1963 Italian Grand Prix
Racing data | ||
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7th of 10 races of the 1963 World Automobile Championship | ||
Surname: | XXXIV Gran Premio d'Italia | |
Date: | September 8, 1963 | |
Place: | Monza , Italy | |
Course: | Autodromo Nazionale Monza | |
Length: | 494.5 km in 86 laps of 5.75 km
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Weather: | warm, dry, sunny | |
Pole position | ||
Driver: | John Surtees | Ferrari |
Time: | 1: 37.3 min | |
Fastest lap | ||
Driver: | Jim Clark (Round 60) | Lotus Climax |
Time: | 1: 38.9 min | |
Podium | ||
First: | Jim Clark | Lotus Climax |
Second: | Richie Ginther | BRM |
Third: | Bruce McLaren | Cooper-Climax |
The 1963 Italian Grand Prix took place on September 8, 1963 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza near Monza and was the seventh race of the 1963 World Automobile Championship .
Reports
background
The organizers originally planned to hold the entire event on the 10 km long route variant. The track variant with the two banked curves was last used by Formula 1 in 1961 . In the first training session, the cracks in the asphalt and the poor overall condition of the oval part were already criticized. The cracks resulted in multiple accidents and suspension damage and the second training session was canceled for the same reasons. Thereupon the organizers decided on the 5.75 km long street course variant without the banked curves as the route for the rest of the race weekend.
After Ferrari had used the Ferrari 156/63 for a large part of the season , the next expansion stage of the car was launched, the Ferrari 156 Aero . The shark nose characteristic of the car has been removed and replaced by a conventional opening similar to that of other teams' vehicles. In addition, the front of the car was lengthened. The Ferrari 156 Aero was driven by John Surtees , team-mate Lorenzo Bandini , who had switched from Scuderia Centro Sud to Ferrari, the old car.
At Lotus , Trevor Taylor dropped out of a race due to an injury sustained in an accident at the Gran Premio del Mediterraneo . He was replaced by Mike Spence . Spence made his debut in the automobile world championship and drove from the Grand Prix of Great Britain in 1964 for Lotus as a new teammate of Jim Clark . After a break for several races, ATS returned and entered Phil Hill and Giancarlo Baghetti for the Grand Prix. Scirocco ended the season after the Italian Grand Prix, and for its driver Tony Settember it was the last report in a race in the automobile world championship.
There were other changes in the field of drivers for the teams with private cars and customer vehicles. For British Racing Partnership were Jim Hall and Innes Ireland reported. Ireland then ended the season. The last time Chris Amon and Mike Hailwood drove a Lola Mk4A was at Reg Parnell Racing . The car was only driven one more time in the World Automobile Championship. The Scuderia Centro Sud used three different cars for Maurice Trintignant , Mário de Araújo Cabral and Ernesto Brambilla . Trintignant and Cabral were registered for this team for the last time and then ended the season. For Brambilla it was the first report; another followed in 1969 . In either case, however, he did not qualify. Masten Gregory and Bob Anderson drove a Lotus for the last time in their careers and ended the season. Even Ian Raby and André Pilette disputed 1963 no further Grands Prix. For Roberto Lippi it was the last Grand Prix in the context of the automobile world championship.
Before the Italian Grand Prix, three non-World Championship races took place. Clark won the Kanonloppet , Surtees the Gran Premio del Mediterraneo and Jack Brabham the first ever Austrian Grand Prix . With Phil Hill and Graham Hill , two former winners took part in the race; Lotus and Cooper had previously been successful each time with the designers, and Ferrari five times.
In the drivers' championship, Clark was clearly ahead of Surtees by 20 points. All drivers with at least six points still had theoretical chances of the drivers' world championship, but one more victory was enough for Clark to win the title early. The situation in the constructors' championship was similar before the race. Lotus had a big lead over the competition and one more win would have meant the team winning the title.
training
Surtees dominated the training and took his first pole position of the season. He was more than a second faster with the new car than the runner-up Graham Hill, whose team-mate Richie Ginther was fourth. Clark, whose series of four pole positions in a row broke, qualified third between the two BRM drivers. Brabham drivers Dan Gurney and Brabham finished fifth and seventh ; between them lay Bandini. The first ten were completed by Bruce McLaren , Spence and Ireland. The best ATS in the field was Phil Hill's in 14th position, the two Lola qualified in the back field. Chris Amon had an accident and was seriously injured. He then did not take part in the race.
