1962 Monaco Grand Prix

 1962 Monaco Grand Prix

Racing data
2nd of 9 races in the 1962 World Cup
Surname:	XX Grand Prix de Monaco
Date:	June 3, 1962
Place:	Monte Carlo , Monaco
Course:	Circuit de Monaco
Length:	314.5 km in 100 laps of 3.145 km
Weather:	cloudy, dry
Pole position
Driver:	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax
Time:	1: 35.4 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Jim Clark (Round 42)	Lotus Climax
Time:	1: 35.5 min
Podium
First:	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax
Second:	Phil Hill	Ferrari
Third:	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari

The 1962 Monaco Grand Prix took place on June 3, 1962 on the Circuit de Monaco near Monte Carlo and was the second race of the 1962 World Cup .

Reports

background

Bruce McLaren winner

First pole position for Jim Clark

Ferrari increased the number of its cars to four and changed the driver line-up. Phil Hill and Ricardo Rodríguez drove for the team as they did at the season opener, the Dutch Grand Prix , while Giancarlo Baghetti paused for a race. Ferrari also signed Willy Mairesse and Lorenzo Bandini for the Monaco Grand Prix. The other works teams did not change their driver pairings, but again used different cars for the drivers. Dan Gurney drove the new Porsche 804 at Porsche , Jo Bonnier the older Porsche 718 . In BRM drove Graham Hill the new BRM P57 , for Richie Ginther the new car was indeed reported, but he put the old in training and in races BRM P47 / 57 one. Cooper also retained the division of the new and old vehicles, Bruce McLaren received the Cooper T60 , Tony Maggs the Cooper T55 . The team also reported four cars to Lotus , of which the same cars were used as at the Dutch Grand Prix, with the difference that one car used a BRM engine.

In the teams with private vehicles, Ecurie Maarsbergen drove the rest of the season with regular driver Carel Godin de Beaufort . New teams were the Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia with a Lotus 18/21 for Nino Vaccarella and the Ecurie Nationale Suisse with a Lotus 21 for Jo Siffert , who made his debut in the automobile world championship. In addition, Maurice Trintignant drove his first race of the season for the Rob Walker Racing Team , which had entered a Lotus 24 for him.

With Trintignant and Brabham, two former winners took part in the race, with the constructors Ferrari was previously victorious once, Lotus and Cooper twice each. Graham Hill was ahead of Taylor and Phil Hill in the drivers 'championship, and BRM was ahead of Lotus and Ferrari in the constructors' championship.

training

The training session was a balanced duel between many teams and showed again how nearly 1962 the field of drivers was together. Eight different teams and five different designers qualified for the first eight places on the starting grid, the time difference between third and sixth place was only a tenth of a second. Only two drivers were significantly faster than the competition, Graham Hill and Jim Clark . In this duel, Clark secured the first pole position of his career and thus began to become one of the most successful drivers in the pole position statistics. In the following years he reached a new record in this category, which was only surpassed decades later by Ayrton Senna , who, however, had more races per season available for this.

McLaren qualified third in front of Mairesse and Gurney, all three drivers drove the same time. Jack Brabham in his private Lotus qualified fifth. This was followed by two more private Lotus cars from Trintignant and Innes Ireland . The first ten starting positions were completed by Ferrari, Phil Hill started in ninth place in front of his teammate Bandini. Lola qualified his cars in midfield, starting positions eleven and twelve. Ginther, Trevor Taylor , Rodríguez and Bonnier also qualified for the Grand Prix. As only 16 vehicles were allowed for safety reasons, some drivers did not qualify for the race. Some of the factory team drivers had already been registered for the race, which meant that Taylor, Rodríguez and Bonnier were given permission to start, although the times they had set were not enough to qualify. This one was missed by Siffert, Jackie Lewis , Masten Gregory , Maggs, Beaufort and Vaccarella. Maggs was still allowed to start after Rodríguez did not start the race.

run

Immediately after the start, there was a serious accident in the Gasometer Hairpin bend in which Ginther, Trintignant, Ireland, Taylor and Gurney were involved. As a result of the accident, a wheel on Ginter's car came loose, hitting a marshal and fatally injuring him. This was the first fatal accident in the 1962 automobile world championship. The race was over for Trintignant, Gurney and Ginther, Ireland and Taylor continued, but later dropped out with technical defects. All drivers involved were uninjured. At the front, Mairesse tried to take the lead, but braked before the first corner so that Graham Hill and McLaren overtook him. Later in the lap, Mairesse spun and fell back to the end of the field. McLaren overtook Graham Hill and led the race, followed by Phil Hill, Bonnier, Bandini and Clark battling it out for third place.

