Race · Round 1 of 10 · 1 January 1965

1965 South African Grand Prix

Jim Clark won for Team Lotus from pole at Prince George Circuit. 5 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Prince George CircuitEast London, South Africa
Winner: Jim ClarkTeam Lotus
Pole: Jim Clark
Fastest lap: Jim Clark
Entries: 2815 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	—	1	85	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	John Surtees	Ferrari	—	2	85	Finished	6
3	Graham Hill	BRM	P261	5	85	Finished	4
4	Mike Spence	Team Lotus	—	4	85	Finished	3
5	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	—	8	84	Finished	2
6	Sir Jackie Stewart	BRM	P261	11	83	Finished	1
7	Jo Siffert	Brabham	BT11	14	83	Finished	0
8	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	—	3	81	Finished	0
9	Paul Hawkins	Brabham	BT10	16	81	Finished	0
10	Peter de Klerk	Alfa Special	Special	17	79	Finished	0
11	Tony Maggs	Team Lotus	—	13	77	Finished	0
12	Frank Gardner	Brabham	BT11	15	75	Finished	0
13	Sam Tingle	LDS	Mk 2	20	73	Finished	0
14	David Prophet	Brabham	BT10	19	71	Finished	0
15	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	—	6	66	Ignition	0
NC	Bob Anderson	Brabham	BT11	12	50	NC	0
DNF	Jo Bonnier	Brabham	BT7	7	42	Clutch	0
DNF	Jochen Rindt	Cooper	—	10	39	Electrical	0
DNF	John Love	Cooper	T55	18	20	Halfshaft	0
DNF	Dan Gurney	Brabham	—	9	11	Ignition	0
DNQ	Trevor Blokdyk	Cooper	T59	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Neville Lederle	Team Lotus	21	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Doug Serrurier	LDS	Mk 2	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Brausch Niemann	Team Lotus	22	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Ernie Pieterse	Team Lotus	21	—	—	DNQ	0
DNPQ	Clive Puzey	Team Lotus	18/21	—	—	DNPQ	0
DNPQ	Jackie Pretorius	LDS	Mk 1	—	—	DNPQ	0
DNPQ	Dave Charlton	Team Lotus	20	—	—	DNPQ	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
John Surtees	2	2	85
Graham Hill	5	3	85
Mike Spence	4	4	85
Bruce McLaren	8	5	84
Sir Jackie Stewart	11	6	83
Jo Siffert	14	7	83
Sir Jack Brabham	3	8	81
Paul Hawkins	16	9	81
Peter de Klerk	17	10	79
Tony Maggs	13	11	77
Frank Gardner	15	12	75
Sam Tingle	20	13	73
David Prophet	19	14	71
Lorenzo Bandini	6	15	66
Bob Anderson	12	NC	50
Jo Bonnier	7	DNF	42
Jochen Rindt	10	DNF	39
John Love	18	DNF	20
Dan Gurney	9	DNF	11

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	5	1:27.200	—	—
2	John Surtees	Ferrari	1	1:28.100	+0.900	+0.900
3	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	7	1:28.300	+1.100	+0.200
4	Mike Spence	Team Lotus	6	1:28.300	+1.100	+0.000
5	Graham Hill	BRM	3	1:28.600	+1.400	+0.300
6	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	2	1:29.300	+2.100	+0.700
7	Jo Bonnier	Brabham	11	1:29.300	+2.100	+0.000
8	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	9	1:29.400	+2.200	+0.100
9	Dan Gurney	Brabham	8	1:29.500	+2.300	+0.100
10	Jochen Rindt	Cooper	10	1:30.400	+3.200	+0.900
11	Sir Jackie Stewart	BRM	4	1:30.500	+3.300	+0.100
12	Bob Anderson	Brabham	14	1:31.000	+3.800	+0.500
13	Tony Maggs	Team Lotus	15	1:31.300	+4.100	+0.300
14	Jo Siffert	Brabham	12	1:31.800	+4.600	+0.500
15	Frank Gardner	Brabham	16	1:32.300	+5.100	+0.500
16	Paul Hawkins	Brabham	18	1:33.100	+5.900	+0.800
17	Peter de Klerk	Alfa Special	20	1:33.300	+6.100	+0.200
18	John Love	Cooper	17	1:33.800	+6.600	+0.500
19	David Prophet	Brabham	19	1:33.900	+6.700	+0.100
20	Sam Tingle	LDS	25	1:34.600	+7.400	+0.700
21	Trevor Blokdyk	Cooper	28	1:35.200	+8.000	+0.600
22	Neville Lederle	Team Lotus	23	1:35.200	+8.000	+0.000
23	Doug Serrurier	LDS	21	1:35.700	+8.500	+0.500
24	Brausch Niemann	Team Lotus	27	1:36.200	+9.000	+0.500
25	Ernie Pieterse	Team Lotus	22	1:37.900	+10.700	+1.700

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: 1 of 1965
Grand Prix: South African Grand Prix
Dates: 1 Jan 1965
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.