Grand Prix of Austria 1971

 Grand Prix of Austria 1971

Racing data
8th of 11 races of the 1971 Automobile World Championship
Surname:	Grand Prix of Austria
Date:	15th August 1971
Place:	Spielberg
Course:	Österreichring
Length:	319.194 km in 54 laps of 5.911 km
Weather:	sunny and hot
Spectator:	~ 120,000
Pole position
Driver:	Jo Siffert	BRM
Time:	1: 37.44 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Jo Siffert	BRM
Time:	1: 38.47 min
Podium
First:	Jo Siffert	BRM
Second:	Emerson Fittipaldi	lotus
Third:	Tim donation	Brabham

The 1971 Austrian Grand Prix took place on August 15 at the Österreichring and was the eighth race of the 1971 Automobile World Championship .

Reports

background

As in the previous year, the original route variant of the Österreichring was used without a chicane at the end of the start / finish straight.

Peter Gethin left McLaren after the German Grand Prix to permanently replace Pedro Rodríguez at BRM for the rest of the season . The McLaren cockpit he freed up was awarded to Jackie Oliver for this and the coming race .

With Niki Lauda in a third factory March and Helmut Marko in a fourth BRM, two Austrians came to their first Grand Prix participation this weekend on the occasion of their home race. The premiere of Markos had actually been planned for the German GP two weeks earlier, but failed because of its non-qualification in a private McLaren M7C .

training

On the grid, Jackie Stewart was only surpassed by Jo Siffert , who secured pole position with a lead of around two tenths of a second. Stewart's team-mate François Cevert came in third, demonstrating his steady upward trend during the current season.

run

Race course

Siffert took the lead right from the start and successfully defended himself against attacks by Stewart, who in turn was pursued by Regazzoni , Cevert, Ickx and Schenken . Regazzoni had to retire due to technical problems, so that Cevert moved up to third.

While Siffert increasingly separated from his pursuers at the front, Cevert was able to catch up with Stewart, who was struggling with handling problems on his car. Because of this, he let his teammate pass on lap 23 before finally having to give up completely on lap 36. When Ickx also retired four laps later and Ronnie Peterson , who would then have been the only one who would have had a purely mathematical chance of winning the world title, was in a hopeless position, Stewart was confirmed early as the 1971 world champion despite his retirement and three remaining races.

Cevert had to retire on lap 43 with engine failure, so that Emerson Fittipaldi , who had recently overtaken Schenken, took second place .

Siffert's lead was so great towards the end of the race that even a problem with a tire shortly before the end could no longer prevent him from winning. Because of this handicap, however, Fittipaldi managed to catch up to just under four seconds.

It was Siffert's second and last Grand Prix win and at the same time his first hat trick .

Tim Schenken and Graham Hill achieved the only podium finish and the best team result for Brabham this year, finishing third and fifth .

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Gold Leaf Team Lotus	2	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus 72D	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	F.
	3	Pure Wisell
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	4th	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari 312B2	Ferrari 001/1 3.0 F12	F.
	5	Clay Regazzoni
Motor Racing Developments	7th	Graham Hill	Brabham BT34	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
	8th	Tim donation	Brabham BT33
Bruce McLaren Motor Racing	9	Denis Hulme	McLaren M19A		G
	10	Jackie Oliver
Team Tyrrell	11	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell 003		G
	11T		Tyrrell 001 1
	12	François Cevert	Tyrrell 002
Yardley Team BRM	14th	Jo Siffert	BRM P160	BRM P142 3.0 V12	F.
	15th	Howden Ganley
	23	Peter Gethin
	16	Helmut Marko	BRM P153
STP March Racing Team	17th	Ronnie Peterson	March 711	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	F.
	26th	Niki Lauda
	19th	Nanni Galli		Alfa Romeo T33 3.0 V8
Rob Walker / Team Surtees	22nd	John Surtees	Surtees TS9	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	F.
Auto Motor and Sport	24	Rolf Stommelen
Frank Williams Racing Cars	25th	Henri Pescarolo	March 711		G
Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie Racing	27	Mike Beuttler			F.
Ecurie Bonnier	28	Joakim Bonnier	McLaren M7C		G

