1962 Italian Grand Prix

 1962 Italian Grand Prix

Racing data
7th of 9 races in the 1962 World Cup
Surname:	XXXIII Gran Premio d'Italia
Date:	September 16, 1962
Place:	Monza , Italy
Course:	Autodromo Nazionale Monza
Length:	494.5 km in 86 laps of 5.75 km
Weather:	Cloudy, dry at first, later rain showers
Pole position
Driver:	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax
Time:	1: 40.35 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Graham Hill (Round 3)	BRM
Time:	1: 42.30 min
Podium
First:	Graham Hill	BRM
Second:	Richie Ginther	BRM
Third:	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax

The 1962 Italian Grand Prix took place on September 16, 1962 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza near Monza and was the seventh race of the 1962 World Cup .

Reports

background

Ferrari had a lot of problems in 1962 and lost the dominance of the previous year when the team won most of the races by superiority. At the beginning of the season the Ferrari 156 was still competitive, but steadily fell behind the competition. Various internal disputes, the constant change between different drivers and the suspension of a race due to a strike in Italy meant that Ferrari fell back to sixth place in the constructors' championship. For this reason, Ferrari decided to drive the home race and then withdraw from the season prematurely. Five cars were entered, for most of the drivers it was the last race for Ferrari. Phil Hill switched to Porsche , for which he no longer contested a Grand Prix in 1962 and instead drove for ATS in 1963 . Also Giancarlo Baghetti left Ferrari and joined ATS, a team that of former Ferrari employees was established. However, neither driver was able to repeat previous victories and podiums. Lorenzo Bandini also ended the season and moved to Scuderia Centro Sud , but returned to Ferrari during the 1963 World Cup . For Ricardo Rodríguez it was the last race, he switched to Lotus and had a fatal accident during test drives for the team. The only driver who stayed with Ferrari was Willy Mairesse .

Brabham paused a race. At Lotus, a Lotus 25 was reported for the first time for both Jim Clark and Trevor Taylor . Many teams tried to qualify with private vehicles, a total of 30 drivers were registered for the Grand Prix. John Surtees used the new Lola Mk4A , a modified variant of the Lola Mk4 , for the first time . The UDT Laystall Racing Team returned after a race break and reported two Lotus 24s for Innes Ireland and Masten Gregory . Nino Vaccarella drove his last race of the season for the Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia and did not return to the automobile world championship until 1965. The last Grand Prix of Emeryson Cars was played by Tony Settember , who finished the season just like Ian Burgess . Both drivers drove for Scirocco Powell in 1963 . Also Jo Siffert gave up a start in the last two races of the season and came with its own team the following year. Tony Shelly , Jay Chamberlain , Keith Greene , Nasif Estéfano and Gerry Ashmore tried to qualify for a Grand Prix for the last time, Ernst Prinoth's only attempt and Roberto Lippi the only one of the season. Gilby Engineering was also entered one last time, the team made their debut in the 1954 World Cup and was there for eight years.

In the weeks leading up to the Grand Prix, there were four races that were not part of the automobile world championship, Gregory won the Kanonloppet , Bandini the first Mediterranean Grand Prix , Brabham the Danish Grand Prix and Clark the Gold Cup .

In the drivers' championship, Graham Hill was in front of Jim Clark and Surtees. All drivers with previously scored points still had the theoretical chance to become world champions. The constructors' championship was also still open, with BRM leading in front of Lotus and Cooper . With Phil Hill, a former winner took part in the race; Ferrari had previously been successful five times and Cooper once with the designers.

training

Again the two leaders of the drivers' championship, Graham Hill and Jim Clark, dueled for pole position . Clark was 0.03 seconds faster than his opponent and thus achieved first place on the grid for the fourth time in the season. He also started a series of four consecutive pole positions across all seasons. His teammate Richie Ginther qualified behind Graham Hill . He was already more than half a second behind the first two.

Bruce McLaren on Cooper was fourth ahead of Ireland and Gregory from the UDT Laystall Racing Team, who were the best drivers with private cars. Dan Gurney on Porsche qualified seventh, Surtees on Lola qualified eighth. Jo Bonnier and Mairesse completed the top ten, Ferrari again qualified only for positions in midfield.

Only 21 vehicles were allowed on the grid, but since 30 drivers were registered, nine of them were eliminated from the qualification. This affected Shelly, Greene, Ashmore, Burgess, Siffert, Prinoth, Lippi, Chamberlain and Estefano. In contrast to the previous German Grand Prix , only the best lap time achieved in practice decided whether a driver qualifies for the race or not.

run

Winner Graham Hill

Clark won the starting duel against Graham Hill and was ahead after corner one before Graham Hill took advantage of his more powerful BRM engine and overtook Clark on the first lap to take the lead. His team-mate Ginther was third behind Clark, with Surtees, McLaren, Bonnier, Gurney and Maggs dueling for the other places. Clark had problems with his gearbox on lap three and made a pit stop. He then drove a few more laps, but then gave up the race with a gearbox damage and problems with the electrical system of his Lotus. So Ginther took second place and BRM took the first two places. Only Surtees kept up with the BRM, but failed to overtake Ginther. The two drivers engaged in a duel for over 30 laps, with many attempts to overtake. McLaren was fourth behind and dueled with the two Porsche drivers Gurney and Bonnier.

