The 1964 New Zealand Grand Prix was a race held at Pukekohe Park Raceway

Pukekohe Park Raceway

Although Pukekohe Park Raceway is better known internationally as a motor racing circuit, it is primarily a horse racing circuit in New Zealand. It is located south of Auckland City in the North Island. The track is now owned by Pukekohe Park Limited...

 on 11 January 1964. The race had 16 starters.

It was the eleventh New Zealand Grand Prix

New Zealand Grand Prix

The New Zealand Grand Prix, sometimes known as the New Zealand International Grand Prix, is an annual motor racing event held in New Zealand first run in 1950. Currently it is the signature race of the Toyota Racing Series. It is one of only two current national Grand Prix events that are not part...

 and doubled as round two of the 1964 Tasman Series

1964 Tasman Series

The 1964 Tasman Series was the first Tasman Series season. It began on 4 January 1964 and ended on 2 March after eight races.The series was won by Bruce McLaren, the only one of the four race winning drivers who attended all eight races, a trifecta of wins in New Zealand setting up the...

. Bruce McLaren

Bruce McLaren

Bruce Leslie McLaren , born in Auckland, New Zealand, was a race-car designer, driver, engineer and inventor....

 broke through to finally win his home grand prix in this the first official Tasman Series. This win paved the way for McLaren's overall victory in the first Tasman Series.

Classification

Results as follows:

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Car	Laps	Time	Points
1	47	Bruce McLaren Bruce McLaren Bruce Leslie McLaren , born in Auckland, New Zealand, was a race-car designer, driver, engineer and inventor....	Bruce McLaren Motor Racing	Cooper Cooper Car Company The Cooper Car Company was founded in 1946 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, England in 1946...  T70 / Climax FPF 2.5	50	1h 14m 20.7s	9
2	5	Denny Hulme Denny Hulme Denis Clive "Denny" Hulme, OBE was a New Zealand racing driver, the 1967 Formula One World Champion for the Brabham team....	Brabham Racing	Brabham BT4 / Climax FPF 2.5	50	1h 14m 25.1s	6
3	48	Timmy Mayer Timmy Mayer Timothy Mayer , was a racecar driver from Dalton, Pennsylvania in the United States. He participated in one World Championship Formula One Grand Prix, on October 7, 1962. He retired with ignition failure and scored no championship points.Mayer's older brother Teddy was one of the founders of the...	Bruce McLaren Motor Racing	Cooper Cooper Car Company The Cooper Car Company was founded in 1946 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, England in 1946...  T70 / Climax FPF 2.5	50	1h 14m 36.4s	4
4	8	John Youl John Youl John Youl was an Australian motor racing driver, race track owner and prominent Tasmanian grazier.Youl was best known for his driving in open wheel racing cars during the 1950s and 1960s and by the 60's was one of the most prominent Australians of this discipline...	John Youl	Cooper Cooper Car Company The Cooper Car Company was founded in 1946 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, England in 1946...  T55 / Climax FPF 2.5	50	1h 15m 21.6s	3
5	41	Jim Palmer	Jim Palmer	Cooper Cooper Car Company The Cooper Car Company was founded in 1946 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, England in 1946...  T53 / Climax FPF 2.5	49		2
6	11	Tony Shelly	Shelly Motors Ltd.	Lotus 18/21 Lotus 18 The Lotus 18 was a race car designed by Colin Chapman for use by Lotus in Formula Junior, Formula Two, and Formula One. It was the first mid-engined car built by Lotus and was a marked improvement over Chapman's early and only moderately successful front-engined formula cars, the 12 and 16. It was...  / Climax FPF 2.5	48		1
7	12	Andy Buchanan	Wilson Motors Ltd.	Brabham BT6 / Ford 1.6	46
8	6	David Young	David Young	Cooper Cooper Car Company The Cooper Car Company was founded in 1946 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, England in 1946...  T59 / Ford 1.5	46
9	22	Roly Levis	R.A. Levis	Lotus 22 Lotus 22 The Lotus 22 was a racing car built by Lotus cars in 1962, and a total of 77 cars were built. It was developed from the 1962 Lotus 20, with the major differences that it had disk brakes all round, had a top link to the rear suspension, and had a dry sump engine that was canted over to lower the...  / Ford 1.6	45
10	23	Dene Hollier	Dene Hollier Ltd.	Cooper Cooper Car Company The Cooper Car Company was founded in 1946 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, England in 1946...  T52 / Ford 1.5	43
11	7	Ken Sagar	J.H. Sagar	Lotus 20 Lotus 20 Lotus 20 was a Formula Junior car built by Lotus for the 1962 season as a successor to the Lotus 18.The chassis was a spaceframe, clothed in fibreglass bodywork. It had front double wishbone suspension, but the rear had a lower wishbone with the driveshaft being fixed length and therefore used as...  / Ford 1.5	43
12	25	Rex Flowers	Flowers Transport	Lotus 20B Lotus 20 Lotus 20 was a Formula Junior car built by Lotus for the 1962 season as a successor to the Lotus 18.The chassis was a spaceframe, clothed in fibreglass bodywork. It had front double wishbone suspension, but the rear had a lower wishbone with the driveshaft being fixed length and therefore used as...  / Ford 1.5	43
Ret	4	Jack Brabham Jack Brabham Sir John Arthur "Jack" Brabham, AO, OBE is an Australian former racing driver who was Formula One champion in , and . He was a founder of the Brabham racing team and race car constructor that bore his name....	Brabham Racing	Brabham BT7A / Climax FPF 2.5	29
Ret	2	Frank Matich Frank Matich Frank Matich, born 1935, was an Australian racing car driver. A highly successful motor racing competitor in the 1960s and 70s, Matich built his own range of Matich sports cars and open wheel cars, mainly to support his own career, but some cars found success with other drivers...	Team Total	Brabham BT7A / Climax FPF 2.5	27
Ret		Arnold Glass	Capitol Motors	Lotus 27 Lotus 27 Lotus 27 was a Formula Junior version of the Lotus 25 Formula One car for the 1963 Formula Junior season. All aluminum monocoque with steel bulkheads...  / Ford 1.5	26
Ret	3	Chris Amon Chris Amon Christopher Arthur Amon MBE is a former motor racing driver. He was active in Formula One - racing in the 1960s and 1970s - and is widely regarded to be one of the best F1 drivers never to win a championship Grand Prix...	Reg Parnell Racing	Lola Mk4 Lola Mk4 The Lola Mk4 and the derivative Mk4A were Formula One racing cars constructed by the Lola company in 1962. They were designed by Lola founder, owner and Chief Designer Eric Broadley at the request of Reg Parnell, proprietor of the Bowmaker Racing Team...  / Climax FPF 2.5	12
Ret	16	Jim Boyd	Jack Malcolm	Valour VP1 / Ford 1.1	11
DNS	9	Bill Thomasen	Corsair Racing Team	Cooper T51 Cooper T51 The Cooper T51 was a Formula One and Formula Two racing car designed and built by the Cooper Car Company for the 1959 Formula One season. The T51 earned a significant place in motor racing history when Jack Brabham drove the car to become the first driver to win the championship with a rear-engined...  / Climax FPF 2.0
DNQ	15	Ken Smith	M.J. Smith	Lola Mk.2 / Ford 1.5