Great Britain Grand Prix 1965

 Great Britain Grand Prix 1965

Racing data
5th of 10 races of the 1965 World Automobile Championship
Surname:	XVIII RAC British Grand Prix
Date:	July 10, 1965
Place:	Silverstone , UK
Course:	Silverstone Circuit
Length:	376.88 km in 80 laps of 4.711 km
Weather:	cloudy, dry, warm
Pole position
Driver:	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax
Time:	1: 30.8 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Graham Hill (Round 80)	BRM
Time:	1: 32.2 min
Podium
First:	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax
Second:	Graham Hill	BRM
Third:	John Surtees	Ferrari

The 1965 British Grand Prix took place on July 10, 1965 at the Silverstone Circuit near Silverstone and was the fifth race of the 1965 World Automobile Championship .

Reports

background

Fourth win in a row at Jim Clark's British Grand Prix

The organization of the British Grand Prix has been transferred from the Royal Automobile Club to the British Racing Drivers' Club . In the following years, the BRDC took over the permanent staging of the race. The Grand Prix of Great Britain was held in Silverstone every year after it had taken place in Brands Hatch the previous year .

The Scuderia Ferrari reported a Ferrari in 1512 for John Surtees and Ferrari 158 for Lorenzo Bandini . Another Ferrari 158 served as a replacement car for Surtees, but he did not use it. With this, the two drivers exchanged the cars they had previously driven at every race. The Lotus team reported two Lotus 33s that were also used. An old Lotus 25 , with which Jim Clark had won the previous race, was intended as a replacement vehicle for both Clark and Mike Spence . Brabham reported three vehicles for the first time. In addition to Jack Brabham and Dan Gurney , Denis Hulme again received a cockpit. In contrast to his teammates' Brabham BT11 , however, he drove an older Brabham BT7 . Honda withdrew the report from Ronnie Bucknum before the race and started with only one vehicle for Richie Ginther .

In the teams with customer vehicles, Richard Attwood returned to the Automobile World Championship after his injury break and replaced Chris Amon . Innes Ireland continued to be the second driver . Instead, Amon was registered for the only time in his career for Ian Raby Racing , who fielded two Brabham BT3s . Ian Raby drove his last race in the automobile world championship on the second vehicle . He was registered again for the German Grand Prix in 1965 , but did not qualify. After a break from racing, John Willment Automobiles was back. The team started a Brabham BT11 for Frank Gardner . Masten Gregory drove for Scuderia Centro Sud . After one race, however, the next break for Scuderia Centro Sud followed. Bob Gerard Racing ran a Cooper T60 with a Climax engine for John Rhodes and a Cooper T73 with a Ford engine for Alan Rollinson . Brian Gubby was privately registered with a Lotus 24 . For Gubby and Rollinson it was the only entry in the automobile world championship, for Rhodes the only Grand Prix.

With Jack Brabham and Clark two former winners took part in the race, Clark won the race in the previous three years. Ferrari had previously been successful seven times with the designers, Lotus three times and Cooper twice. In the drivers' standings, Clark was clearly ahead of Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart . In the constructors' championship, Lotus was just first ahead of BRM , while Ferrari was third by a large margin.

training

The first two training sessions took place on Thursday. Since the teams expected rain on Friday, fast lap times were set right from the start. Surtees was faster with his Ferrari 1512 than Bandini with the Ferrari 158 and set the first best time. A short time later, Hill, Stewart and Clark also improved. In the second training session, Hill and Clark dueled each other for the fastest lap time and undercut each other several times. Surtees was a narrow margin in third place. Towards the end of practice Hill prevailed against Clark and achieved the fastest lap time of the day.

Another training session took place on Friday; it lasted 2.5 hours. The expected rain did not materialize, so most of the drivers continued to improve their times. With a time of 1: 30.8 minutes, Clark set a new personal best and was two tenths of a second faster than Hill. For Clark it was the second pole position in a row and the third overall of the season. Ginther improved to third, but was half a second slower than Clark. Both Stewart and Surtees drove the same lap times as Ginther and qualified in fourth and fifth. Spence finished sixth ahead of the Brabham from Gurney and Brabham. The first ten were completed by Bandini and Hulme. Both Cooper of the works team qualified in the midfield in eleventh and twelfth positions, but were still ahead of the drivers with customer vehicles, of which Gardner was the fastest.

The condition of the race management for the race qualification was that a driver could be a maximum of five seconds slower than the third placed. This time was 1: 36.3. Rhodes, Rollinson and Gubby missed them and were therefore not qualified for the race. But since Raby started with Amon's vehicle and Brabham made his car available to Gurney, Rhodes received a start permit despite non-qualification and poorer training time than Rollinson.

run

Gurney had an engine failure on the starting grid. Brabham then decided not to start and gave Gurney both his car and his starting place. This was the first race in Brabham's career that he qualified but did not start. Clark won the starting duel and was briefly ahead of Ginther, who overtook Clark before the first corner. During the first lap of the race, Clark countered and took the lead. Ginther fell behind Surtees and Hill in the second round. Hill was in second place and came up to Clark, behind which there was a gap to Surtees, who was fighting Ginther for third place, in the following laps. Stewart, Spence, McLaren and Hulme formed a group behind them, which competed for the remaining points.

