March 701

March 701

March 701 of the Tyrrell Racing Organization
Constructor:	March
Designer:	Robin Herd Peter Wright
Successor:	March 711
Technical specifications
Chassis:	aluminum
Wheelbase:	2362 mm
Weight:	565 kg
Tires:	Firestone , Dunlop , Goodyear
statistics
Driver:	Chris Amon Joseph Siffert Jackie Stewart Johnny Servoz-Gavin François Cevert Ronnie Peterson Mario Andretti Henri Pescarolo Max Jean François Mazet Jean-Pierre Jarier John Love
First start:	1970 South African Grand Prix
Last start:	1971 Italian Grand Prix
Starts Victories Poles SR 16 1 3 1
World Cup points:	48
Podiums:	8th
Leadership laps:	157

The March 701 is a British Formula 1 racing car that was designed by March Engineering and eleven copies built in 1970. It was the most widespread vehicle of the 1970 Formula 1 season . In this and the following year nine racing teams reported a total of 13 riders on a March 701 Formula 1 World Championship races, among them the works team of the manufacturer and the Tyrrell Racing Organization . In addition, the car appeared in numerous Formula 1 races that did not have world championship status, as well as in other racing series such as the Tasman series and the Formula 5000 . The March 701 won three of its first four races, including one run in the Formula 1 World Championship. Jackie Stewart , 1969 Formula 1 World Champion, described the 701 as the hardest-to-drive Formula 1 racing car of his career.

prehistory

March Engineering founded

One of the designers of the March 701: Robin Herd

March Engineering was founded in Bicester in April 1969 by Max Mosley , Alan Rees , Graham Coaker and Robin Herd . The foundation was a reaction to the decision of the supervisory authority CSI to allow advertising on racing cars ( sponsorship ) in Formula 1 and Formula 2 from 1968 . This step made it easier for financially strong private drivers to gain access to monopostosport : It was expected that "anyone who had a designer and a sponsor could now get access to Formula 1." The March founders saw this as the trigger for an increased need for simple but competitive racing car that the established designers could not cover. Manufacturers such as Brabham , BRM , Cooper , Lotus and McLaren did not produce new vehicles for independent customers, but instead produced their racing cars exclusively for their own works team. Private drivers could only take over the used works cars after the works team had replaced them with new designs. March Engineering filled this gap: In 1970 it was the only manufacturer of freely available new vehicles for Formula 1. From 1970, March also had its own works teams for Formula 1 and 2.

The first racing car that the newly founded company constructed was the March 693 intended for Formula 3 , which appeared in September 1969. After its presentation, work began on the Formula 1 model 701. Its development was largely financed by Porsche : The German sports car manufacturer paid March an amount of £ 30,000 in autumn 1969. In return, March gave the Swiss racing driver Jo Siffert , who drove for Porsche sports car races, a Formula 1 cockpit in the newly established March works team. In this way, Porsche avoided that Siffert, who wanted to drive both sports car and Formula 1 races, migrated to Scuderia Ferrari , which was factory-involved in both motorsport formulas.

System of type designation

The designation of the 701 followed the nomenclature customary at March Engineering and almost consistently used up to the 911 from 1991 , according to which the first two digits of the three-digit model name named the year in which the car was created, while the third digit referred to the motorsport formula, in which he was used. The 701 is therefore a year 19 70 Resulting car for Formula 1 . A further differentiation according to the individual chassis was made by adding additional digits. The March 701/1 is the first completed copy of the 701.

construction

The responsible designers of the March 701 were Robin Herd and Peter Wright . The racing car was designed and built in just ten weeks. Development work began in November 1969 and the first two copies were presented to the public on February 6, 1970. From a technical point of view, the 701 had only a few special features.

Chassis and structure

"Racing coffee maker": Vertical oil tank at the rear of the 701

The car had a tub monocoque made of aluminum and bulkheads made of cast magnesium. The chassis was very similar to that of the Formula 1 car from Cosworth (never used in a race) , which Robin Herd had designed for Keith Duckworth in late 1968 before joining March . The external suspensions consisted of triangular wishbones and coil springs . Girling provided the brakes . At first they were on the outside in the rims; Before the Spanish Grand Prix, however, Herd changed its positioning and placed the brakes on the inside to reduce the unsprung masses. This modification initially only affected the factory team's cars; in the course of the year it was also implemented on all customer cars.

As in most contemporary Formula 1 racing cars, the water cooler was installed in front of the front axle in the vehicle nose. During the planning phase, Robin Herd considered installing the coolers on the vehicle flanks on both sides of the cockpit. However, such a solution was discarded because the implementation would have taken too much development time. To create a counterbalance to the heavy water cooler, Herd positioned the oil tank upright on the rear of the car to the right of the gearbox; the oil cooler was installed above the gearbox. The cylinder-shaped, clearly visible oil tank reminded the former racing driver Innes Ireland of a “racing coffee maker”.

From the point of view of observers, the “only innovative component” of the 701 was the shape of the fuel tanks and the side panels: with a view to increasing downforce, Peter Wright had designed them in such a way that a vacuum was created and a suction effect was achieved. Wright had developed this concept for BRM in 1969; however, it was not used there. The March 701 was the first Formula 1 car with purpose-oriented wing profiles on the underside of the vehicle. The effects of this design were very small in practice. Robin Herd later stated that he had not had the time to thoroughly research Wright's idea, so that in fact the ground effect did not occur at all or only to a very small extent. Peter Wright realized the ground effect together with Martin Ogilvie half a decade later at Colin Chapman's Team Lotus . The Type 78 , which was built there in 1977 and consistently implemented this concept for the first time, is considered one of the most innovative cars in Formula 1 history.

Drive technology

Cosworth DFV

The March 701 was planned by the factory for the use of DFV - V8 engines from Cosworth, connected to a five-speed gearbox from Hewland (type DG300). The DFV engine, which was introduced in 1967 and financed by Ford, was the only freely available customer engine in Formula 1 in 1970. At the same time, it was the most widely used engine that year. In 1970 the output of the DFV motor was around 450 hp (331 kW), the maximum speed was 11,000 revolutions per minute.

In contrast to this, the 701/3 chassis was temporarily equipped with a 2.5 liter Cosworth DFW engine after the 1970 season for the Tasman series races. The DFW engine was a variant of the DFV, in which the shortening of the stroke led to a reduction in displacement to 2499 cm³. The DFW developed around 360 hp (265 kW).

Robin Darlington announced in the fall of 1972 the conversion of the 701/3 to a 5.0 liter eight-cylinder from Chevrolet ; whether this actually happened is unclear. In this configuration, the car was registered for a Formula 5000 race, but did not take part in the event.

Special features of the Tyrrell cars

The 701s used by the Tyrrell Racing Organization differed in some technical details from the works and other customer vehicles. Even after the first test drives in February 1970, Jackie Stewart expressed skepticism about the competitiveness of the 701. At his request, the Tyrrell mechanics made a total of 20 changes to the design of the 701. Among other things, they concerned the starting points of the wheel suspensions, as well as the positioning of the exhaust mountings and the oil cooler. During the season there were also changes to the wings and the vehicle nose. Ken Tyrrell was still not satisfied with the March cars.

