Race · Round 1 of 15 ·

1973 Argentine Grand Prix

Emerson Fittipaldi won for Team Lotus from 2nd on the grid at Autodromo Oscar Galvez. 9 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit
Autodromo Oscar GalvezBuenos Aires, Argentina
Winner
Emerson FittipaldiTeam Lotus
Entries
1910 classified

Classification

Classification
PosDriverConstructorChassisGridLapsOutPointsFL
1Emerson FittipaldiTeam Lotus—296Finished9fastest lap
2Francois CevertTyrrell—696Finished6
3Sir Jackie StewartTyrrell—496Finished4
4Jacky IckxFerrari—396Finished3
5Denny HulmeMcLaren—895Finished2
6Wilson FittipaldiBrabham—1295Finished1
7Clay RegazzoniBRM—193Finished0
8Peter RevsonMcLaren—1192Finished0
9Arturo MerzarioFerrari—1492Finished0
10Mike BeuttlerMarch—1890Suspension0
DNFJean-Pierre JarierMarch—1784Radiator0
DNFJean-Pierre BeltoiseBRM—779Engine0
NCHowden GanleyIso-Marlboro—1979NC0
DNFRonnie PetersonTeam Lotus—566Oil pressure0
DNFNiki LaudaBRM—1366Oil pressure0
DNFCarlos ReutemannBrabham—916Gearbox0
DNFCarlos PaceSurteesTS14A1510Suspension0
DNFMike HailwoodSurteesTS14A1010Halfshaft0
DNFNanni GalliIso-Marlboro—160Engine0
A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.
F1DB layout buenos-aires-2 · 3.353 km · 14 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

0102030405060708090Laps completedGridResult21Emerson Fittipaldi62Francois Cevert43Sir Jackie Stewart34Jacky Ickx85Denny Hulme126Wilson Fittipaldi17Clay Regazzoni118Peter Revson149Arturo Merzario1810Mike Beuttler17DNFJean-Pierre Jarier7DNFJean-Pierre Beltoise19NCHowden Ganley5DNFRonnie Peterson13DNFNiki Lauda9DNFCarlos Reutemann15DNFCarlos Pace10DNFMike Hailwood16DNFNanni Galli

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
DriverGridResultLaps
Emerson Fittipaldi2196
Francois Cevert6296
Sir Jackie Stewart4396
Jacky Ickx3496
Denny Hulme8595
Wilson Fittipaldi12695
Clay Regazzoni1793
Peter Revson11892
Arturo Merzario14992
Mike Beuttler181090
Jean-Pierre Jarier17DNF84
Jean-Pierre Beltoise7DNF79
Howden Ganley19NC79
Ronnie Peterson5DNF66
Niki Lauda13DNF66
Carlos Reutemann9DNF16
Carlos Pace15DNF10
Mike Hailwood10DNF10
Nanni Galli16DNF0

Qualifying

Qualifying
PosDriverConstructorNo.TimeGapInterval
1Clay RegazzoniBRM321:10.540——
2Emerson FittipaldiTeam Lotus21:10.840+0.300+0.300
3Jacky IckxFerrari181:11.010+0.470+0.170
4Sir Jackie StewartTyrrell61:11.030+0.490+0.020
5Ronnie PetersonTeam Lotus41:11.060+0.520+0.030
6Francois CevertTyrrell81:11.460+0.920+0.400
7Jean-Pierre BeltoiseBRM301:11.480+0.940+0.020
8Denny HulmeMcLaren141:11.700+1.160+0.220
9Carlos ReutemannBrabham101:12.080+1.540+0.380
10Mike HailwoodSurtees261:12.130+1.590+0.050
11Peter RevsonMcLaren161:12.220+1.680+0.090
12Wilson FittipaldiBrabham121:12.310+1.770+0.090
13Niki LaudaBRM341:12.390+1.850+0.080
14Arturo MerzarioFerrari201:12.540+2.000+0.150
15Carlos PaceSurtees281:12.800+2.260+0.260
16Nanni GalliIso-Marlboro361:13.970+3.430+1.170
17Jean-Pierre JarierMarch241:14.270+3.730+0.300
18Mike BeuttlerMarch221:15.150+4.610+0.880
19Howden GanleyIso-Marlboro381:15.290+4.750+0.140
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.

At the 1973 Argentine Grand Prix
Argentina gp lauda · Antonio Legarreta · Public domain
At the 1973 Argentine Grand Prix
Gp argentina 1973 01 · Corsa no. 354 · Public domain
At the 1973 Argentine Grand Prix
Gp argentina 1973 02 · Corsa no. 354 · Public domain
At the 1973 Argentine Grand Prix
Gp argentina 1973 03 · Corsa no. 354 · Public domain
At the 1973 Argentine Grand Prix
Gp argentina 1973 04 · Corsa no. 354 · Public domain
At the 1973 Argentine Grand Prix
Gp argentina 1973 05 · Corsa no. 354 · Public domain
6 more photographs
At the 1973 Argentine Grand Prix
Gp argentina 1973 06 · Corsa no. 354 · Public domain
At the 1973 Argentine Grand Prix
Gp argentina 1973 07 · Corsa no. 354 · Public domain
At the 1973 Argentine Grand Prix
Gp argentina 1973 08 · Corsa no. 354 · Public domain
At the 1973 Argentine Grand Prix
Gp argentina 1973 09 · Corsa no. 354 · Public domain
At the 1973 Argentine Grand Prix
Gp argentina 1973 10 · Corsa no. 354 · Public domain
At the 1973 Argentine Grand Prix
Gp argentina 1973 11 · Corsa no. 354 · Public domain

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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.

Surtees TS14
Surtees TS14
Surtees TS14 at Silverstone Classic 2012 (1) · David Merrett from Daventry, England · CC BY 2.0

Where this comes from

Round
1 of 1973
Grand Prix
Argentine Grand Prix
Dates
Layout raced
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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.