Circuit · Watkins Glen, New York, United States of America
Watkins Glen
Hosted the United States GP for twenty consecutive years. Dropped after 1980 on safety and financial grounds.
- Championship races
- 20
- Seasons
- 1961–198020 seasons
- Length
- 5.435 kmcurrent layout
- Turns
- 11
- Direction
- clockwise
- Type
- permanent
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
Fast, sweeping and hilly, with a notoriously rough surface in later years
Most wins here
| Driver | Wins | Span |
|---|---|---|
| Graham Hill | 3 | 1963–1965 |
| Jim Clark | 3 | 1962–1967 |
| Carlos Reutemann | 2 | 1974–1978 |
| James Hunt | 2 | 1976–1977 |
| Sir Jackie Stewart | 2 | 1968–1972 |
| Alan Jones | 1 | 1980 |
| Emerson Fittipaldi | 1 | 1970 |
| Francois Cevert | 1 | 1971 |
| Gilles Villeneuve | 1 | 1979 |
| Innes Ireland | 1 | 1961 |
| Jochen Rindt | 1 | 1969 |
| Niki Lauda | 1 | 1975 |
| Ronnie Peterson | 1 | 1973 |
Constructors here
Where winners start here
All 20 races won here, counted together. No layout timeline is recorded for this circuit.
- Won from first on the grid
- 10 of 20 (50%), against 86 of 248 (35%) at every circuit, 1961–1980
- Won from the first two slots
- 14 of 20 (70%), against 141 of 248 (57%) at every circuit
- Lowest winning grid slot
- 8th — Innes Ireland, 1961
- Most wins by a driver
- Graham Hill and Jim Clark, 3 each
- Most wins by a team
- Team Lotus, 7
A dot is a race won from that slot; over eight, the box shows the count. Boxes stand two abreast, as grids do now. Coloured by winner: the entrant’s national racing colour, not the team’s. A hollow dot has no colour on record.
| Grid slot | Wins | Races won |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 10 | 1962 Jim Clark (Team Lotus); 1963 Graham Hill (BRM); 1965 Graham Hill (BRM); 1969 Jochen Rindt (Team Lotus); 1972 Sir Jackie Stewart (Tyrrell); 1973 Ronnie Peterson (Team Lotus); 1974 Carlos Reutemann (Brabham); 1975 Niki Lauda (Ferrari); 1976 James Hunt (McLaren); 1977 James Hunt (McLaren) |
| 2nd | 4 | 1966 Jim Clark (Team Lotus); 1967 Jim Clark (Team Lotus); 1968 Sir Jackie Stewart (Matra); 1978 Carlos Reutemann (Ferrari) |
| 3rd | 2 | 1970 Emerson Fittipaldi (Team Lotus); 1979 Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari) |
| 4th | 1 | 1964 Graham Hill (BRM) |
| 5th | 2 | 1971 Francois Cevert (Tyrrell); 1980 Alan Jones (Williams) |
| 8th | 1 | 1961 Innes Ireland (Team Lotus) |
Race by race
- 1960s
- 1961 United States Grand Prix Team Lotus 8th
- 1962 United States Grand Prix Team Lotus 1st
- 1963 United States Grand Prix BRM 1st
- 1964 United States Grand Prix BRM 4th
- 1965 United States Grand Prix BRM 1st
- 1966 United States Grand Prix Team Lotus 2nd
- 1967 United States Grand Prix Team Lotus 2nd
- 1968 United States Grand Prix Matra 2nd
- 1969 United States Grand Prix Team Lotus 1st
- 1970s
- 1970 United States Grand Prix Team Lotus 3rd
- 1971 United States Grand Prix Tyrrell 5th
- 1972 United States Grand Prix Tyrrell 1st
- 1973 United States Grand Prix Team Lotus 1st
- 1974 United States Grand Prix Brabham 1st
- 1975 United States Grand Prix Ferrari 1st
- 1976 United States Grand Prix McLaren 1st
- 1977 United States Grand Prix McLaren 1st
- 1978 United States Grand Prix Ferrari 2nd
- 1979 United States Grand Prix Ferrari 3rd
- 1980s
- 1980 United States Grand Prix Williams 5th
Every layout raced here 3
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists. Each one is fitted to its own box, so these are not to scale: a longer layout is not drawn larger, and none of them carries a direction, a position or a start line. The drawing that opens the page is the latest layout raced or on the calendar here, not the longest.
2 more layouts
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
Every race here 20
Held here as the United States Grand Prix (20 races).
The same on all 20 rows: Layout — not established.
Where this comes from
- Official name
- Watkins Glen International
- Location
- Watkins Glen, New York, United States of America
- Confidence
- high