Trintignant retired on lap 17, followed by Settember with an engine failure, Taylor with a defective transmission and Ireland with a suspension failure. The aggregates of the Lola did not hold either, Surtees and Salvadori were eliminated within two rounds one after the other. Salvadori remained without a finish this season. Due to the retirement of Surtees and before that Clark, the two BRMs led the race without competition and also finished first and second at the end of the race. Mairesse and Baghetti improved by several positions in the final third of the race and caught up with McLaren. Baghetti spun off the track, however, and ended up fifth, while Mairesse could only get close to McLaren but was unable to overtake him. For both Ferrari drivers it was the last points of their careers in the automobile world championship, for Mairesse also the last finish. Bonnier also reached the points in sixth, Maggs narrowly missed it in seventh. The first ten were completed by Bandini, Vaccarella and Beaufort. Gurney and Rodríguez were eliminated a few laps before the end of the race, but were still classified.

Graham Hill led all laps of the race and won his third race of the season, the second in a row. This increased his lead in the drivers' standings to 14 points and had the chance to become world champion early with another victory in the next race. McLaren moved up to second in the drivers' standings, one point ahead of Clark. Due to the cancellation rules, according to which only the five best results were counted, apart from Graham Hill only Clark had the theoretical chance to win the drivers' title. For Graham Hill it was the only victory at the Italian Grand Prix, BRM won again with Jackie Stewart at the 1965 Italian Grand Prix . In the constructors' championship, BRM extended its lead over Lotus to ten points, and one more victory was enough to win the title.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	02	Giancarlo Baghetti	Ferrari 156	Ferrari 1.5 V6	D.
	04th	Ricardo Rodríguez
	06th	Lorenzo Bandini
	08th	Willy Mairesse
	10	Phil Hill
Owen Racing Organization	12	Richie Ginther	BRM P57	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	14th	Graham Hill
Porsche System Engineering	16	Dan Gurney	Porsche 804	Porsche 1.5 B8	D.
	18th	Jo Bonnier
Team Lotus	20th	Jim Clark	Lotus 25	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	22nd	Trevor Taylor
Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia	24	Nino Vaccarella	Lotus 24	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
Ecurie Excelsior	26th	Jay Chamberlain	Lotus 18	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Cooper Car Company	28	Bruce McLaren	Cooper T60	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	30th	Tony Maggs
Ecurie Maarsbergen	32	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche 718	Porsche 1.5 B4	D.
Scuderia De Tomaso	34	Nasif Estéfano	De Tomaso 801	De Tomaso 1.5 B8	D.
Rob Walker Racing Team	36	Maurice Trintignant	Lotus 24	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
UDT Laystall Racing Team	38	Masts Gregory	Lotus 24	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	40	Innes Ireland		Climax 1.5 V8
Ecurie Filipinetti	42	Jo Siffert	Lotus 24	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
Bowmaker Racing Team	44	Roy Salvadori	Lola Mk4	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	46	John Surtees	Lola Mk4A
			Lola Mk4
Emeryson Cars	48	Tony Settember	Emeryson 1004	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Scuderia set colli	50	Roberto Lippi	De Tomaso F1-002	OSCA 1.5 L4	D.
Gerry Ashmore	52	Gerry Ashmore	Lotus 18/21	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Scuderia Jolly Club	54	Ernesto Prinoth	Lotus 18	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Gilby Engineering	56	Keith Greene	Gilby 62	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
Autosport Team Wolfgang Seidel	60	Tony Shelly	Lotus 24	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
Anglo-American Equipe	62	Ian Burgess	Cooper T53 Special	Climax 1.5 L4	D.

