1963 Formula One season
| 1963
FIA Formula One World Championship season
|
|||
| Previous: | 1962 | Next: | 1964 |
| Races by country • Races by season | |||
The 1963 Formula One season was the 14th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 14th FIA World Championship of Drivers,[1] the sixth International Cup for F1 Manufacturers [2] and numerous non-championship Formula One races. The World Championship commenced on May 26, 1963, and ended on December 28 after ten races.
Contents |
Season summary[edit]
Jim Clark won his first championship with seven wins to two by Graham Hill and one by John Surtees in a revised Ferrari. This record number of wins stood until it was beaten by Ayrton Senna in 1988 in the McLaren MP4/4, one of the most dominant cars of all time, in a season with sixteen rounds. The ATS venture, founded by ex-Ferrari workers, a complete disaster which ruined Phil Hill's Grand Prix career, was unrelated to the late 1970s German operation which was marginally more successful.
Season review[edit]
Teams and drivers[edit]
The following teams and drivers competed in the 1963 FIA World Championship.
1963 Drivers Championship final standings[edit]
Points were awarded on an 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis at each round, with only the best six round results retained.
|
|
- Italics indicate fastest lap (1 point awarded – point shared equally between drivers sharing fastest lap)
- Bold indicates pole position
‡ No points awarded as Hill's car was pushed at the start line.[4]
1963 International Cup for F1 Manufacturers – final standings[edit]
Points were awarded on a 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis at each round with only the best six round results retained. Only the best placed car from each manufacturer at each round was eligible to score points.
| Pos. | Manufacturer | MON |
BEL |
NED |
FRA |
GBR |
GER |
ITA |
USA |
MEX |
RSA |
Pts.[3] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lotus-Climax |
(6) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | (2) | 1 | (3) | 1 | (1) | 54 (74) |
| 2 | BRM |
1 | (4) | (5) | 10 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | (3) | 36 (45) |
| 3 | Brabham-Climax |
Ret | 3 | 2 | 4 | Ret | 7 | (5) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 28 (30) |
| 4 | Ferrari |
4 | Ret | 3 | Ret | 2 | 1 | Ret | 5 | Ret | 5 | 26 |
| 5 | Cooper-Climax |
3 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 9 | (6) | 3 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 25 (26) |
| 6 | BRP-BRM |
Ret | 4 | 9 | Ret | 4 | WD | WD | 6 | |||
| 7 | Porsche |
6 | 9 | 10 | 4 | DNQ | 6 | 10 | 10 | 5 | ||
| 8 | Lotus-BRM |
Ret | Ret | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 7 | DNS | 4 |
| — | Lola-Climax |
Ret | Ret | Ret | 7 | 7 | Ret | 10 | Ret | Ret | 0 | |
| — |  Stebro-Ford |
7 | 0 | |||||||||
| — | Scirocco-BRM |
WD | 8 | WD | Ret | Ret | Ret | DNQ | 0 | |||
| — | ATS |
WD | Ret | Ret | WD | WD | WD | 11 | Ret | Ret | 0 | |
| — | LDS-Alfa Romeo |
11 | 0 | |||||||||
| — | Cooper-Maserati |
DNQ | 12 | 0 | ||||||||
| — | Lotus-Ford |
14 | 0 | |||||||||
| — | Gilby-BRM |
Ret | DNQ | DNQ | 0 | |||||||
| — | Alfa Romeo |
Ret | 0 | |||||||||
| — | Lotus-Borgward |
DNQ | 0 | |||||||||
| — | De Tomaso-Ferrari |
DNQ | 0 | |||||||||
| Pos. | Manufacturer | MON |
BEL |
NED |
FRA |
GBR |
GER |
ITA |
USA |
MEX |
RSA |
Pts. |
- Bold results counted to championship totals.
Non-Championship race results[edit]
Other Formula One races were also held in 1963, which did not count towards the World Championship.
Notes[edit]
- ^ FIA Yearbook, 1974 page 119
- ^ FIA Yearbook, 1974 page 121
- ^ a b c Only the best 6 results counted towards the Championship. Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.
- ^ "1963 FIA World Championship". Formula One Administration Ltd. Archived from the original on 15 May 2010. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
|
|||||
