1964 United States Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 9 of 10 in the 1964 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 4 October 1964 | ||
| Official name | VII United States Grand Prix | ||
| Location |
Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course Watkins Glen, New York, United States |
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| Course | Permanent road course | ||
| Course length | 3.701 km (2.300 mi) | ||
| Distance | 110 laps, 407.110 km (252.966 mi) | ||
| Weather | Sunny, warm | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Lotus-Climax | ||
| Time | 1:12.65 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Jim Clark |
Lotus-Climax | |
| Time | 1:12.7 on lap 81 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | BRM | ||
| Second | Ferrari | ||
| Third | Brabham-BRM | ||
The 1964 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 4, 1964, at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. It was the ninth race of the 1964 Formula One season. The 110-lap race was won by BRM driver Graham Hill after he started from fourth position. John Surtees finished second for the Ferrari team and Brabham driver Jo Siffert came in third.
Graham Hill padded his tenuous lead in the 1964 Drivers' Championship over John Surtees and Jim Clark by bringing his BRM home first at The Glen for the second straight year. Surtees was second for Ferrari, 30.5 seconds back.
The Ferrari team brought four cars for Surtees and Lorenzo Bandini, but they were not in the usual "flaming red" that the race program advertised. Enzo Ferrari had surrendered his entrant's license in a dispute at Monza, so the cars were entered by Luigi Chinetti's North American Racing Team and were painted in North American racing blue and white. The only entrant missing from the 20 who were invited was American A. J. Foyt, who was offered a works BRM drive for the race, but decided against it.
The Watkins Glen Grand Prix Corporation was so pleased with the new track surface that had been laid down that they believed a 120 mph (about 193 kmph) lap (1:08.9) was possible, and they had 120 bottles of champagne ready for the first one to do it. While the three remaining Championship contenders, along with American Dan Gurney, waged a stirring battle for the pole and broke Hill's record from the previous year, they did not come close to claiming the prize.
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