1962 Mexican Grand Prix

Pole-sitter Clark suffered a flat battery, so his Lotus 25-Climax got a replacement, but still failed to start; mechanics gave it a push start to get the engine going.[1] However, due to a lack of communication between the starting officials, the start flag was waved while marshals were still on the track. For John Surtees, the delay caused a cylinder to burn out and his race was over before it even started. The race stewards decided the push start had been illegal (despite it being done by race officials) and black-flagged Clark's car (leaking oil in addition, to unlikely to survive full distance in any case[2]) on lap 10.

Clark took over the second works Lotus of Lotus team-mate, Trevor Taylor, during a pit stop, dropping him to third, behind Jack Brabham's Brabham and Bruce McLaren in the Cooper.[3] The Scot put in a superb drive to claw back the 57 second deficit on the leaders, passing both with over one third of the race distance still remaining. McLaren's engine blew after half-distance,[4] and as the Brabham was also having trouble,[5] Clark completed the remainder of the race with very little opposition, scoring an easy win. This would prove to be the final time that a Grand Prix victory would be shared by two drivers.

Also notable was the participation of German driver Wolfgang Seidel, who competed despite having had his FIA licence suspended over two months previously. The Porsche works team did not attend, Porsche having withdrawn from motor sport at the end of the 1962 World Championship season.

Despite the starting confusion, the race earned the Mexican Grand Prix full World Championship status from 1963, which it would retain until 1970.

Pos	Driver	Entrant	Constructor	Time/Retired	Qual
1	Trevor Taylor / Jim Clark	Team Lotus	Lotus-Climax	2:03:50.9	3
2	Jack Brabham	Brabham Racing Organisation	Brabham-Climax	+ 1:01.9	7
3	Innes Ireland	UDT Laystall Racing Team	Lotus-Climax	+ 1 lap	2
4	Jim Hall	Jim Hall	Lotus-Climax	+ 1 lap	10
5	Masten Gregory	UDT Laystall Racing Team	Lotus-BRM	+ 1 lap	9
6	Rob Schroeder	John Mecom	Lotus-Climax	+ 3 laps	11
7	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Ecurie Maarsbergen	Porsche	+ 3 laps	12
8	Homer Rader	Jim Hall	Lotus-Climax	+ 3 laps	14
9	Jay Chamberlain	Ecurie Excelsior	Lotus-Climax	+ 7 laps	16
Ret	Walt Hansgen	Walter Hansgen	Lotus-Climax	Ignition	13
Ret	Roger Penske	Dupont Team Zerex	Lotus-Climax	Gearbox	6
Ret	Bruce McLaren	Cooper Car Company	Cooper-Climax	Engine	5
DSQ	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	Lotus-Climax	Push start	1
Ret	Roy Salvadori	Bowmaker-Yeoman Racing Team	Lola-Climax	Accident (Rear suspension)	8
Ret	Alan Connell	Alan Connell	Cooper-Climax	Engine	15
Ret	Wolfgang Seidel	Autosport Team Wolfgang Seidel	Lotus-BRM	Gearbox	17
Ret	John Surtees	Bowmaker-Yeoman Racing Team	Lotus-Climax	Ignition	4
WD	Moisés Solana	Bowmaker-Yeoman Racing Team	Cooper-BRM	Car too slow	–
DNS	Ricardo Rodríguez	Rob Walker Racing Team	Lotus-Climax	Fatal accident	–
DNA	Dan Gurney	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche
DNA	Jo Bonnier	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche

• Moisés Solana withdrew from the event during practice, complaining that his car was too slow.[6] His fastest recorded time was faster than those of Seidel, Connell, Rader, Chamberlain and Hansgen.

• "1962 Mexican Grand Prix". MotorSport.com. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
• "I Gran Premio di Mexico 1962". formula2.net. 2003-08-12. Archived from the original on 2017-02-01. Note that the track length and race distance seem to be incorrectly quoted, while times/speed imply correct numbers (5.000 km/300.000 km) which agree with MotorSport source.
• Diepraam, Mattijs; Muelas, Felix (2006-11-18). "Mexico's fatal arrival on the world scene". 8W. Retrieved 2017-11-06.