1974 Canadian Grand Prix

 1974 Canadian Grand Prix

Racing data
14th of 15 races of the 1974 Automobile World Championship
Surname:	XIV Canadian Grand Prix
Date:	September 22, 1974
Place:	Bowmanville
Course:	Mosport Park
Length:	316.48 km in 80 laps of 3.956 km
Weather:	cold and windy
Pole position
Driver:	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren
Time:	1: 13.188 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Niki Lauda	Ferrari
Time:	1: 13.659 min
Podium
First:	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren
Second:	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari
Third:	Ronnie Peterson	lotus

The 1974 Canadian Grand Prix took place on September 22nd and was the fourteenth race of the 1974 World Automobile Championship .

Reports

background

Before the two final world championship races on the North American continent, four pilots - Clay Regazzoni , Emerson Fittipaldi , Jody Scheckter and Niki Lauda - had a chance of winning the drivers' world championship.

Some of the smaller private teams had not started the trip across the Atlantic and skipped the last two races of the season. Instead, the field was expanded with two new US Formula 1 participants. Roger Penske got involved in Formula 1 for the first time with the Penske PC1 . As a driver, he signed Mark Donohue , who had previously only been a guest driver at two GPs in the 1971 season . Parnelli Jones, on the other hand, signed Mario Andretti, a veteran who made his Formula 1 comeback in the Parnelli VPJ4 . Ian Ashley and Eppie Wietzes also took part as guest starters in two private Brabham BT42s at the race weekend.

At BRM , Henri Pescarolo and François Migault had been separated and instead Chris Amon was signed as the second works driver alongside regular driver Jean-Pierre Beltoise for the end of the season. In a similar way, McLaren decided on Jochen Mass instead of David Hobbs to cast the third works car. Helmut Koinigg received a works contract for the Surtees team for the final races .

training

Emerson Fittipaldi prevented Niki Lauda from reaching pole position for the seventh time in a row with his best training time. He undercut the best time set by the Austrian during the third qualifying training in the fourth qualifying session by around four hundredths of a second and thus pushed him to second place on the grid.

With Jody Scheckter, the third of the four title candidates was in third place on the grid. The fourth opponent, Clay Regazzoni, had to be content with sixth starting position behind the Brabham of Carlos Reutemann and Shadow pilot Jean-Pierre Jarier . This was followed by the second Tyrrell of Patrick Depailler , Hesketh -Pilot James Hunt , Brabham works driver Carlos Pace and Ronnie Peterson at Lotus .

run

Lauda initially took the lead ahead of Fittipaldi, Regazzoni and Scheckter. Thus, the four title opponents took the first four places at the beginning of the race. Scheckter overtook Regazzoni on the third lap. This order remained constant during the first half of the race. If it had stayed that way until the end, Fittipaldi, Scheckter and Regazzoni would have arrived at Watkins Glen two weeks later with 49 points each for the final. On lap 49, however, Scheckter retired due to an accident caused by a brake defect. As a result, Regazzoni, who again placed third, had the chance to narrowly defend his lead in the World Cup.

The order of the first three did not change until the 70th lap, when the leader Lauda had an accident after running over debris. As a result, Fittipaldi reached the top position, which he held from then on to the finish, whereby he relegated Regazzoni, who was second in the race and therefore tied on points, to second place in the World Championship table due to his higher number of wins this season.

While the focus was on the results of the World Cup favorites, Ronnie Peterson drove relatively unnoticed a strong race that brought him from tenth on the grid to third place. In the end, he crossed the finish line just a few tenths of a second after Clay Regazzoni and before James Hunt.

