Race · Round 12 of 15 · 19 August 1973

1973 Austrian Grand Prix

Ronnie Peterson won for Team Lotus from 2nd on the grid at Red Bull Ring. 12 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Carlos Pace.

Circuit: Red Bull RingSpielberg, Austria
Winner: Ronnie PetersonTeam Lotus
Pole: Emerson Fittipaldi
Fastest lap: Carlos Pace
Entries: 2511 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	—	2	54	Finished	9
2	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	—	7	54	Finished	6
3	Carlos Pace	Surtees	TS14A	8	54	Finished	4	fastest lap
4	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	—	5	54	Finished	3
5	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	—	13	54	Finished	2
6	Clay Regazzoni	BRM	—	14	54	Finished	1
7	Arturo Merzario	Ferrari	—	6	53	Finished	0
8	Denny Hulme	McLaren	—	3	53	Finished	0
9	Gijs van Lennep	Iso-Marlboro	—	23	52	Finished	0
10	Mike Hailwood	Surtees	TS14A	15	49	Finished	0
11	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	—	1	48	Fuel system	0
NC	Howden Ganley	Iso-Marlboro	—	21	44	NC	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	March	—	12	37	Engine	0
DNF	Rikky von Opel	Ensign	N173	19	34	Fuel system	0
DNF	Wilson Fittipaldi	Brabham	—	16	31	Fuel system	0
DNF	Graham Hill	Shadow	DN1	22	28	Suspension	0
DNF	George Follmer	Shadow	DN1	20	23	Differential	0
DNF	Rolf Stommelen	Brabham	—	17	21	Wheel	0
DNF	Jackie Oliver	Shadow	DN1	18	9	Fuel system	0
DNF	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	—	10	6	Suspension	0
DNF	James Hunt	March	731	9	3	Injection	0
DNF	Peter Revson	McLaren	—	4	0	Clutch	0
DNF	Mike Beuttler	March	—	11	0	Collision	0
DNS	Chris Amon	Tecno	PA123/6	—	—	DNS	0
DNS	Niki Lauda	BRM	—	—	—	DNS	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
Ronnie Peterson	2	1	54
Sir Jackie Stewart	7	2	54
Carlos Pace	8	3	54
Carlos Reutemann	5	4	54
Jean-Pierre Beltoise	13	5	54
Clay Regazzoni	14	6	54
Arturo Merzario	6	7	53
Denny Hulme	3	8	53
Gijs van Lennep	23	9	52
Mike Hailwood	15	10	49
Emerson Fittipaldi	1	11	48
Howden Ganley	21	NC	44
Jean-Pierre Jarier	12	DNF	37
Rikky von Opel	19	DNF	34
Wilson Fittipaldi	16	DNF	31
Graham Hill	22	DNF	28
George Follmer	20	DNF	23
Rolf Stommelen	17	DNF	21
Jackie Oliver	18	DNF	9
Francois Cevert	10	DNF	6
James Hunt	9	DNF	3
Peter Revson	4	DNF	0
Mike Beuttler	11	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	1	1:34.980	—	—
2	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	2	1:35.370	+0.390	+0.390
3	Denny Hulme	McLaren	7	1:35.690	+0.710	+0.320
4	Peter Revson	McLaren	8	1:35.860	+0.880	+0.170
5	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	10	1:36.010	+1.030	+0.150
6	Arturo Merzario	Ferrari	4	1:36.420	+1.440	+0.410
7	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	5	1:36.440	+1.460	+0.020
8	Carlos Pace	Surtees	24	1:36.480	+1.500	+0.040
9	James Hunt	March	27	1:36.630	+1.650	+0.150
10	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	6	1:36.770	+1.790	+0.140
11	Mike Beuttler	March	15	1:36.830	+1.850	+0.060
12	Jean-Pierre Jarier	March	18	1:36.930	+1.950	+0.100
13	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	20	1:37.460	+2.480	+0.530
14	Clay Regazzoni	BRM	19	1:37.520	+2.540	+0.060
15	Mike Hailwood	Surtees	23	1:37.600	+2.620	+0.080
16	Wilson Fittipaldi	Brabham	11	1:37.810	+2.830	+0.210
17	Rolf Stommelen	Brabham	9	1:37.850	+2.870	+0.040
18	Jackie Oliver	Shadow	17	1:37.970	+2.990	+0.120
19	Rikky von Opel	Ensign	28	1:38.220	+3.240	+0.250
20	George Follmer	Shadow	16	1:38.300	+3.320	+0.080
21	Howden Ganley	Iso-Marlboro	25	1:39.380	+4.400	+1.080
22	Graham Hill	Shadow	12	1:39.500	+4.520	+0.120
23	Chris Amon	Tecno	22	1:40.390	+5.410	+0.890
24	Gijs van Lennep	Iso-Marlboro	26	1:41.040	+6.060	+0.650

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: 12 of 1973
Grand Prix: Austrian Grand Prix
Dates: 19 Aug 1973
Layout raced: Osterreichring · 5.942 km · 12 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Team Lotus
Entrant: Lotus-Ford
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.