1974 South African Grand Prix

 1974 South African Grand Prix

Racing data
3rd of 15 races of the 1974 Automobile World Championship
Surname:	VIII Grand Prix of South Africa
Date:	March 30, 1974
Place:	Midrand
Course:	Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit
Length:	320.112 km in 78 laps of 4.104 km
Weather:	sunny and hot
Spectator:	~ 92,000
Pole position
Driver:	Niki Lauda	Ferrari
Time:	1: 16.58 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham
Time:	1: 18.16 min
Podium
First:	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham
Second:	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM
Third:	Mike Hailwood	McLaren

The 1974 South African Grand Prix took place on March 30th at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit and was the third race of the 1974 World Automobile Championship .

Reports

background

In the roughly two months between the Brazilian Grand Prix and the third World Cup round of the year in South Africa, two Formula 1 races that were not part of the World Cup took place. The local Emerson Fittipaldi finished the Grande Prêmio Presidente Medici in Brasília victoriously, while Jacky Ickx won the "Race of Champions" at Brands Hatch . Shortly afterwards, some of the Formula 1 teams met for test drives in the run-up to the South African GP at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit . In the process, Peter Revson was killed when his Shadow Ford crashed headlong into the lane as a result of a damaged suspension. The Shadow team then withdrew the notification of participation in the Grand Prix and left.

Traditionally, the field of participants in South Africa was supplemented by a few local guest starters. Dave Charlton and Eddie Keizan have already taken part in the race in privately used vehicles several times. It was a first for Paddy Driver and Ian Scheckter , the brother of Tyrrell factory driver Jody Scheckter . Driver had already qualified for this Grand Prix once in 1963 , but was unable to start because of damage to his Lotus 24 .

Vittorio Brambilla , who replaced Howden Ganley as March factory driver, also made his first GP participation this weekend .

The second works car of Frank Williams' team was rented to Tom Belsø for this race .

Hesketh Racing no longer competed as a March customer team, but for the first time with the first racing car developed by the team itself. Lotus also appeared with a new development, the Type 76 , which was to replace the Type 72 after more than four years of service. BRM also launched a copy of a new vehicle called the P201 . Jean-Pierre Beltoise drove the car, while the other two works drivers Henri Pescarolo and François Migault continued to drive the tried and tested P160E .

training

Niki Lauda achieved the fastest training time in the Ferrari 312B3 and thus the first pole position of his Grand Prix career. Surtees drivers Carlos Pace and Arturo Merzario on Iso-Marlboro impressed the professional world by finishing in second and third on the grid. It was followed by Carlos Reutemann's Brabham in front of Emerson Fittipaldi's McLaren M23 and Clay Regazzoni's second Ferrari . Hans-Joachim Stuck achieved a convincing seventh place in the Werks-March ahead of Jody Scheckter on Tyrrell. McLaren driver Denis Hulme and Jacky Ickx in the new Lotus 76 completed the top ten, while the second Lotus works driver Ronnie Peterson only managed to finish 16th due to difficulties with the new car.

run

From pole position, Lauda initially took the lead ahead of Reutemann, who had accelerated Pace and Merzario. Jody Scheckter and Clay Regazzoni followed. Meanwhile, a collision occurred in midfield, in which both Lotus factory drivers were involved. Peterson was eliminated on the second lap due to consequential damages, Ickx had a brake defect later in the race that forced him to give up. Also in the start phase there was a collision between Henri Pescarolo and Jochen Mass . The latter retired after eleven laps due to suspension damage as a result of the collision.

In the tenth lap, Reutemann took the lead and pulled away from the rest of the field. Behind them the order of the pursuers only changed due to James Hunt's retirement on lap 14 and Scheckter falling back due to tire problems and otherwise remained constant for several laps.

On lap 49, Mike Hailwood managed to overtake Fittipaldi and thereby take fourth place. Shortly afterwards, however, both were overtaken by Beltoise.