Bandini retired on lap two with engine failure. Bonnier was at the pits to have a broken pipe on his vehicle repaired. Gregory needed a pit stop to repair the transmission. In the lead, Clark increased his lead over Hill, behind which the two chasing groups merged into a larger one after Surtees and Ginther had minor problems. Ginther dropped further positions and later retired. Again Honda did not reach the goal due to a technical defect. On lap 24, Spence overtook Stewart in the battle for fourth place, who was having trouble handling his car. On the same lap, Rindt spun off the track and thereby lost two positions. Spence caught up with third-placed Surtees in the following laps and overtook him, Stewart fell a little behind the two drivers.

Hulme retired on lap 29, followed by Anderson four laps later. Rhodes and Ireland also parked their cars due to technical defects later in the race. McLaren stopped at the pits because his gearbox was no longer working properly and he was having trouble changing gears. The problem could not be resolved and McLaren continued the race at the bottom of the field. His team-mate Rindt had an engine failure on lap 62, but was still classified in 14th place. Cooper remained without points in this race.

Ten laps before the end of the race, Clark was half a lap ahead of Hill, but the fuel pump was no longer working properly. Initially, this defect had little effect on Clark's lap times, but it was clearly audible. BRM signaled to Hill that Clark was having problems with his Lotus, whereupon Hill increased his pace and continuously reduced the gap to the leader. Clark's Lotus also began to lose oil and Clark was forced to stop accelerating in the corners. He drove slowly and carefully until the end of the race so as not to risk engine damage, which enabled Hill to catch up quickly. At the start of the last lap of the race, the leader was already in sight of Hill, but he only got within three seconds before Clark crossed the finish line. Hill drove the fastest race lap in this lap, which was also a new course record.

Clark won the British Grand Prix for the fourth time in a row. To date, he is the only driver who has managed to do this. It was his third win in a row that season and the fourth of four races in which he had participated. Surtees finished third and scored the last podium finish for Ferrari of the season. The other points went to Spence, Stewart and Gurney. Bonnier finished seventh ahead of Gardner, Siffert and McLaren. In the drivers' championship, Clark extended his lead over Hill to 13 points, with Stewart remaining in third place. In the constructors' championship, Lotus had five points ahead of BRM and 16 on Ferrari after the race.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	01	John Surtees	Ferrari 1512	Ferrari 1.5 V12	D.
	71		Ferrari 158	Ferrari 1.5 V8
	02	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari 158	Ferrari 1.5 V8
Owen Racing Organization	03	Graham Hill	BRM P261	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	04th	Jackie Stewart
Team Lotus	05	Jim Clark	Lotus 33	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	06th	Mike Spence
	77	Jim Clark	Lotus 25
		Mike Spence
Brabham Racing Organization	07th	Jack Brabham	Brabham BT11	Climax 1.5 V8	G
		Dan Gurney	Brabham BT11
	08th	Dan Gurney	Brabham BT11
	14th	Denis Hulme	Brabham BT7
Cooper Car Company	09	Bruce McLaren	Cooper T77	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	10	Jochen Rindt
Honda R&D Co.	11	Richie Ginther	Honda RA272	Honda 1.5 V12	G
Scuderia Centro Sud	12	Masts Gregory	BRM P57	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
Rob Walker Racing Team	15th	Joakim Bonnier	Brabham BT7	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	16	Joseph Siffert	Brabham BT11	BRM 1.5 V8
John Willment Automobiles	17th	Frank Gardner	Brabham BT11	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
DW Racing Enterprises	30th	Bob Anderson	Brabham BT11	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
Bob Gerard Racing	20th	John Rhodes	Cooper T60	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	25th	Alan Rollinson	Cooper T71 / 73	Ford-Cosworth 1.5 L4
Reg Parnell Racing	22nd	Richard Attwood	Lotus 25	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	23	Innes Ireland
Ian Raby Racing	24	Ian Raby	Brabham BT3	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
		Chris Amon
Brian Gubby	26th	Brian Gubby	Lotus 24	Climax 1.5 V8	D.

