1962 South African GP

## Track Facts

* Name – Prince George
* Location – South Africa
* Corners – 8
* Laps – 82
* Base (Worst) Lap Time – 1:55.000
* Lap Record (Real Life) – 1:29.300 (Jim Clark)
* Lap Record (F1R) – N/A (Never raced here before)
* Pit Lane Length – 25 seconds
* Fuel Consumption – Medium to High
* Tyre Wear – Medium to High

## Qualifying & Grid

No Porsche in South Africa, as the German manufacturer will finish 10th place in the standings, while it's a Ferrari 1-2 here with von Trips leading Gregory on the grid. Love lines up 3rd for Gilby, while it's a surprise for Brabham to have Phil Hill 4th and Maggs 5th overall!

Graham Hill lines up 6th for Gilby, with a decisive advantage in this final race, while Bonnier and McLaren start 7th and 8th for Cooper, with Vaccarella 9th for Gilby and needing a small miracle! The Italian needs to win the race and see Graham Hill finish no higher than 5th - and that looks challenging to say the least right now.

Gurney and Siffert are 10th and 12th for Lotus, with Rodríguez sandwiched in between them for Cooper, while Penske isn't quite as quick as his Brabham team-mates back in 13th on the grid. The Emeryson duo are 14th and 15th, with Baghetti ahead of Collomb...though with 0.5 seconds or so separating 1st from 15th this promises to be a really close race!

The BRM trio are next up with Salvadori ahead of Surtees and Lippi, with Greene in the sole LDS ahead of Ireland and Mairesse in the Lola's.

## Race Link

https://race.f1revisited.co.uk/results/prince-george/1962/9af429df-c7e9-4dcd-8930-7ffeac1caa43

## Race Results

Graham Hill crosses the line to take his maiden F1 Revisited title in style, some 4.5 seconds ahead of outgoing Champion Wolfgang von Trips, who bids farewell to the series after an impressive career (perhaps 2nd only to the great Bob Gerard).

Collomb meanwhile is at the genesis of his career and puts in an INCREDIBLE performance to hold onto 3rd place and ensure that secure the coveted Top 5 position in the Teams' Standings - plus claim Fastest Lap in the process (which he almost breaks again in this final tour!). Gurney's 4th place means he should just hold onto a Top 3 spot in the standings, while Vaccarella's 5th ensures he remains 2nd overall and bows out of F1R there.

Love comes home 6th with hopes of a better season next time out, while Bonnier is left looking at what might have been after one stint with damage cost him enough time to ruin his Podium potential.

Rodríguez finishes 8th to also bid farewell to F1R, along with Penske in a creditable 10th for Brabham (wonder what the American will go onto in the future...!?!), while Surtees finishes in between them in 9th overall.
Salvadori has had the longest career in F1R history, which comes to an end here also, with an 11th placed finish (though punctuated by some fine moments on track today!), with McLaren 12th, Maggs 13th, Baghetti 14th, Gregory 15th, Hill 16th, Lippi 17th and Siffert 18th, as many of those count the cost of collisions earlier in the race.

Ireland and Mairesse round out the Top 20 for Lola, while Greene completes his final race - and the final result of the season - down in 21st place.

## Milestones

* 80th (and final) race entry for Salvadori
* 50th race entry for de Beaufort
* Also the final race for von Trips, Rodríguez, Greene, Penske and the Emeryson team
* Bonnier and von Trips both move past Bob Gerard into 4th and 5th for Most Race Entries ever!
* von Trips moves up to 2nd for Most Race Starts ever, at the expense of Bob Gerard
* Bonnier moves up to 5th for Most Race Starts ever, at the expense of Jack Fairman
* de Beaufort moves up to 4th for Most Races without a Win, at the expense of Ron Flockhart
* Gregory moves up to 6th for Most Races without a Win, at the expense of José Froilán González and Carlos Menditeguy
* Clark moves up to 4th for Most Races without Points, at the expense of Cliff Allison
* Graham Hill moves up to 6th for Most Wins at the expense of Hans Herrmann, Paul Pietsch and Peter Whitehead
* There has never been a race in South Africa before, so there are no previous winners, Pole-sitters or Fastest Lap holders. Therefore this is a first win here for Graham Hill!
* von Trips secures his 40th points finish ever (something only achieved by one other driver – Bob Gerard of course!)
* Gurney finishes in the points and moves up to 9th for Most Races Finished in the Points ever at the expense of Peter Collins
* A points finish for Graham Hill makes it his 7th consecutive points finish, putting him inside the all-time Top 10 Points-scoring streaks of all time (up to 9th at the expense of Paul Pietsch and Toulo de Graffenried)
* A points finish for Love makes it his 6th consecutive points finish
* A points finish for Gurney and von Trips makes it their 2nd consecutive points finish
* Bernard Collomb sets his 1st ever Fastest Lap – and the 1st ever Fastest Lap at the South African GP here!
* Pole for von Trips makes him the 1st driver to take Pole at the South African GP