Type: | NC |
Country: | Italy |
Grand Prix: | Syracuse |
Official Name: | XIII Gran Premio di Siracusa |
Date: | 12 April |
Year: | 1964 |
Course: | Temporary road circuit |
Course Mi: | 3.487 |
Course Km: | 5.612 |
Distance Laps: | 56 (reduced to 40) |
Distance Mi: | 139.48 |
Distance Km: | 224.47 |
Weather: | Wet |
Pole Driver: | Lorenzo Bandini |
Pole Country: | Italy |
Pole Team: | Ferrari |
Pole Time: | 1:50.5 |
Fast Driver: | Lorenzo Bandini |
Fast Team: | Ferrari |
Fast Time: | 1:53.9 |
Fast Country: | Italy |
First Driver: | John Surtees |
First Country: | UK |
First Team: | Ferrari |
Second Driver: | Lorenzo Bandini |
Second Country: | Italy |
Second Team: | Ferrari |
Third Driver: | Mike Spence |
Third Country: | UK |
Third Team: | Lotus-Climax |
Third Driver2: | Peter Arundell |
Third Country2: | UK |
The 13th Syracuse Grand Prix was a motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 12 April 1964 at Syracuse Circuit, Sicily. The race was run over 40 laps of the circuit, reduced from the original race distance of 56 laps due to bad weather, after lobbying from Jo Bonnier on behalf of the GPDA. The race was won easily by British driver John Surtees in a Ferrari 158.
Jo Siffert was injured in a crash during the practice sessions, in which he rolled his Lotus 24.
During the race, Peter Arundell's Lotus developed gearbox trouble, and he swapped cars with Mike Spence. Arundell took the healthy Lotus to third place after a close fight with Lorenzo Bandini, while Spence retired the other one soon after the swap.