1962 German GP

## Track Facts

* Name – Nurburgring Nordschleife
* Location – Germany
* Corners – 24
* Laps – 15
* Base (Worst) Lap Time – 11:00.000
* Lap Record (Real Life) – 8:55.200 (Phil Hill)
* Lap Record (F1R) – 8:47.200 (Dan Gurney)
* Pit Lane Length – 40 seconds
* Fuel Consumption – Very High
* Tyre Wear – Extremely High

## Qualifying & Grid

Von Trips takes Pole Position for the 2nd race - and the 2nd German GP - in a row! Ferrari look a far more serious proposition of late, as confirmed by Gregory lining up in 2nd place. Gilby are also on it, with Graham Hill the main challenger to Ferrari in 3rd, with Vaccarella 4th and Love 6th. Bonnier in the Cooper and Gurney in the Lotus are also in the mix in 5th and 7th respectively, with just 4 seconds over this 9 minute+ lap separating the Top 7 drivers!

Siffert in the Lotus is 8th, with Phil Hill a strong 9th for Brabham and an impressive debut for Collomb sees him put his Emeryson into 10th on the grid. McLaren puts his Cooper into 11th, though he didn't finish his laps so there is surely more potential to come from the Kiwi, while Baghetti looks to have a competent team-mate at last for Emeryson, with 12th place on the grid one of the first times this season he has been outqualified by a team-mate!

Maggs is 13th for Brabham, before the BRM trio of Lippi, Surtees and Salvadori. Rodríguez is another Cooper not to have finished his laps, so will surely have more pace to come in the race from 17th on the grid...with Greene and Ireland both having accidents meaning they start 18th and 19th overall.

## Race Link

https://race.f1revisited.co.uk/results/nurburgring/1962/18f40a6e-5a23-472a-87e4-8812e7961b1d

## Race Results

Hill crosses the line for his 3rd race victory in a row! That makes him only the 4th driver to ever achieve that particular feat in F1R history...!

Vaccarella comes home a solid 2nd place, while Gregory does well to claim 3rd position (plus the Fastest Lap back on Lap 7!) and hold off the advances of Love in 4th and von Trips in a surprising 5th after the former German GP legend struggled somewhat today.

Gurney claims the final points position in 6th, with Siffert 7th for Lotus, with Baghetti struggling home for 8th ahead of the Cooper duo of Bonnier and McLaren.

The BRM trio of Lippi, Surtees and Salvadori are next up, with the Brabham duo of Phil Hill and Maggs next up.

Greene, Collomb and Ireland are the final finishers today after a tough race in the Green Hell for everyone concerned...!

The next race will be the Italian GP at Monza...

## Race Setups

**How close setups were to perfect (DRY)**

**How close setups were to perfect (WET)**

## Milestones

* 40th race entry for Gregory (could this finally be the one where he gets his 1st win?!?)
* 30th race entry for Ireland
* Bonnier and von Trips up to 5th and 6th for Most Races Ever, at the expense of Jack Fairman
* Bonnier records his 50th Race Start (only 7 drivers have ever achieved that before)
* Ireland and McLaren both record their 30th Race Start
* Gregory is up to 9th for Most Races without a Win, at the expense of Giorgio Scarlatti
* Graham Hill wins to move up to 9th for Most Wins at the expense of Gurney and Ken Wharton
* This is Graham Hill’s 3rd consecutive race victory – which has only been achieved by 4 drivers in F1R history…and moves him to 7th on the all-time list of most consecutive victories
* 8 of the 10 German Grand Prix ever have been won by just three drivers; von Trips in 1958 and 1961, Bob Gerard (retired) in 1951, 1954, 1956 and 1957 preceded by Peter Whitehead (retired) in 1952 and 1953; while the other former winner was Fritz d’Orey (retired) in 1959. There was no 1960 German GP.
* Gregory moves up to 10th for Most Points ever, at the expense of Toulo de Graffenried
* Gurney has now achieved 50 career points, becoming just the 14th driver to achieve this
* Points finish for Gregory moves him to 8th for Most Races finished in the Points, at the expense of Peter Collins
* Points finish for Gregory makes it his 6th consecutive points finish, something which only 8 drivers (including himself in his Championship year!) have ever achieved
* A points finish for von Trips and Graham Hill makes it their 4th consecutive points finish
* A points finish for Love and Vaccarella makes it their 3rd consecutive points finish
* FL for Gregory moves him up to 7th in Most Fastest Laps, at the expense of Jack Brabham, Peter Collins, Onofre Marimón and Ken Wharton
* FL at the previous two German GPs went to von Trips (in ’59 and ’61), and before then to Salvadori (1958), while in 1952, 1956 and 1957 it was Bob Gerard (retired). Other past FLs were Erwin Bauer (’53 – retired), Peter Whitehead (‘54 – retired) and Yves-Girard Cabantous (’51 – retired)
* Pole for von Trips makes it 2 Pole Positions in a row, something only 12 drivers – including himself – have achieved before
* Past Pole-Sitters at the German GP were von Trips (’61), Jean Behra (’59 – retired), Yves-Girard Cabantous (’51 – retired), Bob Gerard (’52, ’56, ’57 and ‘58), Rodney Nuckey (’54 – retired) and Paul Pietsch (’53 – retired)
* Podium for Gregory moves him up to 6th in the all-time list
* Podium for Graham Hill and Vaccarella makes it 3 consecutive Podium finishes for them, something only achieved by 12 drivers before
* Podium for Gregory makes it two consecutive Podium finishes for him