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} John Surtees drove the Lola Mk4A with the number 46 in practice sessions and in the race.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	1: 40.35	206.28 km / h	01
02	Graham Hill	BRM	1: 40.38	206.22 km / h	02
03	Richie Ginther	BRM	1: 41.1	204.75 km / h	03
04th	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	1: 41.8	203.34 km / h	04th
05	Innes Ireland	Lotus Climax	1: 41.8	203.34 km / h	05
06th	Masts Gregory	Lotus BRM	1: 41.9	203.14 km / h	06th
07th	Dan Gurney	Porsche	1: 41.9	203.14 km / h	07th
08th	John Surtees	Lola-Climax	1: 42.4	202.15 km / h	08th
09	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	1: 42.6	201.75 km / h	09
10	Willy Mairesse	Ferrari	1: 42.8	201.36 km / h	10
11	Ricardo Rodríguez	Ferrari	1: 43.1	200.78 km / h	11
12	Tony Maggs	Cooper-Climax	1: 43.2	200.58 km / h	12
13	Roy Salvadori	Lola-Climax	1: 43.3	200.39 km / h	13
14th	Nino Vaccarella	Lotus Climax	1: 43.4	200.19 km / h	14th
15th	Phil Hill	Ferrari	1: 43.4	200.19 km / h	15th
16	Trevor Taylor	Lotus Climax	1: 44.2	198.66 km / h	16
17th	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	1: 44.3	198.47 km / h	17th
18th	Giancarlo Baghetti	Ferrari	1: 44.4	198.28 km / h	18th
19th	Maurice Trintignant	Lotus Climax	1: 44.4	198.28 km / h	19th
20th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	1: 46.8	193.82 km / h	20th
21st	Tony Settember	Emeryson Climax	1: 49.1	189.73 km / h	21st
DNQ	Tony Shelly	Lotus BRM	1: 51.6	185.48 km / h	-
DNQ	Keith Greene	Gilby-BRM	1: 52.0	184.82 km / h	-
DNQ	Gerry Ashmore	Lotus Climax	1: 52.9	183.35 km / h	-
DNQ	Ian Burgess	Cooper-Climax	1: 53.1	183.02 km / h	-
DNQ	Jo Siffert	Lotus BRM	1: 55.8	178.76 km / h	-
DNQ	Ernesto Prinoth	Lotus Climax	1: 57.7	175.87 km / h	-
DNQ	Roberto Lippi	De Tomaso-OSCA	1: 58.6	174.54 km / h	-
DNQ	Jay Chamberlain	Lotus Climax	1: 59.7	172.93 km / h	-
DNQ	Nasif Estéfano	De Tomaso	6: 18.4	54.70 km / h	-

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Graham Hill	BRM	86		2: 29: 08.4	02	1: 42.3
02	Richie Ginther	BRM	86		+ 29.8	03	1: 42.5
03	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	86		+ 57.8	04th	1: 42.8
04th	Willy Mairesse	Ferrari	86		+ 58.2	10	1: 42.8
05	Giancarlo Baghetti	Ferrari	86		+1: 31.3	18th	1: 42.4
06th	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	85		+ 1 lap	09	1: 42.6
07th	Tony Maggs	Cooper-Climax	85		+ 1 lap	12	1: 43.1
08th	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	84		+ 2 rounds	17th	1: 43.5
09	Nino Vaccarella	Lotus Climax	84		+ 2 rounds	14th	1: 44.6
10	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	81		+ 5 rounds	20th	1: 46.9
11	Phil Hill	Ferrari	81		+ 5 rounds	15th	1: 44.5
12	Masts Gregory	Lotus BRM	77		+ 9 rounds	06th	1: 43.0
13	Dan Gurney	Porsche	66		+ 20 rounds	07th	1: 43.0
14th	Ricardo Rodríguez	Ferrari	63		+ 23 laps	11	1: 43.6
-	Innes Ireland	Lotus Climax	45		DNF	05	1: 43.0	suspension
-	John Surtees	Lola-Climax	42		DNF	08th	1: 42.7	Engine failure
-	Roy Salvadori	Lola-Climax	41		DNF	13	1: 43.8	Engine failure
-	Trevor Taylor	Lotus Climax	25th		DNF	16	1: 45.3	transmission
-	Tony Settember	Emeryson Climax	18th		DNF	21st	1: 49.3	Engine failure
-	Maurice Trintignant	Lotus Climax	17th		DNF	19th	1: 44.5	electrical damage
-	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	12		DNF	01	1: 42.5	transmission

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 36 (37) 02  Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax 22nd 03  Jim Clark Lotus Climax 21st 04th  John Surtees Lola-Climax 19th 05  Phil Hill Ferrari 14th 06th  Dan Gurney Porsche 13 07th  Richie Ginther BRM 10 08th  Tony Maggs Cooper-Climax 9

Item driver constructor Points 09  Trevor Taylor Lotus Climax 6th 10  Giancarlo Baghetti Ferrari 5 11  Lorenzo Bandini Ferrari 4th 12  Ricardo Rodríguez Ferrari 4th 13  Willy Mairesse Ferrari 3 14th  Jo Bonnier Porsche 3 15th  Jack Brabham Lotus Climax 3 16  Carel Godin de Beaufort Porsche 2

Constructors' championship

Item	constructor	Points
01	BRM	37 (41)
02	lotus	27
03	cooper	25 (27)
04th	Lola	19th
05	Ferrari	18th
06th	Porsche	17th

Web links

• Results at motorsportarchiv.de
• Photos at f1-facts.com
• Grand Prix Results: Italian GP, ​​1962 at grandprix.com
• Hill tightens his grip on title at espnf1.com