1972 Argentina Grand Prix

 1972 Argentina Grand Prix

Racing data
1st of 12 races of the 1972 Automobile World Championship
Surname:	Gran Premio de Argentina
Date:	January 23, 1972
Place:	Buenos Aires
Course:	Autódromo Municipal Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Length:	317.775 km in 95 laps of 3.345 km
Weather:	sunny and hot
Spectator:	~ 70,000
Pole position
Driver:	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham
Time:	1: 12.46 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell
Time:	1: 13.66 min
Podium
First:	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell
Second:	Denis Hulme	McLaren
Third:	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari

The 1972 Argentina Grand Prix took place on January 23 at the Autódromo Municipal Ciudad de Buenos Aires and was the first race of the 1972 World Automobile Championship .

Reports

background

With Tyrrell and Ferrari , two of the best teams of the previous year started the new season with unchanged regular drivers.

At Lotus , where the new main sponsor John Player was now in the black and gold livery , Dave Walker was signed as the second regular driver alongside Emerson Fittipaldi , while Reine Wisell switched to BRM , where he did most of the races of the season alongside Howden Ganley and Peter Gethin as well as various other drivers should contest. The original plan there was to use up to six vehicles per race. BRM received financial support for this project from Marlboro and therefore ceded the former main sponsor Yardley to McLaren , where Peter Revson was now under contract alongside Denis Hulme .

Team Brabham was sold to Bernie Ecclestone by Ron Tauranac . Graham Hill was the team faithful and received the Formula 1 newcomer Carlos Reutemann as new teammates since Tim taverns at Surtees , was under contract to team founder John Surtees to replace that only occasionally wanted to participate in the races in person.

At March , Niki Lauda became the second regular driver alongside Ronnie Peterson . Matra permanently reduced his Formula 1 involvement to just one vehicle that was still driven by Chris Amon .

training

The new season started with a sensation when debutant Carlos Reutemann secured pole position in front of Jackie Stewart in his home race . The two McLaren qualified for the second row of the grid ahead of Fittipaldi in the Lotus 72 and Clay Regazzoni in the Ferrari 312B2 .

run

Chris Amon had a gearbox damage on the warm-up lap and was therefore unable to start.

Stewart accelerated the pole-setter Reutemann and thereby took over the lead, which he did not give up until the finish. Behind Reutemann, Fittipaldi had fought his way through to third with a good start past Revson and Hulme.

Within the following laps, Reutemann was first overtaken by Fittipaldi and shortly afterwards by Hulme. Then the order of the leaders remained constant over several laps until Fittipaldi had transmission problems from lap 35 and fell behind Hulme. A little later, Reutemann had to head for the pit to have new tires fitted.

Since both third-placed Fittipaldi and fourth-placed François Cevert were unable to finish the race, Jacky Ickx achieved a podium finish.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Motor Racing Developments	1	Graham Hill	Brabham BT33	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
	2	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham BT34
Marlboro BRM	3	Howden Ganley	BRM P160	BRM P142 3.0 V12	F.
	4th	Pure Wisell	BRM P153
	5	Peter Gethin	BRM P160
España Marlboro BRM	6th	Àlex Soler-Roig
Austria Marlboro BRM	7th	Helmut Marko	BRM P153
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	8th	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari 312B2	Ferrari 001/1 3.0 F12	F.
	9	Clay Regazzoni
	10	Mario Andretti
John Player Team Lotus	11	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus 72D	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	F.
	12	Dave Walker
STP March Racing Team	14th	Ronnie Peterson	March 721		G
	15th	Niki Lauda
Equipe Matra Sports	16	Chris Amon	Matra MS120C	Matra MS72 3.0 V12	G
Yardley Team McLaren	17th	Denis Hulme	McLaren M19A	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
	18th	Peter Revson
Brooke Bond Oxo Team Surtees	19th	Tim donation	Surtees TS9B		F.
Ceramica Pagnossin Team Surtees	20th	Andrea de Adamich
Eleven Team Tyrrell	21st	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell 003		G
	22nd	François Cevert	Tyrrell 002
Team Williams Motul	23	Henri Pescarolo	March 721		G

