1964 Season
10 rounds · 1964-05-10 – 1964-10-25
Before the season
Driver changes
Trevor Taylor, who drove for Team Lotus in 1963, moves to British Racing Partnership after acknowledging his confidence was shaken by two serious accidents at Spa-Francorchamps and Enna-Pergusa. Team Lotus promotes their Formula Junior driver Peter Arundell to the F1 seat in his place.
Phil Hill, the 1961 World Champion, loses his seat as ATS withdraws from Formula One after a troubled debut season. Hill joins Cooper, replacing Tony Maggs.
Team changes
ATS, which entered 1963 with a self-designed chassis in an attempt to compete against Ferrari, withdraws from the sport after spending the year battling technical difficulties.
Reg Parnell Racing abandons their Lola chassis in favour of second-hand Lotus cars. The switch marks Lola’s exit from Formula One until their collaboration with Honda in 1967.
Calendar
The season spans ten championship races. The Dutch Grand Prix moves up four weeks and now precedes the Belgian Grand Prix. Austria joins the championship calendar for the first time — the Austrian Grand Prix had appeared as a non-championship event in 1963 but enters the title fight this year. The South African Grand Prix, originally scheduled for 26 December, is moved back a week and becomes the opener of the 1965 season.
Adapted by AI summarisation from “1964 Formula One season” on Wikipedia . This adapted text is licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0 . Modifications: summarised and spoiler-trimmed.
Race Calendar
| # | Date | Grand Prix | Circuit | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 May | 🇲🇨 Monaco Grand Prix | Circuit de Monaco | Monte Carlo, Monaco |
| 2 | 24 May | 🇳🇱 Dutch Grand Prix | Circuit Park Zandvoort | Zandvoort, Netherlands |
| 3 | 14 Jun | 🇧🇪 Belgian Grand Prix | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | Spa, Belgium |
| 4 | 28 Jun | 🇫🇷 French Grand Prix | Rouen-Les-Essarts | Rouen, France |
| 5 | 11 Jul | 🇬🇧 British Grand Prix | Brands Hatch | Kent, UK |
| 6 | 2 Aug | 🇩🇪 German Grand Prix | Nürburgring | Nürburg, Germany |
| 7 | 23 Aug | 🇦🇹 Austrian Grand Prix | Zeltweg | Styria, Austria |
| 8 | 6 Sept | 🇮🇹 Italian Grand Prix | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | Monza, Italy |
| 9 | 4 Oct | 🇺🇸 United States Grand Prix | Watkins Glen | New York State, USA |
| 10 | 25 Oct | 🇲🇽 Mexican Grand Prix | Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez | Mexico City, Mexico |
Grid & Statistics Going into the Season
| No. | Driver | Team | Age | Seasons | Starts | Wins | Podiums | Points | Best | Champs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Brabham-Climax | 38 | 9 | 58 | 7 | 11 | 107 | 1st | 2 | |
| 6 | Brabham-Climax | 33 | 5 | 37 | 1 | 10 | 68 | 4th | 0 | |
| 16 | Brabham-Climax | 32 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | |
| 8 | BRM | 35 | 6 | 51 | 6 | 12 | 88 | 1st | 1 | |
| 4 | BRM | 46 | 14 | 80 | 2 | 9 | 69 | 4th | 0 | |
| 7 | BRM | 33 | 4 | 30 | 0 | 11 | 68 | 3rd | 0 | |
| 23 | BRM | 27 | 3 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 22 | 7th | 0 | |
| 22 | BRM | 29 | 3 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 9th | 0 | |
| 15 | BRP | 27 | 4 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 10th | 0 | |
| 10 | Cooper-Climax | 26 | 6 | 44 | 3 | 17 | 113.5 | 2nd | 0 | |
| 9 | Cooper-Climax | 37 | 6 | 42 | 3 | 16 | 97 | 1st | 0 | |
| 19 | Cooper-Climax | 34 | 8 | 55 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 8th | 0 | |
| 21 | Ferrari | 30 | 4 | 31 | 1 | 6 | 51 | 4th | 0 | |
| 20 | Ferrari | 28 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 10th | 0 | |
| 14 | Lotus-BRM | 33 | 5 | 38 | 1 | 4 | 43 | 4th | 0 | |
| 24 | Lotus-BRM | 27 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15th | 0 | |
| 2 | Lotus-BRM | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | |
| 3 | Lotus-BRM | 33 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | |
| 17 | Lotus-BRM | 20 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | |
| 18 | Lotus-BRM | 24 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | |
| 12 | Lotus-Climax | 28 | 4 | 33 | 10 | 15 | 122 | 1st | 1 | |
| 11 | Lotus-Climax | 30 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | |
| 1 | Scirocco | 45 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19th | 0 |