1962 Kanonloppet

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1962 Kanonloppet
Non-championship race in the 1962 Formula One season
Race details
Date12 August 1962
Official name VIII Kanonloppet
Location Karlskoga Motorstadion, Karlskoga
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 2.998 km (1.863 miles)
Distance 30 laps, 89.95 km (55.89 miles)
Pole position
Driver Lola-Climax
Time 1.25.4
Fastest lap
Driver Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Innes Ireland Lotus-Climax
Time 1:24.1
Podium
First Lotus-BRM
Second Lola-Climax
Third Porsche

The 8th Kanonloppet was a motor race, run for Formula One cars, held on 12 August 1962 at the Karlskoga circuit, Sweden. The race was run over 30 laps of the little circuit, and was won by American driver Masten Gregory in a Lotus 24, run by the UDT Laystall Racing Team. [1]

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Race

In training, Graham Hill left the track and damaged the nose on the Rob Walker Lotus 24. [2] He went on to compete without a nosecone. Rookie Olle Nygren could not find fourth gear in the Lotus 18 he had borrowed from Jay Chamberlain, and was also having a hard time finding his brake points. Nygren qualified last and only lasted six laps of this, his only Formula One race. Kurt Kuhnke's interesting Borgward-engined Lotus only made a few practice laps before it spun a main bearing and was withdrawn. [2] A recent resurfacing of the track led to lap times dropping by about 5 seconds compared to 1961, meaning some last-minute modifications to the cars had to be carried out to account for the higher speeds. [3]

Surtees took the lead from pole, but already on the second lap Masten Gragory passed him in Tröskurvan (curve one). [3] Surtees tried to take back the lead, but missed a gearshift after being blinded by water splashed by Gregory's car. Gregory took a lead of about five car lengths and was never threatened again. Innes Ireland had gone off the track on the opening lap but clawed his way back up the field for a fourth place in the end, putting down a new lap record along the way. [3] On the 11th lap Surtees retired with a broken valve spring, Hill with an oil leak, and ninth-placed Collomb with engine failure. Bonnier seemed to be in a secure second place, but Salvadori in the Lola gave chase and managed to pass. Bonnier made a spirited attempt to regain second in the last turn of the race, but came up three metres short at the flag. Burgess and Count de Beaufort finished a lap down, both in four-cylinder cars while the first four all raced eight-cylinder ones. Burgess' Cooper was a unique mix of Formula Junior and Formula One parts, all in the interest of minimizing frontal area. [3] De Beaufort's car, while entered by his private team Ecurie Maarsbergen, was supported by the factory and he shared three mechanics with Bonnier. [4]

Results

PosDriverEntrantConstructorTime/RetiredGrid
1 Flag of the United States.svg Masten Gregory UDT Laystall Racing Team Lotus-BRM 42:51.36
2 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Roy Salvadori Bowmaker Racing Team Lola-Climax + 7.3 s4
3 Flag of Sweden.svg Jo Bonnier Porsche System Engineering Porsche 804 + 7.5 s3
4 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Innes Ireland UDT Laystall Racing Team Lotus-Climax + 36.7 s2
5 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Ian Burgess Anglo-American Equipe Cooper Special-Climax 29 laps7
6 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Carel Godin de Beaufort Ecurie Maarsbergen Porsche 718 29 laps8
Ret Flag of France.svg Bernard Collomb Bernard Collomb Cooper-Climax 11, Engine9
Ret Flag of the United Kingdom.svg John Surtees Bowmaker Racing Team Lola-Climax 11, Valve spring1
Ret Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Graham Hill Rob Walker Racing Team Lotus-Climax 11, Oil leak5
Ret Flag of Sweden.svg Olle Nygren Ecurie Excelsior Lotus-Climax 6, Gearbox10
WD Flag of the United Kingdom.svg John Campbell-Jones Emeryson Cars Emeryson-Climax Driver injured-
WD Flag of the United States.svg Tony Settember Emeryson Cars Emeryson-Climax -
WD Flag of Germany.svg Kurt Kuhnke Kurt Kuhnke Lotus-Borgward Engine not ready-
WD Flag of the United Kingdom.svg David Piper David Piper Lotus-Climax -

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References

  1. "The Formula One Record Book", John Thompson, 1974.
  2. 1 2 Johansson, Lars-Erik (September 1962). "Kanonloppet". Illustrerad Motor Sport (in Swedish). No. 9. Lerum, Sweden. p. 8.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Johansson, p. 10
  4. Johansson, p. 11
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