Race · Round 8 of 9 · 7 October 1962

1962 United States Grand Prix

Jim Clark won for Team Lotus from pole at Watkins Glen. 5 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 12 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Watkins GlenWatkins Glen, New York, United States of America
Winner: Jim ClarkTeam Lotus
Pole: Jim Clark
Fastest lap: Jim Clark
Entries: 2113 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	—	1	100	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Graham Hill	BRM	—	3	100	Finished	6
3	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	—	6	99	Finished	4
4	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	BT3	5	99	Finished	3
5	Dan Gurney	Porsche	—	4	99	Finished	2
6	Masten Gregory	Team Lotus	24	7	99	Finished	1
7	Tony Maggs	Cooper	—	10	97	Finished	0
8	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	—	15	96	Finished	0
9	Roger Penske	Team Lotus	24	12	96	Finished	0
10	Rob Schroeder	Team Lotus	24	16	93	Finished	0
11	Hap Sharp	Cooper	T53	14	91	Finished	0
12	Trevor Taylor	Team Lotus	—	8	85	Finished	0
13	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	—	9	79	Finished	0
DNF	Richie Ginther	BRM	—	2	35	Engine	0
DNF	Maurice Trintignant	Team Lotus	24	17	32	Brakes	0
DNF	Timmy Mayer	Cooper	—	11	31	Ignition	0
DNF	John Surtees	Lola	Mk 4	18	19	Engine	0
DNF	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	—	13	9	Accident	0
DNS	Roy Salvadori	Lola	Mk 4	—	—	Car raced by Surtees	0
DNS	Phil Hill	Porsche	—	—	—	Car raced by Bonnier	0
DNS	Jim Hall	Team Lotus	21	—	—	Engine	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout watkins-glen-1 · 3.78 km · 8 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Jim Clark	1	1	100
Graham Hill	3	2	100
Bruce McLaren	6	3	99
Sir Jack Brabham	5	4	99
Dan Gurney	4	5	99
Masten Gregory	7	6	99
Tony Maggs	10	7	97
Innes Ireland	15	8	96
Roger Penske	12	9	96
Rob Schroeder	16	10	93
Hap Sharp	14	11	91
Trevor Taylor	8	12	85
Jo Bonnier	9	13	79
Richie Ginther	2	DNF	35
Maurice Trintignant	17	DNF	32
Timmy Mayer	11	DNF	31
John Surtees	18	DNF	19
Carel Godin de Beaufort	13	DNF	9

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	8	1:15.800	—	0 m	—
2	Richie Ginther	BRM	5	1:16.600	+0.800	40 m	+0.800
3	Graham Hill	BRM	4	1:16.700	+0.900	45 m	+0.100
4	Dan Gurney	Porsche	10	1:16.900	+1.100	55 m	+0.200
5	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	17	1:16.900	+1.100	55 m	+0.000
6	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	21	1:17.300	+1.500	75 m	+0.400
7	Masten Gregory	Team Lotus	16	1:17.900	+2.100	105 m	+0.600
8	Trevor Taylor	Team Lotus	9	1:18.000	+2.200	110 m	+0.100
9	Jo Bonnier	Porsche	11	1:19.000	+3.200	160 m	+1.000
10	Tony Maggs	Cooper	22	1:19.700	+3.900	194 m	+0.700
11	Roy Salvadori	Lola	19	1:19.800	+4.000	199 m	+0.100
12	Timmy Mayer	Cooper	23	1:20.700	+4.900	244 m	+0.900
13	Roger Penske	Team Lotus	14	1:21.300	+5.500	274 m	+0.600
14	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	12	1:21.800	+6.000	299 m	+0.500
15	Hap Sharp	Cooper	24	1:22.400	+6.600	329 m	+0.600
16	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	15	1:24.000	+8.200	409 m	+1.600
17	Rob Schroeder	Team Lotus	26	1:24.000	+8.200	409 m	+0.000
18	Jim Hall	Team Lotus	25	1:24.700	+8.900	444 m	+0.700
19	Maurice Trintignant	Team Lotus	6	1:25.800	+10.000	499 m	+1.100
20	John Surtees	Lola	18	1:29.200	+13.400	668 m	+3.400

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Where this comes from

Round: 8 of 1962
Grand Prix: United States Grand Prix
Dates: 7 Oct 1962
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Team Lotus
Entrant: Lotus-Climax
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.