1963 Monaco Grand Prix

 1963 Monaco Grand Prix

Racing data
1st of 10 races in the 1963 World Cup
Surname:	XXI Grand Prix de Monaco
Date:	May 26, 1963
Place:	Monte Carlo , Monaco
Course:	Circuit de Monaco
Length:	314.5 km in 100 laps of 3.145 km
Weather:	sunny, dry, warm
Pole position
Driver:	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax
Time:	1: 34.3 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	John Surtees (Round 100)	Ferrari
Time:	1: 34.5 min
Podium
First:	Graham Hill	BRM
Second:	Richie Ginther	BRM
Third:	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax

The 1963 Monaco Grand Prix took place on May 26, 1963 on the Circuit de Monaco near Monte Carlo and was the first race of the 1963 World Automobile Championship . The Grand Prix also had the FIA ​​honorary title of European Grand Prix .

Reports

background

Chris Amon's debut race (picture from 1973)

Cooper T66

The 1963 automobile world championship started without any major rule changes and all of the cars changed optically and technically only minimally compared to the previous year. Porsche had withdrawn from the automobile world championship, Ferrari returned after a two-race break. Ferrari took over Willy Mairesse as a regular driver from the previous season . Second driver was John Surtees , who achieved a few points results on Lola in 1962 . The racing team also used the Ferrari 156 , the engine power of which had been increased and the rear suspension changed. Team Lotus and British Racing Motors kept the driver pairings, and the Lotus 25 and BRM P57 were also used for another year. As in the previous year, Cooper started the season with Bruce McLaren and Tony Maggs and launched the new Cooper T66 . The vehicle was a further development of the Cooper T60 , which differed from its predecessor mainly through a new wheel suspension and in which some parts of the car were positioned differently. Brabham used two cars for the first time in team history. In addition to team owner Jack Brabham , Dan Gurney became a new regular driver. Brabham drove a Lotus 25 last time, Gurney got the new Brabham BT7 . Here, too, mainly the suspension was changed, but a new high-speed transmission was also installed.

Other teams took part in the race with private vehicles. Joakim Bonnier drove for the Rob Walker Racing Team , which had bought a Cooper T60. British Racing Partnership returned to its original name after a few years with the sponsorship of various companies. Jim Hall and Innes Ireland were signed on as regular drivers and drove a Lotus 24 . Even Reg Parnell Racing returned to the automotive world championship, after Yeoman and Bowmaker had withdrawn as sponsors. Team owner was Reg Parnell , a former Formula 1 driver. The team reported two Lola Mk4As for Maurice Trintignant and Chris Amon . Amon began his long career in the automobile world championship at this Grand Prix, which lasted until 1976 , and was the second New Zealand driver in the field alongside Bruce McLaren. Two more Lotus 24 reported Bernard Collomb and Joseph Siffert .

The Monaco Grand Prix was the first race of the season for the third time after 1959 and 1961 . Eight races took place beforehand that did not count towards the World Motor Show This already indicated that the Lotus would be superior, winning five of these eight races. The reigning world champion Graham Hill won the Lombank Trophy and the BARC Aintree 200 on BRM . Jim Clark won three races on Lotus, including the Grand Prix de Pau , the Gran Premio Città di Imola and the BRDC International Trophy . Ireland also won the Glover Trophy on Lotus and Siffert won the Gran Premio di Siracusa . Bob Anderson , who only made his debut at the British Grand Prix in 1963 , won the Gran Premio di Roma on Lola .

With Bruce McLaren , Trintignant and Brabham, three former winners took part in the race, with the constructors Cooper was successful three times, Ferrari and Lotus twice each.

training

In 1962 the training sessions were mostly decided between Graham Hill and Clark and in 1963 this duel continued. For the fourth year in a row, Clark was faster and won pole position from his rival Graham Hill. He was more than half a second ahead. But even Ferrari was competitive again thanks to the improvement of the car and Surtees took third place, only two tenths of a second slower than Graham Hill. His team mate Richie Ginther qualified in fourth place at the same time. The best driver with a private vehicle was Ireland in fifth, followed by Gurney in the new Brabham and Mairesse in the second Ferrari. Cooper reached in training with the starting positions eight and ten positions in midfield, Clark's teammate Taylor completed the first ten with the ninth starting position.

Amon had qualified for 15th place, but Trintignant took over his car for the race and Amon did not take part in the race. Although Collomb drove a faster lap than Brabham and thus should have qualified for Amon's starting place, he was not classified as qualified. Brabham thus received 15th place on the grid. This reduced the field of drivers to 15, although more drivers had participated in previous years.

run

The two BRM drivers won the start, Graham Hill led the race ahead of his teammate Ginther. Clark dropped to third place, followed by Surtees, McLaren and Ireland fighting for fourth place. Siffert retired on lap three with engine failure. On the narrow street circuit, which made overtaking difficult, Clark managed to keep up with the two BRMs and overtook Ginther on the fifth lap of the race. He then caught up with Graham Hill and dueled him over several rounds. It was not until lap 18 that Clark managed to overtake his opponent and thus took the lead. Graham Hill tried to counter but failed and Clark built up a lead. Then Surtees prevailed against McLaren and Ireland and attacked Ginther. He passed him and improved to third place. In the following laps, Surtees also came closer to Graham Hill and overtook him on lap 56, but this time Graham Hill countered so that Surtees remained third. However, he later dropped to fourth place due to the drop in oil pressure on his Ferrari.

