Race · Round 9 of 9 · 29 December 1962

1962 South African Grand Prix

Graham Hill won for BRM from 2nd on the grid at Prince George Circuit. 6 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Prince George CircuitEast London, South Africa
Winner: Graham HillBRM
Pole: Jim Clark
Fastest lap: Jim Clark
Entries: 1711 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Graham Hill	BRM	—	2	82	Finished	9
2	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	—	8	82	Finished	6
3	Tony Maggs	Cooper	—	6	82	Finished	4
4	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	BT3	3	82	Finished	3
5	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	—	4	81	Finished	2
6	Neville Lederle	Team Lotus	21	10	78	Finished	1
7	Richie Ginther	BRM	—	7	78	Finished	0
8	John Love	Cooper	T55	12	78	Finished	0
9	Bruce Johnstone	BRM	—	17	76	Finished	0
10	Ernie Pieterse	Team Lotus	21	13	71	Finished	0
11	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	—	16	70	Fuel system	0
DNF	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	—	1	62	Oil leak	0	fastest lap
DNF	Doug Serrurier	LDS	Mk 1	14	62	Radiator	0
DNF	Roy Salvadori	Lola	Mk 4	11	56	Fuel leak	0
DNF	Mike Harris	Cooper	T53	15	31	Wheel bearing	0
DNF	John Surtees	Lola	Mk 4	5	26	Engine	0
DNF	Trevor Taylor	Team Lotus	—	9	11	Gearbox	0

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

F1DB layout east-london-1 · 3.92 km · 9 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
Graham Hill	2	1	82
Bruce McLaren	8	2	82
Tony Maggs	6	3	82
Sir Jack Brabham	3	4	82
Innes Ireland	4	5	81
Neville Lederle	10	6	78
Richie Ginther	7	7	78
John Love	12	8	78
Bruce Johnstone	17	9	76
Ernie Pieterse	13	10	71
Carel Godin de Beaufort	16	11	70
Jim Clark	1	DNF	62
Doug Serrurier	14	DNF	62
Roy Salvadori	11	DNF	56
Mike Harris	15	DNF	31
John Surtees	5	DNF	26
Trevor Taylor	9	DNF	11

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	1	1:29.300	—	—
2	Graham Hill	BRM	3	1:29.600	+0.300	+0.300
3	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	10	1:31.000	+1.700	+1.400
4	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	11	1:31.100	+1.800	+0.100
5	John Surtees	Lola	6	1:31.500	+2.200	+0.400
6	Tony Maggs	Cooper	9	1:31.700	+2.400	+0.200
7	Richie Ginther	BRM	4	1:31.700	+2.400	+0.000
8	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	8	1:31.700	+2.400	+0.000
9	Trevor Taylor	Team Lotus	2	1:32.700	+3.400	+1.000
10	Neville Lederle	Team Lotus	20	1:33.600	+4.300	+0.900
11	Roy Salvadori	Lola	7	1:35.400	+6.100	+1.800
12	John Love	Cooper	18	1:36.400	+7.100	+1.000
13	Ernie Pieterse	Team Lotus	14	1:36.800	+7.500	+0.400
14	Doug Serrurier	LDS	21	1:36.800	+7.500	+0.000
15	Mike Harris	Cooper	22	1:39.100	+9.800	+2.300
16	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	15	1:39.200	+9.900	+0.100
17	Bruce Johnstone	BRM	5	—	—	—

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: 9 of 1962
Grand Prix: South African Grand Prix
Dates: 29 Dec 1962
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: BRM
Entrant: BRM
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.