Race · Round 4 of 10 · 27 June 1965

1965 French Grand Prix

Jim Clark won for Team Lotus from pole at Charade. 8 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 20 °C, 7.8 mm of 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: CharadeClermont-Ferrand, France
Winner: Jim ClarkTeam Lotus
Pole: Jim Clark
Fastest lap: Jim Clark
Entries: 179 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	—	1	40	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Sir Jackie Stewart	BRM	P261	2	40	Finished	6
3	John Surtees	Ferrari	—	4	40	Finished	4
4	Denny Hulme	Brabham	—	6	40	Finished	3
5	Graham Hill	BRM	P261	13	39	Finished	2
6	Jo Siffert	Brabham	BT11	14	39	Finished	1
7	Mike Spence	Team Lotus	—	10	39	Finished	0
8	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	—	3	36	Accident	0
9	Bob Anderson	Brabham	BT11	15	34	Fuel system	0
DNF	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	—	9	23	Suspension	0
DNF	Jo Bonnier	Brabham	BT7	11	21	Alternator	0
DNF	Chris Amon	Team Lotus	—	8	20	Fuel system	0
DNF	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	—	17	18	Gearbox	0
DNF	Dan Gurney	Brabham	—	5	16	Engine	0
DNF	Richie Ginther	Honda	RA272	7	9	Ignition	0
DNF	Ronnie Bucknum	Honda	RA272	16	4	Ignition	0
DNF	Jochen Rindt	Cooper	—	12	3	Accident	0

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

F1DB layout clermont-ferrand-1 · 8.055 km · 48 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	40
Sir Jackie Stewart	2	2	40
John Surtees	4	3	40
Denny Hulme	6	4	40
Graham Hill	13	5	39
Jo Siffert	14	6	39
Mike Spence	10	7	39
Lorenzo Bandini	3	8	36
Bob Anderson	15	9	34
Bruce McLaren	9	DNF	23
Jo Bonnier	11	DNF	21
Chris Amon	8	DNF	20
Innes Ireland	17	DNF	18
Dan Gurney	5	DNF	16
Richie Ginther	7	DNF	9
Ronnie Bucknum	16	DNF	4
Jochen Rindt	12	DNF	3

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	6	3:18.300	—	0 m	—
2	Sir Jackie Stewart	BRM	12	3:18.800	+0.500	20 m	+0.500
3	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	4	3:19.100	+0.800	32 m	+0.300
4	John Surtees	Ferrari	2	3:19.100	+0.800	32 m	+0.000
5	Dan Gurney	Brabham	14	3:19.800	+1.500	61 m	+0.700
6	Denny Hulme	Brabham	16	3:20.500	+2.200	89 m	+0.700
7	Richie Ginther	Honda	26	3:21.400	+3.100	126 m	+0.900
8	Chris Amon	Team Lotus	24	3:23.000	+4.700	191 m	+1.600
9	Bruce McLaren	Cooper	18	3:23.200	+4.900	199 m	+0.200
10	Mike Spence	Team Lotus	8	3:23.400	+5.100	207 m	+0.200
11	Jo Bonnier	Brabham	34	3:23.400	+5.100	207 m	+0.000
12	Jochen Rindt	Cooper	20	3:23.600	+5.300	215 m	+0.200
13	Graham Hill	BRM	10	3:23.700	+5.400	219 m	+0.100
14	Jo Siffert	Brabham	36	3:25.200	+6.900	280 m	+1.500
15	Bob Anderson	Brabham	30	3:26.000	+7.700	313 m	+0.800
16	Ronnie Bucknum	Honda	28	3:26.300	+8.000	325 m	+0.300
17	Innes Ireland	Team Lotus	22	3:30.500	+12.200	496 m	+4.200

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: 4 of 1965
Grand Prix: French Grand Prix
Dates: 27 Jun 1965
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.