Race · Round 2 of 12 · 4 March 1972

1972 South African Grand Prix

Denny Hulme won for McLaren from 5th on the grid at Kyalami. 9 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Peter Revson.

Circuit: KyalamiMidrand, South Africa
Winner: Denny HulmeMcLaren
Pole: Sir Jackie Stewart
Fastest lap: Mike Hailwood
Entries: 2717 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Denny Hulme	McLaren	—	5	79	Finished	9
2	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	72D	3	79	Finished	6
3	Peter Revson	McLaren	—	12	79	Finished	4
4	Mario Andretti	Ferrari	312B2	6	79	Finished	3
5	Ronnie Peterson	March	—	9	79	Finished	2
6	Graham Hill	Brabham	—	14	78	Finished	1
7	Niki Lauda	March	—	21	78	Finished	0
8	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	312B2	7	78	Finished	0
9	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	—	8	78	Finished	0
10	David Walker	Team Lotus	72D	19	78	Finished	0
11	Henri Pescarolo	March	—	22	77	Finished	0
12	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	312B2	2	77	Finished	0
13	Rolf Stommelen	Eifelland	21	25	77	Finished	0
14	Helmut Marko	BRM	—	23	76	Finished	0
15	Chris Amon	Matra	—	13	76	Finished	0
16	John Love	Surtees	TS9	26	73	Puncture	0
17	Carlos Pace	March	—	24	73	Finished	0
NC	Howden Ganley	BRM	—	16	70	NC	0
NC	Andrea de Adamich	Surtees	TS9B	20	69	NC	0
NC	Peter Gethin	BRM	—	18	65	NC	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	—	11	60	Engine	0
DNF	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	—	1	45	Gearbox	0
DNF	Mike Hailwood	Surtees	TS9B	4	28	Suspension	0	fastest lap
DNF	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	—	15	27	Fuel system	0
DNF	Tim Schenken	Surtees	TS9B	10	9	Engine	0
DNF	Dave Charlton	Team Lotus	72D	17	2	Fuel pump	0
DNS	William Ferguson	Brabham	BT33	—	—	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
Denny Hulme	5	1	79
Emerson Fittipaldi	3	2	79
Peter Revson	12	3	79
Mario Andretti	6	4	79
Ronnie Peterson	9	5	79
Graham Hill	14	6	78
Niki Lauda	21	7	78
Jacky Ickx	7	8	78
Francois Cevert	8	9	78
David Walker	19	10	78
Henri Pescarolo	22	11	77
Clay Regazzoni	2	12	77
Rolf Stommelen	25	13	77
Helmut Marko	23	14	76
Chris Amon	13	15	76
John Love	26	16	73
Carlos Pace	24	17	73
Howden Ganley	16	NC	70
Andrea de Adamich	20	NC	69
Peter Gethin	18	NC	65
Jean-Pierre Beltoise	11	DNF	60
Sir Jackie Stewart	1	DNF	45
Mike Hailwood	4	DNF	28
Carlos Reutemann	15	DNF	27
Tim Schenken	10	DNF	9
Dave Charlton	17	DNF	2

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	1	1:17.000	—	—
2	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	6	1:17.300	+0.300	+0.300
3	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	8	1:17.400	+0.400	+0.100
4	Mike Hailwood	Surtees	17	1:17.400	+0.400	+0.000
5	Denny Hulme	McLaren	12	1:17.400	+0.400	+0.000
6	Mario Andretti	Ferrari	7	1:17.500	+0.500	+0.100
7	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	5	1:17.700	+0.700	+0.200
8	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	2	1:17.800	+0.800	+0.100
9	Ronnie Peterson	March	3	1:17.800	+0.800	+0.000
10	Tim Schenken	Surtees	16	1:17.800	+0.800	+0.000
11	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	10	1:17.900	+0.900	+0.100
12	Peter Revson	McLaren	14	1:18.000	+1.000	+0.100
13	Chris Amon	Matra	15	1:18.000	+1.000	+0.000
14	Graham Hill	Brabham	19	1:18.100	+1.100	+0.100
15	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	20	1:18.200	+1.200	+0.100
16	Howden Ganley	BRM	23	1:18.300	+1.300	+0.100
17	Dave Charlton	Team Lotus	26	1:18.500	+1.500	+0.200
18	Peter Gethin	BRM	11	1:18.700	+1.700	+0.200
19	David Walker	Team Lotus	9	1:18.700	+1.700	+0.000
20	Andrea de Adamich	Surtees	18	1:18.900	+1.900	+0.200
21	Niki Lauda	March	4	1:18.900	+1.900	+0.000
22	Henri Pescarolo	March	21	1:19.000	+2.000	+0.100
23	Helmut Marko	BRM	24	1:19.100	+2.100	+0.100
24	Carlos Pace	March	22	1:20.300	+3.300	+1.200
25	Rolf Stommelen	Eifelland	25	1:20.400	+3.400	+0.100
26	John Love	Surtees	27	1:21.000	+4.000	+0.600
27	William Ferguson	Brabham	28	1:21.000	+4.000	+0.000

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.

Where this comes from

Round: 2 of 1972
Grand Prix: South African Grand Prix
Dates: 4 Mar 1972
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: McLaren
Entrant: McLaren-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.