1963 German Grand Prix

Fact File

Date:	Sunday, 4 August 1963
Winner:	John Surtees Ferrari
Pole position:	Jim Clark Lotus-Climax
Fastest lap:	John Surtees Ferrari
Circuit:	Nurburgring, 15 laps
Round:	6 of 10

Race Result

• (P): privateer entry

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 (P)	15	+8m 11.500s	3
5	+11	Jim Hall	Lotus-BRM	14	+1 lap	2
6	+6	Jo Bonnier	Cooper-Climax (P)	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 (P)	10	DNF
10	+11	Bernard Collomb	Lotus-Climax (P)	10	+5 laps
R		Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche (P)	9	DNF
R		Tony Maggs	Cooper-Climax	7	DNF
R		Dan Gurney	Brabham-Climax	6	DNF
R		Mario de Araujo Cabral	Cooper-Climax (P)	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 (P)	2	DNF
R		Graham Hill	BRM	2	DNF
R		Willy Mairesse	Ferrari	1	DNF
R		Innes Ireland	Lotus-BRM	1	DNF
R		Lorenzo Bandini	BRM (P)	0	DNF

Starting Grid

• Highlight: race winner
• Highlight: second place
• Highlight: third place
• (P): privateer entry

Pos	Driver	Constructor	Time
1	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	8:45.800
2	John Surtees	Ferrari
3	Lorenzo Bandini	BRM (P)
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 (P)
10	Tony Maggs	Cooper-Climax
11	Innes Ireland	Lotus-BRM
12	Jo Bonnier	Cooper-Climax (P)
13	Dan Gurney	Brabham-Climax
14	Chris Amon	Lola-Climax (P)
15	Gerhard Mitter	Porsche (P)
16	Jim Hall	Lotus-BRM
17	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche (P)
18	Trevor Taylor	Lotus-Climax
19	Ian Burgess	Scirocco-BRM
20	Mario de Araujo Cabral	Cooper-Climax (P)
21	Bernard Collomb	Lotus-Climax (P)
22	Tony Settember	Scirocco-BRM

Non-qualifiers

• (P): privateer entry

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

Championship Standings

How the championship standings stood post-race.

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

Driver: Ian Burgess, Bernard Collomb, Willy Mairesse, Tony Settember

Milestone race start

Driver: 50th for Jo Bonnier

Wins

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

Constructor: 36th for Ferrari

Podiums

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

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

Poles

Driver: 11th for Jim Clark

Constructor: 16th for Lotus

Fastest laps

Driver: 4th for John Surtees

Constructor: 38th for Ferrari

Front row starts

Driver: 17th for Graham Hill, 14th for Jim Clark, 5th for John Surtees, 1st for Lorenzo Bandini (62nd different front row starter, 10th Italian driver)

Points finishes

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

Win & fastest lap

Driver: 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