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1965 / CLARK

A scrolling recap of 1965 in six acts. The champion, the constructor, the bump chart, and the race-by-race podiums.

ACT 1 CUMULATIVE TRAJECTORY

The points reel out, race after race.

Every line is a driver's running championship total. The heaviest three at the top are the ones who mattered. Jim Clark closed the year on 54 points, a 14-point gap over P2.

DATA TABLE · CUMULATIVE POINTS

Cumulative points by driver and round for 1965
DRIVER	R01	R02	R03	R04	R05	R06	R07	R08	R09	R10
Jim Clark	9	9	18	27	36	45	54	54	54	54
Graham Hill	4	13	15	17	23	26	30	34	40	40
Jackie Stewart	1	5	11	17	19	25	25	33	33	33
Dan Gurney	0	0	0	0	1	5	9	13	19	25
John Surtees	6	9	9	13	17	17	17	17	17	17
Lorenzo Bandini	0	6	6	6	6	6	7	10	13	13
Richie Ginther	0	0	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	11
Bruce McLaren	2	4	8	8	8	8	8	10	10	10
Mike Spence	3	3	3	3	6	6	6	6	6	10
Jack Brabham	0	0	3	3	3	3	5	5	9	9

ACT 2 CONSTRUCTORS

Two-car teams, one trophy.

The constructors' championship is a different game — both cars score. A team can win it with consistent doubles even when neither driver leads the standings. Lotus–Climax ended on 54 points.

DATA

Constructor championship standings for 1965
POS	CONSTRUCTOR	PTS
P1	LOTUS–CLIMAX	54
P2	BRM	45
P3	BRABHAM–CLIMAX	27
P4	FERRARI	26
P5	COOPER–CLIMAX	14
P6	HONDA	11
P7	BRABHAM–BRM	5
P8	LOTUS–BRM	2

ACT 3 STANDINGS BUMP

Position by position, week to week.

Cumulative points hide where the order actually changed. The bump chart ranks every driver after each race — every crossing of lines is somebody passing somebody in the table.

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DATA TABLE · OFFICIAL RANK BY ROUND

Official championship rank by driver and round for 1965
DRIVER	R01	R02	R03	R04	R05	R06	R07	R08	R09	R10
Jim Clark	P1	P2	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1
Graham Hill	P3	P1	P2	P2	P2	P2	P2	P2	P2	P2
Jackie Stewart	P6	P5	P3	P3	P3	P3	P3	P3	P3	P3
Dan Gurney	—	—	—	—	P11	P8	P5	P5	P4	P4
John Surtees	P2	P3	P4	P4	P4	P4	P4	P4	P5	P5
Lorenzo Bandini	—	P4	P6	P6	P6	P6	P7	P6	P6	P6
Richie Ginther	—	—	P9	P11	P11	P11	P12	P12	P13	P7
Mike Spence	P4	P7	P7	P7	P7	P7	P8	P8	P9	P8
Bruce McLaren	P5	P6	P5	P5	P5	P5	P6	P7	P7	P9
Jack Brabham	—	—	P7	P7	P8	P10	P9	P9	P8	P10
Denny Hulme	—	—	—	P7	P8	P9	P9	P9	P10	P11
Jo Siffert	—	P8	P9	P10	P10	P11	P12	P12	P13	P12
Jochen Rindt	—	—	—	—	—	—	P11	P11	P11	P13
Pedro Rodríguez	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	P12	P14
Ronnie Bucknum	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	P14

ACT 4 RACE-BY-RACE

10 drivers stood on a podium.

4 different drivers won a race. Tap any chip to pin a driver's appearances across the calendar — the matching tiles light up. Empty bars mean a race where the chosen driver missed the top three.

PODIUM DRIVERS

R01 SOUTH AF

1 CLARK

2 SURTEES

3 HILL

R02 MONACO

1 HILL

2 BANDINI

3 STEWART

R03 BELGIUM

1 CLARK

2 STEWART

3 MCLAREN

R04 FRANCE

1 CLARK

2 STEWART

3 SURTEES

R05 GREAT BR

1 CLARK

2 HILL

3 SURTEES

R06 NETHERLA

1 CLARK

2 STEWART

3 GURNEY

R07 GERMANY

1 CLARK

2 HILL

3 GURNEY

R08 ITALY

1 STEWART

2 HILL

3 GURNEY

R09 UNITED S

1 HILL

2 GURNEY

3 BRABHAM

R10 MEXICO

1 GINTHER

2 GURNEY

3 SPENCE

DATA TABLE · RACE PODIUMS

Race-by-race podium finishers for 1965
ROUND	RACE	P1	P2	P3
R01 · South African Grand Prix 1965	South African Grand Prix 1965	CLARK	SURTEES	HILL
R02 · Grand Prix de Monaco 1965	Grand Prix de Monaco 1965	HILL	BANDINI	STEWART
R03 · 1965 Belgian Grand Prix	1965 Belgian Grand Prix	CLARK	STEWART	MCLAREN
R04 · Grand Prix de France 1965	Grand Prix de France 1965	CLARK	STEWART	SURTEES
R05 · 1965 RAC British Grand Prix	1965 RAC British Grand Prix	CLARK	HILL	SURTEES
R06 · Grote Prijs van Nederland 1965	Grote Prijs van Nederland 1965	CLARK	STEWART	GURNEY
R07 · Grosser Preis von Deutschland 1965	Grosser Preis von Deutschland 1965	CLARK	HILL	GURNEY
R08 · Gran Premio d'Italia 1965	Gran Premio d'Italia 1965	STEWART	HILL	GURNEY
R09 · 1965 United States Grand Prix	1965 United States Grand Prix	HILL	GURNEY	BRABHAM
R10 · Gran Premio de México 1965	Gran Premio de México 1965	GINTHER	GURNEY	SPENCE

EPILOGUE BY THE NUMBERS

The year in five numbers.

ROUNDS

10

DRIVERS

16

WINNERS

4

PODIUM·DRIVERS

10

POINTS·SHARED

242

CHAMPION

Jim Clark

54 PTS · 6 WINS

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