Hall retired on lap 20 with a gearbox failure and the Brabham BT7 debut also ended in failure, five laps later. Trintignant parked his Lola with a defective clutch on lap 34, after which Mairesse retired with a gearbox damage to his Ferrari. Ireland, who was in the points, had an accident but survived the accident unharmed.

Nine drivers were still in the race when Brabham suffered a gearbox damage first and only one lap later the leader Clark. The race was over for both of them, but with 77 and 78 laps, respectively, they had covered a sufficient race distance to be ranked eighth and ninth. Due to the failure of Clark, Graham Hill took the lead again and won the Grand Prix five seconds ahead of his team-mate Ginther. This was his first of five victories at the Monaco Grand Prix, the first of three in a row. BRM also started a series of victories in this race, and the team also won the following three Monaco Grand Prix. It was also the constructor's second double victory after Graham Hill also won the 1962 Italian Grand Prix ahead of Ginther.

Third in the race was McLaren, the other points went to Surtees in fourth, Maggs in fifth and Taylor in sixth. Only Bonnier reached the goal outside of the points, he was six laps behind. After the Grand Prix, Graham Hill led Ginther and McLaren in the drivers 'championship, and in the constructors' championship BRM had five points ahead of Cooper, who were one point ahead of Ferrari.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Brabham Racing Organization	03	Jack Brabham	Lotus 25	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	04th	Dan Gurney	Brabham BT7
Owen Racing Organization	05	Richie Ginther	BRM P57	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	06th	Graham Hill
Cooper Car Company	07th	Bruce McLaren	Cooper T66	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	08th	Tony Maggs
Team Lotus	09	Jim Clark	Lotus 25	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	10	Trevor Taylor
Rob Walker Racing Team	11	Joakim Bonnier	Cooper T60	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
British Racing Partnership	12	Jim Hall	Lotus 24	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	14th	Innes Ireland
Reg Parnell Racing	15th	Chris Amon	Lola Mk4A	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
		Maurice Trintignant
	17th	Maurice Trintignant
			Lola Mk4
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	20th	Willy Mairesse	Ferrari 156/63	Ferrari 1.5 V6	D.
	21st	John Surtees
Bernard Collomb	24	Bernard Collomb	Lotus 24	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
Siffert Racing Team	25th	Joseph Siffert	Lotus 24	BRM 1.5 V8	D.

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Chris Amon drove the Lola with the number 15 in the training sessions. Maurice Trintignant took over the car for the race. Trintignant used the Lola Mk4 with the number 17 in the training sessions.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	1: 34.3	120.06 km / h	01
02	Graham Hill	BRM	1: 35.0	119.18 km / h	02
03	John Surtees	Ferrari	1: 35.2	118.93 km / h	03
04th	Richie Ginther	BRM	1: 35.2	118.93 km / h	04th
05	Innes Ireland	Lotus BRM	1: 35.5	118.55 km / h	05
06th	Dan Gurney	Brabham-Climax	1: 35.8	118.18 km / h	06th
07th	Willy Mairesse	Ferrari	1: 35.9	118.06 km / h	07th
08th	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	1: 36.0	117.94 km / h	08th
09	Trevor Taylor	Lotus Climax	1: 37.2	116.48 km / h	09
10	Tony Maggs	Cooper-Climax	1: 37.9	115.65 km / h	10
11	Joakim Bonnier	Cooper-Climax	1: 38.6	114.83 km / h	11
12	Joseph Siffert	Lotus BRM	1: 39.4	113.90 km / h	12
13	Jim Hall	Lotus BRM	1: 41.0	112.10 km / h	13
14th	Maurice Trintignant	Lola-Climax	1: 41.3	111.77 km / h	14th
15th	Jack Brabham	Lotus Climax	1: 44.7	108.14 km / h	15th
DNQ	Bernard Collomb	Lotus Climax	1: 43.3	109.60 km / h

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Graham Hill	BRM	100		2: 41: 49.7	02
02	Richie Ginther	BRM	100		+ 4.6	04th
03	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	100		+ 12.8	08th
04th	John Surtees	Ferrari	100		+ 14.1	03	1: 34.5
05	Tony Maggs	Cooper-Climax	98		+ 2 rounds	10
06th	Trevor Taylor	Lotus Climax	98		+ 2 rounds	09
07th	Joakim Bonnier	Cooper-Climax	94		+ 6 rounds	11
08th	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	94		+ 6 rounds	01
09	Jack Brabham	Lotus Climax	77		+ 23 laps	15th
-	Innes Ireland	Lotus BRM	40		DNF	05		accident
-	Willy Mairesse	Ferrari	37		DNF	07th		transmission
-	Maurice Trintignant	Lola-Climax	34		DNF	14th		coupling
-	Dan Gurney	Brabham-Climax	25th		DNF	06th		differential
-	Jim Hall	Lotus BRM	20th		DNF	13		transmission
-	Joseph Siffert	Lotus BRM	03		DNS	12		Engine failure
-	Chris Amon	Lola-Climax	00		DNS			Car used by Trintignant

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  Graham Hill BRM 9 02  Richie Ginther BRM 6th 03  Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax 4th 04th  John Surtees Ferrari 3 05  Tony Maggs Cooper-Climax 2 06th  Trevor Taylor Lotus Climax 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  BRM 9 02  cooper 4th 03  Ferrari 3 04th  lotus 1

Web links

• Results at motorsportarchiv.de
• Photos at f1-facts.com
• Grand Prix Results: Monaco GP, 1963 at grandprix.com
• Hill benefits as Clark retires at espnf1.com