Race · Round 6 of 11 · 17 July 1971

1971 British Grand Prix

Sir Jackie Stewart won for Tyrrell from 2nd on the grid at Silverstone Circuit. 12 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Silverstone CircuitSilverstone, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Winner: Sir Jackie StewartTyrrell
Pole: Clay Regazzoni
Fastest lap: Sir Jackie Stewart
Entries: 2412 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	—	2	68	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Ronnie Peterson	March	711	5	68	Finished	6
3	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	—	4	68	Finished	4
4	Henri Pescarolo	March	—	17	67	Finished	3
5	Rolf Stommelen	Surtees	—	12	67	Finished	2
6	John Surtees	Surtees	TS9	18	67	Finished	1
7	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	MS120B	15	66	Finished	0
8	Howden Ganley	BRM	—	11	66	Finished	0
9	Jo Siffert	BRM	—	3	66	Finished	0
10	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	—	10	65	Finished	0
11	Nanni Galli	March	711	21	65	Finished	0
12	Tim Schenken	Brabham	—	7	63	Gearbox	0
NC	Reine Wisell	Team Lotus	56B	19	57	NC	0
NC	Andrea de Adamich	March	711	24	56	NC	0
DNF	Peter Gethin	McLaren	—	14	53	Engine	0
DNF	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	—	6	51	Engine	0
DNF	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	—	1	48	Oil pressure	0
DNF	Chris Amon	Matra	MS120B	9	35	Engine	0
DNF	Denny Hulme	McLaren	—	8	32	Engine	0
DNF	Derek Bell	Surtees	—	23	23	Suspension	0
DNF	Mike Beuttler	March	711	20	21	Oil pressure	0
DNF	Dave Charlton	Team Lotus	—	13	1	Engine	0
DNF	Jackie Oliver	McLaren	—	22	0	Accident	0
DNF	Graham Hill	Brabham	—	16	0	Accident	0

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

F1DB layout silverstone-1 · 4.649 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
Sir Jackie Stewart	2	1	68
Ronnie Peterson	5	2	68
Emerson Fittipaldi	4	3	68
Henri Pescarolo	17	4	67
Rolf Stommelen	12	5	67
John Surtees	18	6	67
Jean-Pierre Beltoise	15	7	66
Howden Ganley	11	8	66
Jo Siffert	3	9	66
Francois Cevert	10	10	65
Nanni Galli	21	11	65
Tim Schenken	7	12	63
Reine Wisell	19	NC	57
Andrea de Adamich	24	NC	56
Peter Gethin	14	DNF	53
Jacky Ickx	6	DNF	51
Clay Regazzoni	1	DNF	48
Chris Amon	9	DNF	35
Denny Hulme	8	DNF	32
Derek Bell	23	DNF	23
Mike Beuttler	20	DNF	21
Dave Charlton	13	DNF	1
Jackie Oliver	22	DNF	0
Graham Hill	16	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	5	1:18.100	—	—
2	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	12	1:18.100	+0.000	+0.000
3	Jo Siffert	BRM	16	1:18.200	+0.100	+0.100
4	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	1	1:18.300	+0.200	+0.100
5	Ronnie Peterson	March	18	1:19.000	+0.900	+0.700
6	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	4	1:19.500	+1.400	+0.500
7	Tim Schenken	Brabham	8	1:19.500	+1.400	+0.000
8	Denny Hulme	McLaren	9	1:19.600	+1.500	+0.100
9	Chris Amon	Matra	21	1:19.700	+1.600	+0.100
10	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	14	1:19.800	+1.700	+0.100
11	Howden Ganley	BRM	17	1:19.840	+1.740	+0.040
12	Rolf Stommelen	Surtees	24	1:19.880	+1.780	+0.040
13	Dave Charlton	Team Lotus	2	1:20.050	+1.950	+0.170
14	Peter Gethin	McLaren	10	1:20.100	+2.000	+0.050
15	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	22	1:20.200	+2.100	+0.100
16	Graham Hill	Brabham	7	1:20.300	+2.200	+0.100
17	Henri Pescarolo	March	26	1:20.500	+2.400	+0.200
18	John Surtees	Surtees	23	1:20.600	+2.500	+0.100
19	Reine Wisell	Team Lotus	3	1:20.660	+2.560	+0.060
20	Mike Beuttler	March	6	1:20.700	+2.600	+0.040
21	Nanni Galli	March	20	1:20.900	+2.800	+0.200
22	Jackie Oliver	McLaren	11	1:21.000	+2.900	+0.100
23	Derek Bell	Surtees	25	1:22.300	+4.200	+1.300
24	Andrea de Adamich	March	19	1:23.200	+5.100	+0.900

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 56
David Walker 1971 Lotus 56 B Pratt Whitney · Raimund Kommer · CC BY-SA 3.0

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 1971
Grand Prix: British Grand Prix
Dates: 17 Jul 1971
Layout raced: Perimeter, pits moved · 4.711 km · 8 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Tyrrell
Entrant: Tyrrell-Ford
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.