F1/Seasons/1963/Round 1
1963 · Round 1 of 10

Monaco Grand Prix

May 26, 1963 · Circuit de Monaco · Monte Carlo · Monaco
Hill
WINNER
Graham Hill · BRM · from grid 2
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+7
MOST PLACES GAINED
Jack Brabham · grid 16 to P9
9 of 24
CLASSIFIED
9 withdrew · 6 retired

01/Classification

24 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Graham HillBRM2+11002:41:49.7009
2Richie GintherBRM4+2100+4.6006
3Bruce McLarenCooper-Climax8+5100+12.8004
4John SurteesFerrari3-1100+14.1003
5Tony MaggsCooper-Climax10+598+2 Laps2
6Trevor TaylorLotus-Climax9+398+2 Laps1
7Jo BonnierCooper-Climax11+494+6 Laps0
8Jim ClarkLotus-Climax1-778Gearbox0
9Jack BrabhamLotus-Climax16+777Gearbox0
RInnes IrelandLotus-BRM540Accident0
RWilly MairesseFerrari737Gearbox0
RMaurice TrintignantLola1434Clutch0
RDan GurneyBrabham625Differential0
RJim HallLotus-BRM1320Gearbox0
RJo SiffertLotus-BRM123Engine0
WChris AmonLolaPIT0Withdrew0
WPhil HillATSPIT0Withdrew0
WGiancarlo BaghettiATSPIT0Withdrew0
WJohn Campbell-JonesLotus-BRMPIT0Withdrew0
WIan BurgessSciroccoPIT0Withdrew0
WTony SettemberSciroccoPIT0Withdrew0
WNasif EstéfanoDe TomasoPIT0Withdrew0
WLorenzo BandiniBRMPIT0Withdrew0
WCarel Godin de BeaufortPorschePIT0Withdrew0

Ordered on the source’s position column and printed from position_text. Those two disagree on purpose: position is a sort key that is never null, and position_text is what happened to the car. 15 of 24 cars here were not classified (9 withdrew, 6 retired). Across the archive that is 9,612 of 26,048 result rows, so a page that printed the sort key would tell more than a third of every field it finished.


02/Grid to finish

9 of 24 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Jack BrabhamLotus-Climax169+7
Bruce McLarenCooper-Climax83+5
Tony MaggsCooper-Climax105+5
Jo BonnierCooper-Climax117+4
Trevor TaylorLotus-Climax96+3
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Jim ClarkLotus-Climax18-7
John SurteesFerrari34-1

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 9 of the 24 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 15: a car that was not classified has no finishing position to subtract from, and 9 cars here carry grid 0, which the source uses for a pit lane start or for no recorded grid slot and this page prints as PIT, and neither has a grid position to subtract. Scoring a grid of 0 as a gain of every place on the grid is the arithmetic this rule exists to stop; 266 of 26,048 rows across the archive are grid 0, and 40 of those were classified.


03/The 1963 season

10 rounds
MAY 26 to DEC 28
RdDateGrand PrixCircuitWinnerConstructorCars
1MAY 26Monaco Grand PrixCircuit de MonacoGraham HillBRM24
2JUN 9Belgian Grand PrixCircuit de Spa-FrancorchampsJim ClarkLotus-Climax24
3JUN 23Dutch Grand PrixCircuit Park ZandvoortJim ClarkLotus-Climax21
4JUN 30French Grand PrixReims-GueuxJim ClarkLotus-Climax24
5JUL 20British Grand PrixSilverstone CircuitJim ClarkLotus-Climax26
6AUG 4German Grand PrixNürburgringJohn SurteesFerrari25
7SEP 8Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di MonzaJim ClarkLotus-Climax26
8OCT 6United States Grand PrixWatkins GlenGraham HillBRM24
9OCT 27Mexican Grand PrixAutódromo Hermanos RodríguezJim ClarkLotus-Climax25
10DEC 28South African Grand PrixPrince George CircuitJim ClarkLotus-Climax23

Every figure here is one race, read from f1_results and f1_races. The finishing order is the source’s position column; the printed position is position_text, which is a letter on 9,612 of 26,048 rows across the archive (R retired 9,089, W withdrew 364, D disqualified 159). Grid 0 is a pit lane start and prints as PIT, not as a place ahead of pole; 266 of 26,048 rows are grid 0. Time is a total for the winner and a gap to the car ahead for everyone else, and it is present on 8,508 of 26,048 rows only, so most of the archive shows the status instead; where both exist and the status is not “Finished” the status is printed beside the time, because 8,335 of 16,436 classified rows finished lapped or otherwise not cleanly. The fastest lap column is empty before 2004: the source carries lap timing on 8,977 of 26,048 rows and a ranked fastest lap in 447 of 1,161 races, and speed on 8,238 of those, none after 2024. Points are printed as the source stores them and are never rounded to a whole number: 38 of 26,048 rows are fractional (0.5, 1.33, 3.14), which is half points for a shortened race and a split score for a shared car, and every one of them is real. Three races (1951 French, 1956 Argentine, 1957 British) print two cars as first, because two drivers shared one car and the record books credit both; in those three the source hangs the race points on other rows, which is why 5 of 1,164 winning rows across the archive print zero points. Constructors carry no logo in any f1_* table, so none is drawn and none is invented. The 1963 season is complete at 10 rounds.