Patrick Depailler finished fifth and Denis Hulme scored the last World Cup point of his Formula 1 career in sixth.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
John Player Team Lotus	1	Ronnie Peterson	Lotus 72E	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
	2	Jacky Ickx
Eleven Team Tyrrell	3	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell 007		G
	4th	Patrick Depailler
Marlboro Team Texaco	5	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren M23		G
	6th	Denis Hulme
Yardley Team McLaren	33	Jochen Mass
Motor Racing Developments	7th	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham BT44		G
	8th	Carlos Pace
March engineering	9	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March 741		G
	10	Vittorio Brambilla
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	11	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari 312B3	Ferrari 001/11 3.0 F12	G
	12	Niki Lauda
Team Motul BRM	14th	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM P201	BRM P200 3.0 V12	F.
	15th	Chris Amon
UOP Shadow Racing Team	16	Tom Pryce	Shadow DN3	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
	17th	Jean-Pierre Jarier
Team Surtees	18th	Derek Bell	Surtees TS16		F.
	19th	Helmut Koinigg
Frank Williams Racing Cars	20th	Arturo Merzario	Iso-Marlboro FW03		F.
	21st	Jacques Laffite	Iso-Marlboro FW02
Team Ensign	22nd	Mike Wilds	Ensign N174		F.
Hesketh Racing	24	James Hunt	Hesketh 308		G
Embassy Racing with Graham Hill	26th	Graham Hill	Lola T370		F.
	27	Rolf Stommelen
John Goldie Racing with Hexagon	28	John Watson	Brabham BT44		F.
Checkered Flag	42	Ian Ashley	Brabham BT42		G
Team Canada F1 Racing	50	Eppie Wietzes			G
Vel's Parnelli Jones Racing	55	Mario Andretti	Parnelli VPJ4		F.
Penske Cars	66	Mark Donohue	Penske PC1		G

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren-Ford	1: 13.188	194.589 km / h	01
02	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	1: 13.230	194.478 km / h	02
03	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 13.302	194.287 km / h	03
04th	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham-Ford	1: 13.482	193.811 km / h	04th
05	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow Ford	1: 13.538	193.663 km / h	05
06th	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	1: 13.553	193.624 km / h	06th
07th	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 13.634	193.411 km / h	07th
08th	James Hunt	Hesketh-Ford	1: 13.736	193.143 km / h	08th
09	Carlos Pace	Brabham-Ford	1: 14.100	192.194 km / h	09
10	Ronnie Peterson	Lotus Ford	1: 14.340	191.574 km / h	10
11	Rolf Stommelen	Lola Ford	1: 14.449	191.293 km / h	11
12	Jochen Mass	McLaren-Ford	1: 14.486	191.198 km / h	12
13	Tom Pryce	Shadow Ford	1: 14.631	190.827 km / h	13
14th	Denis Hulme	McLaren-Ford	1: 14.754	190.513 km / h	14th
15th	John Watson	Brabham-Ford	1: 14.757	190.505 km / h	15th
16	Mario Andretti	Parnelli-Ford	1: 14.923	190.083 km / h	16
17th	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	1: 15.021	189.835 km / h	17th
18th	Jacques Laffite	Iso-Ford	1: 15.218	189.338 km / h	18th
19th	Arturo Merzario	Iso-Ford	1: 15.337	189.039 km / h	19th
20th	Graham Hill	Lola Ford	1: 15.538	188.536 km / h	20th
21st	Jacky Ickx	Lotus Ford	1: 15.661	188.229 km / h	21st
22nd	Helmut Koinigg	Surtees-Ford	1: 15.668	188.212 km / h	22nd
23	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March-Ford	1: 15.709	188.110 km / h	23
24	Mark Donohue	Penske-Ford	1: 15.731	188.055 km / h	24
25th	Chris Amon	BRM	1: 15.815	187.847 km / h	25th
26th	Eppie Wietzes	Brabham-Ford	1: 16.311	186.626 km / h	26th
DNQ	Derek Bell	Surtees-Ford	1: 16,600	185.922 km / h	-
DNQ	Mike Wilds	Ensign-Ford	1: 16.822	185.384 km / h	-
DNQ	Vittorio Brambilla	March-Ford	1: 17.216	184.438 km / h	-
DNQ	Ian Ashley	Brabham-Ford	1: 17.305	184.226 km / h	-

