1964 Italian Grand Prix

 1964 Italian Grand Prix

Racing data
8th of 10 races of the 1964 World Automobile Championship
Surname:	XXXV Gran Premio d'Italia
Date:	September 6, 1964
Place:	Monza , Italy
Course:	Autodromo Nazionale Monza
Length:	448.5 km in 78 laps of 5.75 km
Weather:	cloudy, dry
Pole position
Driver:	John Surtees	Ferrari
Time:	1: 37.4 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	John Surtees (Round 63)	Ferrari
Time:	1: 38.8 min
Podium
First:	John Surtees	Ferrari
Second:	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax
Third:	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari

The 1964 Italian Grand Prix took place on September 6, 1964 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza near Monza and was the eighth race of the 1964 World Automobile Championship .

Reports

background

Ferrari entered five different vehicles for the home race , including the new Ferrari 1512 for the first time . This vehicle was a Ferrari 158 with a V12 engine instead of a V8 unit. The Ferrari 1512 was tested in practice, but not driven in the race. For the rest of the season and in the 1965 World Cup , the Ferrari 1512 was used alongside the Ferrari 158, but was rarely preferred by John Surtees, for example . Surtees fielded the Ferrari 158 at the Italian Grand Prix. Three different models were registered for Bandini, of which he also chose the Ferrari 158. Ludovico Scarfiotti took part as the third driver of the team, he drove the 156 Aero. For him it was the only race of the season. Lotus reported two new Lotus 33s and an older Lotus 25 that Jim Clark used in practice and in the race. His teammate Mike Spence drove the newer model. At Cooper , Phil Hill was replaced by John Love for a race , as Phil Hill had only achieved one point in the entire season. For Love it was the only race of the season and the only one for a works team in his career in the automobile world championship . The last two races of the season Phil Hill drove again for Cooper before he retired from the automobile world championship. After a Grand Prix break, which was used to improve the V12 engine, Honda was back. Ronnie Bucknum remained the team's driver .

There were also changes in the field of drivers for the teams with customer vehicles. Maurice Trintignant , the last driver in the field who was already there in the first season in 1950 , ended his career after the Italian Grand Prix. With 81 races he set a record that was only broken by Jack Brabham at the 1966 US Grand Prix . Peter Revson finished the season and drove sports cars in American racing series in the years that followed. In 1971 he returned as a regular driver from Tyrrell . The Rob Walker Racing Team registered two Brabham for Joakim Bonnier and Giacomo Russo , who was registered for the first time under his pseudonym Geki . Ian Raby and Bob Anderson ended the season with their private vehicles, Giancarlo Baghetti left Scuderia Centro Sud and drove only a few races for different teams in the following years. Joseph Siffert dissolved his Siffert Racing Team and switched to the Rob Walker Racing Team in 1965. Jean-Claude Rudaz was registered for a Grand Prix of the Automobile World Championship for the only time in his career; Mário de Araújo Cabral contested his last race. It was not until the Italian Grand Prix in 1993 , 29 years later, that Pedro Lamy , a Portuguese driver , qualified again for a Grand Prix. Cabral drove a car that Derrington-Francis had designed. The basis for this was an old ATS 100 . It was the only participation for the designer, as Dan Gurney later severely damaged the vehicle during test drives.

With Phil Hill, Graham Hill and Clark, three former winners took part in the race, with the designers Ferrari had previously been successful five times, Cooper, Lotus and BRM each once. In the drivers' championship, Graham Hill was two points ahead of Clark and 13 points ahead of Surtees. All drivers with at least five points still had a theoretical chance of becoming world champions. In the constructors' championship, BRM was two points ahead of Lotus and eight points ahead of Ferrari. Only the five works teams BRM, Lotus, Ferrari, Brabham and Cooper still had theoretical chances for the title.

training

As you benefited a lot from slipstream driving on the high-speed track in Monza and only because of this good lap times were possible, different groups of drivers formed in the first training session on Friday who changed positions among each other in order to benefit from the slipstream of the one immediately ahead. Gurney and Surtees initially drove the fastest laps. McLaren achieved fast lap times at Cooper and kept up with the leaders in the standings, but Love had to end the practice session due to a technical defect. Surtees and Gurney drove around the track together, with Clark lying in their slipstream with his Lotus, which could hardly reach the top speeds of Ferrari and Brabham. Siffert joined Surtees, Gurney and Clark and thereby also improved his fastest lap time, while Surtees secured first place, more than a second faster than Gurney. In midfield, Bucknum drove consistently good lap times and kept up with Spence and Ginther. For Rudaz the training was over after an engine failure. Clark changed cars and drove the Lotus 25, which was intended as a replacement vehicle. Clark was able to improve with him, but he was still several seconds behind the fastest lap time of Surtees.

