Race · Round 12 of 13 · 4 October 1970

1970 United States Grand Prix

Emerson Fittipaldi won for Team Lotus from 3rd on the grid at Watkins Glen. 10 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Emerson Fittipaldi, and the first championship podium for Reine Wisell.

Circuit: Watkins GlenWatkins Glen, New York, United States of America
Winner: Emerson FittipaldiTeam Lotus
Pole: Jacky Ickx
Fastest lap: Jacky Ickx
Entries: 2714 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	—	3	108	Finished	9
2	Pedro Rodriguez	BRM	—	4	108	Finished	6
3	Reine Wisell	Team Lotus	—	9	108	Finished	4
4	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	312B	1	107	Finished	3	fastest lap
5	Chris Amon	March	701	5	107	Finished	2
6	Derek Bell	Surtees	TS7	13	107	Finished	1
7	Denny Hulme	McLaren	M14A	11	106	Finished	0
8	Henri Pescarolo	Matra	MS120	12	105	Finished	0
9	Jo Siffert	March	701	23	105	Finished	0
10	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	BT33	16	105	Finished	0
11	Ronnie Peterson	March	701	15	104	Finished	0
12	Rolf Stommelen	Brabham	BT33	19	104	Finished	0
13	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	312B	6	101	Finished	0
14	Peter Gethin	McLaren	M14A	21	100	Finished	0
DNF	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	1	2	82	Oil leak	0
DNF	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	—	10	72	Clutch	0
DNF	Francois Cevert	March	701	17	62	Wheel	0
DNF	Tim Schenken	De Tomaso	505/38	20	61	Suspension	0
DNF	Jo Bonnier	McLaren	M7C	24	50	Water pipe	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	MS120	18	27	Handling	0
DNF	Gus Hutchison	Brabham	BT26A	22	21	Fuel leak	0
DNF	Jackie Oliver	BRM	—	7	14	Engine	0
DNF	George Eaton	BRM	—	14	10	Engine	0
DNF	John Surtees	Surtees	TS7	8	6	Engine	0
DNQ	Peter Westbury	BRM	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Pete Lovely	Team Lotus	49B	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Andrea de Adamich	McLaren	—	—	—	DNQ	0

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

F1DB layout watkins-glen-1 · 3.78 km · 8 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
Emerson Fittipaldi	3	1	108
Pedro Rodriguez	4	2	108
Reine Wisell	9	3	108
Jacky Ickx	1	4	107
Chris Amon	5	5	107
Derek Bell	13	6	107
Denny Hulme	11	7	106
Henri Pescarolo	12	8	105
Jo Siffert	23	9	105
Sir Jack Brabham	16	10	105
Ronnie Peterson	15	11	104
Rolf Stommelen	19	12	104
Clay Regazzoni	6	13	101
Peter Gethin	21	14	100
Sir Jackie Stewart	2	DNF	82
Graham Hill	10	DNF	72
Francois Cevert	17	DNF	62
Tim Schenken	20	DNF	61
Jo Bonnier	24	DNF	50
Jean-Pierre Beltoise	18	DNF	27
Gus Hutchison	22	DNF	21
Jackie Oliver	7	DNF	14
George Eaton	14	DNF	10
John Surtees	8	DNF	6

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	3	1:03.070	—	—
2	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	1	1:03.620	+0.550	+0.550
3	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	24	1:03.670	+0.600	+0.050
4	Pedro Rodriguez	BRM	19	1:04.180	+1.110	+0.510
5	Chris Amon	March	12	1:04.230	+1.160	+0.050
6	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	4	1:04.300	+1.230	+0.070
7	Jackie Oliver	BRM	20	1:04.370	+1.300	+0.070
8	John Surtees	Surtees	17	1:04.520	+1.450	+0.150
9	Reine Wisell	Team Lotus	23	1:04.790	+1.720	+0.270
10	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	14	1:04.810	+1.740	+0.020
11	Denny Hulme	McLaren	8	1:04.840	+1.770	+0.030
12	Henri Pescarolo	Matra	7	1:05.000	+1.930	+0.160
13	Derek Bell	Surtees	18	1:05.000	+1.930	+0.000
14	George Eaton	BRM	21	1:05.140	+2.070	+0.140
15	Ronnie Peterson	March	29	1:05.180	+2.110	+0.040
16	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	15	1:05.290	+2.220	+0.110
17	Francois Cevert	March	2	1:05.300	+2.230	+0.010
18	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	6	1:05.440	+2.370	+0.140
19	Rolf Stommelen	Brabham	16	1:05.770	+2.700	+0.330
20	Tim Schenken	De Tomaso	30	1:06.080	+3.010	+0.310
21	Peter Gethin	McLaren	9	1:06.120	+3.050	+0.040
22	Gus Hutchison	Brabham	31	1:06.220	+3.150	+0.100
23	Jo Siffert	March	11	1:06.230	+3.160	+0.010
24	Jo Bonnier	McLaren	27	1:06.460	+3.390	+0.230
25	Peter Westbury	BRM	32	1:07.200	+4.130	+0.740
26	Pete Lovely	Team Lotus	28	1:07.450	+4.380	+0.250
27	Andrea de Adamich	McLaren	10	1:12.240	+9.170	+4.790

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.

Surtees TS7
SurteesTS7BarryBoor · The original uploader was Scottanon at English Wikipedia . · Attribution

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.

3 more photographs

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

Where this comes from

Round: 12 of 1970
Grand Prix: United States Grand Prix
Dates: 4 Oct 1970
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Team Lotus
Entrant: Lotus-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.