1963 F1 World Championship Season

Season:	14th World Championship season
Drivers’ Champion:	Jim Clark (1st title, 8th different world champion, 3rd British champion)
Constructors’ Champion:	Lotus-Climax (1st title for Lotus, 5th different world champion constructor)
Reigning drivers’ champion:	Graham Hill
Reigning constructors’ champion:	BRM
Races:	10
Winning drivers:	Jim Clark (7) Graham Hill (2) John Surtees (1)
Winning constructors:	Lotus (7) BRM (2) Ferrari (1)
First-time winners (driver):	John Surtees
First-time winners (constructor):	none
Other seasons:

Calendar

DT: Drivers’ title decider
CT: Constructors’ title decider

No.	Grand Prix	Circuit	Date	Race Result
1	Monaco	Monte Carlo	26 May	1963 Monaco Grand Prix
2	Belgium	Spa-Francorchamps	09 June	1963 Belgian Grand Prix
3	Netherlands	Zandvoort	23 June	1963 Dutch Grand Prix
4	France	Reims	30 June	1963 French Grand Prix
5	Britain	Silverstone	20 July	1963 British Grand Prix
6	Germany	Nurburgring	04 August	1963 German Grand Prix
7	Italy DT CT	Monza	08 September	1963 Italian Grand Prix
8	USA	Watkins Glen	06 October	1963 United States Grand Prix
9	Mexico	Mexico City	27 October	1963 Mexican Grand Prix
10	South Africa	East London	28 December	1963 South African Grand Prix

Driver and constructor entries

Constructor	Driver	Round(s) entered
Alfa Special (privateer)	Peter de Klerk	10
ATS (works team)	Giancarlo Baghetti	2-3, 7-9
ATS (works team)	Phil Hill	2-3, 7-9
Brabham (works team)	Jack Brabham	2-10
Brabham (works team)	Dan Gurney	All
Brabham (privateer)	David Prophet	10
BRM (works team)	Richie Ginther	All
BRM (works team)	Graham Hill	All
BRM (privateers)	Lorenzo Bandini	4-6
	Moises Solana	9
	Maurice Trintignant	7
BRP (works team)	Innes Ireland	2-5, 7
Cooper (works team)	Tony Maggs	All
Cooper (works team)	Bruce McLaren	All
Cooper (privateers)	Trevor Blokdyk	10
	Jo Bonnier	All
	Ernesto Brambilla	7
	Mario de Araujo Cabral	6-7
	John Love	10
De Tomaso (privateer)	Roberto Lippi	7
Ferrari (works team)	Lorenzo Bandini	7-10
	Willy Mairesse	1-2, 6
	Ludovico Scarfiotti	3-4
	John Surtees	All
Gilby (privateer)	Ian Raby	5-7
LDS (privateers)	Doug Serrurier	10
LDS (privateers)	Sam Tingle	10
Lola (privateers)	Chris Amon	1-7
	Bob Anderson	5, 7
	Lucien Bianchi	2
	John Campbell-Jones	5
	Masten Gregory	8-9
	Mike Hailwood	7
	Maurice Trintignant	1
Lotus (works team)	Peter Arundell	4
	Jim Clark	All
	Pedro Rodriguez	8-9
	Mike Spence	7
	Trevor Taylor	1-6, 8-10
Lotus (privateers)	Chris Amon	9
	Jack Brabham	1
	Bernard Collomb	1, 6
	Paddy Driver	10
	Masten Gregory	4-5, 7
	Mike Hailwood	5
	Jim Hall	1-9
	Phil Hill	4
	Innes Ireland	1, 6
	Kurt Kuhnke	6
	Brausch Niemann	10
	Tim Parnell	6
	Ernie Pieterse	10
	Andre Pilette	6-7
	Hap Sharp	8-9
	Jo Siffert	1-9
	Maurice Trintignant	4
	Rodger Ward	8
Porsche (privateers)	Carel Godin de Beaufort	2-3, 5-10
Porsche (privateers)	Gerhard Mitter	3, 6
Scirocco (works team)	Ian Burgess	5-6
Scirocco (works team)	Tony Settember	2, 4-7
Stebro (works team)	Peter Broeker	8

