1971 Italian Grand Prix

 1971 Italian Grand Prix

Racing data
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
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

Race course

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

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Team Tyrrell	2	François Cevert	Tyrrell 002	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
	30th	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell 003
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	3	Jacky Ickx 1	Ferrari 312B	Ferrari 001 3.0 F12	F.
			Ferrari 312B2	Ferrari 001/1 3.0 F12
	4th	Clay Regazzoni		Ferrari 001/1 3.0 F12
World Wide Racing	5	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus 56B	Pratt & Whitney STN76 tbn	F.
Rob Walker / Team Surtees	7th	John Surtees	Surtees TS9	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	F.
Auto Motor and Sport	8th	Rolf Stommelen
Team Surtees	9	Mike Hailwood
Motor Racing Developments	10	Graham Hill	Brabham BT34		G
	11	Tim donation	Brabham BT33
Equipe Matra Sports	12	Chris Amon	Matra MS120B	Matra MS71 3.0 V12	G
Bruce McLaren Motor Racing	14th	Jackie Oliver	McLaren M14A	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
Frank Williams Racing Cars	16	Henri Pescarolo	March 711		G
Yardley Team BRM	18th	Peter Gethin	BRM P160	BRM P142 3.0 V12	F.
	19th	Howden Ganley
	20th	Jo Siffert
	20T	Helmut Marko 2
	21st		BRM P153
STP March Racing Team	23	Andrea de Adamich	March 711	Alfa Romeo T33 3.0 V8	F.
	22nd	Nanni Galli		Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8
	25th	Ronnie Peterson
Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie Racing	24	Mike Beuttler			F.
Shell Arnold team	26th	Jean-Pierre Jarier			F.
Jolly Club Switzerland	27	Silvio Moser	Bellasi F1 70		G
Ecurie Bonnier	28	Joakim Bonnier	McLaren M7C		G

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
01	Chris Amon	Matra	1: 22.40	251.214 km / h	01
02	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	1: 22.82	249.940 km / h	02
03	Jo Siffert	BRM	1: 23.03	249.307 km / h	03
04th	Howden Ganley	BRM	1: 23.15	248.948 km / h	04th
05	François Cevert	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 23.41	248.172 km / h	05
06th	Ronnie Peterson	March-Ford	1: 23.46	248.023 km / h	06th
07th	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 23.49	247.934 km / h	07th
08th	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	1: 23.69	247.341 km / h	08th
09	Tim donation	Brabham-Ford	1: 23.73	247.223 km / h	09
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
01	Peter Gethin	BRM	55	0	1: 18: 12.60	11	1: 24.1
02	Ronnie Peterson	March-Ford	55	0	+ 0.01	06th	1: 24.1
03	François Cevert	Tyrrell-Ford	55	0	+ 0.09	05	1: 24.3
04th	Mike Hailwood	Surtees-Ford	55	0	+ 0.18	17th	1: 24.1
05	Howden Ganley	BRM	55	0	+ 0.61	04th	1: 24.0
06th	Chris Amon	Matra	55	0	+ 32.26	01	1: 24.2
07th	Jackie Oliver	McLaren-Ford	55	0	+1: 24.83	13	1: 24.1
08th	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus-Pratt & Whitney	54	0	+ 1 lap	18th	1: 25.9
09	Jo Siffert	BRM	53	0	+ 2 rounds	03	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	08th	1: 24.9	Engine failure
-	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	15th	0	DNF	02	1: 24.8	Engine failure
-	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell-Ford	15th	0	DNF	07th	1: 24.8	Engine failure
-	Nanni Galli	March-Ford	11	0	DNF	19th	1: 24.2	Electrical damage
-	Tim donation	Brabham-Ford	05	0	DNF	09	1: 24.3	Suspension damage
-	Silvio Moser	Bellasi-Ford	05	0	DNF	22nd	1: 28.8	Suspension damage
-	Helmut Marko	BRM	03	0	DNF	12	1: 26.4	Engine failure
-	John Surtees	Surtees-Ford	03	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

Item driver constructor Points 01  Jackie Stewart Tyrrell 51 02  Ronnie Peterson March 23 03  Jacky Ickx Ferrari 19th 04th  François Cevert Tyrrell 16 05  Emerson Fittipaldi lotus 16 06th  Jo Siffert BRM 13 07th  Clay Regazzoni Ferrari 12 08th  Mario Andretti Ferrari 12 09  Pedro Rodríguez BRM 9 10  Peter Gethin BRM 9

Item driver constructor Points 11  Chris Amon Matra 9 12  Pure Wisell lotus 7th 13  Denis Hulme McLaren 6th 14th  Tim donation Brabham 5 15th  Henri Pescarolo March 4th 16  Rolf Stommelen Surtees 3 17th  John Surtees Surtees 3 18th  Mike Hailwood Surtees 3 19th  Graham Hill Brabham 2 20th  Howden Ganley BRM 2 21st  Jean-Pierre Beltoise Matra 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Tyrrell 55 02  Ferrari 32 03  BRM 30th 04th  March 24 05  lotus 19th

Item constructor Points 06th  Matra 9 07th  Surtees 8th 08th  McLaren 6th 09  Brabham 5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Readers' choice: Best F1 race of all time: GP France 1979. Motorsport-aktuell.com, December 23, 2010, accessed on November 27, 2012 . 
2. ↑ "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)  
3. ^ "Report" (accessed June 29, 2011)
4. ↑ 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
5. ↑ 60 years of Formula 1 , Michael Schmidt, Motorbuch Verlag: Stuttgart, ISBN 978-3-613-03127-2 , pp. 82–85
6. ↑ "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)  

Web links

• Race result on the official Formula 1 website