1962 Italian Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 7 of 9 in the 1962 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 16 September 1962 | ||
| Official name | XXXIII Gran Premio d'Italia | ||
| Location |
Autodromo Nazionale Monza Monza, Italy |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 5.750 km (3.573 mi) | ||
| Distance | 86 laps, 494.500 km (307.268 mi) | ||
| Weather | Dry, with rain later | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Lotus-Climax | ||
| Time | 1:40.35 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Graham Hill
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BRM | |
| Time | 1:42.30 on lap 3 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | BRM | ||
| Second | BRM | ||
| Third | Cooper-Climax | ||
The 1962 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 16 September 1962. It was the seventh race of the 1962 Formula One season. The 86-lap race was won by BRM driver Graham Hill after he started from second position. His teammate Richie Ginther finished second and Cooper driver Bruce McLaren came in third.
Jim Clark started on pole position, but the Lotus team still looked worried as the team had gone through all of their gearboxes over the weekend. Two crates of spare parts were flown down, but nonetheless Clark and Trevor Taylor started with no more spares available. After only two laps Clark pitted with the expected transmission trouble; he made it back onto the track for another ten laps but that was it. Teammate Taylor managed 25 laps before his race ended. Hill kept stretching his lead out and finished nearly a half minute before Richie Ginther in the other BRM. Ginther had been duelling with Surtees throughout the race, but on lap 38 Surtees slowed down and five laps later he retired with engine troubles. Behind these two, there was a race long three-way fight between Dan Gurney's Porsche and the Coopers of McLaren and Maggs. The cars swapped positions constantly, coming down the straight on the fiftieth lap three abreast. Maggs had to stop for more fuel, unlike McLaren whose car had been fitted with 170-litre (45 US gal) fuel tanks to enable him to run the entire distance. Meanwhile, Willy Mairesse in the new non-sharknose Ferrari 156 had caught up to the third-place contenders and brought Jo Bonnier and Giancarlo Baghetti with him.
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