Race · Round 8 of 9 ·
1962 United States Grand Prix
Jim Clark won for Team Lotus from pole at Watkins Glen. 5 of the starters were not classified.
- Circuit
- Watkins GlenWatkins Glen, New York, United States of America
- Winner
- Jim ClarkTeam Lotus
- Pole
- Jim Clark
- Fastest lap
- Jim Clark
- Entries
- 2113 classified
Classification
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | Chassis | Grid | Laps | Out | Points | FL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jim Clark | Team Lotus | — | 1 | 100 | Finished | 9 | fastest lap |
| 2 | Graham Hill | BRM | — | 3 | 100 | Finished | 6 | |
| 3 | Bruce McLaren | Cooper | — | 6 | 99 | Finished | 4 | |
| 4 | Sir Jack Brabham | Brabham | BT3 | 5 | 99 | Finished | 3 | |
| 5 | Dan Gurney | Porsche | — | 4 | 99 | Finished | 2 | |
| 6 | Masten Gregory | Team Lotus | 24 | 7 | 99 | Finished | 1 | |
| 7 | Tony Maggs | Cooper | — | 10 | 97 | Finished | 0 | |
| 8 | Innes Ireland | Team Lotus | — | 15 | 96 | Finished | 0 | |
| 9 | Roger Penske | Team Lotus | 24 | 12 | 96 | Finished | 0 | |
| 10 | Rob Schroeder | Team Lotus | 24 | 16 | 93 | Finished | 0 | |
| 11 | Hap Sharp | Cooper | T53 | 14 | 91 | Finished | 0 | |
| 12 | Trevor Taylor | Team Lotus | — | 8 | 85 | Finished | 0 | |
| 13 | Jo Bonnier | Porsche | — | 9 | 79 | Finished | 0 | |
| DNF | Richie Ginther | BRM | — | 2 | 35 | Engine | 0 | |
| DNF | Maurice Trintignant | Team Lotus | 24 | 17 | 32 | Brakes | 0 | |
| DNF | Timmy Mayer | Cooper | — | 11 | 31 | Ignition | 0 | |
| DNF | John Surtees | Lola | Mk 4 | 18 | 19 | Engine | 0 | |
| DNF | Carel Godin de Beaufort | Porsche | — | 13 | 9 | Accident | 0 | |
| DNS | Roy Salvadori | Lola | Mk 4 | — | — | Car raced by Surtees | 0 | |
| DNS | Phil Hill | Porsche | — | — | — | Car raced by Bonnier | 0 | |
| DNS | Jim Hall | Team Lotus | 21 | — | — | Engine | 0 |
A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.
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.
Qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Time | Gap | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jim Clark | Team Lotus | 8 | 1:15.800 | — | — |
| 2 | Richie Ginther | BRM | 5 | 1:16.600 | +0.800 | +0.800 |
| 3 | Graham Hill | BRM | 4 | 1:16.700 | +0.900 | +0.100 |
| 4 | Dan Gurney | Porsche | 10 | 1:16.900 | +1.100 | +0.200 |
| 5 | Sir Jack Brabham | Brabham | 17 | 1:16.900 | +1.100 | +0.000 |
| 6 | Bruce McLaren | Cooper | 21 | 1:17.300 | +1.500 | +0.400 |
| 7 | Masten Gregory | Team Lotus | 16 | 1:17.900 | +2.100 | +0.600 |
| 8 | Trevor Taylor | Team Lotus | 9 | 1:18.000 | +2.200 | +0.100 |
| 9 | Jo Bonnier | Porsche | 11 | 1:19.000 | +3.200 | +1.000 |
| 10 | Tony Maggs | Cooper | 22 | 1:19.700 | +3.900 | +0.700 |
| 11 | Roy Salvadori | Lola | 19 | 1:19.800 | +4.000 | +0.100 |
| 12 | Timmy Mayer | Cooper | 23 | 1:20.700 | +4.900 | +0.900 |
| 13 | Roger Penske | Team Lotus | 14 | 1:21.300 | +5.500 | +0.600 |
| 14 | Carel Godin de Beaufort | Porsche | 12 | 1:21.800 | +6.000 | +0.500 |
| 15 | Hap Sharp | Cooper | 24 | 1:22.400 | +6.600 | +0.600 |
| 16 | Innes Ireland | Team Lotus | 15 | 1:24.000 | +8.200 | +1.600 |
| 17 | Rob Schroeder | Team Lotus | 26 | 1:24.000 | +8.200 | +0.000 |
| 18 | Jim Hall | Team Lotus | 25 | 1:24.700 | +8.900 | +0.700 |
| 19 | Maurice Trintignant | Team Lotus | 6 | 1:25.800 | +10.000 | +1.100 |
| 20 | John Surtees | Lola | 18 | 1:29.200 | +13.400 | +3.400 |
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.
Brabham BT3
Brabham BT3 · John Chapman ( Pyrope ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lotus 24
Lotus 24 2018 Silverstone Classic (33154067588) · https://www.flickr.com/photos/davehamster/ · CC BY 2.0
Cooper T53
Cooper T53 Wheatcroft Straight · John Chapman ( Pyrope ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lola Mk4
Lola Mk4 Surtees 2008 Goodwood · Darren · CC BY 2.0Where this comes from
- Round
- 8 of 1962
- Grand Prix
- United States Grand Prix
- Dates
- 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.