If Friday was still sunny and dry, the weather changed to Saturday. Despite the heavy cloud cover, the track stayed dry. Ferrari had prepared the Ferrari in 1512 and Bandini drove it for the first time in the second practice session. The works teams used the remaining time for the race set-up, so that no times were improved; Even with the drivers with customer vehicles, there were only a few improvements.

Surtees achieved his second and final pole position of the season after starting the race from first place at the German Grand Prix . Gurney finished second ahead of Graham Hill and Clark. McLaren qualified fifth. So five different designers were in the first five places. In sixth place, Siffert was the best driver with a customer vehicle; Bandini, Spence, Ginther and Bucknum completed the first ten.

The driver field was limited to 20 cars. Because of this, the five slowest drivers did not qualify. These were originally Raby, Love, Geki, Trevor Taylor and Trintignant. But since Rudaz, who was in 20th place on the grid, could no longer repair his Cooper due to a lack of spare parts, Trintignant moved up on the grid.

run

As in most races before, the cars were set up in the correct starting position a few meters in front of the actual starting position and then rolled forward to start the race after the flag was waved. Graham Hill stopped at the start and made the following drivers aware of the danger with hand movements. McLaren dodged him and took the lead in front of Gurney and Surtees, while Clark lay behind the two vehicles and couldn't get past them. Several attempts to start Graham Hill's BRM failed, so that he was eliminated at the start. McLaren was overtaken by Surtees and Gurney on the first lap and, together with Clark, these four drivers formed a leading group that separated from the rest of the field. In the following rounds the positions in this group as well as in the larger group that followed changed constantly, making it difficult to determine the exact order. The chasing field consisted of 12 vehicles. With Cabral, Revson and Trintignant, a third group of drivers formed in the rear field, who also constantly overtook each other.

At the front, Gurney and Surtees dueled for victory, increasing their lead over the field of pursuers steadily. In midfield, Hailwood retired on lap five with an engine failure and Bucknum parked his car with defective brakes, so that ten vehicles were still fighting for fifth place. At the end of the field, Trinitgnant and Cabral were eliminated, whereupon Revson was the only driver on the track without an immediate opponent. On lap 28, Clark retired with engine failure; this was the third failure in a row for him. After initially leading the drivers' standings by a large margin, this series of failures caused him to drop back in the World Championship, but still had a good chance of winning the title. Anderson lost contact in the chasing field and Scarfiotti also fell behind when he went off the track after touching. This left eight vehicles in this group. At the top, however, McLaren lost the connection, so that Surtees and Gurney made the victory among themselves. Both met on lap 39 on the chasing group to lap, which ran up against Anderson, who was also lapped. It took Gurney and Surtees several rounds to beat all opponents. Brabham then took fourth place for eleven laps.

Only towards the end of the race did the number of overtaking maneuvers decrease significantly. McLaren slowed down and was just behind the chasing group in third place. Gurney had problems with his engine at the front and Surtees was able to build a lead over him. Even in the midfield, there were larger gaps between individual drivers. Brabham was ahead of Ginther, Ireland and Bandini, but retired on lap 59 with engine failure. He was rated 14th. His team-mate Gurney also pitted, he continued the race after a repair. McLaren moved up to second place with Ginther, Bandini and Ireland battling for third place on the podium.

Surtees won the Grand Prix by more than a minute over McLaren, and in addition to taking pole position, he also set the fastest race lap. This was his second and last win of the season and the only one at the Italian Grand Prix. For Ferrari it was the third win in a row. McLaren finished second, followed by Bandini and Ginther, who crossed the finish line one lap behind. After evaluating the photos, the race management awarded Bandini third place. Ireland crossed the finish line in fifth place, followed by Spence and Siffert almost simultaneously, Spence was just ahead and got the last point for sixth place. For Ireland it was the last point of his career, for Spence the first. The first ten were completed by Baghetti, Scarfiotti and Gurney.

