The inquest
Ferrari number 2 driver rams main team opponent out of contention. Ferrari number 2 driver lets team leader through to collect enough points to beat the opponent to the championship.
If that scenario had occured over the last few years most people would have had no doubt that it would have been a cunning and evil plan. Things were different in 1964 and I have found no indication in that the events of the race were considered "foul play". BRM and Hill just shrugged their shoulders and said try again next year. Sadly for the team there would not be another World Championship year.
Director of the BRM team Louis T Stanley from Behind the Scenes :-
After the race accusations were slung around. Some said that Bandini had deliberately crashed the BRM as part of Ferrari tactics. I was reluctant to agree. By temperament Bandini was fiery and impulsive, a fearless driver but never guilty of doubtful tactics. To win a driver has to be on the razor-edge that separates success from disaster. Before we left the circuit Dragoni, Ferrari team manager, Forghueri chief engineer, and Bandini came to the pit and apologised. Bandini was in tears. Everyone shook hands. As far as BRM was concerned, the incident was closed
BRM Chief Designer Tony Rudd from Tony Rudd:It Was Fun! :-
By quarter distance Clark was leading comfortably, Graham was third, Bandini fourth and Surtees sixth, which was fine for the Championship, but on lap 31 Bandini ran into the back of Grahams car going into the long curve at the back of the pits and pushed him off. Brabham, in fifth place, who saw it all, said overtaking at this part of the circuit was totally out of the question. Jacks comments were confirmed by the experienced Bernard Cahier and also the TV films. Graham limped into the pits, with the rather vulnerable exhaust tail pipes bent down around the gearbox. Willy levered them up with a jack handle. The other damage seemed to be cosmetic, so we sent him out again in 13th place. It looked as if the Championship had gone to Clark who was pulling away from Gurney and Bandini, with Surtees now fourth. Graham worked up to 10th but the incident had damaged the throttle-cross shaft, which eventually broke and that put him out of the race and the Championship. It looked as if Clark and Lotus were 1964 World Champions. Graham and I agreed that it was no good lodging a protest, it would not change anything and it was not the way we liked to go racing
Mauro Forghieri, Ferraris Chief Engineer came to commiserate and apologize. We were absolutely besieged by the Press. I said I did not think Bandini did it on purpose, he was just a bit stupid. All I wanted to do was to forget about it and prepare for 1965. Nearly all the journalists pointed to his tactics against Richie (Ginther, Hills BRM team-mate) at Monza, which could have caused a major crash. On my way up to my room in the hotel, who should I share the elevator with but Bandini, who was very apologetic and said we had been good to him when he drove the Centro Sud BRM; the last thing he wanted to do was to deprive us of the Championship. There were numerous phone calls to and from England; including Sir Alfred, and Mr and Mrs Stanley, who were unable to come to Mexico. They all agreed it was best to forget it, even though according to the regulations we had until 9 p.m. to lodge a protest but, as I said, what difference will it make? At the Prize Giving the mechanics plied me with whisky as its effect of making me quarrelsome was well-known!
Graham Hill from his book Graham
.. But I lost the whole World Championship in 1964, one of the years when I was runner-up, through another driver making a mistake and running into me during the final Championship race in Mexico. You could say it was bad luck but I suppose you could say I shouldnt have been there at that particular spot at that precise moment. However, I was there and he was trying to overtake me in a hairpin. Hed had a couple of goes at it, but the last time he just overcooked it went out of control and thumped me. It bent my exhaust pipes up and I had to come into the pits. I lost so much time that I finished well down in the race - which was won by Surtees with a one point lead.
That was that. It had happened and nothing I could do or say would alter it. Thats the way I tend to see things when they have gone wrong. Theres no point in worrying about it, or all the other things that happened time and time again to rob me of winning races. I dont look back and, this way, I have few regrets. Hopefully, I learn from these setbacks but I apply them forwards. Basically, if you look forward things tend to get better. Because we all live in hope and if theres no hope theres no life and no point in living.
, he thinks Anghammarad's (another Alonso and/or Ferrari fan) posts saying "Alonso will win this comfortably" are in fact jinxing Alonso's chances
I'm not so superstitious really...although I definitely try to refrain from getting my hopes up too much nowadays. 
Even If he had KERS on at the start, it wouldnt have made much difference, he had a lot of wheel spin. Oh well, I guess he has a trigger happy right foot.
) if a similar thing happened today.