Race winners

Highlight: Home driver/constructor

No.	Grand Prix	Circuit	Driver	Constructor	Start	Win Margin
1	Monaco	Monte Carlo	Graham Hill	BRM	2	4.600s
2	Belgium	Spa-Francorchamps	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	8	4m 54.000s
3	Netherlands	Zandvoort	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	1	1 lap
4	France	Reims	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	1	1m 04.900s
5	Britain	Silverstone	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	1	25.800s
6	Germany	Nurburgring	John Surtees	Ferrari	2	1m 17.500s
7	Italy	Monza	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	3	1m 35.000s
8	USA	Watkins Glen	Graham Hill	BRM	1	34.300s
9	Mexico	Mexico City	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	1	1m 41.100s
10	South Africa	East London	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	1	1m 06.800s

Polesitters

Highlight: Home driver/constructor

No.	Grand Prix	Circuit	Driver	Constructor	Race	Pole Margin
1	Monaco	Monte Carlo	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	8^R	0.700s
2	Belgium	Spa-Francorchamps	Graham Hill	BRM	DNF	0.900s
3	Netherlands	Zandvoort	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	1	0.600s
4	France	Reims	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	1	0.700s
5	Britain	Silverstone	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	1	0.200s
6	Germany	Nurburgring	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	2	0.900s
7	Italy	Monza	John Surtees	Ferrari	DNF	1.200s
8	USA	Watkins Glen	Graham Hill	BRM	1	0.100s
9	Mexico	Mexico City	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	1	1.700s
10	South Africa	East London	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	1	0.100s

Fastest laps

Highlight: Home driver/constructor

No.	Grand Prix	Circuit	Driver	Constructor
1	Monaco	Monte Carlo	John Surtees	Ferrari
2	Belgium	Spa-Francorchamps	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax
3	Netherlands	Zandvoort	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax
4	France	Reims	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax
5	Britain	Silverstone	John Surtees	Ferrari
6	Germany	Nurburgring	John Surtees	Ferrari
7	Italy	Monza	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax
8	USA	Watkins Glen	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax
9	Mexico	Mexico City	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax
10	South Africa	East London	Dan Gurney	Brabham-Climax

Qualifying results

See: 1963 F1 World Championship Qualifying Statistics

World Drivers’ Championship standings

The top six classified finishers of each race were awarded points on the following basis: 1st (9), 2nd (6), 3rd (4), 4th (3), 5th (2), 6th (1)

Only the best six results counted towards the championship. Numbers shown without parentheses are the points scored that counted towards the championship; numbers in parentheses are the total number of points scored.

Highlight: Rookie
Bold: pole position
Underline: fastest lap
Bold & underline: pole & fastest lap

