1973 Argentina Grand Prix

 1973 Argentina Grand Prix

Racing data
1st of 15 races of the 1973 Automobile World Championship
Surname:	IX Gran Premio de la Republica Argentina
Date:	January 28, 1973
Place:	Buenos Aires
Course:	Autódromo Municipal Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Length:	321.12 km in 96 laps of 3.345 km
Weather:	sunny and warm
Spectator:	~ 80,000
Pole position
Driver:	Clay Regazzoni	BRM
Time:	1: 10.54 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Emerson Fittipaldi	lotus
Time:	1: 11.22 min
Podium
First:	Emerson Fittipaldi	lotus
Second:	François Cevert	Tyrrell
Third:	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell

The 1973 Argentine Grand Prix took place on January 28th at the Autódromo Municipal Ciudad de Buenos Aires and was the first race of the 1973 Automobile World Championship .

Reports

background

As in the previous year , the Argentine Grand Prix was held in January. Due to political disagreements, the race was initially canceled, but then announced again at short notice. The field of participants was correspondingly small. Most of the teams competed with two cars.

With regard to the driver line-up, there have been some changes compared to the 1972 season . Probably the most remarkable news was the signing of Ronnie Peterson as a regular driver at Lotus alongside the reigning world champion Emerson Fittipaldi . Peterson's place at March was taken by Jean-Pierre Jarier . It was decided to contest the entire season with only one trailer, after the second factory driver last year, Niki Lauda to BRM was changed, where he teammate of of Ferrari coming Clay Regazzoni and the already established regular driver Jean-Pierre Beltoise was .

Mike Beuttler also started in a privately deployed March. The teams Tyrrell and McLaren retained the regular line-ups from the previous year.

After two guest appearances in the previous year , Arturo Merzario was signed up as a regular driver alongside Jacky Ickx to replace Regazzoni at Ferrari . There was no third works driver this year. Brabham boss Bernie Ecclestone also initially rejuvenated his team from three to two regular drivers, with Graham Hill losing out.

Howden Ganley became a regular driver at Frank Williams Racing Cars , where a new attempt was made to develop from a customer to a works team with their own cars. For this purpose, with the support of the Italian company Iso Rivolta and the cigarette brand Marlboro, two Formula 1 vehicles were developed and manufactured. Frank Williams occupied the second car with Nanni Galli for a few races . His place at Tecno was taken by Chris Amon , who had to look for a new cockpit after Matra's withdrawal . However, the team did not compete in the first races of the year.

training

Clay Regazzoni secured pole position with his fastest lap time during the fourth training session and then shared the front row with Emerson Fittipaldi. Jacky Ickx, Jackie Stewart , Ronnie Peterson and François Cevert qualified behind them .

run

Cevert, Fittipaldi and Regazzoni reached the first corner at the same time after the start. The Frenchman, who started from sixth place, was able to prevail and take the lead, but had to hand it over to Regazzoni in the second corner.

This order remained constant until lap 29. Then Cevert managed to take the lead again as Regazzoni struggled with worn tires. Meanwhile, Stewart had worked his way up and was able to take second place from Regazzoni on lap 32. Fittipaldi and Peterson were also able to overtake Regazzoni and keep the pace of the leading group.

Until round 68, the order of the first four did not change. Then, however, Peterson had to give up because of an engine problem. Shortly afterwards, Stewart had tire problems and had to give Fittipaldi second place on lap 76. This then caught up with the leading Cevert and was finally able to overtake him on lap 86 after an exciting duel.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
John Player Team Lotus	2	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus 72D	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
	4th	Ronnie Peterson
Eleven Team Tyrrell	6th	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell 005		G
	8th	François Cevert	Tyrrell 006
Motor Racing Developments	10	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham BT37		G
	12	Wilson Fittipaldi
Yardley Team McLaren	14th	Denis Hulme	McLaren M19C		G
	16	Peter Revson
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	18th	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari 312B2	Ferrari 001/1 3.0 F12	G
	20th	Arturo Merzario
Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie Racing	22nd	Mike Beuttler	March 721G	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
STP March Racing Team	24	Jean-Pierre Jarier			G
Brooke Bond Oxo Team Surtees	26th	Mike Hailwood	Surtees TS14A		F.
	28	Carlos Pace
Marlboro BRM	30th	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM P160D	BRM P142 3.0 V12	F.
	32	Clay Regazzoni
	34	Niki Lauda	BRM P160C
Frank Williams Racing Cars	36	Nanni Galli	Iso-Marlboro FX3B	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	F.
	38	Howden Ganley