Constructive defects

"Chinese copy of a McLaren Lotus": The overweight March 701

In retrospect, the March 701 is seen as a very simple and conventional car without technical experiments. Some observers already had this impression when the car was presented. The British journalist LJK Setright described the March 701 in February 1970 pejoratively as the "Chinese copy of a McLaren Lotus from 1967". The designer Robin Herd was dissatisfied with the vehicle. He later stated that he had had to make many compromises due to lack of time and financial reasons. The March 701 was not the car that he actually wanted to construct.

The shortcomings of the March 701 included its high weight, which, depending on the source, was 50 kg or 70 kg above the permissible minimum weight when it was presented, as well as the unfavorable weight distribution: with the water cooler installed in front of the front axle and the oil cooler located behind the rear axle two heavy components in extreme positions of the vehicle. This arrangement had an adverse effect on handling . In the eyes of Jackie Stewart, the 701 showed an “incomparable inertia”, especially in curves. He said the 701 was "capricious, slow to respond and inaccessible to attempts to set up." For Stewart, the 701 was the hardest car of his Formula 1 career. He even held the BRM P83 for more mobile, with his sixteen-cylinder - h engine was regarded as particularly cumbersome. Even Ronnie Peterson never found a setup in the 701 that could compensate for the unwieldiness of the car.

Another deficit was the low development potential of the 701: Due to the technical conditions, the car could only be further developed to a very limited extent. This resulted in a technical standstill at March during the season, while other designers improved their cars and increased their competitiveness.

Production: Eleven chassis

Four of the 11 March 701s produced at the 1970 Dutch Grand Prix

March 701 by Jo Siffert at the Essen Motor Show 2015

A total of eleven examples of the March 701 were made in 1970 and 1971, ten of them between November 1969 and May 1970. Together with the March 761 , which was produced in the same number, the 701 is the British’s most frequently produced Formula 1 car Racing car manufacturer. Alan Rees put the manufacturing cost at £ 3,000 for each vehicle; March mostly sold the 701 for a multiple of that amount.

701/1 and 701/5

The March works team used the chassis 701/1 and 701/5 for Chris Amon and Jo Siffert in the 1970 Formula 1 season .

The chassis 701/1 was intended for Amon. After damaging the car in an accident at the Monaco Grand Prix , March completely rebuilt the chassis. It received a newly manufactured monocoque as well as lighter tanks and coolers. The changes resulted in a weight reduction of this specimen by 30 kg.

Chassis 701/5 was Siffert's car. After an accident at the French Grand Prix , the 701/5 was also given a new monocoque. However, it was not a newly built unit, but the first monocoque of Amons 701/1, which had been repaired in the meantime. After the end of the season, Siffert parted ways with the works team. He took over the 701/5 and occasionally started it up in 1971 for his own racing team, Jo Siffert Automobiles .

701/2, 701/4 and 701/7

The chassis 701/2, 701/4 and 701/7 were taken over by the Tyrrell Racing Organization, which only used them in 1970. One of the chassis was used to rebuild the 701/6, which was destroyed in April 1971 by Frank Williams .

701/3

The chassis 701/3 was given to the STP Corporation racing team headed by Andy Granatelli . This vehicle was used in three different motorsport series. In 1970 and 1971 it appeared for six Formula 1 races. At the beginning of 1971, Chris Amon registered the car for a few outings in the Tasman series before Skip Barber contested a Formula 5000 race with him in the USA .

701/6

March began building the chassis 701/6 in April 1970, but did not finish it at first. The car was designated and registered as a replacement vehicle for the works team in the 1970 season, but in fact it was never operational at any time in 1970. The 701/6 was therefore not used in any races in 1970. At the beginning of 1971, Frank Williams took over the car and raced it eight times, six of which in races without world championship status. The 701/6 was seriously damaged twice in accidents in 1971. After the first accident, March rebuilt the car using one of the chassis from last year's Tyrrell car and numerous spare parts; after the second accident in the late summer of 1971 it was written off.

701/8

The chassis 701/8 was bought by the British customer team Antique Automobiles of the car dealer Colin Crabbe. It was only used in Formula 1 races in 1970. After the end of the 1970 season, March took the car back. Parts of the 701/8 were used for the 701/11 chassis in the following months.

701/9

The 701/9 chassis was initially taken over by the German racing driver Hubert Hahne , who registered it once and then passed it on to the French Jean-Pierre Jarier . In total, the vehicle was only registered for three races.

701/10

The chassis 701/10 was completed in the spring of 1970 and sold to Africa. The Rhodesian racing driver John Love competed with him from 1970 to 1971, possibly also in 1972, in numerous races in the South African Formula 1 Championship and a Formula 1 World Championship run.

701/11

Chassis 701/11 was not completed until early 1971 using parts from the 701/8. Mike Beuttler drove the car in 1971 in four races that were not part of the Formula 1 World Championship.

Successes and attempts to explain

Believed the success of the 701 was a matter of luck: March founder Max Mosley

Ken Tyrrell thought March 701 was “a heap of rubbish”. Nonetheless, March offered an “impressive picture” at the beginning of the 1970 Formula 1 season. At the opening race in Kyalami there were five 701's at the start. The 701 was numerically the most popular vehicle of the new season.

The March 701 had a number of hits during the first half of the 1970 season. In its first six races, the 701 achieved four pole positions , won three times and finished second four times and third once. Already at the opening race in South Africa , two March 701s were on the front row: Jackie Stewart (Tyrrell) and Chris Amon (works team) each achieved a lap time of 1: 19.3 minutes in qualifying. In Kyalami, March also achieved the first podium as a new designer. Then a series of victories began: the Race of Champions and the International Trophy , two races not counting for the World Championship, as well as the second World Championship run of the year in Spain were won by March pilots. At the Circuito del Jarama only five cars crossed the finish line, three of them were March 701. In the final ranking of the 1970 season, March finished third in the constructors' championship with 48 points, behind Lotus (59 points) and Ferrari (52 points).

The question of why a technically undemanding car from a new designer was able to achieve such successes is answered differently. For Max Mosley, the success of the 701 at the beginning of the 1970 season was based on sheer luck: March came into Formula 1 when the established teams were "still half asleep". The 701 was a "wake-up call" for Formula 1, which drove the established designers to further develop their racing cars. Jackie Stewart attributed the success of the March 701 primarily to its own special talents and those of Chris Amon: "Chris and I were quick with the 701 because we were the best drivers of the year". From Stewart's point of view, only the two of them could handle the 701 properly.

Races

The development of the March 701 was accompanied by the press with skepticism, occasionally also with ridicule: Few observers could imagine that a newly founded company would be able to design a racing car and produce several copies in a few weeks. The public was all the more surprised when, on February 6, 1970, ten weeks after development work began, Max Mosley presented two ready-to-drive 701 cars - one in the colors of the works team, the other in the guise of the Tyrrell Racing Organization - on the Silverstone Circuit and also announced the delivery of additional customer teams. A few days before the presentation, Howden Ganley had already carried out an initial test run (so-called shakedown) with Amon's car. After the presentation, March tested several 701 chassis in Kyalami, South Africa . The test drives were paid for by the tire supplier Firestone. March took in £ 27,000 as a result, an amount that ensured the company's financial survival at the time.

From March 1970 to January 1972 a total of 24 drivers took to the starting line with a March 701. Only Chris Amon and Jackie Stewart achieved victories. In addition to its own factory team, March equipped ten customer teams with 701 chassis. Other racing teams were interested in the car, among them Eifelland Caravans , which wanted to buy a 701 for Rolf Stommelen; However, due to a lack of capacity and financial resources, March was unable to manufacture any more chassis.

