The 4th

Rand Grand Prix The Rand Grand Prix was a motor race held at various circuits in South Africa. The first event took place in 1937 but it was not held regularly until the 1960s, when it was run to Formula One rules and formed part of the non-Championship calenda ...

was a

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, run to South African

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-style rules, held on 9 December 1961 at

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. The race was run over 75 laps of the circuit, and was won by British driver

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, who led from start to finish in his Lotus 21. There were no great differences between the local rules to which this race was run and the international Formula One rules, but for example

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bodies were permitted, such as those driven by Jennings and Bosman.

Results

*Bonnier was still on his warm-up lap when the race started, thus he was half a lap down at the start.

References

* "The Grand Prix Who's Who", Steve Small, 1995. * "The Formula One Record Book", John Thompson, 1974. * Race results at www.silhouet.co

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1961 Natal Grand Prix The 1st Natal Grand Prix was a motor race, run to South African Formula One-style rules, held on 17 December 1961 at Westmead Circuit, South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, sout ...

, Previous_year's_race = 1956 Rand Grand Prix , Next_year's_race =

1962 Rand Grand Prix The 5th Rand Grand Prix was a motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 15 December 1962 at Kyalami, South Africa. The race was run over 50 laps of the circuit, and was won by British driver Jim Clark, who led from start to finish in his Lot ...

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