1974 United States Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 15 of 15 in the 1974 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | October 6, 1974 | ||
| Official name | XVII 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 | 5.435 km (3.377 mi) | ||
| Distance | 59 laps, 320.67 km (199.24 mi) | ||
| Weather | Clear, warm | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Brabham-Ford | ||
| Time | 1:38.978 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Carlos Pace
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Brabham-Ford | |
| Time | 1:40.608 on lap 54 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First |
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Brabham-Ford | |
| Second |
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Brabham-Ford | |
| Third | Hesketh-Ford | ||
The 1974 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 6, 1974, at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York.
This was the last race for the 1967 world champion Denny Hulme, who scored 8 wins and 33 podiums in 112 starts.
Carlos Reutemann won from the pole, ahead of Brabham teammate Carlos Pace, while Emerson Fittipaldi's fourth place clinched his second World Championship in three years and the first for Team McLaren. American Mario Andretti, after qualifying in an excellent third position, was disqualified when the engine in his Parnelli stalled on the grid and his crew push started him.
Emerson Fittipaldi of McLaren and Ferrari's Clay Regazzoni came to the final race of the season even in the Driver's Championship standings with 52 points; Tyrrell's Jody Scheckter, with 45 points, also held an outside chance of overtaking them both. Knowing that tactics could play an important role in the race, McLaren had the two-way radios from their USAC team fitted in the F1 cars at Watkins Glen.
Early in the year, Peter Revson, one of only five American drivers to win a Grand Prix, had died in a testing crash, but the American crowd had countrymen Mario Andretti and Mark Donohue at The Glen to carry the star-spangled banner, and they were both driving American-built cars for American teams.
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