Championship of the world of Formula 1 1964

The championship of the world of Formula 1 1964 was gained by the British John Surtees over a Ferrari. Ferrari gains the championship of the world of the manufacturers.

Sporting payment

Seuls the 6 best results are retained.
the attribution of the points is carried out according to scale 9,6,4,3,2,1.

Technical payment

Driving atmospheric of 1.500 cm ³
Engine supercharged prohibited

Principal volunteers

After having crushed the season 1963, Jim Clark seems the big favorite of the season 1964 on its Lotus. At its sides, disappointing the Trevor Taylor was replaced by its compatriot Peter Arundell.

But competition did not remain inactive during the off season. Thus, BRM, Ferrari and Cooper took again on their account (in various forms) the principle of the monoshell initiated by the Lotus 25 in 1962. If BRM preserves its duet Graham Hill - Richie Ginther, Cooper, after death during the winter of the young American hope Tim Mayer (recruited to replace Tony Maggs) turned to the former world champion Phil Hill (returned of the fiasco ATS). Hill will make team with Bruce McLaren, always faithful to the team of her beginnings, even if it assembled in parallel its own structure. As for the Scuderia Ferrari which finished the former season in waterspout, it continues to trust and John Surtees Lorenzo Bandini, integrated in the Italian team end 1963, and technical side, with the engineer Mauro Forghieri.

Among the five official teams, only the stable Brabham preserves the principle of a tubular frame. Jack Brabham and daN Gurney remains the pilots about it.

To finally note the arrival programmed in the course of season of the Japanese from Honda, which will constitute a big first in the history of the championship of the world.

Summary of the championship of the world 1964

Monaco does not succeed definitely in Clark. Again dominating in the streets of the Principality, the Scottish world champion first of all owes oberver a stop impromptu with the stands (its bar dangerously being detached stabilizer) before giving up on oil escape for the arrival (it nevertheless will be classified 4th). Graham Hill benefits from it to be essential in front of its fellow-member Richie Ginther.

Jim Clark takes his revenge with Zandvoort by asserting… " in Clark" , i.e. at the end of an absolute domination. Clark returns thus to height of its rival eternal Graham Hill to the championship. With two podiums in two races, the second pilot Lotus Peter Arundell shows with the height confidence Chapman Hake and point in the third place of general classification.

Often unlucky person and victim of the quasi-proverbial brittleness of her Lotus, Clark is essential in Belgium at the end of an astounding scenario. Idle by an overheating engine, Clark points indeed only in the fourth place of the Grand Prix with only two turns of the arrival. It is first of all leader daN Gurney which breaks down from gasoline in its last but one turn. Graham Hill which succeeds to him at the head knows the same mishap in the very last turn. Here are which offers the victory over a plate to always opportunist Bruce McLaren. But the New Zealand pilot breaks down from battery for flag to checkerwork. McLaren thinks of being able to trail itself in free wheel until the arrival but it is made overflow by Clark right on the line!

In France, daN Gurney evacuates its disappointment of Spa-Francorchamps by gaining its second victory in championship of the world, after having benefitted from a mechanical breakage of Clark then at the head. the American thus offers to the Brabham stable his first victory in championship of the world. Second behind Gurney, Graham Hill repositions with the championship a point behind Clark.

Change of pilot at Lotus for the GP of England. Seriously wounded in a race of Formula 2 in Rheims, the promising Peter Arundell must yield his wheel to Mike Spence. At the conclusion of a brawl baited with Graham Hill, Jim Clark takes down his third victory of the season.

The GP of Germany is marked by the so much awaited arrival of Honda. Controlled by the modest American pilot Ronnie Bucknum, the new arrival will show constant progress throughout the weekend, but far from the best. All the observers watch for a new episode of from now on the traditional Clark-Hill duel, but it is John Surtees who remembers to the good memory of all by taking down its second success in two years on the toboggan of Nurburgring. To note that the weekend is endeuillé by the fatal accident of the gentleman Dutch driver Carel of Beaufort on its Porsche private. Second, Hill benefits from the abandonment of Clark to charm the head of the championship to him.

In Austria, on a circuit arranged on the military airport of Zeltweg, Scuderia Ferrari confirms its sudden alarm clock. To take down its first victory, Lorenzo Bandini will have nevertheless to hope on the multiple abandonments (of which those of Clark, Hill and Surtees) generated by the very breakable track.

New virgin score of the two leaders of the championship in Italy. Compound with the second victory of Surtees (the third consecutive one of Ferrari), here which starts again the championship completely. Surtees totals two points of Clark and to four of Hill. Fragile leader of the championship, Hill will approach the two last tests of the championship in a all the more uncomfortable position as he already returned to six recoveries in the points and will have to start to deduct his worse results.

Stupor while arriving at Watkins Glen for the penultimate test of the championship, Scuderia Ferrari is absent! Enzo Ferrari thus wishes to mark its anger in front of the refusal of the CSI to approve of WP category the Ferrari 250 LM. But the fixed price of Scuderia is actually only symbolic system since Ferrari are indeed present at the United States, committed under the banner of the NART of Luigi Chinetti, the Ferrari importer in North America. From where the curious colors blue and white raised by the cars of Surtees and Bandini. The race is gained by Hill in front of Surtees, while Clark, of which the black series continue is constrained with a fourth consecutive abandonment whereas it carried out the debates.

With the championship, obliged to deduct the points of her fifth place of Spa, Hill takes again one point with Surtees, and thus counts only 5 lengths in advance on the former motorcyclist at the time to approach the ultimate handle of the year in Mexico. 9 points behind, Clark preserves a small chance to be titrated.

With 35 turns of the arrival of the GP of Mexico, Clark is at the head in front of Gurney while Hill is third right in front of Bandini and that Surtees is fifth. For Hill, even if it will have to cut off the points from its fourth place of Zandvoort, this position is synonymous with world title. But it is at this time that it is struck by Lorenzo Bandini, which followed it closely. Obliged oberver a long stop with the stand, Hill sets out again far from the points. It is thus Jim Clark who becomes virtual world champion since at this stage of the race it takes again 6 points with Surtees and 9 points with Hill (with the benefit of a greater number of victories). And even if Bandini let pass its Surtees fellow-member, that would not change anything. To two turns of the arrival, Clark flies towards its second consecutive world title when an oil escape puts an end to its efforts. Gurney thus takes the head of the race in front of Bandini and Surtees, which means that Graham Hill becomes again world champion for a very small point! But while letting voluntarily pass Surtees for the arrival, Bandini offers to its coéquiper two sufficient points so that it caps the world crown.

Grand Prix of the season 1964

Classification of the pilots

Classification of the manufacturers

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