Race · Round 8 of 15 · 1 July 1973

1973 French Grand Prix

Ronnie Peterson won for Team Lotus from 5th on the grid at Circuit Paul Ricard. 9 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Ronnie Peterson, and the first championship podium for Carlos Reutemann.

Circuit: Circuit Paul RicardLe Castellet, France
Winner: Ronnie PetersonTeam Lotus
Pole: Sir Jackie Stewart
Fastest lap: Denny Hulme
Entries: 2516 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	—	5	54	Finished	9
2	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	—	4	54	Finished	6
3	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	—	8	54	Finished	4
4	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	—	1	54	Finished	3
5	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	—	12	54	Finished	2
6	James Hunt	March	731	14	54	Finished	1
7	Arturo Merzario	Ferrari	—	10	54	Finished	0
8	Denny Hulme	McLaren	—	6	54	Finished	0	fastest lap
9	Niki Lauda	BRM	—	17	54	Finished	0
10	Graham Hill	Shadow	DN1	16	53	Finished	0
11	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	—	15	53	Finished	0
12	Clay Regazzoni	BRM	—	9	53	Finished	0
13	Carlos Pace	Surtees	TS14A	18	51	Finished	0
14	Howden Ganley	Iso-Marlboro	—	24	51	Finished	0
15	Rikky von Opel	Ensign	N173	25	51	Finished	0
16	Wilson Fittipaldi	Brabham	—	19	50	Finished	0
DNF	Jody Scheckter	McLaren	—	2	43	Collision damage	0
DNF	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	—	3	41	Collision	0
DNF	Mike Hailwood	Surtees	TS14A	11	29	Oil leak	0
DNF	Andrea de Adamich	Brabham	—	13	28	Halfshaft	0
DNF	Reine Wisell	March	731	22	20	Overheating	0
DNF	George Follmer	Shadow	DN1	20	16	Fuel system	0
DNF	Henri Pescarolo	Iso-Marlboro	—	23	16	Overheating	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	March	—	7	7	Halfshaft	0
DNF	Jackie Oliver	Shadow	DN1	21	0	Clutch	0

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

F1DB layout paul-ricard-1 · 5.809 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

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	5	1	54
Francois Cevert	4	2	54
Carlos Reutemann	8	3	54
Sir Jackie Stewart	1	4	54
Jacky Ickx	12	5	54
James Hunt	14	6	54
Arturo Merzario	10	7	54
Denny Hulme	6	8	54
Niki Lauda	17	9	54
Graham Hill	16	10	53
Jean-Pierre Beltoise	15	11	53
Clay Regazzoni	9	12	53
Carlos Pace	18	13	51
Howden Ganley	24	14	51
Rikky von Opel	25	15	51
Wilson Fittipaldi	19	16	50
Jody Scheckter	2	DNF	43
Emerson Fittipaldi	3	DNF	41
Mike Hailwood	11	DNF	29
Andrea de Adamich	13	DNF	28
Reine Wisell	22	DNF	20
George Follmer	20	DNF	16
Henri Pescarolo	23	DNF	16
Jean-Pierre Jarier	7	DNF	7
Jackie Oliver	21	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	5	1:48.370	—	—
2	Jody Scheckter	McLaren	8	1:49.180	+0.810	+0.810
3	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	1	1:49.360	+0.990	+0.180
4	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	6	1:49.390	+1.020	+0.030
5	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	2	1:49.450	+1.080	+0.060
6	Denny Hulme	McLaren	7	1:49.680	+1.310	+0.230
7	Jean-Pierre Jarier	March	14	1:50.690	+2.320	+1.010
8	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	10	1:50.750	+2.380	+0.060
9	Clay Regazzoni	BRM	19	1:50.990	+2.620	+0.240
10	Arturo Merzario	Ferrari	4	1:51.170	+2.800	+0.180
11	Mike Hailwood	Surtees	23	1:51.170	+2.800	+0.000
12	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	3	1:51.440	+3.070	+0.270
13	Andrea de Adamich	Brabham	9	1:51.530	+3.160	+0.090
14	James Hunt	March	27	1:51.630	+3.260	+0.100
15	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	20	1:51.670	+3.300	+0.040
16	Graham Hill	Shadow	12	1:51.700	+3.330	+0.030
17	Niki Lauda	BRM	21	1:51.780	+3.410	+0.080
18	Carlos Pace	Surtees	24	1:51.880	+3.510	+0.100
19	Wilson Fittipaldi	Brabham	11	1:52.070	+3.700	+0.190
20	George Follmer	Shadow	16	1:52.300	+3.930	+0.230
21	Jackie Oliver	Shadow	17	1:52.940	+4.570	+0.640
22	Reine Wisell	March	15	1:53.200	+4.830	+0.260
23	Henri Pescarolo	Iso-Marlboro	26	1:53.560	+5.190	+0.360
24	Howden Ganley	Iso-Marlboro	25	1:53.870	+5.500	+0.310
25	Rikky von Opel	Ensign	29	1:55.550	+7.180	+1.680

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: 8 of 1973
Grand Prix: French Grand Prix
Dates: 1 Jul 1973
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.