1970 Formula 1 season

March engineering

Best March factory driver: Chris Amon, who won the 1970 International Trophy in Silverstone with the 701

March started in 1970 with its own works team in the Formula 1 World Championship. The works team's cars were painted red and had sponsor stickers from STP . March Engineering reported New Zealander Chris Amon, who had driven for Ferrari last year, as well as Swiss Jo Siffert as drivers. March used American Firestone tires. According to observers, the March works cars were less well prepared than Tyrrell's customer cars.

In his first race for March, Amon and Jackie Stewart from the Tyrrell customer team drove the fastest training time. While Stewart was in the lead for 20 laps of the race, Amon fell back and retired after 14 laps with the engine overheating. Amon also retired from the two subsequent World Championship races in Spain and Monaco due to technical defects. He reached his first finish in a works March at the non-World Championship International Trophy in May 1970, which he won ahead of Jackie Stewart. This victory was his only one in a Formula 1 race. In the further course of the season, Amon crossed the finish line twice - in Belgium and France - in second place, a third place in Canada and three further positions in the points. In most cases, however, Amon had a large gap to the respective winners, which from the point of view of observers made clear the qualitative deficits of the March 701 compared to the Lotus 72 or the Ferrari 312B . At the end of the season, Amon had 23 world championship points - two fewer than Stewart achieved in Tyrrells March - bringing him to eighth place in the drivers' standings.

Jo Siffert, who was part of a works team for the first time, experienced a “nightmarish season” at March in 1970. The Swiss, who had achieved ninth place in the drivers' standings with 15 points in the private Lotus of the Rob Walker team last season , did not score a World Championship point in 1970. His training times were usually only enough for placements in the back third of the starting field. An exception was the German Grand Prix , where he started the race as fourth and best March driver. However, observers attribute this starting position to an error in timing. He even missed qualification at the Spanish Grand Prix (for the second time in his Formula 1 career). Siffert only crossed the finish line three times in March 701: in South Africa he finished tenth, five laps behind the winner, and ninth in Austria and the USA . He was canceled prematurely at all other events. In Monaco, Belgium and Germany he was nevertheless classified as he had completed enough laps before he retired. Most of the failures resulted from defects in the engine environment; once a suspension breakage or a driving error caused the failure. Alan Rees, one of the March founders, did not attribute the poor performance of Siffert to the defects of the car, but to the organization of the works team: The works team was almost entirely focused on the number one driver Amon. “There wasn't much left for Siffert”.

Tyrrell Racing Organization

Formula 1 debutant in March 701: François Cevert

Jackie Stewart in Tyrrells March 701 at the 1970 Dutch Grand Prix, which he finished second

Ken Tyrrell 's racing team, founded in 1960, was March Engineering's most prominent customer in 1970. The fact that the world championship team of the previous year opted for the newly developed March chassis was publicized in an effective way before Max Mosley's first car was even completed. It was a major reason why numerous other racing teams were interested in the March 701. For Tyrrell, however, the 701 was only a temporary solution from the start. Each of the three Tyrrell cars cost £ 9,000 (about DM 79,000); Ford paid the purchase price for two of them.

Following the tradition of the racing team, Tyrrell's cars were painted blue and had sponsor stickers from the French oil company Elf . Unlike the March factory team, Tyrrell used tires from Dunlop . In addition, the Tyrrell mechanics had modified the 701 in some details .

Tyrrell's top driver was Jackie Stewart, the reigning world champion, like the year before. He contested ten races of the 1970 season in March 701. Already in the first race, the Grand Prix of South Africa, he occupied pole position. Stewart led the race for the first 20 laps, then the grip on his Dunlop tires decreased and he was overtaken first by Jack Brabham ( Brabham BT33 ) and later by Denny Hulme ( McLaren M14 ). Stewart finished the race in third. In the Race of Champions that followed, Stewart started again from pole position. He was the first to cross the finish line at the Brands Hatch Circuit , giving March his first win in race two. Stewart also won the subsequent Spanish Grand Prix; in the course of the race he lapped every other driver at least once. Stewart was also in pole position in Tyrrell's March-Ford in Monaco and Belgium; in both cases, however, he was eliminated after a defect in the DFV motor. In the summer of 1970 Stewart achieved two second places in the Netherlands and Italy , but dropped out three times between these two races. It was during this time that the newly constructed Lotus 72 began to dominate . From the Canadian Grand Prix, Stewart owned the newly developed Tyrrell 001 .

In addition to Stewart, Johnny Servoz-Gavin and François Cevert drove for Tyrrell. They achieved few successes. Both came into the points only once; there was no podium position. Servoz-Gavin played the first three world championship races for the British team. By taking fifth place at the Spanish Grand Prix, he scored two world championship points in March 701. In the subsequent race in Monaco, however, Servoz-Gavin missed qualification. It was the Tyrrell team's first non-qualification since 1968. After this event, Servoz-Gavin ended his active driving career for health reasons. From the French Grand Prix, his cockpit was taken over by his compatriot François Cevert, who made his debut in a Formula 1 car in Tyrrell's March 701.

Antique Automobiles Racing Team

The March 701/8 in the colors of the Antique Automobiles Racing Team

The Antique Automobiles Racing Team was a private racing team run by British car dealer Colin Crabbe. Antique Racing had entered a used McLaren M7A for Vic Elford in 1969 and scored three world championship points with this car. For the 1970 season, Crabbe acquired a newly built March 701 (chassis 701/8), which was ready for the third world championship round in Monaco. Unlike Tyrrell, Crabbe did not modify the 701. The team used Goodyear tires . The team's driver was the Swede Ronnie Peterson, who made his Formula 1 debut here.

With the March 701 Antique Automobiles could not achieve any countable results. In his first Formula 1 race, Peterson came in seventh and thus crossed the finish line outside of the points. In the course of the season, five more finishings were added, but Peterson could not reach the result of his debut race again. Observers attributed the lack of competitiveness of the Crabbe-March to a performance deficit of the only DFV engine belonging to the team, which became increasingly weaker over the course of the season as a result of no revisions. At the end of the 1970 season, Antique Automobiles discontinued its Formula 1 involvement. Peterson moved to the March factory team in the coming year, for whom he competed until 1973.

STP Corporation

The American mineral oil company STP had been involved in motorsport as a sponsor since the 1960s. The driving force was the former racing driver Andy Granatelli , who initially acted as the company's advertising medium and after a few years moved to the company's management. The main focus was on American racing series; for example, under Granatelli's leadership, STP took part in the Indianapolis 500-mile races together with Lotus ( Lotus 56 and Lotus 64 ) . Granatelli supported the racing driver Mario Andretti , for whom he financed a cockpit in the Lotus factory team in Formula 1 in 1968 and 1969.

In 1970 Granatelli expanded its Formula 1 involvement. He signed a sponsorship deal with the March factory team. At the same time he reported his own team for the Formula 1 World Championship, which was called the STP Corporation . Mario Andretti was reported as the driver. Andretti contested five world championship runs with the March 701, in four of them he dropped out prematurely. The Spanish Grand Prix was the only race that Andretti finished. He crossed the finish line third, so that with him and the winner Jackie Stewart, two March pilots stood on the podium in Jarama. It was Andretti's first finish in a Formula 1 race.

