1963 German Grand Prix

Race result

Pos		Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time	Points
1	+1	John Surtees	Ferrari	15	2hr 13m 06.800s	9
2	-1	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	15	+1m 17.500s	6
3	+3	Richie Ginther	BRM	15	+2m 44.900s	4
4	+11	Gerhard Mitter	Porsche (privateer)	15	+8m 11.500s	3
5	+11	Jim Hall	Lotus-BRM (privateer)	14	+1 lap	2
6	+6	Jo Bonnier	Cooper-Climax (privateer)	14	+1 lap	1
7	+1	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Climax	14	+1 lap
8	+10	Trevor Taylor	Lotus-Climax	14	+1 lap
9		Jo Siffert	Lotus-BRM (privateer)	10	DNF
10	+11	Bernard Collomb	Lotus-Climax (privateer)	10	+5 laps
R		Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche (privateer)	9	DNF
R		Tony Maggs	Cooper-Climax	7	DNF
R		Dan Gurney	Brabham-Climax	6	DNF
R		Mario de Araujo Cabral	Cooper-Climax (privateer)	6	DNF
R		Ian Burgess	Scirocco-BRM	5	DNF
R		Tony Settember	Scirocco-BRM	5	DNF
R		Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	3	DNF
R		Chris Amon	Lola-Climax (privateer)	2	DNF
R		Graham Hill	BRM	2	DNF
R		Willy Mairesse	Ferrari	1	DNF
R		Innes Ireland	Lotus-BRM (privateer)	1	DNF
R		Lorenzo Bandini	BRM (privateer)	0	DNF

Starting grid

Pole time: 8:45.800

Pos	Driver	Constructor
1	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax
2	John Surtees	Ferrari
3	Lorenzo Bandini	BRM (privateer)
4	Graham Hill	BRM
5	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax
6	Richie Ginther	BRM
7	Willy Mairesse	Ferrari
8	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Climax
9	Jo Siffert	Lotus-BRM (privateer)
10	Tony Maggs	Cooper-Climax
11	Innes Ireland	Lotus-BRM (privateer)
12	Jo Bonnier	Cooper-Climax (privateer)
13	Dan Gurney	Brabham-Climax
14	Chris Amon	Lola-Climax (privateer)
15	Gerhard Mitter	Porsche (privateer)
16	Jim Hall	Lotus-BRM (privateer)
17	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche (privateer)
18	Trevor Taylor	Lotus-Climax
19	Ian Burgess	Scirocco-BRM
20	Mario de Araujo Cabral	Cooper-Climax (privateer)
21	Bernard Collomb	Lotus-Climax (privateer)
22	Tony Settember	Scirocco-BRM

Non-qualifiers

Driver	Constructor
Andre Pilette	Lotus-Climax (privateer)
Ian Raby	Gilby-BRM (privateer)
Tim Parnell	Lotus-Climax (privateer)
Kurt Kuhnke	Lotus-Borgward (privateer)

Championship standings

How the championship standings stood post-1963 German Grand Prix.

Driver

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Jim Clark	42
2	John Surtees	22
3	Richie Ginther	18
4	Graham Hill	13
5	Dan Gurney	12
6	Bruce McLaren	10
7	Tony Maggs	8
8	Innes Ireland	3
=	Jack Brabham	3
=	Gerhard Mitter	3
11	Jim Hall	3
=	Jo Bonnier	3
13	Lorenzo Bandini	2
14	Trevor Taylor	1
=	Carel Godin de Beaufort	1
=	Ludovico Scarfiotti	1
=	Jo Siffert	1

Constructor

Pos	Constructor	Points
1	Lotus-Climax	43
2	BRM	22
3	Ferrari	22
4	Cooper-Climax	17
5	Brabham-Climax	13
6	Porsche	4
7	Lotus-BRM	4
8	BRP-BRM	3

Statistics & milestones

Last start

Ian Burgess, Bernard Collomb, Willy Mairesse, Tony Settember

Milestone race start

50th for Jo Bonnier (7th driver to start 50 races, 1st Swedish driver)

100th for Ferrari (1st constructor to start 100 races)

Wins

1st for John Surtees (33rd different winner, 8th British driver)

36th for Ferrari

Podiums

11th for Jim Clark, 8th for Richie Ginther, 6th for John Surtees

131st for Ferrari, 21st for Lotus, 19th for BRM

Poles

11th for Jim Clark

16th for Lotus

Fastest laps

4th for John Surtees

38th for Ferrari

Front row starts

17th for Graham Hill, 14th for Jim Clark, 5th for John Surtees (first for Ferrari), 1st for Lorenzo Bandini (62nd different front row starter, 10th Italian driver; first Italian front row starter since 1958; only front row start for BRM)

Points finishes

2nd and last for Jim Hall, 1st and only for Gerhard Mitter (124th different point scorer, 5th German driver)

Win & fastest lap

1st for John Surtees (17th different driver to win and set the fastest lap, 6th British driver)

See also

• German Grand Prix
• Nurburgring circuit
• 1963 World Championship season