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren-Ford	80	0	1: 40: 26,136	01	1: 13.807
02	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	80	0	+ 13.034	06th	1: 14.134
03	Ronnie Peterson	Lotus Ford	80	0	+ 14,494	10	1: 14.040
04th	James Hunt	Hesketh-Ford	80	0	+ 15.669	08th	1: 13.984
05	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell-Ford	80	0	+ 55,322	07th	1: 14.267
06th	Denis Hulme	McLaren-Ford	79	0	+ 1 lap	14th	1: 14.471
07th	Mario Andretti	Parnelli-Ford	79	0	+ 1 lap	16	1: 14.315
08th	Carlos Pace	Brabham-Ford	79	1	+ 1 lap	09	1: 14.173
09	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham-Ford	79	0	+ 1 lap	04th	1: 14.147
10	Helmut Koinigg	Surtees-Ford	78	0	+ 2 rounds	22nd	1: 15.882
11	Rolf Stommelen	Lola Ford	78	0	+ 2 rounds	11	1: 15.573
12	Mark Donohue	Penske-Ford	78	0	+ 2 rounds	24	1: 15.067
13	Jacky Ickx	Lotus Ford	78	0	+ 2 rounds	21st	1: 15.493
14th	Graham Hill	Lola Ford	77	0	+ 3 rounds	20th	1: 16.449
15th	Jacques Laffite	Iso-Ford	74	0	DNF	18th	1: 15.867	Tire damage
16	Jochen Mass	McLaren-Ford	72	1	+ 8 rounds	12	1: 14.772
-	Chris Amon	BRM	70	0	NC	25th	1: 18.757	Unrated
-	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	69	0	DNF	02	1: 13.659	accident
-	Tom Pryce	Shadow Ford	65	0	DNF	13	1: 14.667	Engine failure
-	John Watson	Brabham-Ford	61	0	DNF	15th	1: 15.506	Suspension damage
-	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	60	0	NC	17th	1: 17.163	Unrated
-	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell-Ford	48	0	DNF	03	1: 14.122	Brake defect
-	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow Ford	46	0	DNF	05	1: 14.763	broken half-wave
-	Arturo Merzario	Iso-Ford	40	0	DNF	19th	1: 16.230	Handling problems
-	Eppie Wietzes	Brabham-Ford	33	0	DNF	26th	1: 17.914	Engine failure
-	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March-Ford	12	0	DNF	23	1: 18.085	defective fuel pump

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  Clay Regazzoni Ferrari 52 02  Emerson Fittipaldi McLaren 52 03  Jody Scheckter Tyrrell 45 04th  Niki Lauda Ferrari 38 05  Ronnie Peterson lotus 35 06th  Carlos Reutemann Brabham 23 07th  Denis Hulme McLaren 20th 08th  Patrick Depailler Tyrrell 13 09  Mike Hailwood McLaren 12 10  Jacky Ickx lotus 12

Item driver constructor Points 11  James Hunt Hesketh 11 12  Jean-Pierre Beltoise BRM 10 13  Jean-Pierre Jarier Shadow 6th 14th  Carlos Pace Surtees / Brabham 5 15th  Hans-Joachim Stuck March 5 16  Arturo Merzario Iso-Marlboro 4th 17th  John Watson Brabham 4th 18th  Vittorio Brambilla March 1 19th  Tom Pryce Shadow 1 20th  Graham Hill Lola 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  McLaren 70 02  Ferrari 65 03  Tyrrell 51 04th  lotus 42 05  Brabham 26th 06th  Hesketh 11

Item constructor Points 07th  BRM 10 08th  Shadow 7th 09  March 6th 10  Iso-Marlboro 4th 11  Surtees 3 12  Lola 1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Training" ( Memento of the original from January 28, 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 November 18, 2011)  
2. ^ "Report" (accessed on November 18, 2011)
3. ↑ "World Cup stands" ( Memento of the original from January 29, 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 November 18, 2011)  

Web links

• Race result on the official Formula 1 website