1970 Monaco Grand Prix

 1970 Monaco Grand Prix

Racing data
3rd of 13 races of the 1970 Automobile World Championship
Surname:	XXVIII Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco
Date:	May 10, 1970
Place:	Monaco
Course:	Circuit de Monaco
Length:	251.6 km in 80 laps of 3.145 km
Weather:	sunny and warm
Pole position
Driver:	Jackie Stewart	March
Time:	1: 24.0 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Jochen Rindt	lotus
Time:	1: 23.2 min
Podium
First:	Jochen Rindt	lotus
Second:	Jack Brabham	Brabham
Third:	Henri Pescarolo	Matra

The 1970 Monaco Grand Prix took place on May 10th at the Circuit de Monaco and was the third race of the 1970 World Automobile Championship . In a readers' poll of the motorsport magazine Motorsport aktuell in December 2010, the Grand Prix was ranked second among the best Formula 1 races of all time .

Reports

background

The starting field showed only minor changes compared to the Spanish Grand Prix . One of them was Ronnie Peterson's Formula 1 debut in a privately entered March 701 .

At Lotus, based on experience gained at the Spanish Grand Prix and two weeks later at a race in Silverstone that was not part of the World Championship, the decision was made to replace the new, immature Type 72, the one that had been tried and tested for a long time and for almost three years used Lotus 49 to use. The new car was only moved a few laps in practice by John Miles .

training

The front row was formed by two March-Fords from Jackie Stewart and Chris Amon . Denis Hulme and Jack Brabham started behind .

run

Stewart used his pole position to take the lead. Behind him were Amon, Brabham, Ickx and Beltoise . The only change within the first six positions was initially an overtaking maneuver by Beltoise against Ickx, until both were eliminated with technical problems after a good quarter of the race distance. In the meantime, Brabham had overtaken Amon and fought for second place. Jackie Stewart's failure for technical reasons a few laps later put him in the lead without a fight. Amon and Hulme, now lying between the leader and Jochen Rindt , also had to give up, so that Rindt was nine seconds behind Brabham in the final phase of the race and steadily reduced this gap. In the very last corner of the race, Brabham braked while trying to lap some competitors and slipped into the straw bales on the edge of the track. Rindt dodged, passed by and won. As Brabham was only lightly hit, he was able to finish the race in second place in front of Henri Pescarolo .

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Rob Walker Racing Team	1	Graham Hill	Lotus 49C	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	F.
Gold Leaf Team Lotus	2	John Miles	Lotus 72 1
			Lotus 49C 2
	3	Jochen Rindt	Lotus 49C
Motor Racing Developments	5	Jack Brabham	Brabham BT33		G
Auto Motor and Sport	6th	Rolf Stommelen
Equipe Matra Elf	8th	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra MS120	Matra MS12 3.0 V12	G
	9	Henri Pescarolo
Bruce McLaren Motor Racing	10	Andrea de Adamich	McLaren M7D	Alfa Romeo T33 3.0 V8	G
	11	Denis Hulme	McLaren M14A	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8
	12	Bruce McLaren
Team Surtees	14th	John Surtees	McLaren M7C		F.
Yardley Team BRM	15th	George Eaton	BRM P153	BRM P142 3.0 V12	D.
	16	Jackie Oliver
	17th	Pedro Rodríguez
March engineering	19th	Jo Siffert	March 701	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	F.
	28	Chris Amon
Tyrrell Racing Organization	20th	Johnny Servoz-Gavin			D.
	21st	Jackie Stewart
Antique Automobiles Racing Team	23	Ronnie Peterson			G
Frank Williams Racing Cars	24	Piers Courage	De Tomaso 505		D.
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	26th	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari 312B	Ferrari 001 3.0 F12	F.

