F1/Seasons/1963/Round 6
1963 · Round 6 of 10

German Grand Prix

August 4, 1963 · Nürburgring · Nürburg · Germany
Surtees
WINNER
John Surtees · Ferrari · from grid 2
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+11
MOST PLACES GAINED
Gerhard Mitter · grid 15 to P4
10 of 25
CLASSIFIED
12 retired · 3 withdrew

01/Classification

25 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1John SurteesFerrari2+1152:13:06.8009
2Jim ClarkLotus-Climax1-115+1:17.5006
3Richie GintherBRM6+315+2:44.9004
4Gerhard MitterPorsche15+1115+8:11.5003
5Jim HallLotus-BRM16+1114+1 Lap2
6Jo BonnierCooper-Climax12+614+1 Lap1
7Jack BrabhamBrabham8+114+1 Lap0
8Trevor TaylorLotus-Climax18+1014+1 Lap0
9Jo SiffertLotus-BRM9010Differential0
10Bernard CollombLotus-Climax21+1110+5 Laps0
RCarel Godin de BeaufortPorsche179Wheel0
RTony MaggsCooper-Climax107Engine0
RDan GurneyBrabham136Gearbox0
RMário de Araújo CabralCooper-Climax206Gearbox0
RIan BurgessScirocco195Steering0
RTony SettemberScirocco225Accident0
RBruce McLarenCooper-Climax53Accident0
RGraham HillBRM42Gearbox0
RChris AmonLola141Accident0
RWilly MairesseFerrari71Accident0
RInnes IrelandLotus-BRM111Accident0
RLorenzo BandiniBRM30Accident0
WPhil HillATSPIT0Withdrew0
WGiancarlo BaghettiATSPIT0Withdrew0
WMasten GregoryLotus-BRMPIT0Withdrew0

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 25 cars here were not classified (12 retired, 3 withdrew). 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

10 of 25 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Gerhard MitterPorsche154+11
Jim HallLotus-BRM165+11
Bernard CollombLotus-Climax2110+11
Trevor TaylorLotus-Climax188+10
Jo BonnierCooper-Climax126+6
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Jim ClarkLotus-Climax12-1

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 10 of the 25 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 15: a car that was not classified has no finishing position to subtract from, and 3 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.