Race · Round 13 of 15 · 9 September 1973

1973 Italian Grand Prix

Ronnie Peterson won for Team Lotus from pole at Autodromo Nazionale Monza. 9 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Autodromo Nazionale MonzaMonza, Italy
Winner: Ronnie PetersonTeam Lotus
Pole: Ronnie Peterson
Fastest lap: Sir Jackie Stewart
Entries: 2515 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	—	1	55	Finished	9
2	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	—	4	55	Finished	6
3	Peter Revson	McLaren	—	2	55	Finished	4
4	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	—	6	55	Finished	3	fastest lap
5	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	—	11	55	Finished	2
6	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	—	10	55	Finished	1
7	Mike Hailwood	Surtees	TS14A	8	55	Finished	0
8	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	—	14	54	Finished	0
9	David Purley	March	731	24	54	Finished	0
10	George Follmer	Shadow	DN1	21	54	Finished	0
11	Jackie Oliver	Shadow	DN1	19	54	Finished	0
12	Rolf Stommelen	Brabham	—	9	54	Finished	0
13	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	—	13	54	Finished	0
14	Graham Hill	Shadow	DN1	22	54	Finished	0
15	Denny Hulme	McLaren	—	3	53	Finished	0
NC	Howden Ganley	Iso-Marlboro	—	20	44	NC	0
DNF	Mike Beuttler	March	—	12	34	Gearbox	0
DNF	Niki Lauda	BRM	—	15	33	Accident	0
DNF	Clay Regazzoni	BRM	—	18	31	Ignition	0
DNF	Carlos Pace	Surtees	TS14A	5	17	Tyre	0
DNF	Gijs van Lennep	Iso-Marlboro	—	23	14	Overheating	0
DNF	Rikky von Opel	Ensign	N173	17	10	Overheating	0
DNF	Wilson Fittipaldi	Brabham	—	16	6	Brakes	0
DNF	Arturo Merzario	Ferrari	—	7	2	Suspension	0
DNS	James Hunt	March	731	—	—	Accident in practice	0

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

F1DB layout monza-4 · 5.775 km · 7 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	1	1	55
Emerson Fittipaldi	4	2	55
Peter Revson	2	3	55
Sir Jackie Stewart	6	4	55
Francois Cevert	11	5	55
Carlos Reutemann	10	6	55
Mike Hailwood	8	7	55
Jacky Ickx	14	8	54
David Purley	24	9	54
George Follmer	21	10	54
Jackie Oliver	19	11	54
Rolf Stommelen	9	12	54
Jean-Pierre Beltoise	13	13	54
Graham Hill	22	14	54
Denny Hulme	3	15	53
Howden Ganley	20	NC	44
Mike Beuttler	12	DNF	34
Niki Lauda	15	DNF	33
Clay Regazzoni	18	DNF	31
Carlos Pace	5	DNF	17
Gijs van Lennep	23	DNF	14
Rikky von Opel	17	DNF	10
Wilson Fittipaldi	16	DNF	6
Arturo Merzario	7	DNF	2

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	2	1:34.800	—	—
2	Peter Revson	McLaren	8	1:35.290	+0.490	+0.490
3	Denny Hulme	McLaren	7	1:35.450	+0.650	+0.160
4	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	1	1:35.680	+0.880	+0.230
5	Carlos Pace	Surtees	24	1:36.060	+1.260	+0.380
6	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	5	1:36.100	+1.300	+0.040
7	Arturo Merzario	Ferrari	4	1:36.370	+1.570	+0.270
8	Mike Hailwood	Surtees	23	1:36.440	+1.640	+0.070
9	Rolf Stommelen	Brabham	9	1:36.540	+1.740	+0.100
10	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	10	1:36.550	+1.750	+0.010
11	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	6	1:36.580	+1.780	+0.030
12	Mike Beuttler	March	15	1:36.670	+1.870	+0.090
13	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	20	1:36.880	+2.080	+0.210
14	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	3	1:36.990	+2.190	+0.110
15	Niki Lauda	BRM	21	1:37.260	+2.460	+0.270
16	Wilson Fittipaldi	Brabham	11	1:37.300	+2.500	+0.040
17	Rikky von Opel	Ensign	28	1:37.400	+2.600	+0.100
18	Clay Regazzoni	BRM	19	1:37.580	+2.780	+0.180
19	Jackie Oliver	Shadow	17	1:37.810	+3.010	+0.230
20	Howden Ganley	Iso-Marlboro	25	1:38.130	+3.330	+0.320
21	George Follmer	Shadow	16	1:38.660	+3.860	+0.530
22	Graham Hill	Shadow	12	1:38.880	+4.080	+0.220
23	Gijs van Lennep	Iso-Marlboro	26	1:39.240	+4.440	+0.360
24	David Purley	March	29	1:39.280	+4.480	+0.040
25	James Hunt	March	27	1:39.820	+5.020	+0.540

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.

Everything filed under 1973 Italian 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.

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: 13 of 1973
Grand Prix: Italian Grand Prix
Dates: 9 Sep 1973
Layout raced: First chicane layout · 5.755 km
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.