1964 Monaco Grand Prix

 1964 Monaco Grand Prix

Racing data
1st of 10 races of the 1964 Automobile World Championship
Surname:	XXII Grand Prix de Monaco
Date:	May 10, 1964
Place:	Monte Carlo , Monaco
Course:	Circuit de Monaco
Length:	314.5 km in 100 laps of 3.145 km
Weather:	sunny, dry
Pole position
Driver:	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax
Time:	1: 34.0 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Graham Hill (Round 53)	Brabham-Climax
Time:	1: 33.9 min
Podium
First:	Graham Hill	BRM
Second:	Richie Ginther	BRM
Third:	Peter Arundell	Lotus Climax

The 1964 Monaco Grand Prix took place on May 10, 1964 on the Circuit de Monaco near Monte Carlo and was the first race of the 1964 World Automobile Championship .

Reports

background

Debut race of the Ferrari 158

Debut race of the BRM P261

Engine and tailpipes of the BRM P261

Debut of the Brabham BT11 (Jack Brabham at the German Grand Prix 1965)

For the second time in a row, the Monaco Grand Prix was the season opener; this was not the case again until the 1966 World Cup . With the exception of Lotus , all works teams reported new cars that were further developments of the previous models without much visual changes. Ferrari kept the driver pairing John Surtees and Lorenzo Bandini and let Surtees drive the new Ferrari 158 . With this vehicle, Ferrari switched to the V8 units, which the competition also used. But the change did not last forever. Later in the season, Ferrari brought a new car with a V12 engine. Ferrari continued to use a tubular space frame when designing the 158, while BRM used a full monocoque for the first time with the new BRM P261 . This design was previously only found in the Lotus 25 , with which Lotus dominated the 1963 World Cup . The appearance of the P261 has only been slightly modified compared to its predecessor, the BRM P61 . The two large tailpipes above the engine were a noticeable distinguishing feature. As in the previous year, BRM drove with the two drivers Richie Ginther and Graham Hill . Peter Arundell made his debut at Lotus and drove as the new team-mate of reigning world champion Jim Clark . Arundell had previously qualified for the 1963 French Grand Prix , but did not take part in this race. Also, Cooper had a new driver line-up and a new car, the Cooper T73 , the further development of the Cooper T66 was and how the Ferrari 158 had a space frame instead monocoque. In addition to Bruce McLaren , 1961 world champion Phil Hill drove for the team after ATS withdrew from the automobile world championship. Ken Tyrrell became the new team boss after John Cooper was injured in a car accident in 1963. Brabham also kept his driver pairing, with team principal Jack Brabham driving Dan Gurney . Both continued to drive the Brabham BT7 while a new customer vehicle was developed, the Brabham BT11 . Its paint was green with a yellow, central stripe. He was bought by DW Racing Enterprises , who registered him for Bob Anderson .

Other teams were registered with private or customer vehicles. Maurice Trintignant started the last season of his long career in the automobile world championship with a private BRM P57. Bernard Collomb was last registered for a Grand Prix, while Peter Revson made his debut. Both drove a Lotus 24 . British Racing Partnership drove with Innes Ireland and Trevor Taylor , who initially drove for Lotus. Reg Parnell Racing started the new season with Chris Amon and Mike Hailwood . The racing team was taken over by his son Tim Parnell after the death of Reg Parnell .

With Trintignant, Brabham, McLaren and Graham Hill, four former winners took part in the Grand Prix, with the constructors Cooper have already won three times, Ferrari and Lotus twice each and BRM once. Before the season, five non-World Automobile Championship races took place, four of them in Great Britain. Ireland won the Daily Mirror Trophy on BRP and Clark won the first-ever News of the World Trophy on Lotus . The Aintree 200 and the BRDC International Trophy won Brabham. In addition, the Gran Premio di Siracusa took place in Italy , which Surtees won in a Ferrari.

training

The first 90-minute training session took place on Thursday, with Surtees setting the fastest time ahead of Brabham and Graham Hill. Clark and Gurney were absent as they were returning from the Indianapolis 500 in 1964 . The track was very dusty on that first day, so many drivers improved their times in the further practice sessions as the conditions improved. Ireland had a serious accident after going too fast and locking a wheel while braking. His car hit the boundary, took off and was badly damaged by the subsequent impact. Ireland survived the accident with minor injuries. However, since he had had an accident in a race at the Silverstone Circuit a week earlier and was also involved in a car accident on the way to Monaco in which he injured his knee, he decided not to take part in the race.

On Friday, Clark set the fastest time at the beginning, with Gurney in second place ahead of Brabham. Hailwood had an accident and damaged the front of his Lotus, but was unharmed. At the end of the practice, Brabham drove the same time as Clark, who improved his lap time one more time and broke the existing lap record. McLaren and Gurney had to end the training early due to defects.