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham-Ford	1: 12.46	166.188 km / h	01
02	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 12.68	165.685 km / h	02
03	Peter Revson	McLaren-Ford	1: 12.74	165.549 km / h	03
04th	Denis Hulme	McLaren-Ford	1: 12.99	164.982 km / h	04th
05	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus Ford	1: 13.28	164.329 km / h	05
06th	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	1: 13.28	164.329 km / h	06th
07th	François Cevert	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 13.39	164.082 km / h	07th
08th	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	1: 13.50	163.837 km / h	08th
09	Mario Andretti	Ferrari	1: 13.61	163.592 km / h	09
10	Ronnie Peterson	March-Ford	1: 14.06	162.598 km / h	10
11	Tim donation	Surtees-Ford	1: 14.17	162.357 km / h	11
12	Chris Amon	Matra	1: 14.28	162.116 km / h	12
13	Howden Ganley	BRM	1: 14.28	162.116 km / h	13
14th	Andrea de Adamich	Surtees-Ford	1: 14.34	161.985 km / h	14th
15th	Henri Pescarolo	March-Ford	1: 14.49	161.659 km / h	15th
16	Graham Hill	Brabham-Ford	1: 14.52	161.594 km / h	16
17th	Pure Wisell	BRM	1: 14.52	161.594 km / h	17th
18th	Peter Gethin	BRM	1: 15.11	160.325 km / h	18th
19th	Helmut Marko	BRM	1: 15.53	159.433 km / h	19th
20th	Dave Walker	Lotus Ford	1: 15.55	159.391 km / h	20th
21st	Àlex Soler-Roig	BRM	1: 15.66	159.159 km / h	21st
22nd	Niki Lauda	March-Ford	1: 15.92	158.614 km / h	22nd

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell-Ford	95	0	1: 57: 58.82	02	1: 13.66
02	Denis Hulme	McLaren-Ford	95	0	+ 25.96	04th
03	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	95	0	+ 59.39	08th
04th	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	95	0	+1: 06.72	06th
05	Tim donation	Surtees-Ford	95	0	+1: 09.11	11
06th	Ronnie Peterson	March-Ford	94	0	+ 1 lap	10
07th	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham-Ford	93	1	+ 2 rounds	01
08th	Henri Pescarolo	March-Ford	93	0	+ 2 rounds	15th
09	Howden Ganley	BRM	93	0	+ 2 rounds	13
10	Helmut Marko	BRM	93	0	+ 2 rounds	19th
11	Niki Lauda	March-Ford	93	0	+ 2 rounds	22nd
-	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus Ford	61	0	DNF	05		Suspension damage
-	François Cevert	Tyrrell-Ford	59	0	DNF	07th		Gearbox damage
-	Pure Wisell	BRM	59	0	DNF	17th		Cooling water loss
-	Peter Revson	McLaren-Ford	49	0	DNF	03		Engine failure
-	Mario Andretti	Ferrari	20th	0	DNF	09		Engine failure
-	Andrea de Adamich	Surtees-Ford	11	0	DNF	14th		defective fuel supply
-	Graham Hill	Brabham-Ford	11	1	DNF	16		defective fuel pump
-	Dave Walker	Lotus Ford	08th	0	DSQ	20th		disqualified
-	Peter Gethin	BRM	01	0	DNF	18th		Oil loss
-	Àlex Soler-Roig	BRM	01	0	DNF	21st		accident
-	Chris Amon	Matra	-	0	DNS	12	-	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 9 02  Denis Hulme McLaren 6th 03  Jacky Ickx Ferrari 4th

Item driver constructor Points 04th  Clay Regazzoni Ferrari 3 05  Tim donation Surtees 2 06th  Ronnie Peterson March 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Tyrrell 9 02  McLaren 6th 03  Ferrari 4th

Item constructor Points 04th  Surtees 2 05  March 1

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Training" ( Memento from April 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on July 12, 2011)
2. ^ "Report" (accessed on July 12, 2011)
3. ^ "World Championship stands" ( Memento from April 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on July 12, 2011)

Web links

• Race result on the official Formula 1 website