1965 Formula One season
It featured the 16th World Championship of Drivers, the 8th International Cup for F1 Manufacturers, and seven non-championship races open to Formula One cars.
Not many changes in positions happened after that, until Brabham's engine started misfiring, leaking oil, and sending Spence in a spin on the next lap.
[4] Just short of a full five months later, the Monaco Grand Prix was held and for this race, the organisers guaranteed one place on the grid for each factory team.
Hill lost a lot of time when he had to avoid a backmarker, going up the escape road and having to push his car back onto the track.
Rain fell and everyone held a safe distance from the car in front, except Clark, who took the lead through the most dangerous corner on the track, the Masta Kink.
Attwood crashed at Masta, his Lotus breaking in half and catching fire, but the driver escaping with only minor burns.
The French Grand Prix was run for the first time at the Circuit de Charade, which was described as a quicker, twistier version of the Nürburgring.
[7] Championship leader Jim Clark qualified his Lotus on pole position, ahead of two "number two drivers": Jackie Stewart (BRM) and Lorenzo Bandini (Ferrari).
Except from Bandini's accident on lap 36, the race finished as it started: Clark claimed another Grand Slam victory, ahead of Stewart and Surtees.
[8] The British Grand Prix was run at Silverstone, where Clark scored another pole position, ahead of Hill and Honda driver Richie Ginther.
Surtees was fighting for third place against Lotus driver Mike Spence, while his team leader suddenly slowed down.
Moments before the flag fell, Lotus team owner Colin Chapman was involved in a brawl with the Dutch police.
Championship favourite Jim Clark (Lotus) achieved his fifth pole position of the year at the Italian Grand Prix, ahead of John Surtees for Ferrari and Jackie Stewart for BRM.
At the start, Surtees had problems with his clutch, so Clark and Stewart were followed by Graham Hill, who had to finish first to stay in the race for the championship.
With ten laps to go, Clark suddenly stopped with a failing fuel pump, so Hill and Stewart were free to fight over the win in equal machinery.
[12] Hill started on pole for the United States Grand Prix, ahead of Clark and Honda driver Richie Ginther.
[13] The season ended with the Mexican Grand Prix, where Clark scored another pole position, ahead of Americans Gurney and Ginther.
His teammate Clark suffered his third consecutive retirement, before Stewart went out at the half-way point, and Hill's engine gave out with ten laps to go.
