1964 Dutch Grand Prix

 1964 Dutch Grand Prix

Racing data
2nd of 10 races of the 1964 World Automobile Championship
Surname:	XIII Grote Prijs van Nederland
Date:	May 24, 1964
Place:	Zandvoort , the Netherlands
Course:	Circuit Park Zandvoort
Length:	335.44 km in 80 laps of 4.193 km
Weather:	sunny, dry
Pole position
Driver:	Dan Gurney	Brabham-Climax
Time:	1: 31.2 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Jim Clark (Round 6)	Lotus Climax
Time:	1: 32.8 min
Podium
First:	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax
Second:	John Surtees	Ferrari
Third:	Peter Arundell	Lotus Climax

The 1964 Dutch Grand Prix took place on May 24, 1964 at Circuit Park Zandvoort near Zandvoort and was the second race of the 1964 World Automobile Championship .

Reports

background

First pole position for Brabham through Dan Gurney

Jim Clark at the award ceremony

Arundell and Surtees

Jack Brabham

Start of the race

The organizers limited the starting field to 18 vehicles, which with the exception of British Racing Partnership consisted of all factory teams and was filled by teams with customer vehicles. The Rob Walker Racing Team reported a Cooper T66 and a Brabham BT11 for Joakim Bonnier . Bonnier opted for the Brabham and competed with this car for the rest of the season. The same decision was increasingly made by other teams and drivers, which in the following years led to financial difficulties for the Cooper Car Company , which sold fewer and fewer customer vehicles due to competition from Brabham and Lotus . Even Bob Anderson and Jo Siffert already drove the new Brabham BT11, but with different engines. Bonnier and Siffert had BRM units, Anderson a Climax engine. The Scuderia Centro Sud announced two BRM P57 for Tony Maggs and Giancarlo Baghetti who drove her first race of the season. Carel Godin de Beaufort contested his last race in the automobile world championship in his private Porsche 718 . At the German Grand Prix later that season he had an accident in training and died of the consequences of his serious injuries.

The factory teams continued to improve their vehicles and tested various further developments in the training sessions. Ferrari reported the second Ferrari 158 for Lorenzo Bandini . Both Bandini and John Surtees had an old Ferrari 156 Aero available as a replacement car. Team Lotus added various new parts to both vehicles that were later used together to develop the Lotus 33 . The roll bar mounts on both cars were reinforced after the roll bar on Jim Clark's Lotus broke at the Monaco Grand Prix . Cooper improved the suspension to reduce vibrations during heavy braking.

With Bonnier, Jack Brabham , Graham Hill and Clark, four former winners took part in the race, with the designers Ferrari had previously been successful three times, BRM twice and Lotus and Cooper each once. Graham Hill was ahead of Richie Ginther and Arundell in the drivers 'standings, and BRM was ahead of Lotus and Cooper in the constructors ' standings .

training

The first training session took place on Friday and lasted two hours. This was the only training for Jack Brabham, who then flew to the United States to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 . Two drivers did not participate in the first training session. Beaufort only reached the race track later, Sifferts Brabham was not yet operational. The fastest lap was driven by Dan Gurney on Brabham, Clark was second fastest. Both drivers were more than two seconds faster than the pole time of the previous year, which was mainly made possible by the new tires and the increased engine performance.

There was another two hours of training on Friday afternoon. Beaufort had meanwhile arrived and was taking part. Graham Hill moved up to third place in the rankings, while Clark set the fastest time, but didn't come close to Gurney's fastest lap from the first practice session. Hailwood had to end the training early with a gearbox failure.