The starting field was limited to 20 vehicles. For this reason, seven drivers dropped out after training. These were Cabral, Raby, Settember, Carel Godin de Beaufort , Brambilla, Pilette and Lippi. Baghetti, who started the race from last place, would have missed qualifying in favor of Cabral as his time was worse. However, he was still allowed to start and Cabral did not qualify.
run
The high-speed track in Monza was again characterized by slipstream duels and a large number of leadership changes, as well as overtaking maneuvers. Clark and Graham Hill prevailed against Surtees at the start, Graham Hill led after the first race lap. Then Surtees overtook Clark and attacked Graham Hill. After four laps he managed to overtake Graham Hill and Clark benefited from this situation with an improvement to second place. Surtees and Clark then dueled for the lead, while the gap to Graham Hill grew steadily. On lap 16 Surtees retired with engine failure and Clark took first place for the first time in the race, the position he needed to become world champion early.
After 23 laps, a three-way battle between Clark, Graham Hill and Dan Gurney developed at the front . Graham Hill led the race for three laps, then Gurney overtook both rivals. Clark was already first again in the next lap, but then fell again behind Graham Hill and Gurney. The lead then switched between these two drivers four times in just five laps before Clark was back on top. The three-way battle continued and all three drivers changed positions on each subsequent race lap until Graham Hill fell back with a damaged clutch. Before that, Gregory, Bandini and Jo Siffert had already retired due to technical problems. Another five changes in leadership took place between Clark and Gurney before Gurney was eliminated with a faulty fuel system. He was ranked 14th. The failure of his two competitors allowed Clark to reduce the pace, whereby Ginther overtook him, who was already one lap behind Clark at this point.
Clark won, over two minutes behind, and won his first drivers' world championship three races before the end of the season. For the fourth time this season, Clark set the fastest race lap. Clark did not win the Italian Grand Prix in the following years, Lotus only won again in 1972 . These were the first title wins for Lotus, as the team also secured the constructors' championship with this victory. On the lap of honor, team owner Colin Chapman sat on the back of the car and had the trophy in his hands while Clark drove him around the track. The Lotus 25 was the first vehicle with a monocoque in the automobile world championship to win a title. In the following years, the competition also adopted this successful construction. Ginther was second in the race ahead of McLaren, Ireland, Brabham and Maggs.
In the drivers' championship, Clark unmatched his lead to 27 points. Ginther moved up to second ahead of Surtees. In the constructors' championship, Lotus was 23 points ahead of the competition, BRM was the new runner-up ahead of Ferrari.
Registration list
- Remarks
- ↑ a b Graham Hill drove the BRM P61 with the number 12 in practice sessions and in the race.
- ↑ a b Jo Bonnier drove the Cooper T66 with the number 58 in practice sessions and in the race.
Classifications
Starting grid
Item | driver | constructor | time | Ø speed | begin |
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1 | John Surtees | Ferrari | 1: 37.3 | 212.74 km / h | 1 |
2 | Graham Hill | BRM | 1: 38.5 | 210.15 km / h | 2 |
3 | Jim Clark | Lotus Climax | 1: 39.0 | 209.09 km / h | 3 |
4th | Richie Ginther | BRM | 1: 39.2 | 208.67 km / h | 4th |
5 | Dan Gurney | Brabham-Climax | 1: 39.2 | 208.67 km / h | 5 |