Another training session was held on Saturday that lasted an hour. The drivers in the first row of the grid did not improve their lap times any more; there were shifts in position mainly in the rear field. Arundell did not attend the training that day because the mechanics were making extensive changes to his car.

For the third time in a row, Clark achieved pole position across all seasons . The gap to the competition became smaller in the new season. Clark was only a tenth of a second faster than second-placed Brabham. Graham Hill qualified in third place ahead of Surtees, both drivers had set a best time at the same time. The teammates of the four best drivers in training qualified for the following places. Gurney started from fifth ahead of Arundell, Bandini and Ginther. The new Cooper was the slowest car of the factory teams, Phil Hill and McLaren finished ninth and tenth on the grid.

The drivers with customer vehicles qualified in the back field, Joakim Bonnier finished eleventh ahead of Anderson, Trintignant, Taylor, Hailwood and Joseph Siffert . The field of drivers was again limited to 16 vehicles for safety reasons; Amon, Revson and Collomb did not drive enough times to qualify.

run

Clark won the start and took the lead for the first few laps of the race. Brabham was second ahead of Graham Hill, Gurney, Surtees and Ginther. Behind that, there was a greater gap to McLaren, who was fighting for seventh place with other drivers. Clark set himself apart from the competition in the first ten laps and led by several seconds. While Ginther fell back from the chasing pack, Gurney overtook both Graham Hill and Brabham. He then caught up with Clark and reduced the gap to less than two seconds.

On lap eight, Taylor retired due to a loss of fuel after losing fuel at the start due to a leak in the tank. On lap 15 Surtees retired with a defective transmission, two laps later McLaren also parked his car. Siffert was at the pits to have his vehicle repaired; he then continued the race. Due to overtaking maneuvers and failures of the competition, Phil Hill improved by several positions to sixth, ahead of Arundell, who had various technical difficulties with his car.

After 20 laps, Clark had extended his lead back to six seconds. This distance to Gurney remained the same for a long time. Graham Hill was just behind Gurney, Brabham fell a little behind as he had problems with the fuel supply. Brabham finished the race nine laps later to prevent possible engine damage. On lap 23, the roll bar on Clark’s Lotus broke, but Clark adapted to the changed aerodynamics of his vehicle and even drove faster than before. His lead over Gurney grew again in the following laps. But the race management saw the hanging roll bar as a danger for other drivers and considered taking him out of the race. Colin Chapman anticipated this decision and let Clark come to the pits. The damaged roll bar was then removed and replaced. With the pit stop, Gurney took the lead from Graham Hill, Clark continued the race half a minute behind in third place.

In the following phase of the race, Graham Hill caught up with the leader Gurney, while Clark also came up. In this catch-up action, he drove the fastest race lap to date, which was also a new lap record. Meanwhile, Bandini was catching up on Phil Hill. On lap 53, Graham Hill overtook Gurney and took the lead. He improved the lap record that Clark had set a short time before. After Gurney retired on lap 62 with a gearbox failure, Clark took second place. But he too had an engine failure, which meant that he was more than ten seconds behind Graham Hill. In fifth place there was a duel between Phil Hill and Bandini, which Bandini won. However, both drivers retired a few laps later and were still classified in ninth and tenth place.

In the last few laps of the race, both Clark and his team-mate Arundell ran out of oil. Since refilling was prohibited according to the regulations, both had to continue the race as long as possible. Arundell crossed the finish line in third place, Clark retired and Anderson also had to give up shortly before the end of the race due to a lack of oil. In total, only five vehicles crossed the finish line in a race that was decided by the reliability of the two BRMs. Graham Hill won ahead of Ginther and had lapped the entire field. In third place he was even three laps ahead. As in the previous year, BRM achieved a double victory. For Arundell it was the first of a total of two podium finishes in the automobile world championship. Clark was ranked fourth. Bonnier was fifth, Hailwood sixth; he scored his first point.

After the race, Graham Hill led the drivers' standings from Ginther and Arundell. BRM was in first place in the constructors' championship, five points ahead of Lotus and seven points ahead of Cooper. After the race, Graham Hill described the Grand Prix as extremely tough and explained that he too had problems with the oil pressure but retired because he was able to drive slower in the end due to Clark's failure.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Revson Racing	02	Peter Revson	Lotus 24	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
Bernard Collomb	03	Bernard Collomb	Lotus 24	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
Maurice Trintignant	04th	Maurice Trintignant	BRM P57	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
Brabham Racing Organization	05	Jack Brabham	Brabham BT7	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	06th	Dan Gurney
Owen Racing Organization	07th	Richie Ginther	BRM P261	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	08th	Graham Hill
Cooper Car Company	09	Phil Hill	Cooper T73	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	10	Bruce McLaren	Cooper T73
			Cooper T66
Team Lotus	11	Peter Arundell	Lotus 25	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
	12	Jim Clark
British Racing Partnership	14th	Innes Ireland	Lotus 24	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	15th	Trevor Taylor	BRP Mk1
DW Racing Enterprises	14th	Bob Anderson	Brabham BT11	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
Reg Parnell Racing	17th	Chris Amon	Lotus 25	BRM 1.5 V8	D.
	18th	Mike Hailwood
Rob Walker Racing Team	19th	Joakim Bonnier	Cooper T66	Climax 1.5 V8	D.
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	20th	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari 156 Aero	Ferrari 1.5 V6	D.
	21st	John Surtees	Ferrari 158	Ferrari 1.5 V8
			Ferrari 156	Ferrari 1.5 V6
Siffert Racing Team	24	Joseph Siffert	Lotus 24	BRM 1.5 V8	D.

