Race · Round 10 of 10 · 28 December 1963

1963 South African Grand Prix

Jim Clark won for Team Lotus from pole at Prince George Circuit. 6 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Prince George CircuitEast London, South Africa
Winner: Jim ClarkTeam Lotus
Pole: Jim Clark
Fastest lap: Dan Gurney
Entries: 2114 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	25	1	85	Finished	9
2	Dan Gurney	Brabham	—	3	85	Finished	6	fastest lap
3	Graham Hill	BRM	—	6	84	Finished	4
4	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	T66	9	84	Finished	3
5	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	156	5	84	Finished	2
6	Jo Bonnier	Cooper	—	11	83	Finished	1
7	Tony Maggs	Cooper	T66	10	82	Finished	0
8	Trevor Taylor	Team Lotus	25	8	81	Finished	0
9	John Love	Cooper	T55	13	80	Finished	0
10	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	718	20	79	Finished	0
11	Doug Serrurier	LDS	Mk 1	18	78	Finished	0
12	Trevor Blokdyk	Cooper	T51	19	77	Finished	0
13	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	—	2	70	Spun off	0
14	Brausch Niemann	Team Lotus	22	15	66	Finished	0
DNF	Peter de Klerk	Alfa Special	Special	16	53	Gearbox	0
DNF	David Prophet	Brabham	BT6	14	49	Oil pressure	0
DNF	Richie Ginther	BRM	—	7	43	Halfshaft	0
DNF	John Surtees	Ferrari	156	4	43	Engine	0
DNF	Ernie Pieterse	Team Lotus	21	12	3	Engine	0
DNF	Sam Tingle	LDS	Mk 1	17	2	Halfshaft	0
DNS	Paddy Driver	Team Lotus	24	—	—	Accident in practice	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
Jim Clark	1	1	85
Dan Gurney	3	2	85
Graham Hill	6	3	84
Bruce McLaren	9	4	84
Lorenzo Bandini	5	5	84
Jo Bonnier	11	6	83
Tony Maggs	10	7	82
Trevor Taylor	8	8	81
John Love	13	9	80
Carel Godin de Beaufort	20	10	79
Doug Serrurier	18	11	78
Trevor Blokdyk	19	12	77
Sir Jack Brabham	2	13	70
Brausch Niemann	15	14	66
Peter de Klerk	16	DNF	53
David Prophet	14	DNF	49
Richie Ginther	7	DNF	43
John Surtees	4	DNF	43
Ernie Pieterse	12	DNF	3
Sam Tingle	17	DNF	2

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	1	1:28.900	—	—
2	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	8	1:29.000	+0.100	+0.100
3	Dan Gurney	Brabham	9	1:29.100	+0.200	+0.100
4	John Surtees	Ferrari	3	1:29.800	+0.900	+0.700
5	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	4	1:30.200	+1.300	+0.400
6	Graham Hill	BRM	5	1:30.300	+1.400	+0.100
7	Richie Ginther	BRM	6	1:30.400	+1.500	+0.100
8	Trevor Taylor	Team Lotus	2	1:30.400	+1.500	+0.000
9	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	10	1:31.200	+2.300	+0.800
10	Tony Maggs	Cooper	11	1:31.500	+2.600	+0.300
11	Jo Bonnier	Cooper	12	1:32.000	+3.100	+0.500
12	Ernie Pieterse	Team Lotus	7	1:34.500	+5.600	+2.500
13	John Love	Cooper	19	1:34.600	+5.700	+0.100
14	David Prophet	Brabham	22	1:35.500	+6.600	+0.900
15	Brausch Niemann	Team Lotus	21	1:35.600	+6.700	+0.100
16	Peter de Klerk	Alfa Special	18	1:35.700	+6.800	+0.100
17	Sam Tingle	LDS	20	1:35.800	+6.900	+0.100
18	Doug Serrurier	LDS	16	1:36.400	+7.500	+0.600
19	Trevor Blokdyk	Cooper	23	1:36.500	+7.600	+0.100
20	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	14	1:36.600	+7.700	+0.100
21	Paddy Driver	Team Lotus	15	1:36.900	+8.000	+0.300

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: 10 of 1963
Grand Prix: South African Grand Prix
Dates: 28 Dec 1963
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.