1964 Rand Grand Prix

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The 7th Rand Grand Prix was a auto race, run to Formula One rules, held on 12 December 1964 at Kyalami, South Africa. The race was run over two heats, each of 25 laps of the circuit, and was won overall by British driver Graham Hill in a Brabham BT11.

This race was the Formula One debut for future triple world champion Jackie Stewart, who secured pole position for the first heat. His car failed on the grid, and Hill won with Mike Spence in second. Stewart took the second heat, but Hill came second to claim the overall victory. Brabham cars filled the first three places, each with different makes of engine.

Background[]

The entry list for the non-championship of 1964 was entered in a Kyalami Circuit before it was Christmastime on December 25 and the first round of 1965. The race was only 25 laps in two heats and fifty laps of aggregate race for the Rand Grand Prix.

Before 1965, Team Lotus had 33s with Mike Spence and Jim Clark was replaced by the "Flying Scot" driver, Jackie Stewart, who will drive in the BRM on the New Year's Day of 1965. So as Graham Hill in John Willment's Brabham alongside Paul Hawkins in another private Brabham car. For Hill, he will be later in the BRM with Jackie Stewart in the South African Grand Prix in 1965.

Bob Anderson, legendary DW Racing driver, has joined to race in the non-championship season and Tony Maggs with his Parnell's Lotus-BRM was seen on the entry list after he joined Scuderia Centro Sud in the whole World Championship of 1964. David Clapham and Ernie Pieterse were the only two to enter the race in Lawson Organisation and Doug Serrurier with LDS was included a Climax 1.5 liter engine instead of the Alfa Romeo engine, which he used this engine from 1962 to 1963. The private team, Scuderia Scribante, had a driver Neville Lederle with a Lotus-Climax who finished 6th place in last 2 years of the East London race.

The Rhodesian drivers (such as, Clive Puzey, Sam Tingle, and John Love) have other private cars. The new one was he would be named Ray Reed driving Realpha with a 1.5 liter Alfa Romeo engine.

Thus David Prophet will start driving for the non-championship round was able to qualify that Friday. These drivers with other private LDS cars are Jackie Pretorius, Alex Blignaut, Steve Mellet. The Alfa Romeo car in the other private will be entered with a South African driver, Peter de Klerk.

The rest of the driver on the entry list will be Dave Charlton, Brausch Niemann, Bob Hay, Rauten Hartmann (in Netuar), Dave Hume, and Trevor Blokdyk.

Entry list[]

The full entry list for the 1964 Rand Grand Prix is outlined below:

No.	Driver	Entrant	Constructor	Chassis	Engine	Model	Tyre
1	Jackie Stewart	Team Lotus	Lotus	33	Climax	FWMV V8 1.5	D
2	Mike Spence	Team Lotus	Lotus	33	Climax	FWMV V8 1.5	D
3	Graham Hill	John Willment Automobiles	Brabham	BT11	BRM	P56 V8 1.5	D
4	Paul Hawkins	John Willment Automobiles	Brabham	BT10	Ford	109E L4 1.5	D
5	Tony Maggs	Reg Parnell Racing	Lotus	25	BRM	P56 V8 1.5	D
6	Bob Anderson	DW Racing Enterprises	Brabham	BT11	Climax	FWMV V8 1.5	D
7	Ernie Pieterse	Lawson Organisation	Lotus	21	Climax	FPF L4 1.5	D
8	David Prophet	Privateer	Brabham	BT10	Ford	109E L4 1.5	D
9	John Love	Privateer	Cooper	T55	Climax	FPF L4 1.5	D
10	Peter de Klerk	Otelle Nucci	Alfa Romeo	Special	Alfa Romeo	Giulietta L4 1.5	D
11	Trevor Blokdyk	Hoffman Racing	Cooper	T59	Alfa Romeo	Giulietta L4 1.5	D
12	Doug Serrurier	Privateer	LDS	Mk2	Climax	FPF L4 1.5	D
14	Neville Lederle	Scuderia Scribante	Lotus	21	Climax	FPF L4 1.5	D
15	Clive Puzey	Privateer	Lotus	18/21	Climax	FPF L4 1.5	D
16	Sam Tingle	Privateer	LDS	Mk1	Alfa Romeo	Giulietta L4 1.5	D
17	Dave Charlton	Ecurie Tomahawk	Lotus	20	Ford	109E L4 1.5	D
18	Jackie Pretorius	Privateer	LDS	Mk1	Alfa Romeo	Giulietta L4 1.5	D
19	David Clapham	Lawson Organisation	Cooper	T51	Maserati	6-1500 L4 1.5	D
20	Lionel Wilmot	Privateer	LDS	Mk1	Alfa Romeo	Giulietta L4 1.5	D
21	Ray Reed	Privateer	Realpha	RE 1	Alfa Romeo	Giulietta L4 1.5	D
22	Alex Blignaut	Team Valencia	LDS	Mk1	Alfa Romeo	Giulietta L4 1.5	D
23	Dave Hume	Team Valencia	Heron	Mk1	Alfa Romeo	Giulietta L4 1.5	D
24	Brausch Niemann	Ted Lanfear	Lotus	22	Ford	109E L4 1.5	D
25	Steve Mellet	Privateer	LDS	Mk1	Alfa Romeo	Giulietta L4 1.5	D
26	Bob Hay	Privateer	Lotus	20	Ford	109E L4 1.5	D
27	Rauten Hartmann	Privateer	Netuar	Mk1	Peugeot	L6 1.5	D

Qualifying[]

Qualifying Results[]