Pos	Driver	MCO	BEL	NLD	FRA	GBR	DEU	ITA	USA	MEX	ZAF	Points
1	Jim Clark	8^R	1	1	1	1	2	1	3	1	1	54 (73)
2	Graham Hill	1	R	R	3	3	R	16^R	1	4	3	29
3	Richie Ginther	2	4	5	R	4	3	2	2	3	R	29 (34)
4	John Surtees	4	R	3	R	2	1	R	9^R	DSQ	R	22
5	Dan Gurney	R	3	2	5	R	R	14^R	R	6	2	19
6	Bruce McLaren	3	2	R	12^R	R	R	3	11^R	R	4	17
7	Jack Brabham	9^R	R	R	4	R	7	5	4	2	13^R	14
8	Tony Maggs	5	7^R	R	2	9	R	6	R	R	7	9
9	Innes Ireland	R	R	4	9	DSQ	R	4^R				6
=	Lorenzo Bandini				10	5	R	R	5	R	5	6
=	Jo Bonnier	7	5	11	NC	R	6	7	8	5	6	6
12	Gerhard Mitter			R			4					3
=	Jim Hall	R	R	8	11	6	5	8	10^R	8		3
14	Carel Godin de Beaufort		6	9		10	R	DNQ	6	10	10	2
15	Trevor Taylor	6	R	10	13^R	DSQ	8		R	R	8	1
=	Ludovico Scarfiotti			6	DNS							1
=	Jo Siffert	R	R	7	6	R	9^R	R	R	9		1
	Chris Amon	DNS	R	R	7	7	R	DNS		R
	Hap Sharp								R	7
	Peter Broeker								7
	Maurice Trintignant	R			8			9
	Mike Hailwood					8		10
	Tony Settember		8^R		R	R	R	DNQ
	John Love										9
	Bernard Collomb	DNQ					10
	Phil Hill		R	R	NC			11	R	R
	Masten Gregory				R	11		R	R	R
	Moises Solana									11^R
	Doug Serrurier										11
	Bob Anderson					12		12
	Trevor Blokdyk										12
	John Campbell-Jones					13
	Mike Spence							13^R
	Brausch Niemann										14
	Giancarlo Baghetti		R	R				15	R	R
	Willy Mairesse	R	R				R
	Ian Burgess					R	R
	Pedro Rodriguez								R	R
	Ian Raby					R	DNQ	DNQ
	Mario Araujo de Cabral						R	DNQ
	Lucien Bianchi		R
	Rodger Ward								R
	Peter de Klerk										R
	Sam Tingle										R
	Ernie Pieterse										R
	David Prophet										R
	Peter Arundell				DNS
	Paddy Driver										DNS
	Andre Pilette						DNQ	DNQ
	Tim Parnell						DNQ
	Kurt Kuhnke						DNQ
	Roberto Lippi							DNQ
	Ernesto Brambilla							DNQ
No.	Driver	MCO	BEL	NLD	FRA	GBR	DEU	ITA	USA	MEX	ZAF	Points

Notes

Graham Hill did not receive any points for his third place finish at the French Grand Prix. Hill was push started at the start of the race which incurred a 1 minute time penalty as well as no championship points.

Race to the title

The Race to the title graph shows how the title race played out over the course of the season between the top five drivers of 1963.

World Constructors’ Championship standings

The top six classified finishers of each race were awarded points on the following basis: 1st (9), 2nd (6), 3rd (4), 4th (3), 5th (2), 6th (1)

Constructors only received points for its highest placed car. Only the best six results counted towards the championship. Numbers shown without parentheses are the points scored that counted towards the championship; numbers in parentheses are the total number of points scored.

Bold: pole position
Underline: fastest lap
Bold & underline: pole & fastest lap

Pos	Constructor	MCO	BEL	NLD	FRA	GBR	DEU	ITA	USA	MEX	ZAF	Points
1	Lotus-Climax	6	1	1	1	1	2	1	3	1	1	54 (74)
2	BRM	1	4	5	3	3	3	2	1	3	3	36 (45)
3	Brabham-Climax	R	3	2	4	R	7	5	4	2	2	28 (30)
4	Ferrari	4	R	3	R	2	1	R	5	R	5	26
5	Cooper-Climax	3	2	11	2	9	6	3	8	5	4	25 (26)
6	BRP-BRM		R	4	9	DSQ		4^R				6
7	Porsche		6	9		10	4	DNQ	6	10	10	5
8	Lotus-BRM	R	R	7	6	6	5	8	10^R	7	DNS	4
9	Lola-Climax	R	R	R	7	7	R	10	R	R
10	Stebro-Ford								7
11	Scirocco-BRM		8^R		R	R	R	DNQ
12	ATS		R	R				11	R	R
13	LDS-Alfa Romeo										11
14	Cooper-Maserati							DNQ			12
15	Lotus-Ford										14
16	Gilby-BRM					R	DNQ	DNQ
17	Alfa Special-Alfa Romeo										R
18	Brabham-Ford										R
19	Lotus-Borgward						DNQ
20	De Tomaso-Ferrari							DNQ
No.	Constructor	MCO	BEL	NLD	FRA	GBR	DEU	ITA	USA	MEX	ZAF	Points

Notes

BRM did not receive any points for their third place finish at the French Grand Prix. Graham Hill was push started at the start of the race which incurred a 1 minute time penalty as well as no championship points.

Race to the title

The Race to the title graph shows how the title race played out over the course of the season between the top five constructors of 1963.

Season statistics

See: 1963 F1 World Championship Season Statistics