Two more hours of training time were available on Saturday morning. While most of the drivers improved their times, the top three positions remained unchanged. Maggs damaged his car in an accident but was unharmed. Due to the damage, however, he could not take part in the race. Gurney reached the second pole position of his career after he last started from first place at the 1962 German Grand Prix . For Brabham it was the first pole position in team history. Clark was only a tenth of a second slower than Gurney in second, who was a tenth of a second faster than third-placed Graham Hill. Surtees was fourth ahead of McLaren. So five different designers were on the first five places on the grid. The teammates of the first five drivers completed the first ten, the fastest of these drivers was Arundell. Brabham, who had missed most of the training, qualified in seventh place. The starting positions in the back field were taken by drivers with customer vehicles, of which Anderson was the fastest.

run

Brabham was back from the US in time to take part in the Grand Prix. There was a warm-up lap before the start. The drivers then positioned themselves in the starting order. As in the previous races, the vehicles rolled forward to the actual starting position on the home straight half a minute before the start. Clark won the start against Graham Hill and Gurney and led the race after the first corner in front of these two drivers. Arundell, Surtees, Phil Hill and McLaren dueled behind for fourth place. In the following rounds, the two Cooper fell back and were involved in a three-way battle with Ginther. Surtees overtook Arundell and, along with Graham Hill and Gurney in front of him, was one of the only three drivers who were still in sight of Clark, who was continuously expanding his lead. After five laps this lead was three seconds, after Surtees there was a greater gap to the field of pursuers.

Beaufort retired on lap eight with an engine failure, Bandini and Siffert fell back with technical problems. Bandini later parked his Ferrari after a long time in the pit lane and trying again to continue the Grand Prix, Siffert continued the race after a repair pit stop and reached the finish line in 13th place, 25 laps behind. After 15 laps, Clark had the lead expanded for five seconds. Surtees overtook Gurney, who retired eight laps later with a defective steering wheel. His teammate Brabham did not reach the goal either. After several overtaking maneuvers in midfield, he retired on lap 44 with a defective ignition.

When engine problems arose on both BRMs, Surtees took over second place from Graham Hill. Halfway through the race, Surtees was half a minute behind the leader. Both Graham Hill and Ginther came into the pits after several brief engine shutdowns; the problem was solved with cooling water. Graham Hill then overtook Amon and McLaren and improved to fourth, but the faulty fuel pump made itself felt again, so that he could not narrow the gap to Arundell any further. Ginther had to make another pit stop to let the engine cool a second time. He finished eleventh, 16 laps behind.

Clark won the race with an impressive 53 seconds ahead of Surtees, lapping all other drivers. Clark also drove the fastest race lap and set a new lap record. It was his second win in a row on this circuit, a third followed in 1965 , a fourth in 1967 . As in the Monaco Grand Prix, Arundell finished third and was on the podium for the second time in his second race, but for the last time in his career in the World Automobile Championship. With a few laps to go, McLaren fell out of the points when he was overtaken by Amon and Anderson. For Amon it was the first point placement, more followed only three years later, in the 1967 Automobile World Championship . It was also the first point in Anderson's career. Phil Hill finished eighth ahead of Bonnier and Baghetti.

Graham Hill and Jim Clark led the drivers' championship. Both drivers had twelve points as well as one win and fourth place. Arundell was third with eight points. In the constructors' championship, Lotus took the lead with a one point advantage over BRM and seven points over Ferrari.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	02	John Surtees	Ferrari 158	Ferrari 1.5 V8	D.
	04th	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari 158
			Ferrari 156	Ferrari 1.5 V6
Owen Racing Organization	06th	Graham Hill	BRM P261	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	08th	Richie Ginther
Reg Parnell Racing	10	Chris Amon	Lotus 25	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	12	Mike Hailwood
Brabham Racing Organization	14th	Jack Brabham	Brabham BT7	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	16	Dan Gurney
Team Lotus	18th	Jim Clark	Lotus 25	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	20th	Peter Arundell
Cooper Car Company	22nd	Phil Hill	Cooper T73	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	24	Bruce McLaren
Rob Walker Racing Team	26th	Jo Bonnier	Brabham BT11	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
			Cooper T66	Climax 1.5 V8
Ecurie Maarsbergen	28	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche 718	Porsche 1.5 B4	D.
Scuderia Centro Sud	30th	Tony Maggs	BRM P57	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	32	Giancarlo Baghetti
DW Racing Enterprises	34	Bob Anderson	Brabham BT11	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
Siffert Racing Team	36	Jo Siffert	Brabham BT11	BRM 1.5 V8	D.

