| 1964 FIM Motocross World Championship | |
| Organizer: | FIM |
| Duration: | 5 April/13 September |
| No Of Races: | 28 |
| No Of Mfrs: | 13 |
| Champions Title: | Champions |
| Award1 Title: | 500cc |
| Award1 Champ: | Jeff Smith |
| Award2 Title: | 250cc |
| Award2 Champ: |  Joël Robert |
| Seasonslistnames: | Motocross World Championship |
| Prevseason Year: | 1963 |
| Prevseason Link: | 1963 FIM Motocross World Championship |
| Nextseason Year: | 1965 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1965 FIM Motocross World Championship |
The 1964 Motocross World Championship was the 8th edition of the Motocross World Championship organized by the FIM and reserved for 500cc and 250cc motorcycles.
Jeff Smith riding for the BSA factory racing team won the 500cc motocross world championship to become the first British rider to claim the premier division, beating out former two-time world champions and Husqvarna teammates Rolf Tibblin and Sten Lundin.[1] Tibblin won the first four races of the year before Smith won seven of the final ten events to capture the title.[2]
In the 250cc division, 20-year-old privateer, Joël Robert rode a ČZ to win 9 of the 14 Grand Prix races to claim the world championship ahead of the defending champion, Torsten Hallman.[3] [4] Robert became the youngest motocross world champion at the time.[5]
| Round | Date | Grand Prix | Location | Winner | Team | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 12 | Swiss Grand Prix | Payerne |  Rolf Tibblin | Husqvarna | Report |
| 2 | April 26 |  Austrian Grand Prix | Sittendorf | Rolf Tibblin | Husqvarna | Report |
| 3 | May 10 | Danish Grand Prix | Volk Mølle | Rolf Tibblin | Husqvarna | Report |
| 4 | May 17 | Swedish Grand Prix | Vimmerby | Rolf Tibblin | Husqvarna | Report |
| 5 | May 24 | Dutch Grand Prix | Norg | Jeff Smith | BSA | Report |
| 6 | May 31 |  French Grand Prix | Sucé-sur-Erdre | Rolf Tibblin | Husqvarna | Report |
| 7 | June 7 |  Italian Grand Prix | Avigliana | Jeff Smith | BSA | Report |
| 8 | June 21 | Russian Grand Prix | Lviv | Jeff Smith | BSA | Report |
| 9 | June 28 |  Czechoslovakian Grand Prix | Přerov | Rolf Tibblin | Husqvarna | Report |
| 10 | August 2 | Belgian Grand Prix | Namur | Jeff Smith | BSA | Report |
| 11 | August 9 |  Luxembourg Grand Prix | Ettelbruck | Jeff Smith | BSA | Report |
| 12 | August 16 | West German Grand Prix | Bielstein | Lito | Report | |
| 13 | August 30 | East German Grand Prix | Schwerin | Jeff Smith | BSA | Report |
| 14 | September 13 |  Spanish Grand Prix | San Sebastián | Jeff Smith | BSA | Report |
| Round | Date | Grand Prix | Location | Winner | Team | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 5 | Spanish Grand Prix | Ruta | Torsten Hallman | Husqvarna | Report |
| 2 | April 26 | Belgian Grand Prix | Woluwe-Saint-Lambert | Joël Robert | ČZ | Report |
| 3 | May 3 |  Swiss Grand Prix | Wohlen | Joël Robert | ČZ | Report |
| 4 | May 10 | Czechoslovakian Grand Prix | Holice | Joël Robert | ČZ | Report |
| 5 | May 17 | West German Grand Prix | Erlangen | Joël Robert | ČZ | Report |
| 6 | May 24 | Luxembourg Grand Prix | Schifflange | Dave Bickers | Greeves | Report |
| 7 | May 31 | Italian Grand Prix | Imola | Torsten Hallman | Husqvarna | Report |
| 8 | June 28 | British Grand Prix | Cadwell Park | Joël Robert | ČZ | Report |
| 9 | July 5 | Swedish Grand Prix | Hedemora | Joël Robert | ČZ | Report |
| 10 | July 12 |  Finnish Grand Prix | Tikkurila | Joël Robert | ČZ | Report |
| 11 | July 19 | Russian Grand Prix | Leningrad | Joël Robert | ČZ | Report |
| 12 | July 26 |  Polish Grand Prix | Kielce | Torsten Hallman | Husqvarna | Report |
| 13 | August 2 | East German Grand Prix | Apolda | Victor Arbekov | ČZ | Report |
| 14 | August 15 | French Grand Prix | Torsten Hallman | Husqvarna | Report | |
Points are awarded to the top 6 classified finishers.
