1962 Formula One season

The **1962 Formula One season** saw Graham Hill crowned as champion.

## Season review

|Rnd|Race|Date|Location|Winning driver|Constructor|Report|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Dutch Grand Prix|May 20|Zandvoort|Graham Hill|BRM|Report||
|Monaco Grand Prix|June 3|Monaco|Bruce McLaren|Cooper-Climax|Report||
|Belgian Grand Prix|June 17|Spa-Francorchamps|Jim Clark|Lotus-Climax|Report||
|French Grand Prix|July 8|Rouen-Les-Essarts|Dan Gurney|Porsche|Report||
|British Grand Prix|July 21|Aintree|Jim Clark|Lotus-Climax|Report||
|German Grand Prix|August 5|Nürburgring|Graham Hill|BRM|Report||
|Italian Grand Prix|September 16|Monza|Graham Hill|BRM|Report||
|United States Grand Prix|October 7|Watkins Glen|Jim Clark|Lotus-Climax|Report||
|South African Grand Prix|December 29|Prince George|Graham Hill|BRM|Report||

## 1962 Drivers Championship final standings

|valign="middle"|Pos.|valign="middle"|Driver|NED|MON|BEL|FRA|GBR|GER|ITA|USA|RSA|valign="middle"|Pts.|||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 85%"|||||||||||||||||||||
|Graham Hill|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|6|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|align="right"|**42 (52)**|
|Jim Clark|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**30**|
|Bruce McLaren|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|align="right"|**27 (32)**|
|John Surtees|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**19**|
|Dan Gurney|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#ffffbf"|1|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|13|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5||align="right"|**15**|||
|Phil Hill|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|||align="right"|**14**||||
|Tony Maggs|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|6|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|align="right"|**13**|
|Richie Ginther|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|13|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|align="right"|**10**|
|Jack Brabham|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|6|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|align="right"|**9**||
|Trevor Taylor|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|2|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**6**|
|Giancarlo Baghetti|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|||align="right"|**5**||||||
|Lorenzo Bandini||bgcolor="#ffdf9f"|3||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|||align="right"|**4**|||||||
|Ricardo Rodríguez|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|6|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|14|||align="right"|**4**||||||
|Willy Mairesse||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|4|||align="right"|**3**|||||||
|Joakim Bonnier|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|6|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|13||align="right"|**3**|||
|Innes Ireland|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|16||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|5|align="right"|**2**||
|Carel Godin de Beaufort|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|6|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|6|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|14|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|13|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|align="right"|**2**|
|Masten Gregory|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|WD|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12|bgcolor="#dfffdf"|6||align="right"|**1**|||
|Neville Lederle|||||||||bgcolor="#dfffdf"|6|align="right"|**1**|||||||||
|Maurice Trintignant||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|7||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**||||
|Jackie Lewis|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||align="right"|**0**|||||
|John Love|||||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|8|align="right"|**0**|||||||||
|Nino Vaccarella||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|15|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Lucien Bianchi|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|16||||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Roger Penske||||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9||align="right"|**0**|||||||||
|Bruce Johnstone|||||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|9|align="right"|**0**|||||||||
|Jo Siffert||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|||align="right"|**0**|||||
|Rob Schroeder||||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10||align="right"|**0**|||||||||
|Ernie Pieterse|||||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|10|align="right"|**0**|||||||||
|Ian Burgess|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|12|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Tony Settember|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|John Campbell-Jones|||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11|||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||||
|Hap Sharp||||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|11||align="right"|**0**|||||||||
|Heini Walter||||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|14||||align="right"|**0**|||||||||
|Jay Chamberlain|||||bgcolor="#cfcfff"|15|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Wolfgang Seidel|bgcolor="#cfcfff"|NC||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ||||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Roy Salvadori|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|WD|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|||
|Tony Shelly|||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|||align="right"|**0**|||||||
|Keith Greene||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|||align="right"|**0**||||||||
|Ben Pon|bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|||||||||align="right"|**0**|||||||||
|Heinz Schiller||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||align="right"|**0**|||||||||
|Bernard Collomb||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||||align="right"|**0**|||||||||
|Timmy Mayer||||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret||align="right"|**0**|||||||||
|Doug Serrurier|||||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|||||||||
|Mike Harris|||||||||bgcolor="#efcfff"|Ret|align="right"|**0**|||||||||
|Günther Seiffert||||||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ||||align="right"|**0**|||||||||
|Gerry Ashmore|||||||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|||align="right"|**0**|||||||||
|Ernesto Prinoth|||||||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|||align="right"|**0**|||||||||
|Roberto Lippi|||||||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|||align="right"|**0**|||||||||
|Nasif Estéfano|||||||bgcolor="#ffcfcf"|DNQ|||align="right"|**0**|||||||||
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- Only the best 5 results counted towards the Championship. Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.