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" By the time the 65-lap race was one-third over, the field had been strung out to almost half the length of the track, with Ginther leading Spence by nearly half a mile. Gurney was trying to get by Spence in his pursuit of the Honda, but for four laps couldn&amp;#039;t get up the steam without going over his redline at 10,300 rpm. Then he made it by and took up the chase again. However, it was already reasonably certain that the only way he could catch Richie was if the latter slowed down. Hill, in fourth, was 19 sec back.   Nothing was at all certain behind the leaders. Pedro and Bandini were locked in battle behind the BRMs, and their nose-to-tail chase of each other was leading them right up Stewart&amp;#039;s stern. Then Rodriguez began to slow with a short in the ignition system and Bandini, a bit exuberant at the hairpin, compressed the nose of his Ferrari against a solid object. It went smash into several large pieces. Bandini limped end into the pits. Pedro had used up all his battery juice by this time, and followed. Both cars were out of the race for several laps; when they came back on, Bandini&amp;#039;s car wore a spare front shell and Rodriguez had a new battery. Both took oil&amp;#039; after everyone else at a fantastic clip. Stewart, alas, didn&amp;#039;t; he was having clutch slip, and he quit on lap 35.   Up front Ginther&amp;#039;s lead was slowly being eaten up by Gurney, who now had his engine on the redline almost every lap. Ginther would turn a 1:58.6, and Gurney would follow with a l:58.45. They were leaving Spence and Hill further behind all the time. But then Ginther ran up against Brabham. The latter&amp;#039;s car, though crippled, was circulating in the middle of the road at a respectable speed, just in case Ginther might try to lap the field. Sure enough he did, and sure enough he found himself stuck behind Brabham while Gurney poured it on from the rear.         Honda RA 272 at the 1965 Mexican Grand Prix\u2014Photo by Schlegelmilch     Then the Honda showed its stuff. Coming out of the esses, down a long chute into a high banked 180, Ginther leaped past Brabham by accelerating into a high drift along the top of the banking and powered around into the pit straight turning 11,000 rpm and clocking I :57.6. But still Gurney pressed on. He turned a 1:56.-4, closed the gap to four seconds.   Time was growing short; the ever more rapid pace of Ginther&amp;#039;s Honda had caused the laps to fly by, and incidentally, had taken further toll of the competition. In the last quarter of the race Hill&amp;#039;s engine gave up, Brabham ran out of oil, and several of the back-running independents suffered suspension failures. This served to juggle the standings somewhat. Spence still ran third, but fourth had belonged for a while to Moises Solana, who unaccustomed to such high places, thereupon suffered ignition failure and brought his team Lotus into the pits for good, after what was a surprisingly good showing. Which left fourth to Jo Siffert in his Brabham-BRM, and Ron Bucknum trying to catch him.   Unfortunately there wasn&amp;#039;t time for Bucknum to succeed. Ginther saw Gurney coming up behind him, the gap having closed to three seconds, and he trod the accelerator for all it was worth. His next lap was 1:56.2, whereupon Gurney made one desperate effort to catch him, and turned a truly remarkable 1:55.84, a new all time record for the circuit. in so doing he and his car got sprayed by what he thought was water from Ginther&amp;#039;s engine. An imminent Honda engine failure might be in the offing. He pressed on.   But it was no use. It wasn&amp;#039;t water; it was gas, and thus Ginther could keep up his l:56s as long as he had fuel, whereas if Gurney was going to finish at all, he was going to have to slow down a bit. Which he did, just in time to save both his engine and clutch, which were beginning to make noises on his last several laps. What Gurney couldn&amp;#039;t know was that the Honda had been losing gas for some dozen laps or more, and literally finished the race on fumes alone. If Dan had pressed Ginther three laps earlier, it is likely he would have won.   Richie got the checkered Hag by just under three seconds over Dan, with Spence, still lying third, half a lap back, and Siffert a steady and well driven fourth, just barely in the same lap with the leaders. Bucknum had done the best he could with his Honda, came home fifth, a lap behind. The Ferraris had eaten up a lost lap apiece, but were still three laps back of Ginther at the end. Biggest surprise of the day? Sandwiched in between Siffert and the Ferraris was Dick Attwood in the private Parnell Lotus-BRM. Everyone assumes that independents like Dick finish last. But he didn&amp;#039;t. Jim Clark did. Just look at the results.         Honda RA 272 at the 1965 Mexican Grand Prix\u2014Photo by LAT Photographic     So that was the wind-up of the 1500-cc formula. It ran live years, 1961-65, and there was a total of 47 championship races held during that period. So far as drivers go, there was almost a new generation, only a few genuine veterans going back to the days of front-engined racing cars. Jim Clark was certainly the brightest name in the formula. He won a total of 19 grander epreuves for Lotus and was World Champion twice, 1963 and l965. Graham Hill won I0 times for BRM during the period and was champion in 1962.   It is an interesting commentary on men and machines that no other driver won more than three championship races while the formula was in effect. Dan Gurney and John Surtees &amp;quot;Champion 196-4&amp;quot; both won three races each, while Phil Hill &amp;quot;Champion l961&amp;quot;, Stirling Moss and Wolfgang von Tripps won two each, and one victory was posted by Giancarlo Baghetti, Innes Ireland, Bruce McLaren, Lorenzo Bandini, Jackie Stewart and Richie Ginther.   Among the manufacturers Lotus won the largest number of times, 22, while BRM won 11, Ferrari 9, Brabham 2, and Cooper, Honda, and Porsche one each. Coventry-Climax engines won the most times, 25, while BRM won 11, Ferrari 9, and Honda and Porsche one each. The old order passeth. It was interesting.      Honda RA 272 at the 1965 Mexican Grand Prix\u2014Photo by Bernard Cahier    "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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