1965 United States Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 9 of 10 in the 1965 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | October 3, 1965 | ||
| Official name | VIII United States Grand Prix | ||
| Location |
Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course Watkins Glen, New York |
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| Course | Permanent road course | ||
| Course length | 3.78 km (2.35 mi) | ||
| Distance | 110 laps, 415.8 km (258.5 mi) | ||
| Weather | Rainy, windy, cold | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | BRM | ||
| Time | 1:11.25 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Graham Hill |
BRM | |
| Time | 1:11.9 on lap 105 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First |
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BRM | |
| Second | Brabham-Climax | ||
| Third | Brabham-Climax | ||
The 1965 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 3, 1965, at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. It was the ninth and penultimate race of the 1965 Formula One season. The 110-lap race was won by BRM driver Graham Hill after he started from pole position. Dan Gurney finished second for the Brabham team and his teammate Jack Brabham came in third.
In the last year of the 1.5-liter formula, Jim Clark had clinched his second Driver's Championship (as well as winning the Indianapolis 500) before the teams arrived in North America for the season's last two races. Once again, however, it was Graham Hill and BRM who reigned at The Glen, winning for the third year in a row. Hill took pole, win and fastest lap, finishing twelve seconds ahead of the Brabhams of Dan Gurney and Sir Jack.
The weekend was cold (45 °F), windy (30 mph), and often wet. In practice, Jim Clark—a Scot, no less—wore a sweater over his driving suit. Ferrari was missing the previous year's World Champion, John Surtees, who had been injured in a sports car race in Canada the previous week. Hill's new BRM teammate, Jackie Stewart, who had broken Clark's string of five consecutive victories with his first Grand Prix win at Monza three weeks before, was running at The Glen for the first time, as was Austrian Jochen Rindt. American Bob Bondurant was making his Formula One debut.
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