Race · Round 5 of 9 · 21 July 1962

1962 British Grand Prix

Jim Clark won for Team Lotus from pole at Aintree. 5 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: AintreeLiverpool, United Kingdom
Winner: Jim ClarkTeam Lotus
Pole: Jim Clark
Fastest lap: Jim Clark
Entries: 2116 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	—	1	75	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	John Surtees	Lola	Mk 4	2	75	Finished	6
3	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	—	4	75	Finished	4
4	Graham Hill	BRM	—	5	75	Finished	3
5	Sir Jack Brabham	Team Lotus	24	9	74	Finished	2
6	Tony Maggs	Cooper	—	13	74	Finished	1
7	Masten Gregory	Team Lotus	—	14	74	Finished	0
8	Trevor Taylor	Team Lotus	—	10	74	Finished	0
9	Dan Gurney	Porsche	—	6	73	Finished	0
10	Jackie Lewis	Cooper	T53	15	72	Finished	0
11	Tony Settember	Emeryson	61	19	71	Finished	0
12	Ian Burgess	Cooper	T59	16	71	Finished	0
13	Richie Ginther	BRM	—	8	70	Finished	0
14	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	—	17	69	Finished	0
15	Jay Chamberlain	Team Lotus	18	20	64	Finished	0
16	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	—	3	61	Finished	0
DNF	Phil Hill	Ferrari	156	12	46	Engine	0
DNF	Roy Salvadori	Lola	Mk 4	11	34	Battery	0
DNF	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	—	7	26	Differential	0
DNF	Wolfgang Seidel	Team Lotus	24	21	10	Brakes	0
DNF	Tony Shelly	Team Lotus	18/21	18	5	Engine	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout aintree-1 · 4.828 km · 8 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Jim Clark	1	1	75
John Surtees	2	2	75
Bruce McLaren	4	3	75
Graham Hill	5	4	75
Sir Jack Brabham	9	5	74
Tony Maggs	13	6	74
Masten Gregory	14	7	74
Trevor Taylor	10	8	74
Dan Gurney	6	9	73
Jackie Lewis	15	10	72
Tony Settember	19	11	71
Ian Burgess	16	12	71
Richie Ginther	8	13	70
Carel Godin de Beaufort	17	14	69
Jay Chamberlain	20	15	64
Innes Ireland	3	16	61
Phil Hill	12	DNF	46
Roy Salvadori	11	DNF	34
Jo Bonnier	7	DNF	26
Wolfgang Seidel	21	DNF	10
Tony Shelly	18	DNF	5

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	20	1:53.600	—	—
2	John Surtees	Lola	24	1:54.200	+0.600	+0.600
3	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	32	1:54.400	+0.800	+0.200
4	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	16	1:54.600	+1.000	+0.200
5	Graham Hill	BRM	12	1:54.600	+1.000	+0.000
6	Dan Gurney	Porsche	8	1:54.800	+1.200	+0.200
7	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	10	1:55.200	+1.600	+0.400
8	Richie Ginther	BRM	14	1:55.200	+1.600	+0.000
9	Sir Jack Brabham	Team Lotus	30	1:55.400	+1.800	+0.200
10	Trevor Taylor	Team Lotus	22	1:56.000	+2.400	+0.600
11	Roy Salvadori	Lola	26	1:56.200	+2.600	+0.200
12	Phil Hill	Ferrari	2	1:56.200	+2.600	+0.000
13	Tony Maggs	Cooper	18	1:57.000	+3.400	+0.800
14	Masten Gregory	Team Lotus	34	1:57.200	+3.600	+0.200
15	Jackie Lewis	Cooper	42	1:59.400	+5.800	+2.200
16	Ian Burgess	Cooper	36	2:00.600	+7.000	+1.200
17	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	54	2:01.400	+7.800	+0.800
18	Tony Shelly	Team Lotus	48	2:02.400	+8.800	+1.000
19	Tony Settember	Emeryson	40	2:02.400	+8.800	+0.000
20	Jay Chamberlain	Team Lotus	46	2:03.400	+9.800	+1.000
21	Wolfgang Seidel	Team Lotus	44	2:11.600	+18.000	+8.200

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

Where this comes from

Round: 5 of 1962
Grand Prix: British Grand Prix
Dates: 21 Jul 1962
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Team Lotus
Entrant: Lotus-Climax
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.