Race · Round 3 of 10 · 13 June 1965

1965 Belgian Grand Prix

Jim Clark won for Team Lotus from 2nd on the grid at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. 5 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Circuit de Spa-FrancorchampsStavelot, Belgium
Winner: Jim ClarkTeam Lotus
Pole: Graham Hill
Fastest lap: Jim Clark
Entries: 2114 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	—	2	32	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Sir Jackie Stewart	BRM	P261	3	32	Finished	6
3	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	—	9	31	Finished	4
4	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	—	10	31	Finished	3
5	Graham Hill	BRM	P261	1	31	Finished	2
6	Richie Ginther	Honda	RA272	4	31	Finished	1
7	Mike Spence	Team Lotus	—	12	31	Finished	0
8	Jo Siffert	Brabham	BT11	8	31	Finished	0
9	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	—	15	30	Finished	0
10	Dan Gurney	Brabham	—	5	30	Finished	0
11	Jochen Rindt	Cooper	—	14	29	Finished	0
12	Lucien Bianchi	BRM	P57	17	29	Finished	0
13	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	—	16	27	Finished	0
14	Richard Attwood	Team Lotus	—	13	26	Accident	0
DNF	Masten Gregory	BRM	P57	19	12	Fuel pump	0
DNF	Ronnie Bucknum	Honda	RA272	11	9	Gearbox	0
DNF	Jo Bonnier	Brabham	BT7	7	9	Ignition	0
DNF	John Surtees	Ferrari	—	6	5	Engine	0
DNF	Frank Gardner	Brabham	BT11	18	3	Ignition	0
DNS	Bob Anderson	Brabham	BT11	—	—	Engine	0
DNS	Willy Mairesse	BRM	P57	—	—	Withdrew	0

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

F1DB layout spa-francorchamps-1 · 14.12 km · 21 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	2	1	32
Sir Jackie Stewart	3	2	32
Bruce McLaren	9	3	31
Sir Jack Brabham	10	4	31
Graham Hill	1	5	31
Richie Ginther	4	6	31
Mike Spence	12	7	31
Jo Siffert	8	8	31
Lorenzo Bandini	15	9	30
Dan Gurney	5	10	30
Jochen Rindt	14	11	29
Lucien Bianchi	17	12	29
Innes Ireland	16	13	27
Richard Attwood	13	14	26
Masten Gregory	19	DNF	12
Ronnie Bucknum	11	DNF	9
Jo Bonnier	7	DNF	9
John Surtees	6	DNF	5
Frank Gardner	18	DNF	3

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Graham Hill	BRM	7	3:45.400	—	—
2	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	17	3:47.500	+2.100	+2.100
3	Sir Jackie Stewart	BRM	8	3:48.800	+3.400	+1.300
4	Richie Ginther	Honda	10	3:49.000	+3.600	+0.200
5	Dan Gurney	Brabham	15	3:49.200	+3.800	+0.200
6	John Surtees	Ferrari	1	3:49.500	+4.100	+0.300
7	Jo Bonnier	Brabham	20	3:49.700	+4.300	+0.200
8	Jo Siffert	Brabham	21	3:50.700	+5.300	+1.000
9	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	4	3:51.300	+5.900	+0.600
10	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	14	3:51.500	+6.100	+0.200
11	Ronnie Bucknum	Honda	11	3:52.300	+6.900	+0.800
12	Mike Spence	Team Lotus	18	3:52.600	+7.200	+0.300
13	Richard Attwood	Team Lotus	23	3:53.200	+7.800	+0.600
14	Jochen Rindt	Cooper	5	3:53.300	+7.900	+0.100
15	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	2	3:54.000	+8.600	+0.700
16	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	22	3:57.400	+12.000	+3.400
17	Lucien Bianchi	BRM	27	3:59.000	+13.600	+1.600
18	Frank Gardner	Brabham	26	3:59.400	+14.000	+0.400
19	Bob Anderson	Brabham	24	3:59.800	+14.400	+0.400
20	Masten Gregory	BRM	29	4:02.800	+17.400	+3.000
21	Willy Mairesse	BRM	28	—	—	—

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: 3 of 1965
Grand Prix: Belgian Grand Prix
Dates: 13 Jun 1965
Layout raced: Original road circuit · 14.1 km · 19 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.