| abstract | - The Scot, whom had a new team mate at Team Lotus in the form of Peter Arundell, arrived in Monaco intending to continue his dominant form from 1963. And so he did, with Clark claiming pole for the opening race, sharing the front row with Jack Brabham while John Surtees and Graham Hill shared the second row. The all conquering Scot immediately roared off the line to lead the race from the start, as Brabham battled for second. Yet, the Lotus 25 was not in a healthy state, trailing an anti-roll bar which had come lose shortly after the start, prompting the race officials to discuss the possibility of black flagging the Scot. Colin Chapman called in his lead driver before they could do so, with the semi-enforced stop forcing Clark down the order, with Dan Gurney and Hill inheriting the lead. Yet the repair was swift to leave Clark in third, with Gurney and Hill about to enter a duel for the lead. The New Yorker had jumped up the order at the start to inherit Clark's lead, but a fuel leak just after half distance saw the Brabham-Climax slip back towards Hill. The battle was fierce but short, the Englishman soon able to dispose of the hindered Gurney before disappearing up the road. Gurney was out soon after with an unrelated gearbox failure, while Clark never got the chance to take Hill, the Scot suffering an engine failure a few laps from the end. Hill duly won the Monaco Grand Prix for the second year in succession, while Richie Ginther completed a BRM one-two, ahead of debutante Arundell.
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