In the following laps, McLaren and Graham Hill fought for first place and overtook each other several times, Graham Hill prevailed on lap seven and gained a lead over his opponent. Behind that, the duel for third place developed into a three-way battle between Phil Hill, Brabham and Clark. First both Brabham and Clark overtook Phil Hill, then Clark passed Brabham. Clark then caught up with McLaren and overtook him on lap 28, only to then attack the leading Graham Hill. But there was no change in leadership because Clark's Lotus got transmission problems and Clark fell behind. On lap 55 he gave up the race and parked his car. McLaren was thus back in second place ahead of Brabham, but the gap to Graham Hill was already 48 seconds at this point.

The decision about victory and the podium was made in the last third of the race. Phil Hill overtook Brabham on lap 76. One lap later, Brabham retired because he had an accident due to a driving error and damaged the suspension of his car. After Mairesse had an engine failure on lap 90, this also happened to the leader Graham Hill two laps later. The race was over for all three drivers, but they had driven the necessary race distance to be classified. As only five vehicles reached the finish, Graham Hill still got one point for sixth place despite the failure. McLaren took the lead, but was attacked in the final laps by Phil Hill, who came within a second. McLaren narrowly secured the second win in the automobile world championship after winning the season finale the year before, the 1961 US Grand Prix . For McLaren this was the only victory at the Monaco Grand Prix. Cooper was successful for the third and final time. After that, Cooper did not win any races for many years. It wasn't until the 1966 Mexican Grand Prix that Cooper won again.

Phil Hill finished second ahead of teammate Bandini, who took a podium for the first time in his career. Surtees was classified in fourth place, this was the first point placement for the designer Lola. Bonnier finished fifth, seven laps behind. The fastest race lap was driven by Clark.

Graham Hill retained first place in the drivers' championship because Phil Hill also had 10 points but, unlike Graham Hill, had not yet won a race. McLaren improved to third and was only one point behind the two Hills. Taylor was the new fourth in the drivers' championship ahead of Bandini. Cooper took the lead in the constructors' championship with eleven points ahead of BRM and Ferrari, who each had ten points.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Porsche System Engineering	02	Jo Bonnier	Porsche 718	Porsche 1.5 B4	D.
	04th	Dan Gurney	Porsche 804	Porsche 1.5 B8
Owen Racing Organization	08th	Richie Ginther	BRM P57	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
			BRM P48 / 57
	10	Graham Hill	BRM P57
Cooper Car Company	14th	Bruce McLaren	Cooper T60	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	16	Tony Maggs	Cooper T55	Climax 1.5 L4
Team Lotus	18th	Jim Clark	Lotus 25	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
			Lotus 24
	20th	Trevor Taylor	Lotus 24
			Lotus 24	BRM 1.5 V8
Brabham Racing Organization	22nd	Jack Brabham	Lotus 24	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
Ecurie Galloise	24	Jackie Lewis	BRM P48 / 57	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
Bowmaker Racing Team	26th	Roy Salvadori	Lola Mk4	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	28	John Surtees
Rob Walker Racing Team	30th	Maurice Trintignant	Lotus 24	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
UDT Laystall Racing Team	32	Masts Gregory	Lotus 24	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	34	Innes Ireland	Lotus 24	Climax 1.5 V8
			Lotus 18	Climax 1.5 V8
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	36	Phil Hill	Ferrari 156	Ferrari 1.5 V6	D.
	38	Lorenzo Bandini
	40	Willy Mairesse
	41	Ricardo Rodríguez
Scuderia SSS Rebublica di Venezia	42	Nino Vaccarella	Lotus 18/21	Climax 1.5 L4	D.
Ecurie Maarsbergen	44	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche 718	Porsche 1.5 B4	D.
Ecurie Nationale Suisse	46	Jo Siffert	Lotus 21	Climax 1.5 L4	D.