In 1971 the team used the car in several races in different classes.

Team Hubert Hahne

Dissatisfied with the 701: Hubert Hahne

The German car dealer and racing driver Hubert Hahne bought - depending on the source for £ 18,000 or DM 160,000  - the March 701/9, which he registered in silver paint for the 1970 German Grand Prix. Initially it was planned to advertise the Bildzeitung on the car ; however, a sponsorship contract with Springer-Verlag did not materialize.

Without having tested the car, Hahne achieved a lap time of 2: 07.100 minutes in qualifying at the Hockenheimring , which was 7.6 seconds longer than Jacky Ickx , who had achieved pole position in the Ferrari 312B . This made him the slowest driver and missed qualification by almost two seconds.

Hahne blamed March for his failure; He claimed that March had given him "half a pile of junk" instead of a racing car that was ready to go: The road holding of the car was poor, the gear ratio was faulty and the electrical wiring was incorrectly polarized. In addition, the brakes would not have worked. He filed a lawsuit against March Engineering and had the works cars confiscated when the works team's vans drove over German territory on their way back to Great Britain after the Austrian Grand Prix . As a result of the seizure, March Engineering could not, as planned, take part in the International Gold Cup , a Formula 1 race in August 1970 in Oulton Park that was not part of the world championship.

To clarify the allegations, at the suggestion of March manager Max Mosley, a comparison drive in Silverstone between Hahnes 701/9 and the 701/8 of the Antique Automobiles Team took place. Ronnie Peterson drove both cars and achieved a time two seconds faster in Hahnes 701/9 than in his 701/8. Hahne then withdrew his complaint. He passed the 701/9 on to Jean-Pierre Jarier the following year .

1971 Formula 1 season

In 1971 the March 701 was registered by seven racing teams for Formula 1 races, mostly races that did not have world championship status. The 701 did not score any World Championship points in 1971.

Williams

In 1971, Henri Pescarolo drove the 701 for Frank Williams' racing team

Frank Williams registered his racing team Frank Williams Racing Cars  - the predecessor of the Williams F1 team, which is still involved in Formula 1 today  - for the Formula 1 World Championship for the first time in 1969 after a few years in Formula 2 . In 1971, Williams was supported by the French oil company Motul , who financed a cockpit at Williams for the French Henri Pescarolo . Williams primarily used a newly built March 711 this season . However, since the car was not yet available for customer teams in the first few months of 1971, Williams used a 701 (chassis number 701/6) for the first races.

At the Argentine Grand Prix , which was not part of the World Championship, Pescarolo came third in the 701/6 behind Rolf Stommelen in the factory Surtees and Jo Siffert in his private March 701/5. Pescarolo also drove the 701/6 at the Spanish Grand Prix , the first world championship run of the year. Here he finished eleventh. From the following race, Williams regularly used the new 711 for Pescarolo.

Williams kept the 701/6, however, in order to give it to some Paydriver in 1971 , on which he was dependent to secure the team budget. The 701/6 was used again at the French Grand Prix when Williams announced a second vehicle for the Frenchman Max Jean . Jean, who had not contested a Formula 1 race before, drove a qualifying time that was 9.08 seconds longer than Jackie Stewart's pole time. This result was not enough for qualification. However, as the qualified Nanni Galli , who drove a works March 711 with an Alfa Romeo engine, did not start due to a technical defect, Jean was given permission to start. Jeans March suffered a gearbox defect during the race, which resulted in a long pit stop. He finally finished the race, but crossed the finish line nine laps behind and was not classified. Williams finally registered the 701/6 for Carlos Pace at the Italian Grand Prix , but could not use it because Tony Trimmer had seriously damaged the car two weeks earlier in an accident in Oulton Park.

Numerous other pilots drove the 701/6 for Williams in non-world championship races. Ray Allen started in the Race of Champions , which he finished sixth, as well as the Jochen Rindt Memorial Race at the Hockenheimring. Derek Bell drove the 701/6 at the Questor Grand Prix , which was held on March 28, 1971 in Ontario , California and is considered the first edition of the US Grand Prix (West) . The first run of this race, which Mario Andretti won for Ferrari, he finished in 13th place, but he could not finish the second run due to a broken suspension. In the overall standings, Bell took 15th place, two places behind John Cannon , who drove the identical 701/3 for STP. A month later, Northern Irish racing driver Cyd Williams destroyed the 701/6 at the Daily Express International Spring Trophy in Oulton Park. In August 1971, Trimmer damaged the car, which had since been rebuilt, again in the same place.

STP Corporation

The American team STP Corporation is the only one to use the March 701 in various racing series. After the end of the Formula 1 season in 1970, STP launched the 701/3 in January 1971 for Chris Amon and David Oxton in the Tasman series . For these races the car got a 2.5 liter DFW engine. In March 1971 it was upgraded to the 3.0 liter DFV engine.

STP registered the 701/3 in this form for the Canadian racing driver John Cannon for the Questor Grand Prix. In the first run of this race, Cannon retired after 29 of 32 laps, in the second run he was ninth. In the overall standings, he finished 12th.

The 701/3 was not used again in Formula 1. The car was later converted for the Formula 5000 and contested a race. Years later, Granatelli converted the tub on his 701 into a flower box.

Jo Siffert Automobiles

Racing driver and team boss: Jo Siffert

Jo Siffert left the March works team at the end of 1970. For the 1971 season he received a works contract with the British racing team BRM , for which he competed in every world championship run of the year, won one race - the Austrian Grand Prix  - and won 19 world championship points over the course of the year import. At the same time, he had his own racing team, Jo Siffert Automobiles , based in Freiburg ( Switzerland ). The team had taken over the March 701/5, which Siffert had driven in the 1970 factory in the 1970 season.

Siffert drove the car himself at the Argentina Grand Prix in January 1971. In the months that followed, he made the car available to three racing drivers one after the other, each of whom started a Formula 1 race. At the Daily Express International Spring Trophy on April 19, 1971 in Oulton Park, a non-World Championship race, Alan Rollinson started for Jo Siffert Automobiles in March 701/5, while Siffert drove a BRM P160 himself . Only twelve drivers took part in the race. Rollinson's qualifying time was 13 seconds longer than Jackie Stewart's pole time. He was the last to start the race and finished fifth, four laps behind the winner Pedro Rodríguez (BRM). Two months later, at the Jochen Rindt memorial race at the Hockenheimring, which was also not part of the world championship, Siffert left the car to the Swiss Xavier Perrot . In qualifying, Perrot was almost 20 seconds slower than Jacky Ickx. He finished eleventh four laps behind.

On the occasion of the French Grand Prix in July 1971, the 701/5 appeared in a world championship run that year. Jo Siffert Automobiles registered the car for the Parisian racing driver François Mazet , who contested his only Formula 1 race here. Mazet qualified for last place on the grid, more than 9 seconds behind pole driver Stewart; he was still behind his compatriot Max Jean, who launched the largely identical 701/6 for Frank Williams. Mazet finished the race and was classified 14th and last, nine laps behind.

Shell Arnold

The 701/9, which Hubert Hahne acquired in 1970, appeared in two Formula 1 races in 1971 under the French racing driver Jean-Pierre Jarier. The Shell team reported the car to Arnold at least once . Behind the racing stable based in Phalsbourg in Lorraine was the furniture dealer Marcel Arnold, who has supported various French racing drivers in various motor sport classes since 1964. In 1971 Jean-Pierre Jarier and Jean-Pierre Jaussaud contested almost the entire Formula 2 season with Arnold's support. In the same year Arnold financed Jean-Pierre Jarier's first two Formula 1 outings, for which the Frenchman borrowed the March 701/9 from Hubert Hahne.

