Race · Round 4 of 10 · 30 June 1963

1963 French Grand Prix

Jim Clark won for Team Lotus from pole at Reims-Gueux. 6 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Reims-GueuxGueux, France
Winner: Jim ClarkTeam Lotus
Pole: Jim Clark
Fastest lap: Jim Clark
Entries: 2113 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	25	1	53	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Tony Maggs	Cooper	T66	8	53	Finished	6
3	Graham Hill (see the note under the table)	BRM	—	2	53	Finished	0
4	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	—	5	53	Finished	3
5	Dan Gurney	Brabham	—	3	53	Finished	2
6	Jo Siffert	Team Lotus	24	10	52	Finished	1
7	Chris Amon	Lola	Mk 4A	15	51	Finished	0
8	Maurice Trintignant	Team Lotus	24	14	50	Finished	0
9	Innes Ireland	BRP	Mk 1	9	49	Finished	0
10	Lorenzo Bandini	BRM	P57	19	45	Finished	0
11	Jim Hall	Team Lotus	24	16	45	Finished	0
12	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	T66	6	42	Ignition	0
13	Trevor Taylor	Team Lotus	25	7	41	Suspension	0
NC	Phil Hill	Team Lotus	24	13	34	NC	0
NC	Jo Bonnier	Cooper	—	11	32	NC	0
DNF	Masten Gregory	Team Lotus	24	17	30	Gearbox	0
DNF	John Surtees	Ferrari	156	4	12	Fuel pump	0
DNF	Tony Settember	Scirocco	SP	18	5	Wheel bearing	0
DNF	Richie Ginther	BRM	—	12	4	Radiator	0
DNS	Ludovico Scarfiotti	Ferrari	156	—	—	Accident in practice	0
DNS	Peter Arundell	Team Lotus	25	—	—	DNS	0

* Graham Hill: Push-started on the grid, for which the organisers gave a one-minute penalty; no championship points were awarded for his third place. A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout reims-2 · 8.302 km · 7 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	53
Tony Maggs	8	2	53
Graham Hill	2	3	53
Sir Jack Brabham	5	4	53
Dan Gurney	3	5	53
Jo Siffert	10	6	52
Chris Amon	15	7	51
Maurice Trintignant	14	8	50
Innes Ireland	9	9	49
Lorenzo Bandini	19	10	45
Jim Hall	16	11	45
Bruce McLaren	6	12	42
Trevor Taylor	7	13	41
Phil Hill	13	NC	34
Jo Bonnier	11	NC	32
Masten Gregory	17	DNF	30
John Surtees	4	DNF	12
Tony Settember	18	DNF	5
Richie Ginther	12	DNF	4

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	18	2:20.200	—	—
2	Graham Hill	BRM	2	2:20.900	+0.700	+0.700
3	Dan Gurney	Brabham	8	2:21.700	+1.500	+0.800
4	John Surtees	Ferrari	16	2:21.900	+1.700	+0.200
5	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	6	2:21.900	+1.700	+0.000
6	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	10	2:22.500	+2.300	+0.600
7	Trevor Taylor	Team Lotus	20	2:23.700	+3.500	+1.200
8	Tony Maggs	Cooper	12	2:24.400	+4.200	+0.700
9	Innes Ireland	BRP	32	2:25.100	+4.900	+0.700
10	Jo Siffert	Team Lotus	36	2:25.200	+5.000	+0.100
11	Jo Bonnier	Cooper	44	2:25.700	+5.500	+0.500
12	Richie Ginther	BRM	4	2:25.900	+5.700	+0.200
13	Ludovico Scarfiotti	Ferrari	14	2:27.000	+6.800	+1.100
14	Phil Hill	Team Lotus	42	2:27.700	+7.500	+0.700
15	Maurice Trintignant	Team Lotus	28	2:28.300	+8.100	+0.600
16	Peter Arundell	Team Lotus	22	2:28.500	+8.300	+0.200
17	Chris Amon	Lola	30	2:30.500	+10.300	+2.000
18	Jim Hall	Team Lotus	34	2:30.900	+10.700	+0.400
19	Masten Gregory	Team Lotus	48	2:33.200	+13.000	+2.300
20	Tony Settember	Scirocco	38	2:36.700	+16.500	+3.500
21	Lorenzo Bandini	BRM	46	2:37.800	+17.600	+1.100

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: 4 of 1963
Grand Prix: French Grand Prix
Dates: 30 Jun 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.