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Bruce McLaren drove the Number 10 Cooper T66 in practice sessions and in the race.
2. ↑ ^{a b} John Surtees drove the Ferrari 158 with the number 21 in the practice sessions and in the race.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	1: 34.0	120.45 km / h	01
02	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Climax	1: 34.1	120.32 km / h	02
03	Graham Hill	BRM	1: 34.5	119.81 km / h	03
04th	John Surtees	Ferrari	1: 34.5	119.81 km / h	04th
05	Dan Gurney	Brabham-Climax	1: 34.7	119.56 km / h	05
06th	Peter Arundell	Lotus Climax	1: 35.5	118.55 km / h	06th
07th	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	1: 35.5	118.55 km / h	07th
08th	Richie Ginther	BRM	1: 35.9	118.06 km / h	08th
09	Phil Hill	Cooper-Climax	1: 35.9	118.06 km / h	09
10	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	1: 36.6	117.20 km / h	10
11	Joakim Bonnier	Cooper-Climax	1: 37.4	116.24 km / h	11
12	Bob Anderson	Brabham-Climax	1: 38.0	115.53 km / h	12
13	Maurice Trintignant	BRM	1: 38.1	115.41 km / h	13
14th	Trevor Taylor	BRP-BRM	1: 38.1	115.41 km / h	14th
15th	Mike Hailwood	Lotus BRM	1: 38.5	114.94 km / h	15th
16	Joseph Siffert	Lotus BRM	1: 38.7	114.71 km / h	16
17th	Innes Ireland	BRP-BRM	no time		-
DNQ	Chris Amon	Lotus BRM	1: 39.1	114.25 km / h	-
DNQ	Peter Revson	Lotus BRM	1: 39.9	113.33 km / h	-
DNQ	Bernard Collomb	Lotus BRM	1: 41.4	111.66 km / h	-

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Graham Hill	BRM	100	0	2: 41: 19.5	03	1: 33.9
02	Richie Ginther	BRM	99	0	+ 1 lap	08th	1: 35.5
03	Peter Arundell	Lotus Climax	97	0	+ 3 rounds	06th	1: 36.8
04th	Jim Clark	Lotus Climax	96	2	+ 4 rounds	01	1: 34.0
05	Joakim Bonnier	Cooper-Climax	96	0	+ 4 rounds	11	1: 37.8
06th	Mike Hailwood	Lotus BRM	96	0	+ 4 rounds	15th	1: 36.9
07th	Bob Anderson	Brabham-Climax	86	0	+ 14 rounds	12	1: 38.9
08th	Joseph Siffert	Lotus BRM	78	0	+ 22 laps	16	1: 41.8
09	Phil Hill	Cooper-Climax	70	0	+ 30 rounds	09	1: 35.7
10	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	68	0	+ 32 rounds	07th	1: 35.7
-	Dan Gurney	Brabham-Climax	62	0	DNF	05	1: 34.5	transmission
-	Maurice Trintignant	BRM	53	0	DNF	13	1: 40.3	Overheating
-	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Climax	29	0	DNF	02	1: 37.7	injection
-	Bruce McLaren	Cooper-Climax	17th	0	DNF	10	1: 39.8	Wheel bearings
-	John Surtees	Ferrari	15th	0	DNF	04th	1: 37.5	transmission
-	Trevor Taylor	BRP-BRM	08th	0	DNF	14th	1: 41.2	Loss of fuel
-	Innes Ireland	BRP-BRM	00		DNS			Training accident / injury

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 9 02  Richie Ginther BRM 6th 03  Peter Arundell Lotus Climax 4th 04th  Jim Clark Lotus Climax 3 05  Joakim Bonnier Cooper-Climax 2 06th  Mike Hailwood Lotus BRM 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  BRM 9 02  Lotus Climax 4th 03  Cooper-Climax 2 04th  Lotus BRM 1

Web links

• Results at motorsportarchiv.de
• Photos at f1-facts.com
• Grand Prix Results: Monaco GP, 1964 at grandprix.com
• Hill secures back-to-back Monaco wins at espnf1.com
• XXII Monaco Grand Prix at motorsportmagazine.com