For the first time Jarier appeared with the 701/9 in late August 1971 at the International Gold Cup in Oulton Park, which had no world championship status. The name under which the report was made is unclear. Some sources cite Goodwin Racing Services , others Hubert Hahne . Jarier did not receive any technical assistance from March for this race. In qualifying, he achieved a lap time of 2:14 minutes with the poorly prepared car. He was 48 seconds slower than Peter Gethin in the factory BRM P160 on pole position. Jarier was the last to start. He crossed the finish line in both races, but had only completed 16 and 18 of 20 laps each.

At the Italian Grand Prix two weeks later in Monza , Jarier made his debut with the 701/9 in the Formula 1 World Championship. It was - one and a half years after the model's debut - the last Formula 1 world championship run for which a March 701 was reported. For this race he again received financial support from Marcel Arnold. The car was registered by the Shell Arnold Team - with stickers from Hubert Hahne Racing . In Monza he qualified for last place on the grid; his gap to Chris Amon's pole time in the Matra MS120 B was 5.7 seconds. In the race, Jarier covered 47 of 55 laps. He crossed the finish line in twelfth place, but was not classified because he was too far behind.

Team Gunston

Team Gunston was a South Rhodesian or Rhodesian racing team that was founded in 1962 by the racing driver John Love and was based in Bulawayo . Love has participated with his racing team in the South African Formula 1 Championship since 1962 , which he won six times in a row. In addition, since 1962 he started regularly at the Grand Prix of South Africa , which with the exception of 1966 had world championship status. In the 1960s, Love regularly used used racing cars from British designers such as the Cooper T55 , the Brabham BT20 or the Lotus 49 . In June 1970 he took over March 701/10.

The 701/10 appeared in almost all races of the South African Formula 1 Championship in the following year and a half . In addition, Love also used it in a Formula 1 world championship run: At the 1971 Grand Prix of South Africa , Love qualified for 21st place in the 701/10. In qualifying, he was two seconds slower than Ronnie Peterson, who drove a new 711 for the March works team. In the race, Love was temporarily ahead of Peterson, but after 30 laps he was out of the points and retired with a gearbox defect.

Tom Wheatcroft Racing

Rode two races in the 701: Derek Bell

The British building contractor Frederik Bernard “Tom” Wheatcroft has competed in numerous sports car races as a so-called gentleman driver since the mid-1960s , including Ferrari vehicles. In early 1970 Wheatcroft founded his own motorsport team, which he registered for Derek Bell in the Formula 2 championship. Bell was runner-up in the series in 1970 behind Clay Regazzoni . He also drove individual Formula 1 races for Wheatcroft that year, but achieved no success.

At the beginning of the 1971 Formula 1 season, Wheatcroft took over Chris Amons in March 701/1. He again registered the car for Bell for the Argentine Grand Prix, a Formula 1 race without world championship status. Besides him, Pescarolo and Siffert started here with their 701s. Bell started the race as eighth and last of the three 701 pilots, which was held in two races. Bell finished seventh in the first run and retired after 38 laps due to an engine failure in the second run. In the overall standings, Bell finally came in fifth.

Then Wheatcroft hired his motorsport team. In the following years he financed a cockpit in a factory march for his friend Roger Williamson . Bell drove another Formula 1 race for Williams in a March 701 in 1971.

Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie

The British racing driver Mike Beuttler made his Formula 1 debut in 1971. He reported his own racing team called Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie . The team was named after three investors who financed Beuttler's motorsport commitment. The emergency vehicle was initially the March 701/11, which was built by March Engineering at the end of 1970. Beuttler only drove the car in four Formula 1 races that did not have world championship status. His best result was ninth place in the Spring Trophy in April 1971 at Oulton Park. Three months later, he replaced the 701 with the March 711/2, which Ronnie Peterson had driven for the March factory team. With this vehicle, Beuttler took part in numerous world championship races.

South African Formula 1 Championship

A copy of the March 701 (chassis 701/10) appeared regularly in the South African Formula 1 championship for two years.

The South African Formula 1 Championship was a motor racing series that was held from 1960 to 1975 on race tracks in South Africa , Southern Rhodesia and Rhodesia as well as in Mozambique . The regulations largely corresponded to those of Formula 1 . The races were national events in which mainly South African and Rhodesian drivers competed. Apart from a few in-house designs such as the LDS , the drivers mainly used older British racing cars from Brabham, Lotus or McLaren that they had taken over as used vehicles.

In the late 1960s, Rhodesian John Love and his team Gunston dominated the series. In a two-year-old Lotus 49 , he won the championship for the sixth consecutive year in 1969. The following year, Love's supremacy ended. His South African competitor Dave Charlton , with the support of Lucky Strike, bought a Lotus 49C that was almost two years younger than Love's vehicle. Love hoped to beat Charlton by fielding a new, competitive car. His choice fell on the March 701, which had caused a stir in the first races of the Formula 1 World Championship.

The hope was not fulfilled. John Love's Team Gunston used March 701 between June 1970 and October 1971 (according to other sources: January 1972) in 15 or 16 rounds of the South African Formula 1 Championship and achieved only irregular success with it. Love crossed the finish line seven times during this time - four times as the winner and three times as second -; However, the successes were offset by nine mostly technical failures. These results were not enough to keep ahead of Charlton in the final scores of 1970 and 1971.

1970

In the first race of March 701/10, the Bulawayo 100 , on June 21, 1970 on the Kumalo Circuit in Bulawayo, Rhodes, Love drove a victory. His March 701 was the youngest car to be entered for this race. The competing drivers drove cars that were a year or two old and many of which had already raced in the Formula 1 World Championship. Love won the race by a narrow margin over Paddy Driver , who raced a Formula 5000 - McLaren M10 built in 1969 . The following three races on the South African routes Kyalami , Roy Hesketh and Killarney did not finish Love. He retired twice with engine failure, and once he was unable to start for the same reason. It wasn't until the Grand Prix of Rhodesia on September 13, 1970 that he crossed the finish line again; here he had to admit defeat to his rival Dave Charlton. In the final standings, Love was second with 37 points, behind Charlton, who had scored 67 points.

1971

Love reported March 701/10 the following year for the first six races of the new championship. He only crossed the finish line twice: he won the Goldfields Autumn Trophy in Welkom , and he finished second in the Highveld 100 . At four other events in the first half of 1971 he failed due to technical problems with his March. Disappointed with the quality of the car, Love replaced the March in June 1971 with a Surtees TS9 (chassis 003), with which he contested five races. Love won the Mozambique Grand Prix in the TS9 in 1971 , which observers attribute to the fact that Love's competitor Charlton did not take part in the race. After Love had badly damaged the TS9 in an accident at the subsequent 25th Anniversary Trophy , he used the March 701/10 again in the following six races, with which he achieved further victories at the False Bay 100 and the Grand Prix of Rhodesia in 1971 . At the last race of the season, the Goldfields 100 in Welkom, Love finished second in the 701/10. He finished the season with 45 points third in the championship behind Dave Charlton (72 points) and Jackie Pretorius (48 points).

