Race · Round 1 of 11 · 6 March 1971

1971 South African Grand Prix

Mario Andretti won for Ferrari from 4th on the grid at Kyalami. 12 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Mario Andretti.

Circuit: KyalamiMidrand, South Africa
Winner: Mario AndrettiFerrari
Pole: Sir Jackie Stewart
Fastest lap: Mario Andretti
Entries: 2513 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Mario Andretti	Ferrari	—	4	79	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	—	1	79	Finished	6
3	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	—	3	79	Finished	4
4	Reine Wisell	Team Lotus	—	14	79	Finished	3
5	Chris Amon	Matra	MS120B	2	78	Finished	2
6	Denny Hulme	McLaren	—	7	78	Finished	1
7	Brian Redman	Surtees	—	17	78	Finished	0
8	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	—	8	78	Finished	0
9	Graham Hill	Brabham	—	19	77	Finished	0
10	Ronnie Peterson	March	711	13	77	Finished	0
11	Henri Pescarolo	March	—	18	77	Finished	0
12	Rolf Stommelen	Surtees	—	15	77	Finished	0
13	Andrea de Adamich	March	711	22	75	Finished	0
DNF	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	—	5	58	Engine	0
DNF	John Surtees	Surtees	TS9	6	56	Gearbox	0
DNF	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	—	9	45	Accident	0
DNF	Howden Ganley	BRM	—	24	42	Physical	0
DNF	Pedro Rodriguez	BRM	—	10	33	Overheating	0
DNF	Jo Siffert	BRM	—	16	31	Overheating	0
DNF	Dave Charlton	Brabham	BT33	12	31	Engine	0
DNF	John Love	March	701	21	30	Differential	0
DNF	Jackie Pretorius	Brabham	BT26A	20	22	Engine	0
DNF	Peter Gethin	McLaren	—	11	7	Fuel leak	0
DNF	Jo Bonnier	McLaren	M7C	23	5	Suspension	0
DNF	Alex Soler-Roig	March	711	25	5	Engine	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
Mario Andretti	4	1	79
Sir Jackie Stewart	1	2	79
Clay Regazzoni	3	3	79
Reine Wisell	14	4	79
Chris Amon	2	5	78
Denny Hulme	7	6	78
Brian Redman	17	7	78
Jacky Ickx	8	8	78
Graham Hill	19	9	77
Ronnie Peterson	13	10	77
Henri Pescarolo	18	11	77
Rolf Stommelen	15	12	77
Andrea de Adamich	22	13	75
Emerson Fittipaldi	5	DNF	58
John Surtees	6	DNF	56
Francois Cevert	9	DNF	45
Howden Ganley	24	DNF	42
Pedro Rodriguez	10	DNF	33
Jo Siffert	16	DNF	31
Dave Charlton	12	DNF	31
John Love	21	DNF	30
Jackie Pretorius	20	DNF	22
Peter Gethin	11	DNF	7
Jo Bonnier	23	DNF	5
Alex Soler-Roig	25	DNF	5

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	9	1:17.800	—	—
2	Chris Amon	Matra	19	1:18.400	+0.600	+0.600
3	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	5	1:18.700	+0.900	+0.300
4	Mario Andretti	Ferrari	6	1:19.000	+1.200	+0.300
5	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	2	1:19.100	+1.300	+0.100
6	John Surtees	Surtees	20	1:19.100	+1.300	+0.000
7	Denny Hulme	McLaren	11	1:19.100	+1.300	+0.000
8	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	4	1:19.200	+1.400	+0.100
9	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	10	1:19.200	+1.400	+0.000
10	Pedro Rodriguez	BRM	16	1:19.300	+1.500	+0.100
11	Peter Gethin	McLaren	12	1:19.600	+1.800	+0.300
12	Dave Charlton	Brabham	15	1:19.800	+2.000	+0.200
13	Ronnie Peterson	March	7	1:19.900	+2.100	+0.100
14	Reine Wisell	Team Lotus	3	1:19.900	+2.100	+0.000
15	Rolf Stommelen	Surtees	21	1:20.100	+2.300	+0.200
16	Jo Siffert	BRM	17	1:20.200	+2.400	+0.100
17	Brian Redman	Surtees	28	1:20.200	+2.400	+0.000
18	Henri Pescarolo	March	22	1:20.200	+2.400	+0.000
19	Graham Hill	Brabham	14	1:20.500	+2.700	+0.300
20	Jackie Pretorius	Brabham	25	1:21.700	+3.900	+1.200
21	John Love	March	24	1:21.900	+4.100	+0.200
22	Andrea de Adamich	March	8	1:22.200	+4.400	+0.300
23	Jo Bonnier	McLaren	23	1:22.300	+4.500	+0.100
24	Howden Ganley	BRM	27	1:23.700	+5.900	+1.400
25	Alex Soler-Roig	March	26	1:25.800	+8.000	+2.100

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.

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: 1 of 1971
Grand Prix: South African Grand Prix
Dates: 6 Mar 1971
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
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.