The 8th

Aintree 200 The BARC 200 was an annual motor race organised by the British Automobile Racing Club from 1954 to 1984. it was a revival of the pre-war 200 mile races organised at Brooklands and Donington Park by the BARC's predecessor, the British Automobile Ra ...

was a

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, run to

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rules, held on 27 April 1963 at

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. The race was run over 50 laps of the circuit, and was won by British driver

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in a BRM P57.

Characteristics

This race saw one of the last instances of car changing in Formula One, as it was already illegal in World Championship races.

Jim Clark James Clark (4 March 1936 – 7 April 1968) was a British racing driver from Scotland, who competed in Formula One from to . Clark won two Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles with Lotus, and—at the time of his death—held the ...

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25 was left on the starting line with a flat battery and joined the race a lap down, but after 16 laps, he swapped cars with his team-mate Trevor Taylor who was in fifth place at the time. Clark moved up to finish third, while Taylor was left in seventh place. Clark set the fastest lap of the race in Taylor's car.

Jack Brabham Sir John Arthur Brabham (2 April 1926 – 19 May 2014) was an Australian racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from to . Brabham won three Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won in , and , ...

qualified in second place but failed to start after suffering a broken piston in practice.

Results

Wolfgang Seidel Wolfgang Seidel (4 July 1926 – 1 March 1987) was a racing driver from Germany. He participated in 12 Formula One Formula One (F1) is the highest class of worldwide racing for open-wheel single-seater formula Auto racing, racing cars san ...

entered two cars under the ''Autosport Team Wolfgang Seidel'' banner, but these were withdrawn before the event.

References

* "The Grand Prix Who's Who", Steve Small, 1995. * "The Formula One Record Book", John Thompson, 1974. {{F1 NC race report , Name_of_race =

, Year_of_race = 1963 , Previous_race_in_season = 1963 Syracuse Grand Prix , Next_race_in_season = 1963 BRDC International Trophy , Previous_year's_race = 1962 Aintree 200 , Next_year's_race =

1964 Aintree 200 The 9th Aintree 200 was a Formula One motor race held on 18 April 1964 at Aintree Circuit, Merseyside. The race was run over 67 laps of the circuit, and was won by Australian driver Jack Brabham in a Brabham BT7-Climax. BRM driver Graham Hill s ...