Race · Round 9 of 15 · 7 July 1974

1974 French Grand Prix

Ronnie Peterson won for Team Lotus from 2nd on the grid at Dijon-Prenois. 6 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Dijon-PrenoisDijon, France
Winner: Ronnie PetersonTeam Lotus
Pole: Niki Lauda
Fastest lap: Jody Scheckter
Entries: 3016 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	—	2	80	Finished	9
2	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	312B3-74	1	80	Finished	6
3	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	312B3-74	4	80	Finished	4
4	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	—	7	80	Finished	3	fastest lap
5	Jacky Ickx	Team Lotus	—	13	80	Finished	2
6	Denny Hulme	McLaren	M23B	11	80	Finished	1
7	Mike Hailwood	McLaren	M23B	6	79	Finished	0
8	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	—	9	79	Finished	0
9	Arturo Merzario	Iso-Marlboro	FW	15	79	Finished	0
10	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	—	17	79	Finished	0
11	Vittorio Brambilla	March	741	16	79	Finished	0
12	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	—	12	79	Finished	0
13	Graham Hill	Lola	T370	21	78	Finished	0
14	François Migault	BRM	—	22	78	Finished	0
15	Guy Edwards	Lola	T370	20	77	Finished	0
16	John Watson	Brabham	—	14	76	Finished	0
DNF	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren	M23B	5	27	Engine	0
DNF	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	—	8	24	Handling	0
DNF	Jochen Mass	Surtees	TS16	18	4	Clutch	0
DNF	Henri Pescarolo	BRM	—	19	1	Clutch	0
DNF	Tom Pryce	Shadow	—	3	1	Collision	0
DNF	James Hunt	Hesketh	308	10	0	Collision	0
DNQ	Vern Schuppan	Ensign	N174	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Carlos Pace	Brabham	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Iso-Marlboro	FW	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	José Dolhem	Surtees	TS16	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	741	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Rikky von Opel	Brabham	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Leo Kinnunen	Surtees	TS16	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Gérard Larrousse	Brabham	BT42	—	—	DNQ	0

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

F1DB layout dijon-1 · 3.289 km · 8 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	80
Niki Lauda	1	2	80
Clay Regazzoni	4	3	80
Jody Scheckter	7	4	80
Jacky Ickx	13	5	80
Denny Hulme	11	6	80
Mike Hailwood	6	7	79
Patrick Depailler	9	8	79
Arturo Merzario	15	9	79
Jean-Pierre Beltoise	17	10	79
Vittorio Brambilla	16	11	79
Jean-Pierre Jarier	12	12	79
Graham Hill	21	13	78
François Migault	22	14	78
Guy Edwards	20	15	77
John Watson	14	16	76
Emerson Fittipaldi	5	DNF	27
Carlos Reutemann	8	DNF	24
Jochen Mass	18	DNF	4
Henri Pescarolo	19	DNF	1
Tom Pryce	3	DNF	1
James Hunt	10	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	12	58.790	—	—
2	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	1	59.080	+0.290	+0.290
3	Tom Pryce	Shadow	16	59.110	+0.320	+0.030
4	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	11	59.130	+0.340	+0.020
5	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren	5	59.200	+0.410	+0.070
6	Mike Hailwood	McLaren	33	59.220	+0.430	+0.020
7	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	3	59.320	+0.530	+0.100
8	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	7	59.360	+0.570	+0.040
9	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	59.430	+0.640	+0.070
10	James Hunt	Hesketh	24	59.510	+0.720	+0.080
11	Denny Hulme	McLaren	6	59.540	+0.750	+0.030
12	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	17	59.590	+0.800	+0.050
13	Jacky Ickx	Team Lotus	2	1:00.000	+1.210	+0.410
14	John Watson	Brabham	28	1:00.020	+1.230	+0.020
15	Arturo Merzario	Iso-Marlboro	20	1:00.160	+1.370	+0.140
16	Vittorio Brambilla	March	10	1:00.260	+1.470	+0.100
17	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	14	1:00.360	+1.570	+0.100
18	Jochen Mass	Surtees	19	1:00.480	+1.690	+0.120
19	Henri Pescarolo	BRM	15	1:00.670	+1.880	+0.190
20	Guy Edwards	Lola	27	1:00.680	+1.890	+0.010
21	Graham Hill	Lola	26	1:00.730	+1.940	+0.050
22	François Migault	BRM	37	1:00.860	+2.070	+0.130
23	Vern Schuppan	Ensign	22	1:01.240	+2.450	+0.380
24	Carlos Pace	Brabham	34	1:01.350	+2.560	+0.110
25	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Iso-Marlboro	21	1:01.520	+2.730	+0.170
26	José Dolhem	Surtees	18	1:01.700	+2.910	+0.180
27	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	9	1:01.990	+3.200	+0.290
28	Rikky von Opel	Brabham	8	1:02.260	+3.470	+0.270
29	Leo Kinnunen	Surtees	23	1:03.150	+4.360	+0.890
30	Gérard Larrousse	Brabham	43	1:03.270	+4.480	+0.120

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: 9 of 1974
Grand Prix: French Grand Prix
Dates: 7 Jul 1974
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.