1971 Italian Grand Prix
Racing data | ||
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9th of 11 races of the 1971 Automobile World Championship | ||
Surname: | Gran Premio d'Italia | |
Date: | 5th September 1971 | |
Place: | Monza | |
Course: | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | |
Length: | 316.25 km in 55 laps of 5.75 km
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Weather: | sunny and warm | |
Spectator: | ~ 120,000 | |
Pole position | ||
Driver: | Chris Amon | Matra |
Time: | 1: 22.40 min | |
Fastest lap | ||
Driver: | Henri Pescarolo | March |
Time: | 1: 23.8 min | |
Podium | ||
First: | Peter Gethin | BRM |
Second: | Ronnie Peterson | March |
Third: | François Cevert | Tyrrell |
The 1971 Italian Grand Prix took place in Monza on September 5th and was the ninth race of the 1971 World Automobile Championship . In a readers' poll of the motorsport magazine Motorsport aktuell in December 2010, the Grand Prix was ranked third among the best Formula 1 races of all time .
Reports
background
A year after Jochen Rindt's fatal accident , the official Lotus team did not travel to Monza because they feared conflicts with the Italian judiciary. Instead, a Lotus 56 under the team name World Wide Racing was reported for the regular driver Emerson Fittipaldi . Due to other commitments of the regular driver Denis Hulme , McLaren only registered one car for Jackie Oliver as an exception , as did Matra , where only Chris Amon competed due to the continued ban against Jean-Pierre Beltoise .
In contrast to these teams, Surtees reported a third car for Mike Hailwood , who thus completed a Grand Prix for the first time after six years of abstinence. A few days earlier, team founder John Surtees had won a Formula 1 race at Oulton Park that was not part of the world championship .
For the last time, the Monza racetrack was driven in its hitherto familiar layout without any chicanes, which in previous years had led to slipstream duels and exciting races with tight results.
training
Since engine power was of decisive importance on the high-speed track, the drivers with V12 engines took the first places on the grid: Matra driver Chris Amon on pole position , followed by similarly motorized drivers Jacky Ickx , Jo Siffert and Howden Ganley . The best driver with a V8 engine was François Cevert in fifth on the grid.
run
The race began with a clear jump start by Clay Regazzoni , who accelerated from the fourth row and took the lead. The rule violation, despite its obviousness, was not punished. A chase group formed behind Regazzoni, the leadership of which changed constantly due to the slipstream situation. On the third lap, Ronnie Peterson was the first to overtake Regazzoni, before he was pushed out of the lead by Jackie Stewart four laps later . Thanks to the slipstream, Regazzoni managed to take the lead again on lap nine, before Peterson overtook him again on the following lap.
After both Ferrari and Jackie Stewart had both retired with technical problems in laps 15 to 17, a group of initially seven drivers remained in the lead. Among them were Siffert and Ganley, who, however, fell back briefly due to overheated engines. Meanwhile, Amon and Hailwood managed to join the top flight. Ganley also found the connection again a little later. Siffert also managed to catch up with the leaders again before transmission problems finally threw him back.
Shortly before the end of the race, Amon also lost touch with the leading group. When he was about to remove the tinted sun film from his helmet visor, he accidentally tore the entire visor off. Since his eyes were exposed to the wind, he could not keep the pace of the leaders.
Even in the last lap the lead changed several times. Cevert took the lead in the fourth from the last corner, Peterson attacked before the last corner, the Parabolica . From this corner Peter Gethin accelerated best and was just in front on the home straight. The quintet crossed the finish line widely. With a gap of 0.61 seconds between the winner and the fifth placed, the result is the closest finish in Formula 1 history. There was only 0.18 seconds between the first and the fourth. Amon finished sixth, around 32 seconds behind, and received the last championship point of the day. None of the six point winners had ever won a Grand Prix by then.
Henri Pescarolo achieved the fastest race lap in his customer march, which was used by Frank Williams . He drove an average speed of 247.016 km / h. Since chicanes were integrated into the track from the following year and no other track on the Formula 1 calendar allowed similar speeds, this record remained valid until 1993 . Only then could it be broken by Damon Hill .
Peter Gethin achieved his first and only Grand Prix victory, although he had only completed a total of three laps as the leader. The lead had changed between eight drivers a total of 25 times during the course of the race.
