Race · Round 5 of 10 · 20 July 1963

1963 British Grand Prix

Jim Clark won for Team Lotus from pole at Silverstone Circuit. 10 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Silverstone CircuitSilverstone, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Winner: Jim ClarkTeam Lotus
Pole: Jim Clark
Fastest lap: John Surtees
Entries: 2313 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	25	1	82	Finished	9
2	John Surtees	Ferrari	156	5	82	Finished	6	fastest lap
3	Graham Hill	BRM	—	3	82	Finished	4
4	Richie Ginther	BRM	—	9	81	Finished	3
5	Lorenzo Bandini	BRM	P57	8	81	Finished	2
6	Jim Hall	Team Lotus	24	13	80	Finished	1
7	Chris Amon	Lola	Mk 4A	14	80	Finished	0
8	Mike Hailwood	Team Lotus	24	17	78	Finished	0
9	Tony Maggs	Cooper	T66	7	78	Finished	0
10	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	718	21	76	Finished	0
11	Masten Gregory	Team Lotus	24	22	75	Finished	0
12	Bob Anderson	Lola	Mk 4	16	75	Finished	0
13	John Campbell-Jones	Lola	Mk 4	23	74	Finished	0
DNF	Jo Siffert	Team Lotus	24	15	66	Gearbox	0
DNF	Jo Bonnier	Cooper	—	12	65	Oil pressure	0
DNF	Dan Gurney	Brabham	—	2	59	Engine	0
DNF	Ian Raby	Gilby	62	19	59	Gearbox	0
DNF	Ian Burgess	Scirocco	SP	20	36	Ignition	0
DNF	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	—	4	27	Engine	0
DNF	Innes Ireland	BRP	Mk 1	11	26	Ignition	0
DNF	Trevor Taylor	Team Lotus	25	10	23	Fuel pump	0
DNF	Tony Settember	Scirocco	SP	18	20	Ignition	0
DNF	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	T66	6	6	Engine	0

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

F1DB layout silverstone-1 · 4.649 km · 8 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	82
John Surtees	5	2	82
Graham Hill	3	3	82
Richie Ginther	9	4	81
Lorenzo Bandini	8	5	81
Jim Hall	13	6	80
Chris Amon	14	7	80
Mike Hailwood	17	8	78
Tony Maggs	7	9	78
Carel Godin de Beaufort	21	10	76
Masten Gregory	22	11	75
Bob Anderson	16	12	75
John Campbell-Jones	23	13	74
Jo Siffert	15	DNF	66
Jo Bonnier	12	DNF	65
Dan Gurney	2	DNF	59
Ian Raby	19	DNF	59
Ian Burgess	20	DNF	36
Sir Jack Brabham	4	DNF	27
Innes Ireland	11	DNF	26
Trevor Taylor	10	DNF	23
Tony Settember	18	DNF	20
Bruce McLaren	6	DNF	6

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	4	1:34.400	—	—
2	Dan Gurney	Brabham	9	1:34.600	+0.200	+0.200
3	Graham Hill	BRM	1	1:34.800	+0.400	+0.200
4	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	8	1:35.000	+0.600	+0.200
5	John Surtees	Ferrari	10	1:35.200	+0.800	+0.200
6	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	6	1:35.400	+1.000	+0.200
7	Tony Maggs	Cooper	7	1:36.000	+1.600	+0.600
8	Lorenzo Bandini	BRM	3	1:36.000	+1.600	+0.000
9	Richie Ginther	BRM	2	1:36.000	+1.600	+0.000
10	Trevor Taylor	Team Lotus	5	1:36.800	+2.400	+0.800
11	Innes Ireland	BRP	11	1:36.800	+2.400	+0.000
12	Jo Bonnier	Cooper	14	1:36.800	+2.400	+0.000
13	Jim Hall	Team Lotus	12	1:37.000	+2.600	+0.200
14	Chris Amon	Lola	19	1:37.200	+2.800	+0.200
15	Jo Siffert	Team Lotus	25	1:38.400	+4.000	+1.200
16	Bob Anderson	Lola	22	1:39.000	+4.600	+0.600
17	Mike Hailwood	Team Lotus	20	1:39.800	+5.400	+0.800
18	Tony Settember	Scirocco	15	1:40.800	+6.400	+1.000
19	Ian Raby	Gilby	26	1:42.400	+8.000	+1.600
20	Ian Burgess	Scirocco	16	1:42.600	+8.200	+0.200
21	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	23	1:43.400	+9.000	+0.800
22	Masten Gregory	Team Lotus	21	1:44.200	+9.800	+0.800
23	John Campbell-Jones	Lola	24	1:48.800	+14.400	+4.600

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: 5 of 1963
Grand Prix: British Grand Prix
Dates: 20 Jul 1963
Layout raced: Perimeter, pits moved · 4.711 km · 8 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.