Race · Round 6 of 13 · 5 July 1970

1970 French Grand Prix

Jochen Rindt won for Team Lotus from 6th on the grid at Charade. 6 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: CharadeClermont-Ferrand, France
Winner: Jochen RindtTeam Lotus
Pole: Jacky Ickx
Fastest lap: Sir Jack Brabham
Entries: 2314 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jochen Rindt	Team Lotus	—	6	38	Finished	9
2	Chris Amon	March	701	3	38	Finished	6
3	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	BT33	5	38	Finished	4	fastest lap
4	Denny Hulme	McLaren	M14A	7	38	Finished	3
5	Henri Pescarolo	Matra	MS120	8	38	Finished	2
6	Dan Gurney	McLaren	M14A	17	38	Finished	1
7	Rolf Stommelen	Brabham	BT33	14	38	Finished	0
8	John Miles	Team Lotus	—	18	38	Finished	0
9	Sir Jackie Stewart	March	701	4	38	Finished	0
10	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	—	20	37	Finished	0
11	Francois Cevert	March	701	13	37	Finished	0
12	George Eaton	BRM	—	19	36	Finished	0
13	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	MS120	2	35	Out of fuel	0
14	Ignazio Giunti	Ferrari	312B	11	35	Finished	0
NC	Andrea de Adamich	McLaren	—	15	29	NC	0
DNF	Jo Siffert	March	701	16	23	Accident	0
DNF	Ronnie Peterson	March	701	9	17	Differential	0
DNF	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	312B	1	16	Engine	0
DNF	Pedro Rodriguez	BRM	—	10	6	Gearbox	0
DNF	Jackie Oliver	BRM	—	12	5	Engine	0
DNQ	Silvio Moser	Bellasi	F1 70	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Alex Soler-Roig	Team Lotus	49C	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Pete Lovely	Team Lotus	49B	—	—	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 clermont-ferrand-1 · 8.055 km · 48 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
Jochen Rindt	6	1	38
Chris Amon	3	2	38
Sir Jack Brabham	5	3	38
Denny Hulme	7	4	38
Henri Pescarolo	8	5	38
Dan Gurney	17	6	38
Rolf Stommelen	14	7	38
John Miles	18	8	38
Sir Jackie Stewart	4	9	38
Graham Hill	20	10	37
Francois Cevert	13	11	37
George Eaton	19	12	36
Jean-Pierre Beltoise	2	13	35
Ignazio Giunti	11	14	35
Andrea de Adamich	15	NC	29
Jo Siffert	16	DNF	23
Ronnie Peterson	9	DNF	17
Jacky Ickx	1	DNF	16
Pedro Rodriguez	10	DNF	6
Jackie Oliver	12	DNF	5

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	10	2:58.220	—	—
2	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	21	2:58.700	+0.480	+0.480
3	Chris Amon	March	14	2:59.140	+0.920	+0.440
4	Sir Jackie Stewart	March	1	2:59.240	+1.020	+0.100
5	Sir Jack Brabham	Brabham	23	2:59.670	+1.450	+0.430
6	Jochen Rindt	Team Lotus	6	2:59.740	+1.520	+0.070
7	Denny Hulme	McLaren	19	3:00.420	+2.200	+0.680
8	Henri Pescarolo	Matra	20	3:00.590	+2.370	+0.170
9	Ronnie Peterson	March	18	3:01.210	+2.990	+0.620
10	Pedro Rodriguez	BRM	3	3:01.290	+3.070	+0.080
11	Ignazio Giunti	Ferrari	11	3:01.850	+3.630	+0.560
12	Jackie Oliver	BRM	5	3:02.770	+4.550	+0.920
13	Francois Cevert	March	2	3:02.870	+4.650	+0.100
14	Rolf Stommelen	Brabham	22	3:03.410	+5.190	+0.540
15	Andrea de Adamich	McLaren	16	3:03.480	+5.260	+0.070
16	Jo Siffert	March	12	3:03.780	+5.560	+0.300
17	Dan Gurney	McLaren	17	3:04.040	+5.820	+0.260
18	John Miles	Team Lotus	7	3:04.160	+5.940	+0.120
19	George Eaton	BRM	4	3:04.920	+6.700	+0.760
20	Graham Hill	Team Lotus	8	3:07.840	+9.620	+2.920
21	Silvio Moser	Bellasi	24	3:12.310	+14.090	+4.470
22	Alex Soler-Roig	Team Lotus	9	3:14.490	+16.270	+2.180
23	Pete Lovely	Team Lotus	25	3:15.580	+17.360	+1.090

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.

Where this comes from

Round: 6 of 1970
Grand Prix: French Grand Prix
Dates: 5 Jul 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.