Registration list
1 Jacky Ickx switched from the Ferrari 312B2 to the 312B during practice and also took part in the race with it.
2 The BRM P160 with the starting number 20T was available to Helmut Marko as a T-Car , but was never used.
Classifications
Starting grid
Item | driver | constructor | time | Ø speed | begin |
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1 | Chris Amon | Matra | 1: 22.40 | 251.214 km / h | 1 |
2 | Jacky Ickx | Ferrari | 1: 22.82 | 249.940 km / h | 2 |
3 | Jo Siffert | BRM | 1: 23.03 | 249.307 km / h | 3 |
4th | Howden Ganley | BRM | 1: 23.15 | 248.948 km / h | 4th |
5 | François Cevert | Tyrrell-Ford | 1: 23.41 | 248.172 km / h | 5 |
6th | Ronnie Peterson | March-Ford | 1: 23.46 | 248.023 km / h | 6th |
7th | Jackie Stewart | Tyrrell-Ford | 1: 23.49 | 247.934 km / h | 7th |
8th | Clay Regazzoni | Ferrari | 1: 23.69 | 247.341 km / h | 8th |
9 | Tim donation | Brabham-Ford | 1: 23.73 | 247.223 km / h | 9 |
10 | Henri Pescarolo | March-Ford | 1: 23.77 | 247.105 km / h | 10 |
11 | Peter Gethin | BRM | 1: 23.88 | 246.781 km / h | 11 |
12 | Helmut Marko | BRM | 1: 23.96 | 246.546 km / h | 12 |
13 | Jackie Oliver | McLaren-Ford | 1: 24.09 | 246.165 km / h | 13 |
14th | Graham Hill | Brabham-Ford | 1: 24.27 | 245.639 km / h | 14th |
15th | John Surtees | Surtees-Ford | 1: 24.45 | 245.115 km / h | 15th |
16 | Mike Beuttler | March-Ford | 1: 25.01 | 243.501 km / h | 16 |
17th | Mike Hailwood | Surtees-Ford | 1: 25.17 | 243.043 km / h | 17th |
18th | Emerson Fittipaldi | Lotus-Pratt & Whitney | 1: 25.18 | 243.015 km / h | 18th |
19th | Nanni Galli | March-Ford | 1: 25.19 | 242.986 km / h | 19th |
20th | Andrea de Adamich | March-Alfa Romeo | 1: 25.78 | 241.315 km / h | 20th |
21st | Joakim Bonnier | McLaren-Ford | 1: 26.14 | 240.306 km / h | 21st |
22nd | Silvio Moser | Bellasi-Ford | 1: 26.54 | 239.196 km / h | 22nd |
23 | Rolf Stommelen | Surtees-Ford | 1: 27.92 | 235.441 km / h | 23 |
24 | Jean-Pierre Jarier | March-Ford | 1: 28.19 | 234.720 km / h | 24 |
run
Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap | Failure reason |
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1 | Peter Gethin | BRM | 55 | 0 | 1: 18: 12.60 | 11 | 1: 24.1 | |
2 | Ronnie Peterson | March-Ford | 55 | 0 | + 0.01 | 6th | 1: 24.1 | |
3 | François Cevert | Tyrrell-Ford | 55 | 0 | + 0.09 | 5 | 1: 24.3 | |
4th | Mike Hailwood | Surtees-Ford | 55 | 0 | + 0.18 | 17th | 1: 24.1 | |
5 | Howden Ganley | BRM | 55 | 0 | + 0.61 | 4th | 1: 24.0 | |
6th | Chris Amon | Matra | 55 | 0 | + 32.26 | 1 | 1: 24.2 | |
7th | Jackie Oliver | McLaren-Ford | 55 | 0 | +1: 24.83 | 13 | 1: 24.1 | |
8th | Emerson Fittipaldi | Lotus-Pratt & Whitney | 54 | 0 | + 1 lap | 18th | 1: 25.9 | |
9 | Jo Siffert | BRM | 53 | 0 | + 2 rounds | 3 | 1: 24.2 | |
10 | Joakim Bonnier | McLaren-Ford | 51 | 0 | + 4 rounds | 21st | 1: 28.3 | |
- | Graham Hill | Brabham-Ford | 47 | 0 | DNF | 14th | 1: 25.2 | Gearbox damage |
- | Jean-Pierre Jarier | March-Ford | 47 | 1 | NC | 24 | 1: 30.6 | Unrated |
- | Mike Beuttler | March-Ford | 41 | 0 | DNF | 16 | 1: 25.4 | Engine failure |
- | Henri Pescarolo | March-Ford | 40 | 0 | DNF | 10 | 1: 23.8 | Suspension damage |
- | Andrea de Adamich | March-Alfa Romeo | 33 | 0 | DNF | 20th | 1: 29.8 | Engine failure |
- | Clay Regazzoni | Ferrari | 17th | 0 | DNF | 8th | 1: 24.9 | Engine failure |
- | Jacky Ickx | Ferrari | 15th | 0 | DNF | 2 | 1: 24.8 | Engine failure |
- | Jackie Stewart | Tyrrell-Ford | 15th | 0 | DNF | 7th | 1: 24.8 | Engine failure |
- | Nanni Galli | March-Ford | 11 | 0 | DNF | 19th | 1: 24.2 | Electrical damage |
- | Tim donation | Brabham-Ford | 5 | 0 | DNF | 9 | 1: 24.3 | Suspension damage |
- | Silvio Moser | Bellasi-Ford | 5 | 0 | DNF | 22nd | 1: 28.8 | Suspension damage |
- | Helmut Marko | BRM | 3 | 0 | DNF | 12 | 1: 26.4 | Engine failure |
- | John Surtees | Surtees-Ford | 3 | 0 | DNF | 15th | 1: 25.7 | Engine failure |
- | Rolf Stommelen | Surtees-Ford | - | 0 | DNS | 23 | - | not started |
World Cup stands after the race
The first six of the race got 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.
Driver ranking
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Constructors' championship
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Readers' choice: Best F1 race of all time: GP France 1979. Motorsport-aktuell.com, December 23, 2010, accessed on November 27, 2012 .
- ↑ "Training" ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on June 29, 2011)
- ^ "Report" (accessed June 29, 2011)
- ↑ Fight at the limit. The Formula 1 Chronicle 1950–2000 , ed. v. Willy Knupp, RTL book edition: Zeitgeist Verlag: Düsseldorf / Gütersloh 2000, ISBN 3-89748-277-0 , pp. 159-160
- ↑ 60 years of Formula 1 , Michael Schmidt, Motorbuch Verlag: Stuttgart, ISBN 978-3-613-03127-2 , pp. 82–85
- ↑ "World Cup stands" ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on June 29, 2011)