1973 Italian Grand Prix

 1973 Italian Grand Prix

Racing data
13th of 15 races of the 1973 Automobile World Championship
Surname:	XLIV Gran Premio d'Italia
Date:	September 9, 1973
Place:	Monza
Course:	Autodromo Nazionale di Monza
Length:	317.625 km in 55 laps of 5.775 km
Weather:	sunny and warm
Pole position
Driver:	Ronnie Peterson	lotus
Time:	1: 34.80 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell
Time:	1: 35.3 min
Podium
First:	Ronnie Peterson	lotus
Second:	Emerson Fittipaldi	lotus
Third:	Peter Revson	McLaren

The 1973 Italian Grand Prix took place in Monza on September 9th and was the thirteenth race of the 1973 Automobile World Championship .

Reports

background

For the home Grand Prix Ferrari returned to the starting field as a two-car team by taking Jacky Ickx under contract for this one race. In addition, Niki Lauda was able to return to the start for BRM after his injury-related break .

Both the March factory team with driver Jean-Pierre Jarier and the Tecno team with regular driver Chris Amon decided against participating in the race weekend because they were convinced that they were not competitive anyway.

training

James Hunt had a serious accident during training. Although he had previously achieved a lap time that would have been enough for qualification, he had to give up the start as a result of the accident.

Alongside Ronnie Peterson , who secured pole position for the seventh time this season, McLaren driver Peter Revson qualified for the front row. In the row behind the two started their teammates, namely Denis Hulme and Emerson Fittipaldi . Carlos Pace shared the third row with World Cup favorite Jackie Stewart .

run

Peterson took the lead ahead of Fittipaldi, Hulme, Stewart and Revson. To the great disappointment of the spectators, the local hero Arturo Merzario retired in the Ferrari after the second lap due to a driving error. He had damaged a wheel suspension by driving over the curbs too hard . A little later, Hulme had to make a pit stop because of a similar problem, as did Stewart, who, however, had to change tires because of a flat tire. This brought Revson to third place. The order of the three podium finishers did not change until the finish.

Stewart caused a stir with an impressive race to catch up. In the end, he reached fourth place. This enabled him to win the drivers' world championship prematurely, as Peterson had won ahead of his teammate Fittipaldi and he no longer had the opportunity to catch up with Stewart's points lead in the remaining two races. The joy of the Lotus team about the first double victory since the Grand Prix of South Africa in 1968 was correspondingly small.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
John Player Team Lotus	1	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus 72E	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
	2	Ronnie Peterson
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	3	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari 312B3	Ferrari 001/11 3.0 F12	G
	4th	Arturo Merzario
Eleven Team Tyrrell	5	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell 006	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
	6th	François Cevert
Yardley Team McLaren	7th	Denis Hulme	McLaren M23		G
	8th	Peter Revson
Ceramica Pagnossin team	9	Rolf Stommelen	Brabham BT42		G
Motor Racing Developments	10	Carlos Reutemann
	11	Wilson Fittipaldi
Embassy Racing	12	Graham Hill	Shadow DN1		G
Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie Racing	15th	Mike Beuttler	March 731		G
UOP Shadow Racing Team	16	George Follmer	Shadow DN1		G
	17th	Jackie Oliver
Marlboro BRM	19th	Clay Regazzoni	BRM P160E	BRM P142 3.0 V12	F.
	20th	Jean-Pierre Beltoise
	21st	Niki Lauda
Brooke Bond Oxo Team Surtees	23	Mike Hailwood	Surtees TS14A	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	F.
	24	Carlos Pace
Frank Williams Racing Cars	25th	Howden Ganley	Iso-Marlboro IR2		F.
	26th	Gijs van Lennep	Iso-Marlboro IR1
Hesketh Racing	27	James Hunt	March 731		G
Team Ensign	28	Rikky from Opel	Ensign N173		F.
LEC Refrigeration Racing	29	David Purley	March 731		G