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Time	Gap
1	1	Jackie Stewart	Lotus-Climax	1:35.0	—
2	2	Mike Spence	Lotus-Climax	1:35.6	+0.6
DNS	5	Tony Maggs	Lotus-BRM	1:36.1	+1.1
4	4	Paul Hawkins	Brabham-Ford	1:36.7	+1.7
5	6	Bob Anderson	Brabham-Climax	1:37.2	+2.2
6	11	Trevor Blokdyk	Cooper-Alfa Romeo	1:37.9	+2.9
7	9	John Love	Cooper-Climax	1:38.3	+3.3
8	10	Peter de Klerk	Alfa Romeo	1:38.5	+3.5
9	8	David Prophet	Brabham-Ford	1:38.6	+3.6
10	24	Brausch Niemann	Lotus-Ford	1:39.2	+4.2
11	12	Doug Serrurier	LDS-Climax	1:39.4	+4.4
12	7	Ernie Pieterse	Lotus-Climax	1:40.0	+5.0
13	14	Neville Lederle	Lotus-Climax	1:40.6	+5.6
14	16	Sam Tingle	LDS-Alfa Romeo	1:40.9	+5.9
15	15	Clive Puzey	Lotus-Climax	1:42.8	+7.8
16	23	David Hume	Heron-Alfa Romeo	1:43.4	+8.4
17	21	Ray Reed	Realpha-Alfa Romeo	1:44.1	+9.1
18	19	David Clapham	Cooper-Maserati	1:45.3	+10.3
19	26	Bob Hay	Lotus-Ford	1:46.2	+11.2
20	27	Rauten Hartmann	Cooper-Maserati	1:46.4	+11.4
21	22	Alex Blignaut	LDS-Alfa Romeo	1:47.3	+12.3
DNS	17	Dave Charlton	Lotus-Ford	1:48.0	+13.0
Res	3	Graham Hill	Brabham-BRM	No time	—
Res	25	Steve Mellet	LDS-Alfa Romeo	No time	—
DNS	18	Jackie Pretorius	LDS-Alfa Romeo	Withdrew

Grid[]

	Pos.	Pos.
	Driver	Driver
	______________
Row 1	1	______________
	Jackie Stewart	2
	______________	Mike Spence
Row 2	3	______________
	Paul Hawkins	4
	______________	Bob Anderson
Row 3	5	______________
	Trevor Blokdyk	6
	______________	John Love
Row 4	7	______________
	Peter de Klerk	8
	______________	David Prophet
Row 5	9	______________
	Brausch Niemann	10
	______________	Doug Serrurier
Row 6	11	______________
	Ernie Pieterse	12
	______________	Neville Lederle
Row 7	13	______________
	Sam Tingle	14
	______________	Clive Puzey
Row 8	15	______________
	David Hume	16
	______________	Ray Reed
Row 9	17	______________
	David Clapham	18
	______________	Bob Hay
Row 10	19	______________
	Rauten Hartmann	20
	______________	Alex Blignaut

Race[]

Heat I[]

Heat II[]

Aggregate Result[]

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	I/II
1	3	Graham Hill	Brabham-BRM	50	1:22:48.7	—	1st/2nd
2	4	Paul Hawkins	Brabham-Ford	50	+52.9	3	3rd/4th
3	6	Bob Anderson	Brabham-Climax	50	+52.9	4	4th/3rd
4	16	Sam Tingle	LDS-Alfa Romeo	50	+3:31.1	13	7th/5th
5	24	Brausch Niemann	Lotus-Ford	50	+3:55.8	9	9th/6th
6	12	Doug Serrurier	LDS-Climax	49	+1 lap	9	8th/7th
7	15	Clive Puzey	Lotus-Climax	49	+1 lap	14	10th/9th
8	9	John Love	Cooper-Climax	46	+4 laps	6	5th/12th
9	26	Bob Hay	Lotus-Ford	46	+4 laps	18	13th/11th
10	14	Neville Lederle	Lotus-Climax	45	+5 laps	12	15th/8th
11	23	David Hume	Heron-Alfa Romeo	45	+5 laps	15	11th/13th
12	22	Alex Blignaut	LDS-Alfa Romeo	44	+6 laps	20	12th/14th
13	25	Steve Mellet	LDS-Alfa Romeo	40	+10 laps	—	16th/15th
14	27	Rauten Hartmann	Cooper-Maserati	37	+13 laps	19	14th/Ret
15	10	Peter de Klerk	Alfa Romeo	27	+23 laps	7	6th/Ret
16	2	Mike Spence	Lotus-Climax	26	+24 laps	2	2nd/Ret
17	1	Jackie Stewart	Lotus-Climax	25	+25 laps	1	Ret/1st
18	8	David Prophet	Brabham-Ford	23	+27 laps	8	Ret/10th
19	21	Ray Reed	Realpha-Alfa Romeo	23	+27 laps	16	Ret/DNS
Ret	11	Trevor Blokdyk	Cooper-Alfa Romeo	19	Engine	5	Ret/Ret
Ret	19	David Clapham	Cooper-Maserati	17	Engine	17	Ret/DNS
Ret	7	Ernie Pieterse	Lotus-Climax	0	Accident	11	Ret/DNS
DNS	5	Tony Maggs	Lotus-BRM	Camshaft			—/—
DNS	17	Dave Charlton	Lotus-Ford	Fire in practice			—/—
DNS	18	Jackie Pretorius	LDS-Alfa Romeo	Withdrew after practice			—/—
WD	20	Lionel Wilmot	LDS-Alfa Romeo	Oil leak			—/—

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