United States Grand Prix

Date
Sun 2nd October 1966 (UTC)
Sun 2nd October 1966 (Local)

Timestamp
1966-10-02T14:00:00

Time

14:00:00 UTC

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League
Formula 1

Season
1966

Round
8

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The 1966 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 2, 1966, at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. It was race 8 of 9 in both the 1966 World Championship of Drivers and the 1966 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The race was the ninth United States Grand Prix (16th including the American Grand Prize races of 1908–16). It was the sixth to be held at Watkins Glen. The race was held over 108 laps of the 3.78-kilometre circuit for a total race distance of 408 kilometres.
The race was won by British driver Jim Clark driving a Lotus 43 for Team Lotus. Clark lapped the field to claim his 20th World Championship win by over a lap. The podium places were filled by Cooper Car Company team mates; Austrian driver Jochen Rindt and British driver John Surtees in their Cooper T81s.

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1 Jim Clark Lotus-BRM 2:09:40.11
2 Jochen Rindt Cooper-Maserati Out of Fuel
3 John Surtees Cooper-Maserati + 1 lap
4 Jo Siffert Cooper-Maserati + 3 laps
5 Bruce McLaren McLaren-Ford + 3 laps
6 Peter Arundell Lotus-Climax + 7 laps

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