 the 1964 united states grand prix was a formula one race held on october 4, 1964, at the watkins glen grand prix race course in watkins glen, new york. __forcetoc__ ==summary== graham hill padded his tenuous lead in the 1964 driver's championship over john surtees and jim clark by bringing his brm home first at the glen for the second straight year. surtees was second for ferrari, 30.5 seconds back. the ferrari team brought four cars for surtees and lorenzo bandini, but they were not in the usual "flaming red" that the race program advertised. enzo ferrari had surrendered his entrant's license in a dispute at monza, so the cars were entered by luigi chinetti's north american racing team and were painted in north american racing blue and white. the only entrant missing from the 20 who were invited was american a.j. foyt, who was offered a works brm drive for the race, but decided against it. the watkins glen grand prix corporation was so pleased with the new track surface that had been laid down that they believed a 120&nbsp;mph lap (1:08.9) was possible, and they had 120 bottles of champagne ready for the first one to do it! while the three remaining championship contenders, along with american dan gurney, waged a stirring battle for the pole and broke hill's record from the previous year, they did not come close to claiming the prize. colin chapman had both an older type 25 and the new type 33 lotus for clark, but the scot had little time to practice in the newer version by the time it was ready. he set the fastest time (1:12.65) using the old, reliable one, anyway, so he decided to use it in the race. surtees, gurney and hill were all under 1:13, as well, followed by bruce mclaren and clark's teammate, mike spence. cool breezes and bright sun welcomed a cro
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