Race · Round 9 of 10 · 27 October 1963

1963 Mexican Grand Prix

Jim Clark won for Team Lotus from pole at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. 10 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Autodromo Hermanos RodriguezMexico City, Mexico
Winner: Jim ClarkTeam Lotus
Pole: Jim Clark
Fastest lap: Jim Clark
Entries: 2211 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	25	1	65	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	—	10	65	Finished	6
3	Richie Ginther	BRM	—	5	65	Finished	4
4	Graham Hill	BRM	—	3	64	Finished	3
5	Jo Bonnier	Cooper	—	8	62	Finished	2
6	Dan Gurney	Brabham	—	4	62	Finished	1
7	Hap Sharp	Team Lotus	24	16	61	Finished	0
8	Jim Hall	Team Lotus	24	15	60	Finished	0
9	Jo Siffert	Team Lotus	24	9	59	Finished	0
10	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	718	18	58	Finished	0
11	Moisés Solana	BRM	P57	11	57	Engine	0
DNF	Phil Hill	ATS	100	17	40	Suspension	0
DNF	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	156	7	36	Ignition	0
DNF	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	T66	6	30	Engine	0
DNF	Pedro Rodriguez	Team Lotus	25	20	26	Suspension	0
DNF	Masten Gregory	Lola	Mk 4A	14	23	Suspension	0
DNF	Trevor Taylor	Team Lotus	25	12	19	Engine	0
DSQ	John Surtees	Ferrari	156	2	19	Push start	0
DNF	Giancarlo Baghetti	ATS	100	21	12	Engine	0
DNF	Chris Amon	Team Lotus	24	19	9	Gearbox	0
DNF	Tony Maggs	Cooper	T66	13	7	Engine	0
DNQ	Frank Dochnal	Cooper	T51	—	—	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 mexico-city-1 · 5 km · 14 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	65
Sir Jack Brabham	10	2	65
Richie Ginther	5	3	65
Graham Hill	3	4	64
Jo Bonnier	8	5	62
Dan Gurney	4	6	62
Hap Sharp	16	7	61
Jim Hall	15	8	60
Jo Siffert	9	9	59
Carel Godin de Beaufort	18	10	58
Moisés Solana	11	11	57
Phil Hill	17	DNF	40
Lorenzo Bandini	7	DNF	36
Bruce McLaren	6	DNF	30
Pedro Rodriguez	20	DNF	26
Masten Gregory	14	DNF	23
Trevor Taylor	12	DNF	19
John Surtees	2	DSQ	19
Giancarlo Baghetti	21	DNF	12
Chris Amon	19	DNF	9
Tony Maggs	13	DNF	7

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	8	1:58.800	—	—
2	John Surtees	Ferrari	23	2:00.500	+1.700	+1.700
3	Graham Hill	BRM	1	2:00.600	+1.800	+0.100
4	Dan Gurney	Brabham	6	2:01.600	+2.800	+1.000
5	Richie Ginther	BRM	2	2:01.800	+3.000	+0.200
6	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	3	2:02.300	+3.500	+0.500
7	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	24	2:02.400	+3.600	+0.100
8	Jo Bonnier	Cooper	11	2:02.600	+3.800	+0.200
9	Jo Siffert	Team Lotus	14	2:03.300	+4.500	+0.700
10	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	5	2:03.600	+4.800	+0.300
11	Moisés Solana	BRM	13	2:04.100	+5.300	+0.500
12	Trevor Taylor	Team Lotus	9	2:04.900	+6.100	+0.800
13	Tony Maggs	Cooper	4	2:05.200	+6.400	+0.300
14	Masten Gregory	Lola	17	2:05.500	+6.700	+0.300
15	Jim Hall	Team Lotus	16	2:06.100	+7.300	+0.600
16	Hap Sharp	Team Lotus	22	2:07.700	+8.900	+1.600
17	Phil Hill	ATS	25	2:13.600	+14.800	+5.900
18	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	12	2:14.100	+15.300	+0.500
19	Chris Amon	Team Lotus	18	2:14.700	+15.900	+0.600
20	Pedro Rodriguez	Team Lotus	10	2:15.300	+16.500	+0.600
21	Giancarlo Baghetti	ATS	26	2:22.300	+23.500	+7.000

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.

1 more photograph

Where this comes from

Round: 9 of 1963
Grand Prix: Mexican Grand Prix
Dates: 27 Oct 1963
Layout raced: Original circuit · 5 km · 15 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.