On lap 66 Regazzoni had to retire due to an engine problem. Lauda's second Ferrari followed nine laps later due to similar damage. Reutemann finally won ahead of Beltoise and Hailwood, who each reached the podium in a Grand Prix for the last time. In fifth place, Stuck received the first two World Championship points of his Formula 1 career.

It was the first Grand Prix victory of Argentine since the Grand Prix of Germany 1957 , the Juan Manuel Fangio had won, and the first win for the team Brabham since the last success of the team's founder Jack Brabham at the Grand Prix of South Africa 1970 .

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
John Player Team Lotus	1	Ronnie Peterson	Lotus 76	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
	2	Jacky Ickx
Eleven Team Tyrrell	3	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell 006		G
	4th	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell 005
Marlboro Team Texaco	5	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren M23		G
	6th	Denis Hulme
Yardley Team McLaren	33	Mike Hailwood
Motor Racing Developments	7th	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham BT44		G
	8th	Richard Robarts
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	Henri Pescarolo	BRM P160E	BRM P142 3.0 V12
	37	François Migault
Bang & Olufsen Team Surtees	18th	Carlos Pace	Surtees TS16	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	F.
	19th	Jochen Mass
Frank Williams Racing Cars	20th	Arturo Merzario	Iso-Marlboro FW02		F.
	21st	Tom Belsø	Iso-Marlboro FW01
Scribante Lucky Strike Racing	23	Dave Charlton	McLaren M23		G
Hesketh Racing	24	James Hunt	Hesketh 308		F.
Embassy Racing with Graham Hill	26th	Graham Hill	Lola T370		F.
John Goldie Racing with Hexagon	28	John Watson	Brabham BT42		F.
Team Gunston	29	Ian Scheckter	Lotus 72E		G
	30th	Paddy Driver
Blignaut Embassy Racing SA	32	Eddie Keizan	Tyrrell 004		F.

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	1: 16.58	192.928 km / h	01
02	Carlos Pace	Surtees-Ford	1: 16.63	192.802 km / h	02
03	Arturo Merzario	Iso-Ford	1: 16.79	192.400 km / h	03
04th	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham-Ford	1: 16.80	192.375 km / h	04th
05	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren-Ford	1: 16.82	192.325 km / h	05
06th	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	1: 16.85	192.250 km / h	06th
07th	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March-Ford	1: 16.98	191.925 km / h	07th
08th	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 16.99	191.900 km / h	08th
09	Denis Hulme	McLaren-Ford	1: 17.11	191.602 km / h	09
10	Jacky Ickx	Lotus Ford	1: 17.18	191.428 km / h	10
11	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	1: 17.34	191.032 km / h	11
12	Mike Hailwood	McLaren-Ford	1: 17.34	191.032 km / h	12
13	John Watson	Brabham-Ford	1: 17.39	190.908 km / h	13
14th	James Hunt	Hesketh-Ford	1: 17.41	190.859 km / h	14th
15th	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 17.75	190.024 km / h	15th
16	Ronnie Peterson	Lotus Ford	1: 18.00	189.415 km / h	16
17th	Jochen Mass	Surtees-Ford	1: 18.23	188.858 km / h	17th
18th	Graham Hill	Lola Ford	1: 18.25	188.810 km / h	18th
19th	Vittorio Brambilla	March-Ford	1: 18.29	188.714 km / h	19th
20th	Dave Charlton	McLaren-Ford	1: 18.37	188.521 km / h	20th
21st	Henri Pescarolo	BRM	1: 18.39	188.473 km / h	21st
22nd	Ian Scheckter	Lotus Ford	1: 18.56	188.065 km / h	22nd
23	Richard Robarts	Brabham-Ford	1: 18.60	187.969 km / h	23
24	Eddie Keizan	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 19.00	187.018 km / h	24
25th	François Migault	BRM	1: 19.14	186.687 km / h	25th
26th	Paddy Driver	Lotus Ford	1: 19.49	185.865 km / h	26th
27	Tom Belsø	Iso-Ford	1: 19.80	185.143 km / h	27