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Richie Ginther drove the BRM P57 with the number 8 in the practice sessions and in the race.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Jim Clark drove the Lotus 25 with the number 18 in practice sessions and in the race.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Trevor Taylor drove the Lotus 24 with a Climax V8 engine and the number 20 in practice sessions and in the race.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Innes Ireland drove the Lotus 24 with the number 34 in practice sessions and in the race.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	1: 35.4	118.68 km / h	01
02	Graham Hill	BRM	1: 35.8	118.18 km / h	02
03	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	1: 36.4	117.45 km / h	03
04th	Willy Mairesse	Ferrari	1: 36.4	117.45 km / h	04th
05	Dan Gurney	Porsche	1: 36.4	117.45 km / h	05
06th	Jack Brabham	Lotus Climax	1: 36.5	117.33 km / h	06th
07th	Maurice Trintignant	Lotus Climax	1: 36.8	116.96 km / h	07th
08th	Innes Ireland	Lotus Climax	1: 37.0	116.72 km / h	08th
09	Phil Hill	Ferrari	1: 37.1	116.60 km / h	09
10	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	1: 37.2	116.48 km / h	10
11	John Surtees	Lola-Climax	1: 37.9	115.65 km / h	11
12	Roy Salvadori	Lola-Climax	1: 38.5	114.94 km / h	12
13	Richie Ginther	BRM	1: 39.0	114.36 km / h	13
14th	Trevor Taylor	Lotus Climax	1: 40.0	113.22 km / h	14th
15th	Ricardo Rodríguez	Ferrari	1: 40.1	113.11 km / h	DNS
16	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	1: 42.4	110.57 km / h	15th
DNQ	Jo Siffert	Lotus Climax	1: 38.9	114.48 km / h	-
DNQ	Jackie Lewis	BRM	1: 39.0	114.36 km / h	-
DNQ	Masts Gregory	Lotus BRM	1: 39.2	114.13 km / h	-
DNQ	Tony Maggs	Cooper-Climax	1: 42.7	110.24 km / h	16
DNQ	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	1: 44.4	108.45 km / h	-
DNQ	Nino Vaccarella	Lotus Climax	2: 01.8	92.96 km / h	-

Remarks

1. ↑ Tony Maggs did not qualify for the race, but was still allowed to participate because Ricardo Rodríguez did not start.

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	100		2: 46: 29.7	03	1: 37.4
02	Phil Hill	Ferrari	100		+ 1.3	09	1: 36.7
03	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	100		+1: 24.1	10	1: 37.6
04th	John Surtees	Lola-Climax	99		+ 1 lap	11	1: 36.9
05	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	93		+ 7 rounds	15th	1: 42.5
06th	Graham Hill	BRM	92		+ 8 rounds	02	1: 35.9
07th	Willy Mairesse	Ferrari	90		+ 10 rounds	04th	1: 37.9
08th	Jack Brabham	Lotus Climax	77		+ 23 laps	06th	1: 37.4
-	Innes Ireland	Lotus Climax	64		DNF	08th	1: 37.2	Fuel pump
-	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	55		DNF	01	1: 35.5	coupling
-	Roy Salvadori	Lola-Climax	44		DNF	12	1: 42.9	suspension
-	Tony Maggs	Cooper-Climax	43		DNF	16	1: 42.2	transmission
-	Trevor Taylor	Lotus Climax	24		DNF	14th	1: 42.0	Oil leak
-	Richie Ginther	BRM	00		DNF	13		accident
-	Dan Gurney	Porsche	00		DNF	05		accident
-	Maurice Trintignant	Lotus Climax	00		DNF	07th		accident
-	Ricardo Rodríguez	Ferrari	00		DNS

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 10 02  Phil Hill Ferrari 10 03  Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax 9 04th  Trevor Taylor Lotus Climax 6th 05  Lorenzo Bandini Ferrari 4th 06th  Giancarlo Baghetti Ferrari 3 07th  John Surtees Lola-Climax 3 08th  Jo Bonnier Porsche 2 09  Tony Maggs Cooper-Climax 2 10  Carel Godin de Beaufort Porsche 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  cooper 11 02  BRM 10 03  Ferrari 10 04th  lotus 6th 05  Lola 3 06th  Porsche 3

Web links

• Results at motorsportarchiv.de
• Photos at f1-facts.com
• Grand Prix Results: Monaco GP, 1962 at grandprix.com
• McLaren capitalises on Hill misfortune at espnf1.com