Question: The 1962 French Grand Prix was won by an American racing driver who reached racing's highest levels starting in what year?

Context articles: 1923 Grand Prix season
Dan Gurney
1962 French Grand Prix
Max Verstappen
1924 Grand Prix season
René Le Bègue
Gilby Engineering
2000 French Grand Prix
John Taylor (racing driver)
Klenk

The 1923 Grand Prix season saw Grand Prix motor racing in Europe.
 For the first time, the Indianapolis 500 was also designated a Grand Épreuve by the International Sporting Commission of the AIACR.
 The French Grand Prix was held in Tours.
 The Italian Grand Prix (which was also the European Grand Prix) was held at Monza.
 Spain entered the Grand Prix circus with the Spanish Grand Prix at Sitges-Terramar and the first San Sebastián Grand Prix at Lasarte.
Daniel Sexton Gurney (born April 13, 1931) is a retired American racing driver, race car constructor, and team owner who reached racing's highest levels starting in 1958.
The 1962 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Rouen-Les-Essarts on 8 July 1962.
 It was race 4 of 9 in both the 1962 World Championship of Drivers and the 1962 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.
 The race was won by Dan Gurney, his first Formula One victory, driving a Porsche, that company's only win as a constructor in a Formula One championship race coming after three years of racing.
 It was the third time that the French Grand Prix was held at Rouen, last time being 1957.
Max Emilian Verstappen (] ; born 30 September 1997) is a Belgian-Dutch racing driver who competes under the Dutch flag in Formula One with Red Bull Racing.
 Aged , he became the youngest driver to compete in Formula 1 at the 2015 Australian Grand Prix for Scuderia Toro Rosso.
 He is also the youngest driver to lead a lap during a Formula One Grand Prix, youngest driver to set the fastest lap during a Formula One Grand Prix, youngest driver to score points, youngest driver to secure a podium and youngest Formula One Grand Prix winner in history.
The 1924 Grand Prix season again saw Grand Prix motor racing in Europe and North America.
 The Indianapolis 500 was again designated a Grand Épreuve by the International Sporting Commission of the AIACR, along with the French Grand Prix, held in Lyon and the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
 The French Grand Prix was also this year's European Grand Prix.
René Le Bègue (15 January 1914 – 24 February 1946) was a Parisian-born French race car driver in Rally and Grand Prix motor racing.
 In his first year of top level racing, his best showing came at the 1936 Spa 24 Hours endurance race when he drove a Delahaye to a 2nd-place finish.
 In 1937 he and his co-pilot Julio Quinlin won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Delahaye.
 That year Le Bègue also won the Coupe de Vitesse at the Autodrome de Montlhéry driving a Talbot-Lago T150 and had several top-three finishes.
 He then teamed up with André Morel to claim victory in the 1938 12 hours of Paris endurance race for sports cars.
 In 1939 he finished 3rd in the French Grand Prix behind the dominant Auto Union Silver Arrows then went on to win the Grand Prix du Comminges.
 The following year, Le Bègue traveled to the United States to compete in the 1940 Indianapolis 500.
 Driving a Maserati for the American/French owner Lucy O'Reilly Schell, he started in the last row in 31st position but drove to a 10th-place finish.
Gilby Engineering was a motor racing team and later racing car constructor from the United Kingdom.
 The team competed in 12 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, including 6 with cars of their own construction, but scored no World Championship points.
 The Gilby cars were constructed by Syd Greene for his son Keith to drive, having previously entered a Maserati 250F for Roy Salvadori and Ivor Bueb and also a Cooper for Greene Jr.
 Keith Greene later became better known as a team manager in Formula One and sports car racing.
 Gilby made its debut in the 1954 French Grand Prix with the Maserati, for Salvadori, who also drove for the team in and , and the team's last event was the 1962 Italian Grand Prix.
 After the team ceased competing in Formula One, the final Gilby car was purchased and entered in three events in , by privateer Ian Raby.
 Keith Greene achieved a third-place finish in the non-championship Naples Grand Prix of 1962, with the BRM-engined car, behind the works Ferrari's of Willy Mairesse and Lorenzo Bandini.
The 2000 French Grand Prix (formally the LXXXVI Mobil 1 Grand Prix de France) was a Formula One motor race held on 2 July 2000 at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours, Burgundy, France.
 It was the ninth race of the 2000 Formula One season and the 86th French Grand Prix.
 The 72-lap race was won by McLaren driver David Coulthard after starting from second position.
 His teammate Mika Häkkinen finished second with Rubens Barrichello third for the Ferrari team.
John Malcolm Taylor (23 March 1933 – 8 September 1966) was a racing driver from England.
 He participated in five World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, and also participated in several non-championship Formula One races.
 His Formula One debut was on 11 July 1964, at the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch driving a one-litre, 4-cylinder, Cooper–Ford T73, where he finished fourteenth, 24 laps down, after an extended pit–stop due to a gearbox problem.
 Taylor did not compete in the Formula One World Championship in 1965, but continued to drive in non–championship races.
 He returned to Grand Prix racing in 1966 driving a two-litre Brabham–BRM for privateer David Bridges.
 His first race that season was the French Grand Prix at Reims where he scored his one championship point.
 There followed eighth places at both the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch and the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.
The Klenk-Meteor was a racing car which competed in the 1954 German Grand Prix.
 The car was based on the established German marque of Veritas which was active between 1948 and 1953.
 Veritas is chiefly remembered as a manufacturer of sports cars and successful Formula Two racing cars.
 The company closed when its founder, Ernst Loof, became ill.
 He subsequently died in 1956.
 The Klenk-Meteor entered for the 1954 German Grand Prix was essentially a Veritas Formula Two car.
 The car was owned and prepared by the noted German racing driver Hans Klenk who intended to race it himself in the Grand Prix.
 However, Klenk's career as a racing driver came to an end when he suffered injuries in an accident while working as a test driver for Mercedes-Benz.
 The car was driven in the Grand Prix by another German, Theo Helfrich.
 He retired on lap 9 with engine failure.