Race · Round 8 of 11 · 15 August 1971

1971 Austrian Grand Prix

Jo Siffert won for BRM from pole at Red Bull Ring. 9 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Tim Schenken.

Circuit: Red Bull RingSpielberg, Austria
Winner: Jo SiffertBRM
Pole: Jo Siffert
Fastest lap: Jo Siffert
Entries: 2212 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jo Siffert	BRM	—	1	54	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	—	5	54	Finished	6
3	Tim Schenken	Brabham	—	7	54	Finished	4
4	Reine Wisell	Team Lotus	—	10	54	Finished	3
5	Graham Hill	Brabham	—	8	54	Finished	2
6	Henri Pescarolo	March	—	13	54	Finished	1
7	Rolf Stommelen	Surtees	—	12	54	Finished	0
8	Ronnie Peterson	March	711	11	53	Finished	0
9	Jackie Oliver	McLaren	—	22	53	Finished	0
10	Peter Gethin	BRM	—	16	52	Finished	0
11	Helmut Marko	BRM	—	17	52	Finished	0
12	Nanni Galli	March	711	15	51	Finished	0
NC	Mike Beuttler	March	711	19	47	NC	0
DNF	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	—	3	42	Engine	0
DNF	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	—	2	35	Halfshaft	0
DNF	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	—	6	31	Engine	0
DNF	Niki Lauda	March	711	21	20	Handling	0
DNF	John Surtees	Surtees	TS9	18	12	Engine	0
DNF	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	—	4	8	Engine	0
DNF	Howden Ganley	BRM	—	14	6	Ignition	0
DNF	Denny Hulme	McLaren	—	9	4	Engine	0
DNS	Jo Bonnier	McLaren	M7C	20	—	Fuel leak	0

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

F1DB layout spielberg-1 · 5.911 km · 16 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
Jo Siffert	1	1	54
Emerson Fittipaldi	5	2	54
Tim Schenken	7	3	54
Reine Wisell	10	4	54
Graham Hill	8	5	54
Henri Pescarolo	13	6	54
Rolf Stommelen	12	7	54
Ronnie Peterson	11	8	53
Jackie Oliver	22	9	53
Peter Gethin	16	10	52
Helmut Marko	17	11	52
Nanni Galli	15	12	51
Mike Beuttler	19	NC	47
Francois Cevert	3	DNF	42
Sir Jackie Stewart	2	DNF	35
Jacky Ickx	6	DNF	31
Niki Lauda	21	DNF	20
John Surtees	18	DNF	12
Clay Regazzoni	4	DNF	8
Howden Ganley	14	DNF	6
Denny Hulme	9	DNF	4

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jo Siffert	BRM	14	1:37.440	—	—
2	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	11	1:37.650	+0.210	+0.210
3	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	12	1:37.860	+0.420	+0.210
4	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	5	1:37.900	+0.460	+0.040
5	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	2	1:37.900	+0.460	+0.000
6	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	4	1:38.270	+0.830	+0.370
7	Tim Schenken	Brabham	8	1:38.640	+1.200	+0.370
8	Graham Hill	Brabham	7	1:38.700	+1.260	+0.060
9	Denny Hulme	McLaren	9	1:38.800	+1.360	+0.100
10	Reine Wisell	Team Lotus	3	1:38.950	+1.510	+0.150
11	Ronnie Peterson	March	17	1:39.010	+1.570	+0.060
12	Rolf Stommelen	Surtees	24	1:39.080	+1.640	+0.070
13	Henri Pescarolo	March	25	1:39.090	+1.650	+0.010
14	Howden Ganley	BRM	15	1:39.460	+2.020	+0.370
15	Nanni Galli	March	19	1:39.540	+2.100	+0.080
16	Peter Gethin	BRM	23	1:39.670	+2.230	+0.130
17	Helmut Marko	BRM	16	1:39.800	+2.360	+0.130
18	John Surtees	Surtees	22	1:40.370	+2.930	+0.570
19	Mike Beuttler	March	27	1:41.460	+4.020	+1.090
20	Jo Bonnier	McLaren	28	1:41.660	+4.220	+0.200
21	Niki Lauda	March	26	1:43.680	+6.240	+2.020
22	Jackie Oliver	McLaren	10	1:44.220	+6.780	+0.540

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: 8 of 1971
Grand Prix: Austrian Grand Prix
Dates: 15 Aug 1971
Layout raced: Osterreichring · 5.942 km · 12 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: BRM
Entrant: BRM
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.