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} John Surtees drove the Ferrari 1512 with the number 1 in the practice sessions and in the race.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Jim Clark drove the Lotus 33 with the number 5 in the practice sessions and in the race, Mike Spence the Lotus 33 with the number 6.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Dan Gurney drove the Brabham with the number 8 in the training sessions, Jack Brabham drove the car with the number 7. In the race, Dan Gurney drove the Brabham with the number 7, Jack Brabham did not participate in the race.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Both drivers drove the Brabham with the number 24 in the training sessions. In the race, the vehicle was driven by Ian Raby, Amon did not take part in the race.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	1: 30.8	186.78 km / h	01
02	Graham Hill	BRM	1: 31.0	186.37 km / h	02
03	Richie Ginther	Honda	1: 31.3	185.76 km / h	03
04th	Jackie Stewart	BRM	1: 31.3	185.76 km / h	04th
05	John Surtees	Ferrari	1: 31.3	185.76 km / h	05
06th	Mike Spence	Lotus Climax	1: 31.7	184.95 km / h	06th
07th	Dan Gurney	Brabham-Climax	1: 31.9	184.54 km / h	07th
08th	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Climax	1: 32.5	183.35 km / h	08th
09	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	1: 32.7	182.95 km / h	09
10	Denis Hulme	Brabham-Climax	1: 32.7	182.95 km / h	10
11	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	1: 32.8	182.75 km / h	11
12	Jochen Rindt	Cooper-Climax	1: 32.9	182.56 km / h	12
13	Frank Gardner	Brabham-BRM	1: 33.4	181.58 km / h	13
14th	Joakim Bonnier	Brabham-Climax	1: 33.5	181.39 km / h	14th
15th	Innes Ireland	Lotus BRM	1: 33.6	181.19 km / h	15th
16	Richard Attwood	Lotus BRM	1: 33.8	180.81 km / h	16
17th	Bob Anderson	Brabham-Climax	1: 34.1	180.23 km / h	17th
18th	Joseph Siffert	Brabham-BRM	1: 34.2	180.04 km / h	18th
19th	Masts Gregory	BRM	1: 35.9	176.85 km / h	19th
20th	Ian Raby	Brabham-BRM	1: 36.0	176.66 km / h	20th
DNQ	Alan Rollinson	Cooper-Ford	1: 39.0	171.31 km / h	-
22nd	John Rhodes	Cooper-Climax	1: 39.4	170.62 km / h	21st
DNQ	Brian Gubby	Lotus Climax	1: 45.1	161.37 km / h	-

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	80	0	2: 05: 25.4	01
02	Graham Hill	BRM	80	0	+ 3.2	02	1: 32.2
03	John Surtees	Ferrari	80	0	+ 27.6	05
04th	Mike Spence	Lotus Climax	80	0	+ 39.6	06th
05	Jackie Stewart	BRM	80	0	+1: 14.6	04th
06th	Dan Gurney	Brabham-Climax	79	0	+ 1 lap	07th
07th	Joakim Bonnier	Brabham-Climax	79	1	+ 1 lap	14th
08th	Frank Gardner	Brabham-Climax	78	0	+ 2 rounds	13
09	Joseph Siffert	Brabham-BRM	78	0	+ 2 rounds	18th
10	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	77	1	+ 3 rounds	11
11	Ian Raby	Brabham-BRM	73	0	+ 7 rounds	20th
12	Masts Gregory	BRM	70	1	+ 10 rounds	19th
13	Richard Attwood	Lotus BRM	63	0	+ 17 rounds	16
14th	Jochen Rindt	Cooper-Climax	62	0	+ 18 rounds	12
-	Innes Ireland	Lotus BRM	41	0	DNF	15th		Engine failure
-	John Rhodes	Cooper-Climax	38	0	DNF	21st		ignition
-	Bob Anderson	Brabham-Climax	33	0	DNF	17th		transmission
-	Denis Hulme	Brabham-Climax	29	0	DNF	10		alternator
-	Richie Ginther	Honda	26th	0	DNF	03		injection
-	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	02	0	DNF	09		Engine failure
-	Chris Amon	Brabham-BRM	00	0	DNS	-		Car was driven by Raby
-	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Climax	00	0	DNS	-		The car was driven by Gurney

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 36 02  Graham Hill BRM 23 03  Jackie Stewart BRM 19th 04th  John Surtees Ferrari 17th 05  Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax 8th 06th  Lorenzo Bandini Ferrari 6th

Item driver constructor Points 07th  Mike Spence Lotus Climax 6th 08th  Jack Brabham Brabham-Climax 3 09  Denis Hulme Brabham-Climax 3 10  Joseph Siffert Brabham-BRM 2 11  Dan Gurney Brabham-Climax 1 12  Richie Ginther Honda 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Lotus Climax 36 02  BRM 31 03  Ferrari 20th 04th  Cooper-Climax 8th 05  Brabham-Climax 7th 06th  Brabham-BRM 2 07th  Honda 1

Web links

• Results at motorsportarchiv.de
• Photos at f1-facts.com
• Grand Prix Results: British GP, 1965 at grandprix.com
• Brilliant Clark holds off Hill at espn.co.uk

Individual evidence

1. ^ "18th RAC British Grand Prix - A close thing" (motorsportmagazine.com on August 5, 2015)