6th | Lorenzo Bandini | Ferrari | 1: 40.1 | 206.79 km / h | 6th |
7th | Jack Brabham | Brabham-Climax | 1: 40.4 | 206.18 km / h | 7th |
8th | Bruce McLaren | Cooper-Climax | 1: 40.5 | 205.97 km / h | 8th |
9 | Mike Spence | Lotus Climax | 1: 40.9 | 205.15 km / h | 9 |
10 | Innes Ireland | BRP-BRM | 1: 41.6 | 203.74 km / h | 10 |
11 | Jo Bonnier | Cooper-Climax | 1: 41.9 | 203.14 km / h | 11 |
12 | Masts Gregory | Lotus BRM | 1: 42.1 | 202.74 km / h | 12 |
13 | Tony Maggs | Cooper-Climax | 1: 42.2 | 202.54 km / h | 13 |
14th | Phil Hill | ATS | 1: 42.7 | 201.56 km / h | 14th |
15th | Jo Siffert | Lotus BRM | 1: 43.3 | 200.39 km / h | 15th |
16 | Jim Hall | Lotus BRM | 1: 43.8 | 199.42 km / h | 16 |
17th | Mike Hailwood | Lola-Climax | 1: 43.9 | 199.23 km / h | 17th |
18th | Bob Anderson | Lola-Climax | 1: 44.2 | 198.66 km / h | 18th |
19th | Maurice Trintignant | BRM | 1: 44.4 | 198.28 km / h | 19th |
20th | Giancarlo Baghetti | ATS | 1: 46.8 | 193.82 km / h | 20th |
21st | Chris Amon | Lola-Climax | no time | ||
DNQ | Mário de Araújo Cabral | Cooper-Climax | 1: 44.8 | 197.52 km / h | - |
DNQ | Ian Raby | Gilby-BRM | 1: 45.1 | 196.96 km / h | - |
DNQ | Tony Settember | Scirocco BRM | 1: 45.9 | 195.47 km / h | - |
DNQ | Carel Godin de Beaufort | Porsche | 1: 46.4 | 194.55 km / h | - |
DNQ | Ernesto Brambilla | Cooper Maserati | 1: 50.3 | 187.67 km / h | - |
DNQ | André Pilette | Lotus Climax | 1: 53.7 | 182.06 km / h | - |
DNQ | Roberto Lippi | De Tomaso-Ferrari | 2: 03.9 | 167.07 km / h | - |
run
Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap | Failure reason |
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1 | Jim Clark | Lotus Climax | 86 | 0 | 2: 24: 19.6 | 3 | 1: 38.9 | |
2 | Richie Ginther | BRM | 86 | 0 | +1: 35.0 | 4th | 1: 39.9 | |
3 | Bruce McLaren | Cooper-Climax | 85 | 0 | + 1 lap | 8th | 1: 40.9 | |
4th | Innes Ireland | BRP-BRM | 84 | 0 | + 2 rounds | 10 | 1: 40.4 | |
5 | Jack Brabham | Brabham-Climax | 84 | 0 | + 2 rounds | 7th | 1: 40.8 | |
6th | Tony Maggs | Cooper-Climax | 84 | 0 | + 2 rounds | 13 | 1: 42.0 | |
7th | Jo Bonnier | Cooper-Climax | 84 | 0 | + 2 rounds | 11 | 1: 41.0 | |
8th | Jim Hall | Lotus BRM | 84 | 0 | + 2 rounds | 16 | 1: 41.3 | |
9 | Maurice Trintignant | BRM | 83 | 0 | + 3 rounds | 19th | 1: 41.1 | |
10 | Mike Hailwood | Lola-Climax | 82 | 0 | + 4 rounds | 17th | 1: 41.8 | |
11 | Phil Hill | ATS | 79 | 0 | + 7 rounds | 14th | 1: 42.9 | |
12 | Bob Anderson | Lola-Climax | 79 | 0 | + 7 rounds | 18th | 1: 41.8 | |
13 | Mike Spence | Lotus Climax | 73 | 0 | + 13 rounds | 9 | 1: 41.3 | |
14th | Dan Gurney | Brabham-Climax | 64 | 0 | + 22 laps | 5 | 1: 39.2 | |
15th | Giancarlo Baghetti | ATS | 63 | 0 | + 23 laps | 20th | 1: 44.7 | |
- | Graham Hill | BRM | 59 | 0 | DNF | 2 | 1: 39.3 | coupling |
- | Jo Siffert | Lotus BRM | 41 | 0 | DNF | 15th | 1: 43.3 | oil pressure |
- | Lorenzo Bandini | Ferrari | 37 | 0 | DNF | 6th | 1: 39.9 | transmission |
- | Masts Gregory | Lotus BRM | 26th | 0 | DNF | 12 | 1: 42.5 | Engine failure |
- | John Surtees | Ferrari | 16 | 0 | DNF | 1 | 1: 39.6 | Engine failure |
- | Chris Amon | Lola-Climax | 0 | 0 | DNS | Training accident / injury |
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
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Constructors' championship
Item | constructor | Points |
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1 | Lotus Climax | 51 (52) |
2 | BRM | 28 |
3 | Ferrari | 22nd |
4th | Cooper-Climax | 21st |
5 | Brabham-Climax | 15th |
6th | BRP-BRM | 6th |
7th | Porsche | 4th |
Web links
- Results at motorsportarchiv.de
- Photos at f1-facts.com
- Grand Prix Results: Italian GP, 1963 at grandprix.com
- Clark seals title with fifth victory at espnf1.com