¹ John Miles only drove the Lotus 72 in practice.
² John Miles' Lotus 49C was driven by Graham Hill after his non-qualification.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Jackie Stewart	March-Ford	1: 24.0	134.786 km / h	01
02	Chris Amon	March-Ford	1: 24.6	133.830 km / h	02
03	Denis Hulme	McLaren-Ford	1: 25.1	133.043 km / h	03
04th	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Ford	1: 25.4	132.576 km / h	04th
05	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	1: 25.5	132.421 km / h	05
06th	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	1: 25.6	132.266 km / h	06th
07th	Henri Pescarolo	Matra	1: 25.7	132.112 km / h	07th
08th	Jochen Rindt	Lotus Ford	1: 25.9	131.804 km / h	08th
09	Piers Courage	De Tomaso-Ford	1: 26.1	131.498 km / h	09
10	Bruce McLaren	McLaren-Ford	1: 26.1	131.498 km / h	10
11	Jo Siffert	March-Ford	1: 26.2	131.346 km / h	11
DNQ	Rolf Stommelen	Brabham-Ford	1: 26.3	131.194 km / h	-
DNQ	Andrea de Adamich	McLaren-Alfa Romeo	1: 26.3	131.194 km / h	-
14th	Graham Hill	Lotus Ford	1: 26.8 3	130.438 km / h	17th
15th	Ronnie Peterson	March-Ford	1: 26.8	130.438 km / h	13
DNQ	George Eaton	BRM	1: 27.0	130.138 km / h	-
17th	John Surtees	McLaren-Ford	1: 27.4	129.542 km / h	14th
DNQ	John Miles	Lotus Ford	1: 27.4	129.542 km / h	-
19th	Jackie Oliver	BRM	1: 27.5	129.394 km / h	15th
DNQ	Johnny Servoz-Gavin	March-Ford	1: 28.1	128.513 km / h	-
21st	Pedro Rodríguez	BRM	1: 28.8	127.500 km / h	16

³ As Graham Hill started in John Miles' car, the practice time he had achieved with his own car was denied and he had to start from last place. His original starting position 12 remained empty.

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Jochen Rindt	Lotus Ford	80	0	1: 54; 37.4	08th	1: 23.2
02	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Ford	80	0	+ 23.1	04th	1: 24.4
03	Henri Pescarolo	Matra	80	0	+ 51.4	07th	1: 24.9
04th	Denis Hulme	McLaren-Ford	80	0	+1: 28.3	03	1: 25.0
05	Graham Hill	Lotus Ford	79	0	+ 1 lap	17th	1: 25.1
06th	Pedro Rodríguez	BRM	78	1	+ 2 rounds	16	1: 25.4
07th	Ronnie Peterson	March-Ford	78	0	+ 2 rounds	13	1: 27.6
08th	Jo Siffert	March-Ford	76	0	DNF	11	1: 24.1	Fuel pump defective
-	Chris Amon	March-Ford	60	0	DNF	02	1: 24.3	Suspension damage
-	Piers Courage	De Tomaso-Ford	58	0	NC	09	1: 24.9	Unrated
-	Jackie Stewart	March-Ford	57	1	DNF	01	1: 24.4	Engine failure
-	Jackie Oliver	BRM	42	0	DNF	15th	1: 26.2	Engine failure
-	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	21st	0	DNF	06th	1: 26.0	Differential damage
-	Bruce McLaren	McLaren-Ford	19th	0	DNF	10	1: 26.4	Suspension damage
-	John Surtees	McLaren-Ford	14th	0	DNF	14th	1: 27.9	Oil pressure loss
-	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	11	0	DNF	05	1: 26.6	Broken universal joint

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  Jack Brabham Brabham 15th 02  Jackie Stewart March 13 03  Jochen Rindt lotus 9 04th  Denis Hulme McLaren 9 05  Bruce McLaren McLaren 6th 06th  Graham Hill lotus 6th

Item driver constructor Points 07th  Henri Pescarolo Matra 4th 08th  Mario Andretti March 4th 09  Jean-Pierre Beltoise Matra 3 10  Johnny Servoz-Gavin March 2 11  John Miles lotus 2 12  Pedro Rodríguez BRM 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Brabham 15th 02  McLaren 15th 03  lotus 14th

Item constructor Points 04th  March 13 05  Matra 7th 06th  BRM 1

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 from December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on June 13, 2011)
3. ^ "Report" (accessed June 13, 2011)
4. ↑ "World Cup stands" ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2008 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 June 13, 2011)