It  is doubtful whether Love contested the first race of the 1972 season - the Highvelt 100 in Kyalami - in the 701/10 in January 1972 ; there are different details on this. From February 1972 Love drove a Brabham BT33 .

Tasman series

Engaged in the Tasman series in March 701: Chris Amon

The Tasman Series was a motorsport series that was held in Australia and New Zealand from 1964 to 1975 . In the first few years, the series' regulations followed those of Formula 1. The races took place in the first few weeks of the new year, so they were between the end of the previous and the beginning of the upcoming Formula 1 world championship season. This termination made the Tasman series interesting for teams and pilots participating in the Formula 1 World Championship: the pilots often used the events as training for the upcoming World Championship, and some works teams tested their new designs at the Tasman races, which were in the new season should be used. That changed at the beginning of the 1970s: From 1970, in order to reduce costs, Formula 5000 vehicles with near-series American eight-cylinder engines were also permitted. They dominated the series from 1972 until it was discontinued.

In the 1971 Tasman season, the March 701 appeared in four races. After the Formula 1 World Championship in 1970, Chris Amon took over the 701/3, which was used by Mario Andretti in 1970 for the STP Corporation. Along with Jackie Stewart, Amon was the only racing driver to compete in two 701s. The car received a 2.5 liter Cosworth DFW engine that developed around 360 hp. Compared to the large-displacement Formula 5000 cars, the 701 was underpowered; above all, the engine lacked torque.

The car was reported twice for Chris Amon. At the opening race in Levin , Amon crossed the finish line in third, half a minute behind the winner, Graham McRae . Amon drove the car again two weeks later at the Lady Wigram Trophy in Christchurch ; here he was fifth. In both cases, Amon was the best driver with a Formula 1 engine.

Amon recognized the inefficiency of the 701/3 and replaced it for the rest of the season with a Lotus 70 , which was equipped with a 5-liter Ford engine. The 701/3 was passed on to David Oxton , who also took it to the start in two races. Oxton's first outing in the 701 was the New Zealand Grand Prix . Here he had to give up prematurely after breaking the half-wave. Two weeks later he finished the Teretonga International Race in seventh place. After that, Oxton also gave up March.

Formula 5000

American Formula 5000 Championship

The March 701/3 started in 1971 in a race in the American Formula 5000 championship.

The American racing driver Skip Barber took over the 701/3 in early 1971 from Chris Amon, who had used the car several times in the Tasman series. He had the vehicle converted back to the original Formula 1 configuration at March, so that it was again equipped with a 3.0 liter Cosworth DFV engine. He then registered the car for the Gene Mason Racing-STP team for the Riverside Grand Prix on April 21, 1971 at the Riverside International Raceway . Barber was one of only two drivers who did not compete in this race with a 5.0 liter eight-cylinder engine.

Barber qualified for sixth place on the grid on the California circuit. He was 2.2 seconds behind David Hobbs, who was fastest in training . On race day he only took part in the first run. He damaged the March so badly in an accident on lap 23 that participation in the second run was out of the question. Regardless, Barber was ranked 26th. He received $ 950 in prize money. A month later he took over a March 711 (chassis 711/5), which he reported for some rounds of the 1971 Formula 1 World Championship.

European Formula 5000 Championship

In 1972 Robin Darlington reported March 701/11 with a 5-liter Chevrolet engine for the 13th round of the European Formula 5000 Championship in Oulton Park. However, the car did not take part in the race.

Location of the vehicles

Attached to the wall: A March 701 in the Grand Prix Collection Donington Park (2007 image)

There is only incomplete information about the whereabouts of the eleven vehicles and their possible locations. The 701/2 used by Jackie Stewart belonged to a British collector in 2013; the restored and race-ready car was the subject of photo documentation in a specialist magazine. A chassis in the colors of the Antique Automobiles team also existed in 2013. It is unclear whether it was actually Ronnie Peterson's 701/8. According to descriptions in the specialist literature, the 701/8 was dismantled at the end of 1971 and used as a parts dispenser for Mike Beuttler's 701/11. A third 701 was in Tom Wheatcroft's Grand Prix Collection in Donington Park until 2007 . It was painted in the colors of the March factory team and was associated with Chris Amon. With regard to the other copies of the 701, only general information is available about the countries in which the cars are to be parked.

Deadly accident

On September 2, 2017, the French racing driver David Ferrer had a fatal accident with his March 701 at a Historic Grand Prix in Zandvoort . The car had the paintwork of the STP vehicle originally used by Mario Andretti.

Race results

Formula 1 world championship races

season	team	chassis	driver	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	Points	rank
1970																	48	3.
	March engineering	701/1	C.Amon	DNF	DNF	DNF	2	DNF	2	5	DNF	8th	7th	3	5	4th
		701/5	J. Siffert	10	DNQ	8th	7th	DNF	DNF	DNF	8th	9	DNF	DNF	9	DNF
	Tyrrell Racing Organization	701/2 701/4	J. Stewart	3	1	DNF	DNF	2	9	DNF	DNF	DNF	2
		701/7	J. Servoz-Gavin	DNF	5	DNQ
			F. Cevert					DNF	11	7th	7th	DNF	6th		DNF	DNF
	Antique Automobiles Racing Team	701/8	R. Peterson			7th	NC	9	DNF	9	DNF		DNF	NC	11
	Team Hubert Hahne	701/9	H. Taps								DNQ
	STP Corporation	701/3	M. Andretti	DNF	3					DNF	DNF	DNF
1971																	0	-
	Frank Williams Racing Cars	701/6	H. Pescarolo	11
			M. Jean					NC
	Team Gunston	701/10	J. Love	DNF
	Jo Siffert Automobiles	701/5	F. Mazet					11
	Shell Arnold	701/9	J.-P. Jarier									NC

Formula 1 races without world championship status

season	team	chassis	driver	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
1970
	Tyrrell	701/2	J. Stewart	1	2
	March engineering	701/1	C. Amon	DNF	1
1971
	Tom Wheatcroft Racing	701/1	D. Bell	5
	STP Corporation	701/3	J. Cannon			12
	Jo Siffert Automobiles	701/5	J. Siffert	6th
			A. Rollinson				5
			X. Perrot						11
	Frank Williams Racing Cars	701/6	H. Pescarolo	2
			R. Allen		5				DNF
			D. Bell			11
			C. Williams				DNS
			T. trimmer							16
	Shell Arnold	701/9	J.-P. Jarier							16
	Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie	701/11	M. Beuttler		DNF		9	11	NC

literature

• Jacqueline Cevert-Beltoise, Johnny Rives: François Cevert - Pilote de Legende. L'Autodrome Éditions, Saint-Cloud 2013, ISBN 978-2-910434-33-5 .
• Adriano Cimarosti: The Century of Racing . 1st edition. Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9 .
• Andrew Frankel: Quick March . MotorSport, issue 3/2013, p. 86 ff.
• Maurice Hamilton: Frank Williams. The inside story of the man behind Williams-Renault . London 1998. ISBN 0-333-71716-3 .
• Robin Herd: A year on the March . Autocar of January 7, 1971, p. 28 f.
• David Hodges: A – Z of Grand Prix Cars 1906–2001 , 2001 (Crowood Press), ISBN 1-86126-339-2 (English)
• David Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945 , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7
• Innes Ireland: Beware of the Ides of March . Presentation of March 701 in: Autocar of February 12, 1970, p. 40 ff.
• Mike Lawrence: March, The Rise and Fall of a Motor Racing Legend . MRP, Orpington 2001, ISBN 1-899870-54-7 .
• Pierre Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1 , 2nd edition, St. Sulpice, 2000, ISBN 2-940125-45-7 (French)
• Doug Nye: Autocourse history of the Grand Prix car 1966-85 . Hazleton publishing 1986, ISBN 0-905138-37-6 (English)
• LJK Setright: On the March. Car, issue February 1970, p. 36ff.
• Ken Stewart, Norman Reich: Sun on the Grid. Grand Prix and Endurance Racing in Southern Africa . London 1967. ISBN 1-870519-49-3
• Simon Taylor: Porridge with Robin Herd . MotorSport, issue 3/2010, p. 74 ff.
• Simon Taylor: The First of March . Presentation of the March 701 in MotorSport, issue 8/2010, p. 56 ff.

