Bandini Wins Austrian G.P.

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30528, 25 August 1964, Page 17

Bandini Wins Austrian G.P.

(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) ZELTWEG (Austria), August 23. Lorenzo Bandini, of Italy, driving a Ferrari, won today’s Austrian motor-racing Grand Prix, after a gruelling race during which New Zealand’s Bruce McLaren (Cooper) dropped out on the fortyfourth lap with ignition trouble. Only nine of the 20 starters finished the race. Bandini won by just over six seconds from Ritchie Ginther (8.R.M.) averaging 99.20

miles an hour for the 210mile race on the bumpy airfield circuit at Zeltweg. Today’s tussle did not affect the drivers’ world championship . placings. for the. first three, the British drivers, Graham Hill (8.R.M.), Jim Clark (Lotus) and John Surtees (Ferrari) all dropped out during the race. Australia’s Jack Brabham was officially given ninth place, but completed only 76 of the 105 laps. Dan Gurney (Brabham) led the field until dropping out with a broken axle after 45 laps. Bandini then took over and from then on never looked like being beaten. Clark made a poor start, but after 11 laps had worked his way through to second place. Brilliant cornering round the sharp U-bend at one end of this circuit shaped like a hockey stick enabled him to cut Gurney’s advantage to 8.8 seconds, but then after 38 laps, the world champion pulled out with a broken half shaft. In Zolder, Belgium, Denis Hulme, of New Zealand, won

■ the 130-mile formula two Zolder Grand Prix, the Associated Press reported. Hulme, driving a Brabham Ford, topped the over-all classification with a second and a first in the two-heat race. Second over-all was Lucien Bianchi, of Belgium, in a Lotus Ford, and third Bryan Hart, of Britain, driving a Lotus.