th	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	8: 33.8	159.82 km / h	07th
08th	Jochen Rindt	Cooper-Climax	8: 37.5	158.68 km / h	08th
09	Joakim Bonnier	Brabham-Climax	8: 37.9	158.56 km / h	09
10	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	8: 39.0	158.22 km / h	10
11	Joseph Siffert	Brabham-BRM	8: 39.6	158.04 km / h	11
12	Gerhard Mitter	Lotus Climax	8: 40.4	157.79 km / h	12
13	Denis Hulme	Brabham-Climax	8: 42.3	157.22 km / h	13
14th	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Climax	8: 44.9	156.44 km / h	14th
15th	Chris Amon	Lotus BRM	8: 50.5	154.79 km / h	15th
16	Richard Attwood	Lotus BRM	8: 57.7	152.72 km / h	16
17th	Frank Gardner	Brabham-BRM	8: 59.3	152.26 km / h	17th
18th	Masts Gregory	BRM	9: 14.3	148.14 km / h	18th
19th	Paul Hawkins	Lotus Climax	9: 16.8	147.48 km / h	19th
20th	Bob Anderson	Brabham-Climax	no time	-	-
DNQ	Roberto Bussinello	BRM	9: 17.7	147.24 km / h	-
DNQ	Ian Raby	Brabham-BRM	9: 17.8	147.21 km / h	-

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	15th	0	2: 07: 52.4	01	8: 24.1
02	Graham Hill	BRM	15th	0	+ 15.9	03
03	Dan Gurney	Brabham-Climax	15th	0	+ 21.4	05
04th	Jochen Rindt	Cooper-Climax	15th	0	+ 3: 29.3	08th
05	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Climax	15th	0	+ 4: 41.2	14th
06th	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	15th	0	+ 5: 08.6	07th
07th	Joakim Bonnier	Brabham-Climax	15th	1	+ 5: 58.5	09
08th	Masts Gregory	BRM	14th	0	+ 1 lap	18th
-	John Surtees	Ferrari	11	1	DNF	04th		transmission
-	Joseph Siffert	Brabham-BRM	09	0	DNF	11		Engine failure
-	Richard Attwood	Lotus BRM	08th	0	DNF	16		Water Leak
-	Mike Spence	Lotus Climax	08th	0	DNF	06th		Power transmission
-	Gerhard Mitter	Lotus Climax	08th	0	DNF	12		Water Leak
-	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	07th	0	DNF	10		transmission
-	Denis Hulme	Brabham-Climax	05	0	DNF	13		Loss of fuel
-	Paul Hawkins	Lotus Climax	03	0	DNF	19th		Oil leak
-	Chris Amon	Lotus BRM	03	1	DNF	15th		electrical damage
-	Jackie Stewart	BRM	02	1	DNF	02		suspension
-	Frank Gardner	Brabham-BRM	00	0	DNF	17th		suspension
-	Bob Anderson	Brabham-Climax	00	0	DNS			Training accident

World Cup stands after the race

The first six of the race got 9, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 points. Only the six best results from ten 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  Jim Clark Lotus Climax 54 02  Graham Hill BRM 30 (32) 03  Jackie Stewart BRM 25th 04th  John Surtees Ferrari 17th 05  Dan Gurney Brabham-Climax 9 06th  Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax 8th 07th  Lorenzo Bandini Ferrari 7th

Item driver constructor Points 08th  Mike Spence Lotus Climax 6th 09  Denis Hulme Brabham-Climax 5 10  Jack Brabham Brabham-Climax 5 11  Jochen Rindt Cooper-Climax 3 12  Joseph Siffert Brabham-BRM 2 13  Richie Ginther Honda 2

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Lotus Climax 54 02  BRM 39 (43) 03  Ferrari 21st 04th  Brabham-Climax 15th 05  Cooper-Climax 11 06th  Brabham-BRM 2 07th  Honda 2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Dominant Clark wraps up second title" (en.espnf1.com on September 17, 2015)

Web links

• Results at motorsportarchiv.de
• Photos at f1-facts.com
• Grand Prix Results: German GP, ​​1965 at grandprix.com
• 27th German Grand Prix - Clark and Lotus all the way at motorsportmagazine.com