1964 USAC Championship Car season

Races13

Start dateMarch 22

End dateNovember 22

National champion

1964 USAC Championship Car season
USAC National Championship Trail
Season
Races	13
Start date	March 22
End date	November 22
Awards
National champion	A. J. Foyt
Indianapolis 500 winner	A. J. Foyt
← 1963 1965 →

The 1964 USAC Championship Car season consisted of 13 races, beginning in Avondale, Arizona on March 22 and concluding at the same location on November 22. There was also one non-championship event at Pikes Peak, Colorado. The USAC National Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was A. J. Foyt. At Indianapolis in the 500 mile race Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald were killed during lap 2 of the race; Sachs was 37 years old, and MacDonald was 27. In the Tony Bettenhausen Memorial at Springfield, Bill Horstmeyer died during the race; he was 34 years old. In November, five days after the season ended, Bobby Marshman died in a testing accident at Phoenix; he was 28 years old.

Rnd	Date	Race name	Track	Location	Type	Pole position	Winning driver
1	March 22	Phoenix 100	Phoenix International Raceway	Avondale, Arizona	Paved	Parnelli Jones	A. J. Foyt
2	April 19	Trenton 100	Trenton International Speedway	Trenton, New Jersey	Paved	A. J. Foyt	A. J. Foyt
3	May 30	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Paved	Jim Clark	A. J. Foyt
4	June 7	Rex Mays Classic	Milwaukee Mile	West Allis, Wisconsin	Paved	Rodger Ward	A. J. Foyt
5	June 21	Langhorne 100	Langhorne Speedway	Langhorne, Pennsylvania	Dirt	Johnny Rutherford	A. J. Foyt
NC	July 4	Pikes Peak Auto Hill Climb	Pikes Peak Highway	Pikes Peak, Colorado	Hill	Bobby Unser^A	Al Unser
6	July 19	Trenton 150	Trenton International Speedway	Trenton, New Jersey	Paved	Jim McElreath	A. J. Foyt
7	August 22	Tony Bettenhausen Memorial	Illinois State Fairgrounds	Springfield, Illinois	Dirt	Rodger Ward	A. J. Foyt
8	August 23	Tony Bettenhausen 200	Milwaukee Mile	West Allis, Wisconsin	Paved	Parnelli Jones	Parnelli Jones
9	September 7	Ted Horn Memorial	DuQuoin State Fairgrounds	Du Quoin, Illinois	Dirt	Don Branson	A. J. Foyt
10	September 26	Hoosier Hundred	Indiana State Fairgrounds	Indianapolis, Indiana	Dirt	A. J. Foyt	A. J. Foyt
11	September 27	Trenton 200	Trenton International Speedway	Trenton, New Jersey	Paved	Parnelli Jones	Parnelli Jones
12	October 25	Golden State 100	California State Fairgrounds	Sacramento, California	Dirt	Parnelli Jones	A. J. Foyt
13	November 22	Bobby Ball Memorial	Phoenix International Raceway	Avondale, Arizona	Paved	Parnelli Jones	Lloyd Ruby

Paved/Dirt Oval

Road Course/Hill Climb

Non-championship race

^A No pole is awarded for the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, in this schedule on the pole is the driver who started first. No lap led was awarded for the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, however, a lap was awarded to the drivers that completed the climb.

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v t e USAC Championship Cars (1956–1970)
Seasons	1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
Indianapolis 500s	1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
National Champions	Mario Andretti (three times) Tony Bettenhausen Jimmy Bryan (twice) A. J. Foyt (five times) Al Unser Bobby Unser Rodger Ward (twice)
Tracks	Arizona State Fair Atlanta Brainerd California State Fair Continental Divide Darlington Daytona Dover DuQuoin State Fair Hanford Illinois State Fair Indianapolis Indianapolis Raceway Park Indiana State Fair Lakewood Langhorne Michigan Michigan State Fair Milwaukee Missouri State Fair Mont-Tremblant Mosport Nazareth New York State Fair Ontario Phoenix Pikes Peak Riverside Stardust Sears Point Seattle Trenton

1964 USAC Championship Car season

Final points standings

References

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