Aintree International 200 Meeting
18th April 1964
The feature race the “200” was won by Jack Brabham driving his Brabham Climax, second was Graham Hill in a BRM and third Peter Arundel in a Lotus. Although Jim Clark crashed, he did set fastest lap of 96.26 mph in his lotus. Brabham team mate was Dan Gurney and Graham Hill was teamed with Richie Ginther. Other well known names were Bruce McLaren and Phil Hill in Cooper Climax’s, Innes Irelend and Trevor Taylor in BRP/BRMs. Reg Parnell entered Lotus BRMs for Chris Amon and Mike Hailwood. Other drivers of note were Giancarlo Baghetti, Teddy Pilette, Jo Bonnier, Denny Hulme, and David Hobbs to name a few. Jackie Stewart was driving a f-3 Cooper for Tyrrell Racing. Prize money was ₤200 for the first finisher irrespective of class, the Aintree 200 trophy and the Daily Mirror Trophy, class wins ranged from ₤150 for first to ₤25 for sixth. Bruce McLaren won the sports car race in a Cooper Climax and a prize of ₤30. The F-3 race was won by Jackie Stewart with a prize of ₤50 and Jack Sears in a Ford Galaxie won the Saloon Car race and ₤15, Jim Clark was third for ₤5. When Jack Brabham mounted the podium, he tossed his helmet to his son Geoff,saying to go throw it in the car. There was no real separation between fans and drivers then as you can see from my picture of Jack. I obtained my first autograph on the program from him, which was the start of a small collection of F-1 driver autographs.
Superb insight into a track I never got the opportunity to visit and if I had at 5 I might have struggled to remember :-)
ReplyDeleteThis magic stuff!...thanks for posting this and your other stories, I'm a big fan of motorsport, especially the 60's, which I was just too young to remember, although I did go to Aintree, Oulton Park,Mallory Park ect during the seventies, my dad was a bike racer! :)
ReplyDeleteI hope to enjoy more of your blog in the future, cheers!