Race · Round 1 of 15 · 13 January 1974

1974 Argentine Grand Prix

Denny Hulme won for McLaren from 10th on the grid at Autodromo Oscar Galvez. 12 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Niki Lauda.

Circuit: Autodromo Oscar GalvezBuenos Aires, Argentina
Winner: Denny HulmeMcLaren
Pole: Ronnie Peterson
Fastest lap: Clay Regazzoni
Entries: 2613 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Denny Hulme	McLaren	M23B	10	53	Finished	9
2	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	312B3-74	8	53	Finished	6
3	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	312B3-74	2	53	Finished	4	fastest lap
4	Mike Hailwood	McLaren	M23B	9	53	Finished	3
5	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	—	14	53	Finished	2
6	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	—	15	53	Finished	1
7	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	—	6	52	Out of fuel	0
8	Howden Ganley	March	741	19	52	Out of fuel	0
9	Henri Pescarolo	BRM	—	21	52	Finished	0
10	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren	M23B	3	51	Finished	0
11	Guy Edwards	Lola	T370	25	50	Finished	0
12	John Watson	Brabham	—	20	49	Finished	0
13	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	—	1	48	Finished	0
DNF	Graham Hill	Lola	T370	17	45	Engine	0
DNF	Richard Robarts	Brabham	—	22	35	Gearbox	0
DNF	Jacky Ickx	Team Lotus	—	7	35	Clutch	0
DNF	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	741	23	31	Clutch	0
DNF	François Migault	BRM	—	24	31	Water leak	0
DNF	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	—	12	25	Engine	0
DNF	Carlos Pace	Surtees	TS16	11	21	Suspension	0
DNF	Arturo Merzario	Iso-Marlboro	FW	13	19	Overheating	0
DNF	James Hunt	March	731	5	11	Overheating	0
DNF	Jochen Mass	Surtees	TS16	18	10	Engine	0
DNF	Peter Revson	Shadow	—	4	1	Accident	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	—	16	0	Accident	0
DNS	Rikky von Opel	Ensign	N174	26	—	Handling	0

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-3 · 5.968 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
Denny Hulme	10	1	53
Niki Lauda	8	2	53
Clay Regazzoni	2	3	53
Mike Hailwood	9	4	53
Jean-Pierre Beltoise	14	5	53
Patrick Depailler	15	6	53
Carlos Reutemann	6	7	52
Howden Ganley	19	8	52
Henri Pescarolo	21	9	52
Emerson Fittipaldi	3	10	51
Guy Edwards	25	11	50
John Watson	20	12	49
Ronnie Peterson	1	13	48
Graham Hill	17	DNF	45
Richard Robarts	22	DNF	35
Jacky Ickx	7	DNF	35
Hans-Joachim Stuck	23	DNF	31
François Migault	24	DNF	31
Jody Scheckter	12	DNF	25
Carlos Pace	11	DNF	21
Arturo Merzario	13	DNF	19
James Hunt	5	DNF	11
Jochen Mass	18	DNF	10
Peter Revson	4	DNF	1
Jean-Pierre Jarier	16	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	1	1:50.780	—	—
2	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	11	1:50.960	+0.180	+0.180
3	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren	5	1:51.060	+0.280	+0.100
4	Peter Revson	Shadow	16	1:51.300	+0.520	+0.240
5	James Hunt	March	24	1:51.520	+0.740	+0.220
6	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	7	1:51.550	+0.770	+0.030
7	Jacky Ickx	Team Lotus	2	1:51.700	+0.920	+0.150
8	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	12	1:51.810	+1.030	+0.110
9	Mike Hailwood	McLaren	33	1:51.860	+1.080	+0.050
10	Denny Hulme	McLaren	6	1:52.060	+1.280	+0.200
11	Carlos Pace	Surtees	18	1:52.200	+1.420	+0.140
12	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	3	1:52.470	+1.690	+0.270
13	Arturo Merzario	Iso-Marlboro	20	1:53.140	+2.360	+0.670
14	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	14	1:53.180	+2.400	+0.040
15	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:53.270	+2.490	+0.090
16	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	17	1:53.660	+2.880	+0.390
17	Graham Hill	Lola	26	1:53.900	+3.120	+0.240
18	Jochen Mass	Surtees	19	1:53.900	+3.120	+0.000
19	Howden Ganley	March	10	1:54.210	+3.430	+0.310
20	John Watson	Brabham	28	1:54.390	+3.610	+0.180
21	Henri Pescarolo	BRM	15	1:54.670	+3.890	+0.280
22	Richard Robarts	Brabham	8	1:54.730	+3.950	+0.060
23	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	9	1:55.190	+4.410	+0.460
24	François Migault	BRM	37	1:55.430	+4.650	+0.240
25	Guy Edwards	Lola	27	1:56.430	+5.650	+1.000
26	Rikky von Opel	Ensign	22	1:57.860	+7.080	+1.430

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 1974 Argentine Grand Prix — Gp argentina 1974 01 · El Gráfico · Public domain

6 more photographs

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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.

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: 1 of 1974
Grand Prix: Argentine Grand Prix
Dates: 13 Jan 1974
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: McLaren
Entrant: McLaren-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.