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Ronnie Peterson	Lotus Ford	1: 34.80	219.304 km / h	01
02	Peter Revson	McLaren-Ford	1: 35.29	218.176 km / h	02
03	Denis Hulme	McLaren-Ford	1: 35.45	217.810 km / h	03
04th	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus Ford	1: 35.68	217.287 km / h	04th
05	Carlos Pace	Surtees-Ford	1: 36.06	216.427 km / h	05
06th	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 36.10	216.337 km / h	06th
07th	Arturo Merzario	Ferrari	1: 36.37	215.731 km / h	07th
08th	Mike Hailwood	Surtees-Ford	1: 36.44	215.574 km / h	08th
09	Rolf Stommelen	Brabham-Ford	1: 36.54	215.351 km / h	09
10	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham-Ford	1: 36.55	215.329 km / h	10
11	François Cevert	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 36.58	215.262 km / h	11
12	Mike Beuttler	March-Ford	1: 36.67	215.062 km / h	12
13	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	1: 36.88	214.595 km / h	13
14th	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	1: 36.99	214.352 km / h	14th
15th	Niki Lauda	BRM	1: 37.26	213.757 km / h	15th
16	Wilson Fittipaldi	Brabham-Ford	1: 37.30	213.669 km / h	16
17th	Rikky from Opel	Ensign-Ford	1: 37.40	213.450 km / h	17th
18th	Clay Regazzoni	BRM	1: 37.58	213.056 km / h	18th
19th	Jackie Oliver	Shadow Ford	1: 37.81	212.555 km / h	19th
20th	Howden Ganley	Iso-Ford	1: 38.13	211.862 km / h	20th
21st	George Follmer	Shadow Ford	1: 38.66	210.724 km / h	21st
22nd	Graham Hill	Shadow Ford	1: 38.88	210.255 km / h	22nd
23	Gijs van Lennep	Iso-Ford	1: 39.24	209.492 km / h	23
24	David Purley	March-Ford	1: 39.28	209.408 km / h	24
25th	James Hunt	March-Ford	1: 39.82	208.275 km / h	DNS

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Ronnie Peterson	Lotus Ford	55	0	1: 29: 17.0	01
02	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus Ford	55	0	+ 0.8	04th
03	Peter Revson	McLaren-Ford	55	0	+ 28.8	02
04th	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell-Ford	55	1	+ 33.2	06th	1: 35.3
05	François Cevert	Tyrrell-Ford	55	0	+ 46.2	11
06th	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham-Ford	55	0	+ 59.8	10
07th	Mike Hailwood	Surtees-Ford	55	0	+1: 28.7	08th
08th	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	54	0	+ 1 lap	14th
09	David Purley	March-Ford	54	0	+ 1 lap	24
10	George Follmer	Shadow Ford	54	0	+ 1 lap	21st
11	Jackie Oliver	Shadow Ford	54	0	+ 1 lap	19th
12	Rolf Stommelen	Brabham-Ford	54	1	+ 1 lap	09
13	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	54	1	+ 1 lap	13
14th	Graham Hill	Shadow Ford	54	0	+ 1 lap	22nd
15th	Denis Hulme	McLaren-Ford	53	1	+ 2 rounds	03
-	Howden Ganley	Iso-Ford	44	1	NC	20th		Unrated
-	Mike Beuttler	March-Ford	34	0	DNF	12		Gearbox damage
-	Niki Lauda	BRM	33	1	DNF	15th		Tire damage
-	Clay Regazzoni	BRM	30th	0	DNF	18th		defective ignition
-	Carlos Pace	Surtees-Ford	17th	0	DNF	05		Tire damage
-	Gijs van Lennep	Iso-Ford	14th	0	DNF	23		overheated engine
-	Rikky from Opel	Ensign-Ford	10	0	DNF	17th		overheated engine
-	Wilson Fittipaldi	Brabham-Ford	06th	0	DNF	16		Brake defect
-	Arturo Merzario	Ferrari	02	0	DNF	07th		Driving error

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 69 02  Emerson Fittipaldi lotus 48 03  François Cevert Tyrrell 47 04th  Ronnie Peterson lotus 43 05  Peter Revson McLaren 27 06th  Denis Hulme McLaren 23 07th  Carlos Reutemann Brabham 12 08th  Jacky Ickx Ferrari / McLaren 12 09  James Hunt March 8th 10  Carlos Pace Surtees 7th

Item driver constructor Points 11  Jean-Pierre Beltoise BRM 6th 12  Arturo Merzario Ferrari 6th 13  George Follmer Shadow 5 14th  Wilson Fittipaldi Brabham 3 15th  Andrea de Adamich Brabham 3 16  Clay Regazzoni BRM 2 17th  Niki Lauda BRM 2 18th  Gijs van Lennep Iso-Marlboro 1 19th  Chris Amon Tecno 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Tyrrell 80 02  lotus 77 03  McLaren 46 04th  Brabham 18th 05  Ferrari 12 06th  BRM 9

Item constructor Points 07th  March 8th 08th  Surtees 7th 09  Shadow 5 10  Tecno 1 11  Iso-Marlboro 1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Training" ( memento of the original from October 31, 2005 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 July 23, 2011)  
2. ^ "Report" (accessed on July 23, 2011)
3. ↑ "World Cup stands"  ( 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)  

Web links

• Race result on the official Formula 1 website