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Pos | Rider | Machine | CH | AUT | DEN | SWE | NED | FRA | ITA | USR | CZE | BEL | LUX | GER | DDR | ESP | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeff Smith | BSA | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 96 |
| 2 | Rolf Tibblin | Husqvarna | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 64 | |||||
| 3 | Sten Lundin | Lito | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 46 | ||||
| 4 | Ove Lundell | Husqvarna | 6 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 24 | |||||
| 5 | Bill Nilsson | ESO-Métisse | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 20 | ||||||||
| 6 | Per Olaf Persson | Husqvarna | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 15 | ||||||||
| 7 | Herman De Soete | Matchless-Métisse | 4 | 3 | 5 | 9 | |||||||||||
| 8 | Jerry Scott | BSA | 4 | 4 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Vic Eastwood | BSA | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Hubert Scaillet | Triumph-Métisse | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||||||
| John Burton | Triumph-Métisse | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||||||
| 12 | Pierre-André Rapin | Monark | 4 | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 13 | Josef Chara | Jawa | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Dieter Kley | ESO | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Gunnar Johansson | Lito | 4 | 6 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 16 | Nikolaj Sokolov | ESO | 4 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Jos Ribbens | BSA | 4 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 18 | Antonin Klavinsh | ESO | 5 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Aleksandr Lebedev | ESO | 5 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| André Chuchard | Triumph-Métisse | 5 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Broer Dirkx | Lito | 5 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Dave Nicoll | Matchless | 5 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Ervín Krajčovič | ESO | 5 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 24 | Josef Hrebecek | ČZ | 6 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Lubomir Eichler | ČZ | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Andy Lee | Matchless-Métisse | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Sigur Kalkis | ESO | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Roger Vanderbecken | Triumph | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Jacob Lynegaard | BSA | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Pos | Rider | Machine | ESP | BEL | CH | CZE | GER | LUX | ITA | UK | SWE | FIN | USR | POL | GDR | FRA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joël Robert | ČZ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 56 | ||||
| 2 | Torsten Hallman | Husqvarna | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 50 | ||||
| 3 | Victor Arbekov | ČZ | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 31 | ||||||
| 4 | Igor Grigoriev | ČZ | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 30 | |||||
| 5 | Dave Bickers | Greeves | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 23 | |||||||||
| 6 | Åke Jonsson | Husqvarna | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 19 | ||||||||||
| 7 | Vlastimil Valek | Jawa | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 16 | |||||||
| 8 | Karel Pilar | ČZ | 6 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 13 | |||||||
| 9 | Gunnar Draougs | ČZ | 2 | 2 | 12 | ||||||||||||
| 10 | Cenneth Loof | Husqvarna | 6 | 3 | 5 | 7 | |||||||||||
| 11 | Don Rickman | Bultaco | 2 | 6 | |||||||||||||
| 12 | Jan Johansson | Lindstrom | 3 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 13 | Olle Pettersson | Husqvarna | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 14 | John Griffith | Greeves | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Malcom Davis | Greeves | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Antonin Hrach | ČZ | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| 17 | Zdenek Polanka | ČZ | 4 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Bryan Goss | Greeves | 4 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 19 | Derek Rickman | Bultaco | 6 | 5 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 20 | Eungenius Frelich | MZ | 5 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Max Morf | ČZ | 5 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Jaakko Lehmuskoski | Husqvarna | 6 | 6 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 23 | Fritz Betzelbacher | Montesa | 6 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Fritz Selling | Greeves | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||||