Race · Round 11 of 11 · 3 October 1971

1971 United States Grand Prix

Francois Cevert won for Tyrrell from 5th on the grid at Watkins Glen. 12 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Francois Cevert.

Circuit: Watkins GlenWatkins Glen, New York, United States of America
Winner: Francois CevertTyrrell
Pole: Sir Jackie Stewart
Fastest lap: Jacky Ickx
Entries: 3217 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	—	5	59	Finished	9
2	Jo Siffert	BRM	—	6	59	Finished	6
3	Ronnie Peterson	March	711	11	59	Finished	4
4	Howden Ganley	BRM	—	12	59	Finished	3
5	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	—	1	59	Finished	2
6	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	—	4	59	Finished	1
7	Graham Hill	Brabham	—	18	58	Finished	0
8	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	MS120B	10	58	Finished	0
9	Peter Gethin	BRM	—	21	58	Finished	0
10	David Hobbs	McLaren	M19A	22	58	Finished	0
11	Andrea de Adamich	March	711	26	57	Finished	0
12	Chris Amon	Matra	MS120B	8	57	Finished	0
13	Helmut Marko	BRM	—	16	57	Finished	0
14	John Cannon	BRM	—	24	56	Finished	0
15	Mike Hailwood	Surtees	—	14	54	Accident	0
16	Jo Bonnier	McLaren	M7C	28	54	Out of fuel	0
17	John Surtees	Surtees	TS9	13	54	Finished	0
NC	Skip Barber	March	711	25	52	NC	0
DNF	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	—	7	49	Alternator	0	fastest lap
NC	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	—	2	49	NC	0
NC	Pete Lovely	Team Lotus	69 Special	29	49	NC	0
DNF	Denny Hulme	McLaren	—	3	47	Accident	0
DNF	Tim Schenken	Brabham	—	15	41	Engine	0
DNF	Chris Craft	Brabham	BT33	27	30	Suspension	0
DNF	Henri Pescarolo	March	—	20	23	Engine	0
DNF	Sam Posey	Surtees	—	17	15	Engine	0
DNF	Nanni Galli	March	711	23	11	Wheel	0
DNF	Reine Wisell	Team Lotus	—	9	5	Brakes	0
DNF	Peter Revson	Tyrrell	—	19	1	Clutch	0
DNS	Mario Andretti	Ferrari	—	—	—	DNS	0
DNS	Gijs van Lennep	Surtees	—	—	—	Car raced by Posey	0
DNS	Mark Donohue	McLaren	M19A	—	—	Car raced by Hobbs	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-2 · 5.435 km · 11 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
Francois Cevert	5	1	59
Jo Siffert	6	2	59
Ronnie Peterson	11	3	59
Howden Ganley	12	4	59
Sir Jackie Stewart	1	5	59
Clay Regazzoni	4	6	59
Graham Hill	18	7	58
Jean-Pierre Beltoise	10	8	58
Peter Gethin	21	9	58
David Hobbs	22	10	58
Andrea de Adamich	26	11	57
Chris Amon	8	12	57
Helmut Marko	16	13	57
John Cannon	24	14	56
Mike Hailwood	14	15	54
Jo Bonnier	28	16	54
John Surtees	13	17	54
Skip Barber	25	NC	52
Jacky Ickx	7	DNF	49
Emerson Fittipaldi	2	NC	49
Pete Lovely	29	NC	49
Denny Hulme	3	DNF	47
Tim Schenken	15	DNF	41
Chris Craft	27	DNF	30
Henri Pescarolo	20	DNF	23
Sam Posey	17	DNF	15
Nanni Galli	23	DNF	11
Reine Wisell	9	DNF	5
Peter Revson	19	DNF	1

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	8	1:42.642	—	—
2	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	2	1:42.659	+0.017	+0.017
3	Denny Hulme	McLaren	7	1:42.925	+0.283	+0.266
4	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	5	1:43.002	+0.360	+0.077
5	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	9	1:43.152	+0.510	+0.150
6	Mario Andretti	Ferrari	6	1:43.195	+0.553	+0.043
7	Jo Siffert	BRM	14	1:43.468	+0.826	+0.273
8	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	32	1:43.843	+1.201	+0.375
9	Chris Amon	Matra	11	1:43.970	+1.328	+0.127
10	Reine Wisell	Team Lotus	3	1:44.024	+1.382	+0.054
11	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	12	1:44.067	+1.425	+0.043
12	Ronnie Peterson	March	25	1:44.193	+1.551	+0.126
13	Howden Ganley	BRM	16	1:44.430	+1.788	+0.237
14	John Surtees	Surtees	18	1:44.908	+2.266	+0.478
15	Mike Hailwood	Surtees	20	1:45.094	+2.452	+0.186
16	Tim Schenken	Brabham	23	1:45.110	+2.468	+0.016
17	Helmut Marko	BRM	17	1:45.204	+2.562	+0.094
18	Sam Posey	Surtees	19	1:45.267	+2.625	+0.063
19	Mark Donohue	McLaren	31	1:45.378	+2.736	+0.111
20	Graham Hill	Brabham	22	1:45.448	+2.806	+0.070
21	Peter Revson	Tyrrell	10	1:45.515	+2.873	+0.067
22	Henri Pescarolo	March	21	1:45.568	+2.926	+0.053
23	Peter Gethin	BRM	15	1:45.729	+3.087	+0.161
24	David Hobbs	McLaren	31	1:46.270	+3.628	+0.541
25	Nanni Galli	March	26	1:46.608	+3.966	+0.338
26	John Cannon	BRM	28	1:47.471	+4.829	+0.863
27	Skip Barber	March	33	1:47.673	+5.031	+0.202
28	Andrea de Adamich	March	27	1:47.952	+5.310	+0.279
29	Gijs van Lennep	Surtees	19	1:48.029	+5.387	+0.077
30	Chris Craft	Brabham	24	1:48.698	+6.056	+0.669
31	Jo Bonnier	McLaren	29	1:49.391	+6.749	+0.693
32	Pete Lovely	Team Lotus	30	1:52.140	+9.498	+2.749

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: 11 of 1971
Grand Prix: United States Grand Prix
Dates: 3 Oct 1971
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Tyrrell
Entrant: Tyrrell-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.