Race · Round 5 of 11 · 4 July 1971

1971 French Grand Prix

Sir Jackie Stewart won for Tyrrell from pole at Circuit Paul Ricard. 10 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Francois Cevert.

Circuit: Circuit Paul RicardLe Castellet, France
Winner: Sir Jackie StewartTyrrell
Pole: Sir Jackie Stewart
Fastest lap: Sir Jackie Stewart
Entries: 2413 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	—	1	55	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	—	7	55	Finished	6
3	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	—	17	55	Finished	4
4	Jo Siffert	BRM	—	6	55	Finished	3
5	Chris Amon	Matra	MS120B	9	55	Finished	2
6	Reine Wisell	Team Lotus	—	15	55	Finished	1
7	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	MS120B	8	55	Finished	0
8	John Surtees	Surtees	TS9	13	55	Finished	0
9	Peter Gethin	McLaren	—	19	54	Finished	0
10	Howden Ganley	BRM	—	16	54	Finished	0
11	Rolf Stommelen	Surtees	—	10	53	Finished	0
12	Tim Schenken	Brabham	—	14	50	Oil pressure	0
13	François Mazet	March	701	23	50	Finished	0
NC	Max Jean	March	—	22	46	NC	0
DNF	Henri Pescarolo	March	—	18	45	Gearbox	0
DNF	Graham Hill	Brabham	—	4	34	Oil pipe	0
DNF	Andrea de Adamich	March	711	20	31	Engine	0
DNF	Pedro Rodriguez	BRM	—	5	27	Ignition	0
DNF	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	—	2	20	Accident	0
DNF	Ronnie Peterson	March	711	12	19	Engine	0
DNF	Denny Hulme	McLaren	—	11	16	Ignition	0
DNF	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	—	3	4	Engine	0
DNF	Alex Soler-Roig	March	711	21	4	Fuel pump	0
DNS	Nanni Galli	March	711	—	—	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 paul-ricard-1 · 5.809 km · 14 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 Jackie Stewart	1	1	55
Francois Cevert	7	2	55
Emerson Fittipaldi	17	3	55
Jo Siffert	6	4	55
Chris Amon	9	5	55
Reine Wisell	15	6	55
Jean-Pierre Beltoise	8	7	55
John Surtees	13	8	55
Peter Gethin	19	9	54
Howden Ganley	16	10	54
Rolf Stommelen	10	11	53
Tim Schenken	14	12	50
François Mazet	23	13	50
Max Jean	22	NC	46
Henri Pescarolo	18	DNF	45
Graham Hill	4	DNF	34
Andrea de Adamich	20	DNF	31
Pedro Rodriguez	5	DNF	27
Clay Regazzoni	2	DNF	20
Ronnie Peterson	12	DNF	19
Denny Hulme	11	DNF	16
Jacky Ickx	3	DNF	4
Alex Soler-Roig	21	DNF	4

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	11	1:50.710	—	—
2	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	5	1:51.530	+0.820	+0.820
3	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	4	1:51.880	+1.170	+0.350
4	Graham Hill	Brabham	7	1:52.320	+1.610	+0.440
5	Pedro Rodriguez	BRM	15	1:52.460	+1.750	+0.140
6	Jo Siffert	BRM	14	1:52.500	+1.790	+0.040
7	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	12	1:52.690	+1.980	+0.190
8	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	21	1:52.920	+2.210	+0.230
9	Chris Amon	Matra	20	1:52.940	+2.230	+0.020
10	Rolf Stommelen	Surtees	24	1:53.100	+2.390	+0.160
11	Denny Hulme	McLaren	9	1:53.240	+2.530	+0.140
12	Ronnie Peterson	March	17	1:53.360	+2.650	+0.120
13	John Surtees	Surtees	22	1:53.570	+2.860	+0.210
14	Tim Schenken	Brabham	8	1:53.580	+2.870	+0.010
15	Reine Wisell	Team Lotus	2	1:53.750	+3.040	+0.170
16	Howden Ganley	BRM	16	1:53.770	+3.060	+0.020
17	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	1	1:54.220	+3.510	+0.450
18	Henri Pescarolo	March	27	1:54.270	+3.560	+0.050
19	Peter Gethin	McLaren	10	1:54.900	+4.190	+0.630
20	Nanni Galli	March	33	1:55.520	+4.810	+0.620
21	Andrea de Adamich	March	19	1:56.170	+5.460	+0.650
22	Alex Soler-Roig	March	18	1:57.070	+6.360	+0.900
23	Max Jean	March	28	1:59.790	+9.080	+2.720
24	François Mazet	March	34	2:00.510	+9.800	+0.720

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: 5 of 1971
Grand Prix: French Grand Prix
Dates: 4 Jul 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.