Race · Round 1 of 13 · 7 March 1970

1970 South African Grand Prix

Sir Jack Brabham won for Brabham from 3rd on the grid at Kyalami. 10 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: KyalamiMidrand, South Africa
Winner: Sir Jack BrabhamBrabham
Pole: Sir Jackie Stewart
Fastest lap: Sir Jack Brabham
Entries: 2313 classified

Two sources disagree about this race

fastest lap

Sir Jack BrabhamagainstJohn Surtees

The harvest credits Brabham alone with the 1:20.8; F1DB credits Surtees and Brabham both, as a shared fastest lap (until PD-53 the fetch kept only the first row of a tie, so this read as Surtees alone). The race article credits Brabham and footnotes that some sources credit both, so this is a real disagreement between sources and stays open. The single-name reading is kept because the reference record sides with it: Surtees's total is 10 on formula1.com and in his career infobox, and the hand-entered 11 was already corrected to 10 on that evidence (CORRECTIONS). That is a reason to prefer one reading, not proof the other is wrong. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_South_African_Grand_Prix

Recorded rather than resolved, and open for somebody to settle. Every one is listed on the quality page. If you can settle it against a source that can be checked, report what you have.

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	BT33	3	80	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Denny Hulme	McLaren	M14A	6	80	Finished	6
3	Sir Jackie Stewart	March	701	1	80	Finished	4
4	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	MS120	8	80	Finished	3
5	John Miles	Team Lotus	—	14	79	Finished	2
6	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	—	19	79	Finished	1
7	Henri Pescarolo	Matra	MS120	18	78	Finished	0
8	John Love	Team Lotus	49	22	78	Finished	0
9	Pedro Rodriguez	BRM	—	16	76	Finished	0
10	Jo Siffert	March	701	9	75	Finished	0
11	Peter de Klerk	Brabham	BT26A	21	75	Finished	0
12	Dave Charlton	Team Lotus	49C	13	73	Engine	0
13	Jochen Rindt	Team Lotus	—	4	72	Engine	0
DNF	John Surtees	McLaren	M7C	7	60	Engine	0
DNF	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	312B	5	60	Engine	0
DNF	George Eaton	BRM	—	23	58	Engine	0
DNF	Johnny Servoz-Gavin	March	701	17	57	Engine	0
DNF	Piers Courage	De Tomaso	505/38	20	39	Accident	0
DNF	Bruce McLaren	McLaren	M14A	10	39	Engine	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	March	701	11	26	Overheating	0
DNF	Rolf Stommelen	Brabham	BT33	15	23	Engine	0
DNF	Jackie Oliver	BRM	—	12	22	Gearbox	0
DNF	Chris Amon	March	701	2	14	Overheating	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout kyalami-1 · 4.094 km · 9 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Sir Jack Brabham	3	1	80
Denny Hulme	6	2	80
Sir Jackie Stewart	1	3	80
Jean-Pierre Beltoise	8	4	80
John Miles	14	5	79
Graham Hill	19	6	79
Henri Pescarolo	18	7	78
John Love	22	8	78
Pedro Rodriguez	16	9	76
Jo Siffert	9	10	75
Peter de Klerk	21	11	75
Dave Charlton	13	12	73
Jochen Rindt	4	13	72
John Surtees	7	DNF	60
Jacky Ickx	5	DNF	60
George Eaton	23	DNF	58
Johnny Servoz-Gavin	17	DNF	57
Piers Courage	20	DNF	39
Bruce McLaren	10	DNF	39
Mario Andretti	11	DNF	26
Rolf Stommelen	15	DNF	23
Jackie Oliver	12	DNF	22
Chris Amon	2	DNF	14

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Sir Jackie Stewart	March	1	1:19.300	—	—
2	Chris Amon	March	15	1:19.300	+0.000	+0.000
3	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	12	1:19.600	+0.300	+0.300
4	Jochen Rindt	Team Lotus	9	1:19.900	+0.600	+0.300
5	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	17	1:20.000	+0.700	+0.100
6	Denny Hulme	McLaren	6	1:20.100	+0.800	+0.100
7	John Surtees	McLaren	7	1:20.200	+0.900	+0.100
8	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	3	1:20.200	+0.900	+0.000
9	Jo Siffert	March	16	1:20.200	+0.900	+0.000
10	Bruce McLaren	McLaren	5	1:20.300	+1.000	+0.100
11	Mario Andretti	March	8	1:20.500	+1.200	+0.200
12	Jackie Oliver	BRM	19	1:20.900	+1.600	+0.400
13	Dave Charlton	Team Lotus	25	1:20.900	+1.600	+0.000
14	John Miles	Team Lotus	10	1:21.000	+1.700	+0.100
15	Rolf Stommelen	Brabham	14	1:21.200	+1.900	+0.200
16	Pedro Rodriguez	BRM	20	1:21.300	+2.000	+0.100
17	Johnny Servoz-Gavin	March	2	1:21.400	+2.100	+0.100
18	Henri Pescarolo	Matra	4	1:21.500	+2.200	+0.100
19	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	11	1:21.600	+2.300	+0.100
20	Piers Courage	De Tomaso	22	1:22.000	+2.700	+0.400
21	Peter de Klerk	Brabham	24	1:22.700	+3.400	+0.700
22	John Love	Team Lotus	23	1:23.100	+3.800	+0.400
23	George Eaton	BRM	21	1:24.400	+5.100	+1.300

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Lotus 49
HillGraham19690801Lotus-Nordkehre · Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de · unchecked

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

1 more photograph

Where this comes from

Round: 1 of 1970
Grand Prix: South African Grand Prix
Dates: 7 Mar 1970
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Brabham
Entrant: Brabham-Ford
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.