Race · Round 10 of 10 · 24 October 1965

1965 Mexican Grand Prix

Richie Ginther won for Honda from 3rd on the grid at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. 9 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Richie Ginther and for Honda, and the first championship podium for Mike Spence.

Circuit: Autodromo Hermanos RodriguezMexico City, Mexico
Winner: Richie GintherHonda
Pole: Jim Clark
Fastest lap: Dan Gurney
Entries: 198 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Richie Ginther	Honda	RA272	3	65	Finished	9
2	Dan Gurney	Brabham	—	2	65	Finished	6	fastest lap
3	Mike Spence	Team Lotus	—	6	65	Finished	4
4	Jo Siffert	Brabham	BT11	11	65	Finished	3
5	Ronnie Bucknum	Honda	RA272	10	64	Finished	2
6	Richard Attwood	Team Lotus	—	16	64	Finished	1
7	Pedro Rodriguez	Ferrari	—	13	62	Finished	0
8	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	—	7	62	Finished	0
DNF	Graham Hill	BRM	P261	5	56	Engine	0
DNF	Moisés Solana	Team Lotus	—	9	55	Ignition	0
DNF	Jo Bonnier	Brabham	BT7	12	43	Suspension	0
DNF	Jochen Rindt	Cooper	—	15	39	Ignition	0
DNF	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	—	4	38	Oil leak	0
DNF	Sir Jackie Stewart	BRM	P261	8	35	Clutch	0
DNF	Bob Bondurant	Team Lotus	—	17	29	Suspension	0
DNF	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	—	14	25	Gearbox	0
DNF	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	—	1	8	Engine	0
DNS	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	—	—	—	Car raced by Bondurant	0
DNS	Ludovico Scarfiotti	Ferrari	—	—	—	Car raced by Rodríguez	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
Richie Ginther	3	1	65
Dan Gurney	2	2	65
Mike Spence	6	3	65
Jo Siffert	11	4	65
Ronnie Bucknum	10	5	64
Richard Attwood	16	6	64
Pedro Rodriguez	13	7	62
Lorenzo Bandini	7	8	62
Graham Hill	5	DNF	56
Moisés Solana	9	DNF	55
Jo Bonnier	12	DNF	43
Jochen Rindt	15	DNF	39
Sir Jack Brabham	4	DNF	38
Sir Jackie Stewart	8	DNF	35
Bob Bondurant	17	DNF	29
Bruce McLaren	14	DNF	25
Jim Clark	1	DNF	8

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	5	1:56.170	—	—
2	Dan Gurney	Brabham	8	1:56.240	+0.070	+0.070
3	Richie Ginther	Honda	11	1:56.480	+0.310	+0.240
4	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	7	1:56.780	+0.610	+0.300
5	Graham Hill	BRM	3	1:57.060	+0.890	+0.280
6	Mike Spence	Team Lotus	6	1:57.220	+1.050	+0.160
7	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	2	1:57.310	+1.140	+0.090
8	Sir Jackie Stewart	BRM	4	1:57.530	+1.360	+0.220
9	Moisés Solana	Team Lotus	18	1:57.550	+1.380	+0.020
10	Ronnie Bucknum	Honda	12	1:57.880	+1.710	+0.330
11	Jo Siffert	Brabham	16	1:57.940	+1.770	+0.060
12	Jo Bonnier	Brabham	15	1:58.220	+2.050	+0.280
13	Ludovico Scarfiotti	Ferrari	24	1:58.930	+2.760	+0.710
14	Pedro Rodriguez	Ferrari	14	1:59.060	+2.890	+0.130
15	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	9	1:59.150	+2.980	+0.090
16	Jochen Rindt	Cooper	10	1:59.300	+3.130	+0.150
17	Richard Attwood	Team Lotus	21	2:00.610	+4.440	+1.310
18	Bob Bondurant	Team Lotus	22	2:00.800	+4.630	+0.190
19	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	22	2:02.360	+6.190	+1.560

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.

Where this comes from

Round: 10 of 1965
Grand Prix: Mexican Grand Prix
Dates: 24 Oct 1965
Layout raced: Original circuit · 5 km · 15 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Honda
Entrant: Honda
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.