Race · Round 5 of 12 ·
1972 Belgian Grand Prix
Emerson Fittipaldi won for Team Lotus from pole at Nivelles-Baulers. 11 of the starters were not classified.
- Circuit
- Nivelles-BaulersNivelles, Belgium
- Winner
- Emerson FittipaldiTeam Lotus
- Fastest lap
- Chris Amon
- Entries
- 2614 classified
Classification
A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.
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.
Qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Time | Gap | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emerson Fittipaldi | Team Lotus | 32 | 1:11.430 | — | — |
| 2 | Clay Regazzoni | Ferrari | 30 | 1:11.580 | +0.150 | +0.150 |
| 3 | Denny Hulme | McLaren | 9 | 1:11.800 | +0.370 | +0.220 |
| 4 | Jacky Ickx | Ferrari | 29 | 1:11.840 | +0.410 | +0.040 |
| 5 | Francois Cevert | Tyrrell | 8 | 1:11.930 | +0.500 | +0.090 |
| 6 | Jean-Pierre Beltoise | BRM | 23 | 1:12.120 | +0.690 | +0.190 |
| 7 | Peter Revson | McLaren | 10 | 1:12.190 | +0.760 | +0.070 |
| 8 | Mike Hailwood | Surtees | 34 | 1:12.350 | +0.920 | +0.160 |
| 9 | Carlos Reutemann | Brabham | 19 | 1:12.500 | +1.070 | +0.150 |
| 10 | Andrea de Adamich | Surtees | 36 | 1:12.540 | +1.110 | +0.040 |
| 11 | Carlos Pace | March | 16 | 1:12.640 | +1.210 | +0.100 |
| 12 | David Walker | Team Lotus | 33 | 1:12.760 | +1.330 | +0.120 |
| 13 | Chris Amon | Matra | 5 | 1:12.800 | +1.370 | +0.040 |
| 14 | Ronnie Peterson | March | 11 | 1:13.000 | +1.570 | +0.200 |
| 15 | Howden Ganley | BRM | 25 | 1:13.010 | +1.580 | +0.010 |
| 16 | Graham Hill | Brabham | 17 | 1:13.100 | +1.670 | +0.090 |
| 17 | Peter Gethin | BRM | 24 | 1:13.150 | +1.720 | +0.050 |
| 18 | Wilson Fittipaldi | Brabham | 18 | 1:13.200 | +1.770 | +0.050 |
| 19 | Henri Pescarolo | March | 15 | 1:13.400 | +1.970 | +0.200 |
| 20 | Rolf Stommelen | Eifelland | 6 | 1:13.430 | +2.000 | +0.030 |
| 21 | Tim Schenken | Surtees | 35 | 1:13.600 | +2.170 | +0.170 |
| 22 | Mike Beuttler | March | 14 | 1:13.700 | +2.270 | +0.100 |
| 23 | Helmut Marko | BRM | 27 | 1:14.100 | +2.670 | +0.400 |
| 24 | Nanni Galli | Tecno | 22 | 1:14.600 | +3.170 | +0.500 |
| 25 | Niki Lauda | March | 12 | 1:16.500 | +5.070 | +1.900 |
| 26 | Vern Schuppan | BRM | 26 | 1:16.900 | +5.470 | +0.400 |
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 72
1971 Emerson Fittipaldi, Lotus 72 (kl) · Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Surtees TS9
Surtees TS9B Goodwood 2008 · Brian Snelson from Hockley, Essex, England · CC BY 2.0
Ferrari 312B
Rétromobile 2017 - Ferrari 312 B2 - 1972 - 002 · Thesupermat · CC BY-SA 4.0Where this comes from
- Round
- 5 of 1972
- Grand Prix
- Belgian Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
- —
- Format
- Standard weekend
- Constructor
- Team Lotus
- Entrant
- Lotus-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.