Race · Round 6 of 12 · 2 July 1972

1972 French Grand Prix

Sir Jackie Stewart won for Tyrrell from 3rd on the grid at Charade. 6 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: CharadeClermont-Ferrand, France
Winner: Sir Jackie StewartTyrrell
Pole: Chris Amon
Fastest lap: Chris Amon
Entries: 2918 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	—	3	38	Finished	9
2	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	72D	8	38	Finished	6
3	Chris Amon	Matra	—	1	38	Finished	4	fastest lap
4	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	—	7	38	Finished	3
5	Ronnie Peterson	March	—	9	38	Finished	2
6	Mike Hailwood	Surtees	TS9B	10	38	Finished	1
7	Denny Hulme	McLaren	—	2	38	Finished	0
8	Wilson Fittipaldi	Brabham	—	14	38	Finished	0
9	Brian Redman	McLaren	—	13	38	Finished	0
10	Graham Hill	Brabham	—	20	38	Finished	0
11	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	312B2	4	37	Finished	0
12	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	—	17	37	Finished	0
13	Nanni Galli	Ferrari	312B2	19	37	Finished	0
14	Andrea de Adamich	Surtees	TS9B	12	37	Finished	0
15	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	—	24	37	Finished	0
16	Rolf Stommelen	Eifelland	21	15	37	Finished	0
17	Tim Schenken	Surtees	TS9B	5	36	Finished	0
18	David Walker	Team Lotus	72D	22	34	Halfshaft	0
DNF	Mike Beuttler	March	721G	23	33	Out of fuel	0
NC	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	—	16	33	NC	0
DNF	Reine Wisell	BRM	—	18	25	Gearbox	0
DNF	Carlos Pace	March	—	11	18	Engine	0
DNF	Helmut Marko	BRM	—	6	8	Injury	0
DNF	Niki Lauda	March	—	21	4	Halfshaft	0
DNS	Henri Pescarolo	March	—	—	—	Accident	0
DNS	Derek Bell	Tecno	PA123/3	—	—	Transmission	0
DNS	Peter Gethin	BRM	—	—	—	DNS	0
DNS	Howden Ganley	BRM	—	—	—	Car raced by Beltoise	0
DNQ	Dave Charlton	Team Lotus	72D	—	—	DNQ	0

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

F1DB layout clermont-ferrand-1 · 8.055 km · 48 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	3	1	38
Emerson Fittipaldi	8	2	38
Chris Amon	1	3	38
Francois Cevert	7	4	38
Ronnie Peterson	9	5	38
Mike Hailwood	10	6	38
Denny Hulme	2	7	38
Wilson Fittipaldi	14	8	38
Brian Redman	13	9	38
Graham Hill	20	10	38
Jacky Ickx	4	11	37
Carlos Reutemann	17	12	37
Nanni Galli	19	13	37
Andrea de Adamich	12	14	37
Jean-Pierre Beltoise	24	15	37
Rolf Stommelen	15	16	37
Tim Schenken	5	17	36
David Walker	22	18	34
Mike Beuttler	23	DNF	33
Patrick Depailler	16	NC	33
Reine Wisell	18	DNF	25
Carlos Pace	11	DNF	18
Helmut Marko	6	DNF	8
Niki Lauda	21	DNF	4

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Chris Amon	Matra	9	2:53.400	—	—
2	Denny Hulme	McLaren	2	2:54.200	+0.800	+0.800
3	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	4	2:55.000	+1.600	+0.800
4	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	3	2:55.100	+1.700	+0.100
5	Tim Schenken	Surtees	27	2:57.200	+3.800	+2.100
6	Helmut Marko	BRM	25	2:57.300	+3.900	+0.100
7	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	7	2:58.100	+4.700	+0.800
8	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	1	2:58.100	+4.700	+0.000
9	Ronnie Peterson	March	12	2:58.200	+4.800	+0.100
10	Mike Hailwood	Surtees	26	2:58.300	+4.900	+0.100
11	Carlos Pace	March	17	2:58.600	+5.200	+0.300
12	Henri Pescarolo	March	16	2:59.000	+5.600	+0.400
13	Andrea de Adamich	Surtees	28	2:59.100	+5.700	+0.100
14	Brian Redman	McLaren	11	2:59.400	+6.000	+0.300
15	Wilson Fittipaldi	Brabham	19	2:59.500	+6.100	+0.100
16	Rolf Stommelen	Eifelland	10	2:59.600	+6.200	+0.100
17	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	8	2:59.600	+6.200	+0.000
18	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	20	3:00.700	+7.300	+1.100
19	Reine Wisell	BRM	24	3:00.700	+7.300	+0.000
20	Nanni Galli	Ferrari	30	3:00.700	+7.300	+0.000
21	Howden Ganley	BRM	23	3:02.000	+8.600	+1.300
22	Peter Gethin	BRM	22	3:02.800	+9.400	+0.800
23	Graham Hill	Brabham	18	3:03.000	+9.600	+0.200
24	Niki Lauda	March	14	3:03.100	+9.700	+0.100
25	David Walker	Team Lotus	6	3:04.700	+11.300	+1.600
26	Mike Beuttler	March	15	3:05.900	+12.500	+1.200
27	Derek Bell	Tecno	21	3:06.900	+13.500	+1.000
28	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	5	—	—	—
29	Dave Charlton	Team Lotus	29	3:11.600	+18.200	—

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.

Photographs from this race

Filed on Wikimedia Commons under this race's own category, each shown with the photographer and licence its terms require. The filing is the Commons editors' and has not been checked here.

6 more photographs

Everything filed under 1972 French Grand Prix on Wikimedia Commons

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: 6 of 1972
Grand Prix: French Grand Prix
Dates: 2 Jul 1972
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.