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lorenzo Bandini drove both vehicles in the practice sessions, the Ferrari 158 with the number 4 in the race.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Jo Bonnier drove the Brabham with the number 26 in the training sessions and in the race.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Dan Gurney	Brabham-Climax	1: 31.2	165.51 km / h	01
02	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	1: 31.3	165.33 km / h	02
03	Graham Hill	BRM	1: 31.4	165.15 km / h	03
04th	John Surtees	Ferrari	1: 32.8	162.66 km / h	04th
05	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	1: 33.3	161.79 km / h	05
06th	Peter Arundell	Lotus Climax	1: 33.5	161.44 km / h	06th
07th	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Climax	1: 33.8	160.93 km / h	07th
08th	Richie Ginther	BRM	1: 34.0	160.58 km / h	08th
09	Phil Hill	Cooper-Climax	1: 34.8	159.23 km / h	09
10	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	1: 35.0	158.89 km / h	10
11	Bob Anderson	Brabham-Climax	1: 35.4	158.23 km / h	11
12	Jo Bonnier	Brabham-BRM	1: 35.4	158.23 km / h	12
13	Chris Amon	Lotus BRM	1: 35.9	157.40 km / h	13
14th	Mike Hailwood	Lotus BRM	1: 36.1	157.07 km / h	14th
15th	Tony Maggs	BRM	1: 37.0	155.62 km / h	15th
16	Giancarlo Baghetti	BRM	1: 38.0	154.03 km / h	16
17th	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	1: 39.9	151.10 km / h	17th
18th	Jo Siffert	Brabham-BRM	1: 44.0	145.14 km / h	18th

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	80	0	2: 07: 35.4	02	1: 32.8
02	John Surtees	Ferrari	80	0	+ 53.6	04th	1: 33.0
03	Peter Arundell	Lotus Climax	79	0	+ 1 lap	06th	1: 33.8
04th	Graham Hill	BRM	79	1	+ 1 lap	03	1: 33.0
05	Chris Amon	Lotus BRM	79	0	+ 1 lap	13	1: 34.4
06th	Bob Anderson	Brabham-Climax	78	0	+ 2 rounds	11	1: 34.0
07th	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	78	0	+ 2 rounds	05	1: 35.2
08th	Phil Hill	Cooper-Climax	76	1	+ 4 rounds	09	1: 35.4
09	Jo Bonnier	Brabham-BRM	76	1	+ 4 rounds	12	1: 33.4
10	Giancarlo Baghetti	BRM	74	0	+ 6 rounds	16	1: 39.2
11	Richie Ginther	BRM	74	2	+ 16 rounds	08th	1: 35.0
12	Mike Hailwood	Lotus BRM	57	0	+ 23 laps	14th	1: 33.8
13	Jo Siffert	Brabham-BRM	55	1	+ 25 rounds	18th	1: 39.6
-	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Climax	44	0	DNF	07th	1: 34.4	ignition
-	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	25th	1	DNF	10	1: 37.4	injection
-	Dan Gurney	Brabham-Climax	23	0	DNF	01	1: 33.0	steering wheel
-	Carel Godin de Beaufort	Porsche	08th	0	DNF	17th	1: 42.4	Engine failure
-	Tony Maggs	BRM	00	0	DNS			Training accident

World Cup stands after the race

The first six of the race got 9, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 points. Only the six best results from ten races counted. In the constructors' championship, only the points of the best placed driver on a team counted.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Jim Clark Lotus Climax 12 02  Graham Hill BRM 12 03  Peter Arundell Lotus Climax 8th 04th  Richie Ginther BRM 6th 05  John Surtees Ferrari 6th 06th  Jo Bonnier Cooper-Climax 2 07th  Chris Amon Lotus BRM 2 08th  Bob Anderson Brabham-Climax 1 09  Mike Hailwood Lotus BRM 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Lotus Climax 13 02  BRM 12 03  Ferrari 6th 04th  Lotus BRM 3 05  Cooper-Climax 2 06th  Brabham-Climax 1

Web links

• Results at motorsportarchiv.de
• Photos at f1-facts.com
• Grand Prix Results: Dutch GP, 1964 at grandprix.com
• Clark cruises to Zandvoort victory at espn.co.uk
• The Dutch Grand Prix at motorsportmagazine.com