After the race, thousands of spectators stormed the track and made the lap of honor impossible. The two Ferrari drivers Surtees and Bandini were surrounded by the celebrating crowd and the police finally had to intervene to bring them safely to the award ceremony.

In the drivers' championship, Graham Hill remained two points ahead of Clark, but Surtees came within four points of him. In addition to Clark, Surtees and Graham Hill, Bandini and Ginther had theoretical chances for the title. For the designers, Ferrari took the lead in the classification for the first time of the season. Ferrari had 37 points, BRM 42, but only 36 of them counted due to the cancellation rules. Lotus was another point behind with 35 points. In addition to these three designers, Brabham still had a theoretical chance for the title.

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 Aero	Ferrari 1.5 V6
			Ferrari 1512	Ferrari 1.5 B12
	06th	Ludovico Scarfiotti	Ferrari 156 Aero	Ferrari 1.5 V6
Team Lotus	08th	Jim Clark	Lotus 25	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
			Lotus 33
	10	Mike Spence	Lotus 33
Siffert Racing Team	12	Joseph Siffert	Brabham BT11	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
Brabham Racing Organization	14th	Jack Brabham	Brabham BT11	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	16	Dan Gurney	Brabham BT7
Owen Racing Organization	18th	Graham Hill	BRM P261	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	20th	Richie Ginther
DW Racing Enterprises	22nd	Bob Anderson	Brabham BT11	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
Cooper Car Company	24	John Love	Cooper T73	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	26th	Bruce McLaren
Honda R&D Co.	28	Ronnie Bucknum	Honda RA271	Honda 1.5 V12	D.
Scuderia Centro Sud	30th	Giancarlo Baghetti	BRM P57	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
Rob Walker Racing Team	34	Joakim Bonnier	Brabham BT7	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	36	Geki	Brabham BT11	BRM 1.5 V8
Revson Racing	38	Peter Revson	Lotus 24	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
Reg Parnell Racing	40	Mike Hailwood	Lotus 25	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
British Racing Partnership	44	Trevor Taylor	BRP Mk1	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	46	Innes Ireland	BRP Mk2
Derrington-Francis Racing Team	50	Mário de Araújo Cabral	Derrington-Francis ATS100	ATS 1.5 V8	G
Ian Raby Racing	56	Ian Raby	Brabham BT3	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
Fabre Urbain	60	Jean-Claude Rudaz	Cooper T60	Climax 1.5 V8	D.

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Lorenzo Bandini drove the Ferrari 158 and Ferrari 1512 with the number 4 in the practice sessions and the Ferrari 158 in the race.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Jim Clark drove both cars in the practice sessions and the Lotus 25 with the number 8 in the race.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	John Surtees	Ferrari	1: 37.4	212.53 km / h	01
02	Dan Gurney	Brabham-Climax	1: 38.2	210.79 km / h	02
03	Graham Hill	BRM	1: 38.7	209.73 km / h	03
04th	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	1: 39.1	208.88 km / h	04th
05	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	1: 39.4	208.25 km / h	05
06th	Jo Siffert	Brabham-BRM	1: 39.7	207.62 km / h	06th
07th	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	1: 39.8	207.41 km / h	07th
08th	Mike Spence	Lotus Climax	1: 40.3	206.38 km / h	08th
09	Richie Ginther	BRM	1: 40.4	206.18 km / h	09
10	Ronnie Bucknum	Honda	1: 40.4	206.18 km / h	10
11	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Climax	1: 40.8	205.36 km / h	11
12	Jo Bonnier	Brabham-Climax	1: 41.0	204.95 km / h	12
13	Innes Ireland	BRP-BRM	1: 41.0	204.95 km / h	13
14th	Bob Anderson	Brabham-Climax	1: 41.3	204.34 km / h	14th
15th	Giancarlo Baghetti	BRM	1: 41.5	203.94 km / h	15th
16	Ludovico Scarfiotti	Ferrari	1: 41.6	203.74 km / h	16
17th	Mike Hailwood	Lotus BRM	1: 41.6	203.74 km / h	17th
18th	Peter Revson	Lotus BRM	1: 42.0	202.94 km / h	18th
19th	Mário de Araújo Cabral	Derrington Francis-ATS	1: 42.6	201.75 km / h	19th
20th	Jean-Claude Rudaz	Cooper-Climax	1: 43.0	200.97 km / h	-
21st	Maurice Trintignant	BRM	1: 43.3	200.39 km / h	20th
DNQ	Trevor Taylor	BRP-BRM	1: 43.8	199.42 km / h	-
DNQ	Geki	Brabham-BRM	1: 44.1	198.85 km / h	-
DNQ	John Love	Cooper-Climax	1: 48.5	190.78 km / h	-
DNQ	Ian Raby	Brabham-BRM	1: 52.2	184.49 km / h	-

