1962 Pau Grand Prix

  1962 Pau Grand Prix

Race details
Non-Championship race in the 1962 Formula One season
Date	23 April 1962
Official name	XXII Pau Grand Prix
Location	Pau Circuit, Pau
Course	Temporary street circuit
Course length	2.758 km (1.714 mi)
Distance	100 laps, 275.842 km (171.4 mi)
Pole position
Driver	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax
Time	1:30.6
Fastest lap
Driver	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax
Time	1:33.4
Podium
First	Maurice Trintignant	Lotus-Climax
Second	Ricardo Rodríguez	Ferrari
Third	Jack Lewis	BRM

The 22nd Pau Grand Prix was a non-Championship motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 23 April 1962 at Pau Circuit, the street circuit in Pau. The race was run over 100 laps of the circuit, and was won by Maurice Trintignant in a Lotus 18/21, run by the Rob Walker Racing Team.

Results

Pos	Driver	Entrant	Constructor	Time/Retired	Grid
1	Maurice Trintignant	Rob Walker Racing Team	Lotus-Climax	2.39:35.5	5
2	Ricardo Rodríguez	SEFAC Ferrari	Ferrari	+ 33.6 s	2
3	Jack Lewis	Ecurie Galloise	BRM	+ 34.6 s	7
4	Tony Marsh	Owen Racing Organisation	BRM	99 laps	8
5	Lorenzo Bandini	SEFAC Ferrari	Ferrari	99 laps	6
6	Nino Vaccarella	Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia	Lotus-Climax	98 laps	11
7	Jo Siffert	Ecurie Nationale Suisse	Lotus-Climax	97 laps	14
8	Ian Burgess	Anglo-American Equipe	Cooper-Climax	95 laps	13
9	Heinz Schiller	Ecurie Nationale Suisse	Porsche	95 laps	15
10	Jo Schlesser	Ecurie Lausanne	Cooper-Climax	94 laps	16
11	Trevor Taylor	Team Lotus	Lotus-Climax	92 laps	9
Ret	Jo Bonnier	Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia	Porsche	Crownwheel & pinion	3
Ret	Lucien Bianchi	Equipe Nationale Belge	ENB-Maserati	Rear suspension	10
Ret	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	Lotus-Climax	Gear linkage	1
Ret	Ludwig Heimrath	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche	Accident	12
Ret	Jack Brabham	Brabham Racing Organisation	Lotus-Climax	Oil pressure	4
DNQ	Maurice Caillet	Ets Cegga	Cegga-Maserati		-
DNQ	Kurt Kuhnke	Autosport Team Wolfgang Seidel	Lotus-Climax		-
WD	Bernard Collomb	Bernard Collomb	Cooper-Climax	Car destroyed at previous race	-
WD	Michael May	Michael May	-		-

References

• "The Formula One Record Book", John Thompson, 1974.