Race · Round 8 of 9 · 2 October 1966

1966 United States Grand Prix

Jim Clark won for Team Lotus from 2nd on the grid at Watkins Glen. 13 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Watkins GlenWatkins Glen, New York, United States of America
Winner: Jim ClarkTeam Lotus
Pole: Sir Jack Brabham
Fastest lap: John Surtees
Entries: 196 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	—	2	108	Finished	9
2	Jochen Rindt	Cooper	T81	9	107	Finished	6
3	John Surtees	Cooper	T81	4	107	Finished	4	fastest lap
4	Jo Siffert	Cooper	T81	13	105	Finished	3
5	Bruce McLaren	McLaren	M2B	11	105	Finished	2
6	Peter Arundell	Team Lotus	33	19	101	Finished	1
DNF	Innes Ireland	BRM	P261	17	96	Alternator	0
NC	Richie Ginther	Honda	RA273	8	81	NC	0
DNF	Mike Spence	Team Lotus	33	12	74	Ignition	0
DNF	Ronnie Bucknum	Honda	RA273	18	58	Engine	0
NC	Jo Bonnier	Cooper	T81	15	57	NC	0
DNF	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	—	1	55	Engine	0
DNF	Sir Jackie Stewart	BRM	—	6	53	Engine	0
DNF	Graham Hill	BRM	—	5	52	Differential	0
DNF	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	—	3	34	Engine	0
DNF	Denny Hulme	Brabham	—	7	18	Engine	0
DNF	Dan Gurney	Eagle	Mk 1	14	13	Clutch	0
DNF	Pedro Rodriguez	Team Lotus	—	10	13	Retirement	0
DSQ	Bob Bondurant	Eagle	Mk 1	16	5	DSQ	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout watkins-glen-1 · 3.78 km · 8 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Jim Clark	2	1	108
Jochen Rindt	9	2	107
John Surtees	4	3	107
Jo Siffert	13	4	105
Bruce McLaren	11	5	105
Peter Arundell	19	6	101
Innes Ireland	17	DNF	96
Richie Ginther	8	NC	81
Mike Spence	12	DNF	74
Ronnie Bucknum	18	DNF	58
Jo Bonnier	15	NC	57
Sir Jack Brabham	1	DNF	55
Sir Jackie Stewart	6	DNF	53
Graham Hill	5	DNF	52
Lorenzo Bandini	3	DNF	34
Denny Hulme	7	DNF	18
Dan Gurney	14	DNF	13
Pedro Rodriguez	10	DNF	13
Bob Bondurant	16	DSQ	5

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	5	1:08.420	—	—
2	Jim Clark	Team Lotus	1	1:08.530	+0.110	+0.110
3	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	9	1:08.570	+0.150	+0.040
4	John Surtees	Cooper	7	1:08.730	+0.310	+0.160
5	Graham Hill	BRM	3	1:08.870	+0.450	+0.140
6	Sir Jackie Stewart	BRM	4	1:09.170	+0.750	+0.300
7	Denny Hulme	Brabham	6	1:09.280	+0.860	+0.110
8	Richie Ginther	Honda	12	1:09.370	+0.950	+0.090
9	Jochen Rindt	Cooper	8	1:09.630	+1.210	+0.260
10	Pedro Rodriguez	Team Lotus	11	1:10.400	+1.980	+0.770
11	Bruce McLaren	McLaren	17	1:10.570	+2.150	+0.170
12	Mike Spence	Team Lotus	18	1:10.730	+2.310	+0.160
13	Jo Siffert	Cooper	19	1:10.970	+2.550	+0.240
14	Dan Gurney	Eagle	15	1:11.030	+2.610	+0.060
15	Jo Bonnier	Cooper	22	1:11.400	+2.980	+0.370
16	Bob Bondurant	Eagle	16	1:12.400	+3.980	+1.000
17	Innes Ireland	BRM	10	1:12.630	+4.210	+0.230
18	Ronnie Bucknum	Honda	14	1:12.700	+4.280	+0.070
19	Peter Arundell	Team Lotus	2	—	—	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Where this comes from

Round: 8 of 1966
Grand Prix: United States Grand Prix
Dates: 2 Oct 1966
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Team Lotus
Entrant: Lotus-BRM
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.