1962 Monaco GP

## Track Facts

* Name – Monaco
* Location – Monte Carlo
* Corners – 12
* Laps – 100
* Base (Worst) Lap Time – 2:30.000
* Lap Record (Real Life) – 1:35.400 (Jim Clark)
* Lap Record (F1R) – 1:32.585 (Giuseppe Farina – W Hoeksta)
* Pit Lane Length – 35 seconds
* Fuel Consumption – Very Low
* Tyre Wear – Low

## Qualifying & Grid

Bonnier - the Pole Specialist - claims another Pole Position here (his 10th ever - only Bob Gerard has achieved more!) after withstanding late pressure from his team-mates and others...though a surprise front-row start for Lola and the returning Ireland, who comes back and claims 2nd on the grid for the fledgling outfit! McLaren and Rodríguez start 3rd and 4th for Cooper, with the Lola for Mairesse in 5th.

Ferrari are next up, as Gregory continues to compete effectively with von Trips by putting himself just ahead of the reigning Champion on the grid. Lotus start inside the Top 10, with Siffert 8th and Gurney 9th, while Salvadori does well to put his BRM inside the Top 10 also...

...De Beaufort in 11th has Porsche's fortunes going in the right direction, while Brabham are 12th with Maggs and 14th with Phil Hill narrowly ahead of LDS, who have Bianchi 13th and Greene 15th. Trintignant is 16th for Porsche, while Gilby start 17th, 18th and 20th for Hill, Love and Vaccarella respectively. Surtees also puts his BRM inside the Top 20, in 19th overall.

Bandini 21st, Clark 22nd and Baghetti 23rd fail to time their final runs in time to get out on track while qualifying was still continuing, which makes it a fairly dire qualifying effort for Emeryson as Ginther only starts 24th after finishing his laps - though is at least ahead of Lippi's BRM, who has a tough qualifying session himself.

## Race Link

https://race.f1revisited.co.uk/results/monte-carlo/1962/ff343013-631e-4444-8acd-d96c60b68fa3

## Race Results

Gurney claims his 2nd ever victory, after his triumph in Italy last season - although this one was arguably much harder, considering how much pressure he was under! Winning from 9th on the grid is also enough to make it one of the Top 10 drives to victory in F1R history...

Phil Hill claims an impressive 2nd position for Brabham (their first points and podium ever!), while Bonnier ends up 3rd for Cooper in what is still a decent result for the Championship leader. Greene claims 4th for LDS, to take home their 1st ever points, while 5th for Gregory is not the level Ferrari are used to achieving...

Salvadori rounds out the points scorers in what may be his final Monaco GP, while 7th for Ireland must constitute a succesful return for the Lola driver!

McLaren finishes 8th for Cooper, with Rodríguez 9th and Mairesse rounding out the Top 10 in what is a solid race for Lola overall!

Graham Hill finishes 11th but can comfort himself with taking Fastest Lap back on Lap 75, while Maggs produces a decent comeback drive to finish 12th and provide real hope for Brabham's pace in the future! Vaccarella finishes 13th, with von Trips a lowly 14th by Ferrari's standards. Bandini is 15th from Trintignant, Bianchi and Siffert, while de Beaufort recovers to 19th place to at least record a Top 20 finish for Porsche. Surtees rounds out the Top 20 for BRM, with Salvadori's pace seemingly not something the British team can replicate with their other cars right now!

Clark, Baghetti, Lippi and Ginther all finish the race, while Love is still pushing his Gilby towards the finishing line after the fuel errors made by the team.

The next F1R race will be the Belgian GP at Spa-Francorchamps...

## Milestones

* 10th race entry for Baghetti, Bandini, Maggs, Rodríguez & Vaccarella
* Baghetti and Rodríguez take their 10th Race Starts here
* Von Trips moves ahead of Peter Collins into 5th for Most Race Starts Ever
* Trintignant moves ahead of Hawthorn into 7th for the Most Race Starts Ever
* De Beaufort is up to 5th for the Most Races without a Win ever, at the expense of both Carlos Menditeguy and José Froilán González
* Gurney wins and thus replaces Rodríguez in the Top 10 for Most Wins ever!
* Gurney’s victory from 9th on the grid is one better than winning from 8th on the grid in his 1st race win (last season at the Italian GP), which knocks Hermann Lang’s 8th place at the 1954 Italian GP out of the Top 10.
* Tony Brooks (retired) won last season’s Monaco GP, while Phil Hill won in 1960; other past winners are von Trips (’59), Brabham (’58), Bob Gerard (’56 and ’57 – retired), Giuseppe Farina (’55 - retired) and Toulo de Graffenried (’50 - retired).
* 4 points for Bonnier is enough to take him up to 4th in Most Points ever, at the expense of Peter Whitehead – and he also becomes only the 4th driver to break the 100 points mark (after Bob Gerard, von Trips and Paul Pietsch!)
* Bonnier finishes in the points and so moves up to 4th for Most Races Finished in the Points ever, at the expense of Paul Pietsch
* Bonnier becomes the driver to have the Most Points without winning a Drivers’ Championship, at the expense of Peter Whitehead – while Gurney is up to 7th in that particular statistic, at the expense of Trintignant and Stirling Moss
* Bonnier takes his 4th consecutive points finish here!
* A points finish for Gregory makes it his 2nd consecutive points finish
* FL for Graham Hill moves him up to 6th in Most Fastest Laps, at the expense of Brabham, Peter Collins, Onofre Marimón and Ken Wharton
* FL at Monaco last season was Jack Fairman (retired), while in 1960 it was Gregory; other past FLs were Jean Behra (’59 - retired), Salvadori (’58); Peter Collins (’57 – retired), Bob Gerard (’56 – retired), Giuseppe Farina (‘55 – retired) and Luigi Fagioli (’50 – retired)
* Pole for Bonnier is his 10th Pole ever (only Bob Gerard has managed more!)
* Pole at Monaco last season was Tony Brooks (retired), before that it was Phil Hill, while past Pole-sitters were Ron Flockhart (’59 – retired), Brabham (’58), Bob Gerard (’56 and ’57 – retired), Giuseppe Farina (’55 – retired) and Paul Pietsch (’50 – retired)
* Podium for Bonnier moves him into 3rd for Most Podiums ever, at the expense of Paul Pietsch and Peter Whitehead
* Podium for von Bonnier makes it two consecutive Podium finishes for him