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6ème Grand Prix de Spa

Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium

Date: 21/5/1962
Track length: 14.100 m
Attendance: unknown
Entries accepted: unknown
Starters: 31
Finishers: 25

Pole position: unknown
Fastest lap: Jopp, 156,521 kmh

Distance: 8 laps
Average speed: 154,344 kmh
Weather: Warm
Ruleset: Group 2?
Car info:  

 

Bianchi won the race overall, but the story of the race was that the leading Mini’s of Whitmore, Blumer and Blydenstein tried to finish in formation, thinking that their lead was big enough. Not so; Holvoet’s Auto Union beat them on the line!

Voitures de Tourisme Ameliorées
Pos Pos in class # Team / Entrant
Car- Engine		 Drivers, Nationality Engine
vol. (cc)		 Engine
Type		 Group Distance,
time		 Qualifying position Qualifying time Fastest lap Reason out,
remarks
1 1 24  
Sunbeam Rapier Series IIIA		 Lucien Bianchi, B
 1592 L4 1600 8 laps        
2 2 22  
Sunbeam Rapier Series IIIA		 Peter Jopp, GB
 1592 L4 1600 8     ca. 5.24,5  
3 3 32  
Riley 1.5		 Peter Pilsworth, GB
 1489 L4 1600 8        
DSQ   33  
Riley 1.5		 Alan Hutcheson, GB
 1489 L4 1600 8        
4 1 31  
Alfa Romeo Giulietta TI		 J.M. Pierson, B
 1290 L4 1300 8        
5 4    
Sunbeam Rapier Series IIIA		 Ellis Cuff-Miller, GB
 1592 L4 1600 8        
6 5 25  
Sunbeam Rapier Series IIIA		 Victor Heylen, B
 1592 L4 1600 8        
7 2 28  
Alfa Romeo Giulietta TI		 Catulle, B
 1290 L4 1300 8        
8 3 29  
Alfa Romeo Giulietta TI		 Yvonnick Baronnet, F
 1290 L4 1300 8        
9 1 15  
Auto Union 1000S		 Emile Holvoet, B
 981 L3 1000 8        
10 2 2  
Morris Mini Cooper		 John Whitmore, GB
 997 L4 1000 8        
11 3 3  
Austin Mini Cooper		 Jimmy Blumer, GB
 997 L4 1000 8        
12 4 1  
Morris Mini Cooper		 Bill Blydenstein, GB
 997 L4 1000 8     ca. 5.42,5  
13 5 11  
Auto Union 1000S		 Jean Demortier, B
 981 L3 1000 8        
14 6 16  
DKW Junior de Luxe		 John Aley, GB
 796 L3 1000 8        
  6 36  
Vauxhall VX 4/90		 "Pat" Gautot, B
 1508 L4 1600 7        
  7 8  
BMW 700		 Carl Smet, B
 697 B2 1000 7        
  8 7  
BMW 700		 Robert Houssa, B
 697 B2 1000 7        
  9 6  
Morris Mini Cooper		 Paul Lucas, B
 997 L4 1000 7        
  10 9  
BMW 700		 G. 't Kint de Roodebeeke, B
 697 B2 1000 7        
  11 18  
Renault Dauphine 1093		 ? Jean-Pierre Demol, B
 845 L4 1000 7        
  12 14  
Auto Union 1000S		 Vermeulen, B
 981 L3 1000 7        
  13    
Auto Union 1000S		 Jacques Demoulin, B
 981 L3 1000 7        
  14 10  
BMW 700		 Rolf Brakemeier, D
 697 B2 1000 7        
  15 19  
Panhard 24 CT		 René Granelli, B
 848 B2 1000 7        
DSQ?   21  
Sunbeam Rapier Series IIIA		 Alan Fraser, GB
 1592 L4 1600 ??        
DNF   26  
Alfa Romeo Giulietta TI		 Anatole, B
 1290 L4 1600          
DNF   27  
Alfa Romeo Giulietta TI		 Georges Hacquin, B
 1290 L4 1600          
DNF   30  
Alfa Romeo Giulietta TI		 Nile de Penhoet
 1290 L4 1600          
DNF   38  
Fiat 1500		 Jean-Pierre Ackermans ("Jipéa"), B
 1481 L4 1600          
DNF   12  
Auto Union 1000S		 Boudouin Scheppers, B
 981 L3 1000          
DNF   17  
Saab		 Herme
   L3 1000