Web links

Commons : March 701  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• March 701 on the website www.oldracingcars.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Two chassis were about 30 kg lighter each.
2. ↑ Mike Lawrence: March, The Rise and Fall of a Motor Racing Legend . MRP, Orpington 2001, ISBN 1-899870-54-7 , p. 11.
3. ↑ On sponsoring: Adriano Cimarosti: Das Jahrhundert des Rennsports , Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9 , p. 212.
4. ^ David Hodges: Racing cars from A – Z after 1945 , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 158.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} David Hodges: A – Z of Grand Prix Cars 1906–2001 , 2001 (Crowood Press), ISBN 1-86126-339-2 , p. 144.
6. ↑ The car was originally marketed as the Gremshek 693. It made its debut on September 28, 1969 under Ronnie Peterson in a Formula 3 race at Cadwell Park. See Mike Lawrence: March, The Rise and Fall of a Motor Racing Legend . MRP, Orpington 2001, ISBN 1-899870-54-7 , p. 25.
7. ↑ Mike Lawrence: March, The Rise and Fall of a Motor Racing Legend . MRP, Orpington 2001, ISBN 1-899870-54-7 , p. 22.
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} MotorSport, issue 3/2013, p. 86 ff.
9. ↑ The CG911 was reported by the Leyton House team in 1991 . It was the former March factory team that had been taken over by the Japanese Leyton House in 1988. The car reappeared as the March 911B in 1992.
10. ↑ The only exception was the March 87P from 1987 .
11. ↑ David Hodges: Racing cars from A – Z after 1945 , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 159. Cars for the Formula Atlantic as well as racing cars were named according to a different system.
12. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Adriano Cimarosti: The Century of Racing , Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9 , p. 227.
13. ↑ ^{a b c d} Mike Lawrence: March, The Rise and Fall of a Motor Racing Legend . MRP, Orpington 2001, ISBN 1-899870-54-7 , p. 28.
14. ↑ Cosworth's Formula One car was a four-wheel drive vehicle that was tested by Brian Redman and Jackie Stewart in the early months of 1969. Cosworth registered the car at the 1969 British Grand Prix, but withdrew the report after Herd went to March. For the Cosworth 4WD cf. David Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945 , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 69.
15. ↑ Auto Car, issue 1/1971, p. 28.
16. ↑ One exception was the Lotus 72, which was introduced in the middle of the 1970 Formula 1 season.
17. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} MotorSport Heft 8/2010, p. 56 ff.
18. ↑ Autocar of February 12, 1970, p. 40.
19. ↑ ^{a b} Adriano Cimarosti: The century of racing , Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9 , S. 275th
20. ↑ ^{a b c d} David Hodges: Racing cars from A – Z after 1945 , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 159.
21. ^ ^{A b} Mike Lawrence: March, The Rise and Fall of a Motor Racing Legend . MRP, Orpington 2001, ISBN 1-899870-54-7 , p. 29.
22. ↑ MotorSport, Issue 3/2010, p. 74 ff.
23. ^ Doug Nye: Autocourse history of the Grand Prix car 1966-85 , Hazleton publishing 1986, ISBN 0-905138-37-6 , p. 96.
24. ↑ Adriano Cimarosti: The century of racing , Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9 , p 227 and 275th
25. ↑ Of 21 teams that competed in the World Championship, 18 used a DFV motor. Only Ferrari, BRM and Matra used engines they had designed themselves. McLaren also used Cosworth engines; in addition, in some races the team fitted a third car with an Alfa Romeo engine, which was used by the March factory team in 1971.
26. ↑ Adriano Cimarosti: The century of racing , Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9 , S. 232nd
27. ^ Graham Robson: Horses for Courses . Description of the Cosworth DFV engine in: Motor Sport Heft 7/1983, p. 44 ff.
28. ↑ For the statistics of the championship run in Oulton Park 1972, see. the website www.oldracingcars.com (accessed April 1, 2014).
29. ↑ ^{a b} Pierre Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1 , 2nd edition, St. Sulpice, 2000, ISBN 2-940125-45-7 , p. 528.
30. ↑ ^{a b c} Pierre Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1 , 2nd edition, St. Sulpice, 2000, ISBN 2-940125-45-7 , p. 382.
31. ↑ Car, issue February 1970, p. 36 ff.
32. ^ ^{A b} Mike Lawrence: March, The Rise and Fall of a Motor Racing Legend . MRP, Orpington 2001, ISBN 1-899870-54-7 , p. 31.
33. ↑ Stewart drove the P83 in 1966 and 1967 and achieved only a few world championship points with the car.
34. ^ ^{A b} Rainer Nyberg, Mattijs Diepraam: Super Swede. Biography of Ronnie Peterson on 8w.forix.com (accessed April 1, 2014).
35. ↑ For the individual chassis cf. the racing history of the March 701 on the website www.oldracingcars.com (accessed on April 1, 2014).
36. ^ ^{A b} Mike Lawrence: March, The Rise and Fall of a Motor Racing Legend . MRP, Orpington 2001, ISBN 1-899870-54-7 , p. 26.
37. ↑ ^{a b c d} Mike Lawrence: March, The Rise and Fall of a Motor Racing Legend . MRP, Orpington 2001, ISBN 1-899870-54-7 , pp. 244 f.
38. ^ Rob Widdows: The best kept secrets ... , Motorsport Magazine, Issue 9/2008, S: 73.
39. ↑ ^{a b} Adriano Cimarosti: The century of racing , Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9 , S. 228th
40. ↑ This count takes into account both world championship races and Formula 1 races without world championship status up to July 1970. Limited to the world championship races, there were one victory, two second places and one third place.
41. ↑ Information on the starting line-up for the 1970 Grand Prix of South Africa on the website www.motorsport-total.com (accessed on April 1, 2014).
42. ↑ Results of the Spanish Grand Prix 1970 on the website www.motorsport-total.com (accessed on April 1, 2014).
43. ↑ Mike Lawrence: March, The Rise and Fall of a Motor Racing Legend . MRP, Orpington 2001, ISBN 1-899870-54-7 , p. 24.
44. ↑ Eifelland initially bought an old Brabham BT33 for the 1970 season. In the 1972 season the connection to March was finally established: Eifelland bought a March 721 (chassis 721/4), which was provided with an individual body by Luigi Colani.
45. ↑ The works team existed until 1977. At the end of this season, the German Formula 1 team ATS took over the technical equipment of the works team. March Engineering continued as a racing car manufacturer into the 1990s and again competed in the Formula 1 World Championship with its own team from 1988 to 1992.
46. ↑ At the French Grand Prix, Amon crossed the finish line seven seconds after the winner; in Canada, he was third in the Ferrari, almost one lap behind Jackie Ickx .
47. ↑ Mike Lawrence: March, The Rise and Fall of a Motor Racing Legend . MRP, Orpington 2001, ISBN 1-899870-54-7 , p. 41.
48. ↑ For the Grand Prix of Monaco, Belgium, the Netherlands , Germany, Italy , Canada and Mexico , engine defects or faults in fuel injection are given as reasons for failure. See overview of the racing results for the 1970 Formula 1 season on the website www.motorsport-total.com (accessed on April 1, 2014).
