1973 German Grand Prix

  1973 German Grand Prix

Race details
Race 11 of 15 in the 1973 Formula One season
Date	5 August 1973
Official name	XXXVIII Großer Preis von Deutschland
Location	Nürburgring, Nürburg, Germany
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	22.835 km (14.19 mi)
Distance	14 laps, 319.690 km (198.65 mi)
Weather	Dry
Pole position
Driver	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell-Ford
Time	7:07.8[1]
Fastest lap
Driver	Carlos Pace	Surtees-Ford
Time	7:11.4[1] on lap 13
Podium
First	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell-Ford
Second	François Cevert	Tyrrell-Ford
Third	Jacky Ickx	McLaren-Ford

The 1973 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Nürburgring on 5 August 1973. It was the eleventh race of the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for F1 Manufacturers. The 14-lap race was won by Tyrrell driver Jackie Stewart after he started from pole position. His teammate François Cevert finished second and McLaren driver Jacky Ickx came in third.

Classification

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell-Ford	14	1:42:03.0	1	9
2	6	François Cevert	Tyrrell-Ford	14	+ 1.6	3	6
3	30	Jacky Ickx	McLaren-Ford	14	+ 41.2	4	4
4	24	Carlos Pace	Surtees-Ford	14	+ 53.8	11	3
5	11	Wilson Fittipaldi	Brabham-Ford	14	+ 1:19.9	13	2
6	1	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus-Ford	14	+ 1:24.3	14	1
7	31	Jochen Mass	Surtees-Ford	14	+ 1:25.2	15
8	17	Jackie Oliver	Shadow-Ford	14	+ 1:25.7	17
9	8	Peter Revson	McLaren-Ford	14	+ 2:11.8	7
10	26	Henri Pescarolo	Iso-Marlboro-Ford	14	+ 2:22.5	12
11	9	Rolf Stommelen	Brabham-Ford	14	+ 3:27.3	16
12	7	Denny Hulme	McLaren-Ford	14	+ 3:38.7	8
13	12	Graham Hill	Shadow-Ford	14	+ 3:49.0	20
14	23	Mike Hailwood	Surtees-Ford	13	+ 1 Lap	18
15	18	David Purley	March-Ford	13	+ 1 Lap	22
16	15	Mike Beuttler	March-Ford	13	+ 1 Lap	19
Ret	10	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham-Ford	7	Engine	6
Ret	19	Clay Regazzoni	BRM	7	Engine	10
Ret	16	George Follmer	Shadow-Ford	5	Accident	21
Ret	20	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	4	Gearbox	9
Ret	21	Niki Lauda	BRM	1	Accident	5
Ret	2	Ronnie Peterson	Lotus-Ford	0	Ignition	2
DNS	25	Howden Ganley	Iso-Marlboro-Ford		Accident in qualifying
Source:[2]

Notes

• The March team withdrew from the race after the accident which had claimed the life of Roger Williamson the previous weekend at the Dutch Grand Prix. Also missing were Ferrari, Ensign, Tecno and Hesketh. To boost the field, McLaren, Brabham and Surtees were all running three cars. Ferrari had released Jacky Ickx to drive for McLaren for the weekend, Brabham was running Rolf Stommelen in a third car (replacing Andrea de Adamich) while Surtees ran Jochen Mass.
• Lap leaders: Jackie Stewart (1-14)
• Briton Jackie Stewart took his 27th and last grand prix victory in this race. This was a record that stood for fourteen years until Frenchman Alain Prost finally surpassed it in 1987.
• New Zealander Howden Ganley heavily crashed his Williams/Iso-Marlboro-Ford and the car could not be repaired in time for the race.
• Austrian Niki Lauda had outqualified his next-fastest teammate Jean-Pierre Beltoise by 8.2 seconds, but due to a suspension failure, he crashed at Kesselchen on the second lap, escaping with a broken wrist, but this accident forced him to miss his home race 2 weeks later.
• Belgian Jacky Ickx and Swede Ronnie Peterson battled for 3rd on the first lap, but at Breidscheid the failure of the alternator on Peterson's Lotus put him out of the race. He went across the Adenauer Bridge and stopped at Ex-Mühle, and spent the next 3 laps trying to fix the car.
• First run of the German Grand Prix with limited advertising for all cigarette brands. For the next German Grand Prix, it had been banned in Germany, but it would return to the German Grand Prix in 1999 until being banned again from the 2006 race onwards.
• The race was rebroadcast in 2003 in the USA on Speed Channel as a special broadcast of their Formula 1 retrospective, Formula One Decade. Commentary was by Jackie Stewart and David Hobbs.^[3][4]
• This was the last race until the 2012 Australian Grand Prix not to feature an Italian driver.

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Jackie Stewart 60 1 2 François Cevert 45 1 3 Emerson Fittipaldi 42 4 Ronnie Peterson 25 5 Peter Revson 23

Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 Tyrrell-Ford 71 (75) 2 Lotus-Ford 59 (63) 3 McLaren-Ford 42 4 Brabham-Ford 14 5 Ferrari 12

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. Only the best 7 results from the first 8 races and the best 6 results from the last 7 races counted towards the Championship. Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.

References