1962 British GP

## Track Facts

* Name – Aintree
* Location – UK
* Corners – 8
* Laps – 75
* Base (Worst) Lap Time – 3:00.000
* Lap Record (Real Life) – 1:53.600 (Jim Clark)
* Lap Record (F1R) – 1:57.638 (Joakim Bonnier – I Dobrev)
* Pit Lane Length – 20 seconds
* Fuel Consumption – Low
* Tyre Wear – Medium

## Qualifying & Grid

Von Trips takes Pole Position for Ferrari, with Gregory in 2nd place as the Prancing Horse looks very strong around here! Salvadori continues to shine in qualifying, with a strong 3rd place for BRM ahead of Graham Hill's Gilby in 4th.

Ireland does some incredible work to place his Lola in 5th on the grid, as he manages to split the Gilbys, so Vaccarella lines up 6th with Love 7th overall. Surtees shows that Salvadori's performance is no fluke, as he starts from 8th with Bonnier and Mairesse rounding out the Top 10 - making it two Lola drivers inside that Top 10!

Rodríguez is 11th and McLaren 13th in a race where Cooper look a little lacking in pace, with Lotus in a similar position where Gurney starts 12th and Siffert 15th. De Beaufort does well to start 14th for Porsche with a fair amount of distance between him and his team-mates, with Clark 18th and Trintignant 21st...though both experience accidents during qualifying that hampers their running.

Phil Hill and Maggs start 16th and 17th for Brabham, while Baghetti is 19th for Emeryson and Lippi only manages 20th for BRM...but considering the pace of his team-mates one wonders if he will be able to make his way through the field!

## Race Link

https://race.f1revisited.co.uk/results/aintree/1962/78e9feab-5116-4f32-ba8f-9256323f2d38

## Race Results

Graham Hill takes the race victory with over a 10 second gap back to Vaccarella (who takes Fastest Lap from way back on Lap 36), making it a Gilby 1-2 for the 2nd consecutive race...with both Hill and Vaccarella cementing their title credentials here!

3rd place for Gregory gets his title challenge back on track, while 4th for von Trips for the second race in succession gives him points...but not enough to be top of the standings!

Love finishes 5th and is denied 4th place by less than 1 tenth of a second after some strong defensive driving by von Trips. Meanwhile, over 2 laps down it is Surtees that claims the final point in 6th position with even larger gaps down the field.

Gurney relinquishes his title lead but 7th is an improvement on his qualifying position at least for Lotus, while the biggest improvement of all goes to Baghetti in the Emeryson in 8th!

BRM round out the Top 10 with Salvadori 9th and Lippi 10th, while Cooper at least provided some entertainment this race - but will not be happy with 11th-13th places in the wet for McLaren, Rodríguez and Bonnier.

The Lola duo of Mairesse and Ireland finish 14th and 15th after a race that didn't go as they might have hoped for, while Siffert finishes 16th ahead of the lone Porsche of Trintignant in 17th.

Finally, Brabham at least claim Top 20 finishes for Phil Hill and Maggs, in an otherwise forgettable race for the British manufacturer.

The next race of the season will be the German Grand Prix at the dreaded Nürburgring!!!

## Race Setups

**How close setups were to perfect - WET**

**How close setups were to perfect - DRY**

## Milestones

* 70th race entry for Trintignant (only the 2nd driver to achieve that)
* 40th race entry for Graham Hill
* 30th race entry for Bianchi and Gurney
* Salvadori achieves his 75th Race Start (which no other driver has ever achieved!)
* Gurney makes his 30th Race Start
* Maggs makes his 10th Race Start
* Trintignant starts and so moves ahead of Peter Collins and into 6th for the Most Race Starts Ever
* Graham Hill wins for his 2nd consecutive race victory – which has only been achieved by 7 drivers in F1R history before now!
* Von Trips won last season here, though 7 of the 12 British Grand Prix ever have been won by just three drivers; Brabham in 1959 and 1960, Bob Gerard (retired) in 1954, 1956 and 1957 preceded by Paul Pietsch (retired) in 1950 and 1953; while other former winners are Yves-Girard Cabantous (retired) in 1951, Élie Bayol in 1952 (retired), Ken Wharton in 1955 (retired) and Dick Gibson (retired) in 1958.
* Points finish for Gregory moves him up to 9th for Most Races finished in the Points, at the expense of Toulo de Graffenried
* Graham Hill is now into the Top 10 for Most Career Points without being World Champion, at the expense of Horace Gould
* Points finish for Gregory makes it his 5th consecutive points finish
* Points finish for von Trips and Graham Hill makes it their 3rd consecutive points finish
* Points finish for Love and Vaccarella makes it their 2nd consecutive points finish
* 1st ever FL for Nino Vaccarella here!
* FL at the British GP in 1960 was Brabham, with von Trips claiming it in 1959 and in 1958 it was Graham Hill (the latter pair being the only current drivers on the grid to have achieved that particular feat), while in 1956 and 1957 it was Bob Gerard (retired) and other past FLs were Brian Naylor (’61 – retired), Peter Whitehead (’53 and ‘54 – retired), Ken Wharton (’55 – retired), Élie Bayol (‘52 – retired), Yves-Girard Cabantous (’51 – retired) and Giuseppe Farina (’50 – retired).
* Pole was taken by von Trips here, which was his 1st ever British GP Pole.
* Pole at the British GP for the last 3 consecutive seasons was Bonnier, while in 1958 it was Salvadori, with other past Pole-Sitters being Yves-Girard Cabantous (’50 & ’51 – retired), Bob Gerard (’56 and ’57 – retired), Ken Wharton (’55 – retired), Herrmann Lang (’54 – retired), Peter Whitehead (’53 – retired) and Paul Pietsch (’52 – retired).
* Podium for Graham Hill and Vaccarella makes it two consecutive Podium finishes for them