49. ↑ Historical exchange rates. Accessed April 4, 2014.
50. ↑ Cevert had already contested his first Grand Prix in Germany in 1969 ; at this event, however, he drove the Formula 2 Tecno TF69 . See Jacqueline Cevert-Beltoise, Johnny Rives: François Cevert - Pilote de Legende. L'Autodrome Éditions, Saint-Cloud 2013, ISBN 978-2-910434-33-5 , p. 94.
51. ↑ Figure of March 701/8  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (accessed April 1, 2014).
52. ↑ Brief description of March 701/8 on the website www.ultimatecarpage.com (accessed on April 1, 2014).
53. ↑ ^{a b c} Helmut Zwickl: Grand Prix in the arena . Report on the German Grand Prix 1970 in: Auto motor und Sport, Issue 17/1970, p. 79.
54. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ferdi Krähling, Gregor Messer: Sieg or Selters. The German drivers in Formula 1 . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7688-3686-9 , p. 45.
55. ↑ Image of the silver painted March 701/9 on the website www.ultimatecarpage.com (accessed on April 1, 2014).
56. ↑ Portrait of Hubert Hahnes on the website www.grandprix.com (accessed on April 1, 2014).
57. ↑ ^{a b c} Statistics of the 1971 Argentina Grand Prix on the website www.silhouet.com (accessed April 1, 2014).
58. ↑ Maurice Hamilton: Frank Williams. The inside story of the man behind Williams-Renault . London 1998. ISBN 0-333-71716-3 , p. 38.
59. ↑ Max Jeans biography on the website www.f1rejects.com (accessed April 1, 2014).
60. ↑ ^{a b} Statistics of the Questor Grand Prix 1971 on the website www.formula2.net (accessed on April 1, 2014).
61. ↑ Illustration of the Garage Jo Siffert Automobiles with the March 701/5 in the foreground (accessed on April 1, 2014).
62. ^ Statistics of the Daily Express International Spring Trophy 1971 on the website www.formula2.net (accessed on April 1, 2014).
63. ↑ Statistics on the Jochen Rindt memorial race 1971 on the website www.formula2.net (accessed on April 1, 2014).
64. ↑ Description of March 701/9 on the website www.ultimatecarpage.com (accessed on April 1, 2014).
65. ↑ Statistics of the International Gold Cup 1971 on the website www.formula2.net (accessed on April 1, 2014).
66. ↑ Statistics of the International Gold Cup on the website www.racingsportscars.com (accessed on April 1, 2014).
67. ↑ Statistics of the International Gold Cup on the website www.formula2.net (accessed on April 1, 2014).
68. ↑ In the following months the 701/10 appeared in four South African races.
69. ^ Illustration of March 701/9 at the Grand Prix of Italy 1971 (accessed on April 1, 2014).
70. ↑ Overview of the South African Formula 1 World Championship on the website www.russell-sheldon.com ( Memento from September 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 1, 2014).
71. ↑ Ken Stewart, Norman Reich: Sun on the Grid. Grand Prix and Endurance Racing in Southern Africa , London 1967, ISBN 1-870519-49-3 , p. 118.
72. ↑ Statistics of the South African Grand Prix 1971 on the website www.motorsport-total.com (accessed on April 1, 2014).
73. ^ Illustration of John Loves in the 701 (start number 24) at the South African Grand Prix in 1971 ; the red car behind the 701 is Ronnie Peterson's 711/2.
74. ↑ At the Grand Prix of Belgium it failed for technical reasons. See the Tom Wheatcroft Racing story on www.grandprix.com (accessed April 1, 2014).
75. ↑ Mattijs Diepraam, Rob Young: Grand Prix at the Cape . Overview of the South African Formula 1 Championship on the website www.forix.com (accessed April 1, 2014).
76. ↑ In 1970 Charlton drove the Lotus 49R8, which was built in late 1968 and was driven by Graham Hill in the 1969 Formula 1 World Championship. See racing history of the Lotus 49 R8 on the website www.oldracingcars.com ( memento of the original from November 30, 2015 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. (accessed April 1, 2014). 
77. ↑ ^{a b} Overview of the races of the South African Formula 1 Championship 1970 on the website www.silhouet.com (accessed on April 1, 2014).
78. ↑ ^{a b c} biography of John Loves on the website www.forix.com (accessed April 1, 2014).
79. ↑ Overview of the races of March 701/10 on the website www.oldracingcars.com ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2016 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. (accessed April 1, 2014). 
80. ↑ Racing history of the Surtees TS9 on the website www.oldracingcars.com ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed April 1, 2014). 
81. ↑ For the final evaluation of the South African Formula 1 Championship in 1971, see the website www.silhouet.com/motorsport (accessed on April 1, 2014).
82. ↑ The website www.oldracingcars.com ( Memento of the original from December 29, 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. lists the 701/10 for this race, other sources such as the website www.silhouet.com assume that Love competed in this race with the rebuilt Surtees TS9. This is also seen in a www.forix.com biography of John Love . (All sources accessed April 1, 2014). 
83. ↑ This does not take into account the Grand Prix of South Africa, which was held at the beginning of January and was not contested by all World Championship teams. There were usually several months between them and the next world championship run.
84. ↑ Race Report for the 12th International Race Levin on the website www.sergent.com.au (accessed on 1 April 2014).
85. ↑ Race report on the Lady Wigram Trophy on the website www.sergent.com.au (accessed on April 1, 2014).
86. ↑ Racing history of March 701/3 on the website www.oldracingcars.com ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2016 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. (accessed April 1, 2014) 
87. ↑ The other driver was Max Mizejewski, who reported a March 71BM with a 1.6 liter Ford four-cylinder engine.
88. ↑ On the whole: Statistics of the Riverside Grand Prix on the website www.oldracingcars.com (accessed on April 1, 2014).
89. ↑ History of March 701/11 on the website www.oldracingcars.com ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 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. (accessed April 1, 2014). 
90. ↑ Statistics of the championship run in Oulton Park on the website www.oldracingcars.com (accessed April 1, 2014).
91. ↑ Andrew Frankel: Quick March . MotorSport, issue 3/2013, p. 86 ff.
92. ↑ March 701 on the website www.oldracingcars.com (accessed on April 6, 2014).
93. ↑ Marcus Pye, Jack Benyon: French driver David Ferrer dies after Zandvoort Historic GP Crash. Message on the website www.autosport.com dated September 7, 2017 (accessed on November 1, 2017).
94. ↑ March Engineering achieved fourth place in the constructors' championship in 1971 with 33 world championship points. These points were all achieved with the successor to the 701, the March 711.

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