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Clay Regazzoni	BRM	1: 10.54	170.712 km / h	01
02	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus Ford	1: 10.84	169.989 km / h	02
03	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	1: 11.01	169.582 km / h	03
04th	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 11.03	169.534 km / h	04th
05	Ronnie Peterson	Lotus Ford	1: 11.06	169.462 km / h	05
06th	François Cevert	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 11.46	168.514 km / h	06th
07th	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	1: 11.48	168.467 km / h	07th
08th	Denis Hulme	McLaren-Ford	1: 11.70	167.950 km / h	08th
09	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham-Ford	1: 12.08	167.064 km / h	09
10	Mike Hailwood	Surtees-Ford	1: 12.13	166.949 km / h	10
11	Peter Revson	McLaren-Ford	1: 12.22	166.741 km / h	11
12	Wilson Fittipaldi	Brabham-Ford	1: 12.33	166.487 km / h	12
13	Niki Lauda	BRM	1: 12.39	166.349 km / h	13
14th	Arturo Merzario	Ferrari	1: 12.54	166.005 km / h	14th
15th	Carlos Pace	Surtees-Ford	1: 12.80	165.412 km / h	15th
16	Nanni Galli	Iso-Ford	1: 13.97	162.796 km / h	16
17th	Jean-Pierre Jarier	March-Ford	1: 14.27	162.138 km / h	17th
18th	Mike Beuttler	March-Ford	1: 15.15	160.240 km / h	18th
19th	Howden Ganley	Iso-Ford	1: 15.29	159.942 km / h	19th

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus Ford	96	0	1: 56: 18.22	02	1: 11.22
02	François Cevert	Tyrrell-Ford	96	0	+ 4.69	06th	1: 11.07
03	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell-Ford	96	0	+ 33.19	04th	1: 11.94
04th	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	96	0	+ 42.57	03	1: 11.90
05	Denis Hulme	McLaren-Ford	95	0	+ 1 lap	08th	1: 12.54
06th	Wilson Fittipaldi	Brabham-Ford	95	0	+ 1 lap	12	1: 13.08
07th	Clay Regazzoni	BRM	93	1	+ 3 rounds	01	1: 11.46
08th	Peter Revson	McLaren-Ford	92	1	+ 4 rounds	11	1: 12.37
09	Arturo Merzario	Ferrari	92	0	+ 4 rounds	14th	1: 13.88
10	Mike Beuttler	March-Ford	90	0	DNF	18th	1: 15.18	Suspension damage
-	Jean-Pierre Jarier	March-Ford	84	0	DNF	17th	1: 14.25	Gearbox damage
-	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	79	0	DNF	07th	1: 12.09	Engine failure
-	Howden Ganley	Iso-Ford	79	0	NC	19th	1: 15.15	Unrated
-	Ronnie Peterson	Lotus Ford	67	0	DNF	05	1: 12.07	Oil pressure loss
-	Niki Lauda	BRM	66	0	DNF	13	1: 13.07	Oil pressure loss
-	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham-Ford	16	0	DNF	09	1: 12.98	Gearbox damage
-	Mike Hailwood	Surtees-Ford	10	0	DNF	10	1: 13.75	Suspension damage
-	Carlos Pace	Surtees-Ford	10	0	DNF	15th	1: 13.57	Suspension damage
-	Nanni Galli	Iso-Ford	00	0	DNF	16	-	Engine failure

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  Emerson Fittipaldi lotus 9 02  François Cevert Tyrrell 6th 03  Jackie Stewart Tyrrell 4th

Item driver constructor Points 04th  Jacky Ickx Ferrari 3 05  Denis Hulme McLaren 2 06th  Wilson Fittipaldi Brabham 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  lotus 9 02  Tyrrell 6th 03  Ferrari 3

Item constructor Points 04th  McLaren 2 05  Brabham 1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Innovations" (accessed on July 23, 2011)
2. ↑ "Training"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on July 23, 2011)  
3. ^ "Report" (accessed on July 23, 2011)
4. ↑ "World Cup stands" ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2011 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 July 23, 2011)  

Web links

• Race result on the official Formula 1 website