¹ The Tyrrell 001 marked with a "T" behind the start number was available to Jackie Stewart as a T-Car , but was never used.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Jo Siffert	BRM	1: 37.44	218.387 km / h	01
02	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 37.65	217.917 km / h	02
03	François Cevert	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 37.86	217.449 km / h	03
04th	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	1: 37.90	217.361 km / h	04th
05	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus Ford	1: 37.90	217.361 km / h	05
06th	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	1: 38.27	216.542 km / h	06th
07th	Tim donation	Brabham-Ford	1: 38.64	215.730 km / h	07th
08th	Graham Hill	Brabham-Ford	1: 38.70	215.599 km / h	08th
09	Denis Hulme	McLaren-Ford	1: 38.88	215.206 km / h	09
10	Pure Wisell	Lotus Ford	1: 38.95	215.054 km / h	10
11	Ronnie Peterson	March-Ford	1: 39.01	214.924 km / h	11
12	Rolf Stommelen	Surtees-Ford	1: 39.08	214.772 km / h	12
13	Henri Pescarolo	March-Ford	1: 39.09	214.750 km / h	13
14th	Howden Ganley	BRM	1: 39.46	213.951 km / h	14th
15th	Nanni Galli	March-Alfa Romeo	1: 39.54	213.779 km / h	15th
16	Peter Gethin	BRM	1: 39.67	213.501 km / h	16
17th	Helmut Marko	BRM	1: 39.80	213.222 km / h	17th
18th	John Surtees	Surtees-Ford	1: 40.37	212.012 km / h	18th
19th	Mike Beuttler	March-Ford	1: 41.46	209.734 km / h	19th
20th	Joakim Bonnier	McLaren-Ford	1: 41.66	209.321 km / h	20th
21st	Niki Lauda	March-Ford	1: 43.68	205.243 km / h	21st
22nd	Jackie Oliver	McLaren-Ford	1: 44.22	204.180 km / h	22nd

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Jo Siffert	BRM	54	0	1: 30: 23.91	01	1: 38.47
02	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus Ford	54	0	+ 4.12	05	1: 39.49
03	Tim donation	Brabham-Ford	54	0	+ 19.77	07th	1: 39.73
04th	Pure Wisell	Lotus Ford	54	0	+ 31.87	10	1: 39.93
05	Graham Hill	Brabham-Ford	54	0	+ 48.43	08th	1: 40.30
06th	Henri Pescarolo	March-Ford	54	0	+1: 24.51	13	1: 40.34
07th	Rolf Stommelen	Surtees-Ford	54	0	+1: 37.42	12	1: 40.59
08th	Ronnie Peterson	March-Ford	53	0	+ 1 lap	11	1: 40.58
09	Jackie Oliver	McLaren-Ford	53	0	+ 1 lap	22nd	1: 41.69
10	Peter Gethin	BRM	52	0	+ 2 rounds	16	1: 41.78
11	Helmut Marko	BRM	52	0	+ 2 rounds	17th	1: 41.93
12	Nanni Galli	March-Alfa Romeo	51	0	+ 3 rounds	15th	1: 41.23	Gearbox damage
-	Mike Beuttler	March-Ford	47	0	NC	19th	1: 42.10	Unrated
-	François Cevert	Tyrrell-Ford	42	0	DNF	03	1: 39.22	Engine failure
-	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell-Ford	35	0	DNF	02	1: 39.62	Suspension damage
-	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	31	0	DNF	06th	1: 41.31	Engine failure
-	Niki Lauda	March-Ford	20th	0	DNF	21st	1: 45.86	defective steering
-	John Surtees	Surtees-Ford	12	0	DNF	18th	1: 39.75	Engine failure
-	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	08th	0	DNF	04th	1: 40.67	Engine failure
-	Howden Ganley	BRM	05	0	DNF	14th	1: 56.88	defective ignition
-	Denis Hulme	McLaren-Ford	04th	0	DNF	09	1: 40.39	Engine failure
-	Joakim Bonnier	McLaren-Ford	-	0	DNS	20th	-	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

Item driver constructor Points 01  Jackie Stewart Tyrrell 51 02  Jacky Ickx Ferrari 19th 03  Ronnie Peterson March 17th 04th  Emerson Fittipaldi lotus 16 05  Jo Siffert BRM 13 06th  François Cevert Tyrrell 12 07th  Clay Regazzoni Ferrari 12 08th  Mario Andretti Ferrari 12 09  Pedro Rodríguez BRM 9

Item driver constructor Points 10  Chris Amon Matra 8th 11  Pure Wisell lotus 7th 12  Denis Hulme McLaren 6th 13  Tim donation Brabham 5 14th  Henri Pescarolo March 4th 15th  Rolf Stommelen Surtees 3 16  John Surtees Surtees 3 17th  Graham Hill Brabham 2 18th  Jean-Pierre Beltoise Matra 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Tyrrell 51 02  Ferrari 32 03  BRM 21st 04th  lotus 19th 05  March 18th

Item constructor Points 06th  Matra 8th 07th  McLaren 6th 08th  Surtees 5 09  Brabham 5

Web links

• Race result on the official Formula 1 website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Training" ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on June 29, 2011)  
2. ^ "Report" (accessed June 29, 2011)
3. ↑ "World Cup stands" ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on June 29, 2011)