Race · Round 2 of 10 · 9 June 1963

1963 Belgian Grand Prix

Jim Clark won for Team Lotus from 8th on the grid at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. 12 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Circuit de Spa-FrancorchampsStavelot, Belgium
Winner: Jim ClarkTeam Lotus
Pole: Graham Hill
Fastest lap: Jim Clark
Entries: 208 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	25	8	32	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	T66	5	32	Finished	6
3	Dan Gurney	Brabham	—	2	31	Finished	4
4	Richie Ginther	BRM	—	9	31	Finished	3
5	Jo Bonnier	Cooper	—	13	30	Finished	2
6	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	718	18	30	Finished	1
7	Tony Maggs	Cooper	T66	4	27	Accident	0
8	Tony Settember	Scirocco	SP	19	25	Accident	0
DNF	John Surtees	Ferrari	156	10	19	Injection	0
DNF	Graham Hill	BRM	—	1	17	Gearbox	0
DNF	Lucien Bianchi	Lola	Mk 4A	16	17	Accident	0
DNF	Jim Hall	Team Lotus	24	12	16	Accident	0
DNF	Jo Siffert	Team Lotus	24	14	16	Accident	0
DNF	Phil Hill	ATS	100	17	13	Gearbox	0
DNF	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	—	6	12	Injection	0
DNF	Chris Amon	Lola	Mk 4A	15	10	Oil leak	0
DNF	Innes Ireland	BRP	Mk 1	7	9	Gearbox	0
DNF	Giancarlo Baghetti	ATS	100	20	7	Gearbox	0
DNF	Willy Mairesse	Ferrari	156	3	7	Injection	0
DNF	Trevor Taylor	Team Lotus	25	11	5	Physical	0

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

F1DB layout spa-francorchamps-1 · 14.12 km · 21 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	8	1	32
Bruce McLaren	5	2	32
Dan Gurney	2	3	31
Richie Ginther	9	4	31
Jo Bonnier	13	5	30
Carel Godin de Beaufort	18	6	30
Tony Maggs	4	7	27
Tony Settember	19	8	25
John Surtees	10	DNF	19
Graham Hill	1	DNF	17
Lucien Bianchi	16	DNF	17
Jim Hall	12	DNF	16
Jo Siffert	14	DNF	16
Phil Hill	17	DNF	13
Sir Jack Brabham	6	DNF	12
Chris Amon	15	DNF	10
Innes Ireland	7	DNF	9
Giancarlo Baghetti	20	DNF	7
Willy Mairesse	3	DNF	7
Trevor Taylor	11	DNF	5

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Graham Hill	BRM	7	3:54.100	—	—
2	Dan Gurney	Brabham	18	3:55.000	+0.900	+0.900
3	Willy Mairesse	Ferrari	10	3:55.300	+1.200	+0.300
4	Tony Maggs	Cooper	15	3:56.000	+1.900	+0.700
5	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	14	3:56.200	+2.100	+0.200
6	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	17	3:56.600	+2.500	+0.400
7	Innes Ireland	BRP	4	3:56.900	+2.800	+0.300
8	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	1	3:57.100	+3.000	+0.200
9	Richie Ginther	BRM	8	3:57.600	+3.500	+0.500
10	John Surtees	Ferrari	9	3:57.900	+3.800	+0.300
11	Trevor Taylor	Team Lotus	2	3:58.100	+4.000	+0.200
12	Jim Hall	Team Lotus	5	4:00.100	+6.000	+2.000
13	Jo Bonnier	Cooper	12	4:00.100	+6.000	+0.000
14	Jo Siffert	Team Lotus	28	4:02.300	+8.200	+2.200
15	Chris Amon	Lola	21	4:04.900	+10.800	+2.600
16	Lucien Bianchi	Lola	22	4:06.500	+12.400	+1.600
17	Phil Hill	ATS	26	4:06.700	+12.600	+0.200
18	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	29	4:14.600	+20.500	+7.900
19	Tony Settember	Scirocco	24	4:25.200	+31.100	+10.600
20	Giancarlo Baghetti	ATS	27	4:33.600	+39.500	+8.400

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.

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: 2 of 1963
Grand Prix: Belgian Grand Prix
Dates: 9 Jun 1963
Layout raced: Original road circuit · 14.1 km · 19 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Team Lotus
Entrant: Lotus-Climax
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.