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham-Ford	78	0	1: 42: 40.96	04th	1: 18.16
02	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	78	0	+ 33.94	11	1: 18.59
03	Mike Hailwood	McLaren-Ford	78	0	+ 42.16	12	1: 18.75
04th	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell-Ford	78	0	+ 44.19	15th	1: 18.77
05	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March-Ford	78	0	+ 46.23	07th	1: 18.37
06th	Arturo Merzario	Iso-Ford	78	0	+ 56.04	03	1: 18.93
07th	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren-Ford	78	0	+1: 08.39	05	1: 18.78
08th	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell-Ford	78	0	+1: 10.54	08th	1: 18.80
09	Denis Hulme	McLaren-Ford	77	0	+ 1 lap	09	1: 18.85
10	Vittorio Brambilla	March-Ford	77	0	+ 1 lap	19th	1: 19.02
11	Carlos Pace	Surtees-Ford	77	0	+ 1 lap	02	1: 19.32
12	Graham Hill	Lola Ford	77	0	+ 1 lap	18th	1: 19.82
13	Ian Scheckter	Lotus Ford	76	0	+ 2 rounds	22nd	1: 20.08
14th	Eddie Keizan	Tyrrell-Ford	76	0	+ 2 rounds	24	1: 20.37
15th	François Migault	BRM	75	0	+ 3 rounds	25th	1: 20.94
16	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	74	0	DNF	01	1: 18.24	defective ignition
17th	Richard Robarts	Brabham-Ford	74	0	+ 4 rounds	23	1: 21.90
18th	Henri Pescarolo	BRM	72	0	+ 6 rounds	21st	1: 20.95
19th	Dave Charlton	McLaren-Ford	71	0	+ 7 rounds	20th	1: 18.99
-	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	65	0	DNF	06th	1: 18.93	Oil pressure loss
-	John Watson	Brabham-Ford	54	1	DNF	13	1: 19.98	defective fuel supply
-	Jacky Ickx	Lotus Ford	31	1	DNF	10	1: 19.58	Brake defect
-	James Hunt	Hesketh-Ford	13	0	DNF	14th	1: 19.12	defective power transmission
-	Jochen Mass	Surtees-Ford	11	0	DNF	17th	1: 19.99	Suspension damage
-	Paddy Driver	Lotus Ford	06th	0	DNF	26th	1: 23.94	Clutch damage
-	Ronnie Peterson	Lotus Ford	02	0	DNF	16	1: 25.66	Collision damage
-	Tom Belsø	Iso-Ford	00	0	DNF	27	-	Clutch damage

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 10 02  Mike Hailwood McLaren 9 03  Denis Hulme McLaren 9 04th  Carlos Reutemann Brabham 9 05  Emerson Fittipaldi McLaren 9 06th  Jean-Pierre Beltoise BRM 8th 07th  Niki Lauda Ferrari 6th

Item driver constructor Points 08th  Jacky Ickx lotus 4th 09  Patrick Depailler Tyrrell 4th 10  Carlos Pace Surtees 3 11  Hans-Joachim Stuck March 2 12  Arturo Merzario Iso-Marlboro 1 13  Ronnie Peterson lotus 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  McLaren 22nd 02  Ferrari 12 03  Brabham 9 04th  BRM 8th 05  Tyrrell 4th

Item constructor Points 06th  lotus 4th 07th  Surtees 3 08th  March 2 09  Iso-Marlboro 1

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Training" ( Memento from August 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed October 12, 2011)
2. ^ "Report" (accessed on October 12, 2011)
3. ^ "World Championship stands" ( Memento from August 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on October 12, 2011)

Web links

• Race result on the official Formula 1 website