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	John Surtees	Ferrari	78	0	2: 10: 51.8	01	1: 38.8
02	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	78	0	+1: 06.0	05	1: 40.0
03	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	77	0	+ 1 lap	07th	1: 39.9
04th	Richie Ginther	BRM	77	0	+ 1 lap	09	1: 39.6
05	Innes Ireland	BRP-BRM	77	0	+ 1 lap	13	1: 40.1
06th	Mike Spence	Lotus Climax	77	0	+ 1 lap	08th	1: 40.6
07th	Joseph Siffert	Brabham-BRM	77	0	+ 1 lap	06th	1: 40.4
08th	Giancarlo Baghetti	BRM	77	0	+ 1 lap	15th	1: 41.2
09	Ludovico Scarfiotti	Ferrari	77	0	+ 1 lap	16	1: 41.1
10	Dan Gurney	Brabham-Climax	75	2	+ 3 rounds	02	1: 39.2
11	Bob Anderson	Brabham-Climax	75	0	+ 3 rounds	14th	1: 42.0
12	Joakim Bonnier	Brabham-Climax	74	0	+ 4 rounds	12	1: 39.8
13	Peter Revson	Lotus BRM	72	0	+ 6 rounds	18th	1: 44.5
14th	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Climax	59	0	+ 19 laps	11	1: 39.8
-	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	28	0	DNF	04th	1: 39.9	Engine failure
-	Mário de Araújo Cabral	Derrington-Francis-ATS	25th	0	DNF	19th	1: 45.6	ignition
-	Maurice Trintignant	BRM	22nd	0	DNF	20th	1: 45.6	injection
-	Ronnie Bucknum	Honda	13	0	DNF	10	1: 41.5	Brakes
-	Mike Hailwood	Lotus BRM	05	0	DNF	17th	1: 41.5	Engine failure
-	Graham Hill	BRM	00	0	DNF	03		coupling
-	Jean-Claude Rudaz	Cooper-Climax	00	0	DNS			Engine failure

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  Graham Hill BRM 32 02  Jim Clark Lotus Climax 30th 03  John Surtees Scuderia Ferrari 28 04th  Richie Ginther BRM 20th 05  Lorenzo Bandini Ferrari 19th 06th  Bruce McLaren Cooper-Climax 13 07th  Jack Brabham Brabham-Climax 11 08th  Peter Arundell Lotus Climax 11 09  Dan Gurney Brabham-Climax 10 10  Bob Anderson Brabham-Climax 5

Item driver constructor Points 11  Tony Maggs BRM 4th 12  Innes Ireland BRP-BRM 4th 13  Jo Siffert Brabham-BRM 3 14th  Jo Bonnier Cooper-Climax / Brabham-Climax 3 15th  Chris Amon Lotus BRM 2 16  Maurice Trintignant BRM 2 17th  Phil Hill Cooper-Climax 1 18th  Mike Hailwood Lotus BRM 1 19th  Mike Spence Lotus Climax 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Ferrari 37 02  BRM 36 (42) 03  Lotus Climax 35 04th  Brabham-Climax 21st 05  Cooper-Climax 16 06th  BRP-BRM 4th 07th  Brabham-BRM 3 08th  Lotus BRM 3

Web links

• 1964 Italian Grand Prix on statsf1.com
• Results at motorsportarchiv.de
• Photos at f1-facts.com
• Italian Grand Prix 1964 grandprix.com (English)
• 35th Italian Grand Prix at motorsportmagazine.com
• Surtees delights Tifosi with win at espn.co.uk