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The 1970 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 4, 1970 at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. It was race 12 of 13 in both the 1970 World Championship of Drivers and the 1970 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.[1]

The 108-lap race was won by Emerson Fittipaldi, driving a Lotus-Ford, after he started from third position. Fittipaldi achieved his first Formula One victory, and the first for a Brazilian driver, in only his fourth Grand Prix start. Mexican driver Pedro Rodríguez finished second in a BRM, having led before a late pit stop for fuel, while Fittipaldi's Swedish team-mate Reine Wisell, making his F1 debut, finished third, which would turn out to be his only podium finish.

Belgian driver Jacky Ickx finished fourth in his Ferrari, having started from pole position before pitting to repair a broken fuel line. This result meant that Jochen Rindt became the first and, to date, only posthumous Formula One World Champion.

This would be the final Grand Prix for the circuit in this original fast configuration. 1971 would see a new longer layout presenting more of a challenge.

Report

The Ferrari of Jacky Ickx was fastest in the initial practice session on Friday with a time of 1:03.07, but expectations were high for the Tyrrell 001 of Jackie Stewart, which had led the first 31 laps in its first outing in the previous race in Canada until axle failure ended its charge. The final session on Saturday was marred by a downpour that left only fifteen minutes of dry track time, and it was not enough for Stewart to knock Ickx off the pole. Emerson Fittipaldi, who spent the first half of the season in European Formula Two, was just five hundredths behind Stewart in third.

On Sunday, with a crowd exceeding 100,000 for the second straight year,Шаблон:Citation needed black clouds and a shower 20 minutes prior to the race caused a lot of excitement among the crews on the grid, as many teams changed to rain tires and back again.Шаблон:Citation needed By the start, however, all but Clay Regazzoni and Derek Bell had reverted to slicks. Stewart took the lead off the grid, ahead of Pedro Rodríguez, as Fittipaldi dropped to eighth behind Ickx, Regazzoni, Chris Amon, John Surtees and Jackie Oliver.

By lap 17, the Ferraris of Ickx and Regazzoni had passed Rodríguez, but by that time, Stewart's lead was nearly twenty seconds. Graham Hill, in a privately entered Lotus 72, came into the pits on lap 30 with fuel leaking into the cockpit,Шаблон:Citation needed as a fitting had come loose under the seat. The team took 10 minutes to fix the leak, threw some water on Hill, whose overalls were soaked in fuel, and sent him back out. Several laps later, Hill returned to request they find him some dry overalls, as the gasoline was burning his skin. When he stopped again to change clothes, the team said they had not been able to locate any new ones. Hill, however, saw John Surtees, who had retired on the seventh lap, sitting on the wall, and borrowed his overalls and undergarments. The two former World Champions were naked in the pits as Hill was doused with water before donning Surtees' clean clothes and returning to the track,Шаблон:Citation needed only to retire on lap 72 with a broken clutch.

At half-distance, Stewart was nearly half a lap ahead of Ickx, with Rodríguez in third and Fittipaldi about to be lapped in fourth. Ickx suddenly pitted on lap 57 to repair a broken fuel line, and he rejoined in twelfth place. He fought his way back up to fourth, setting the race's fastest lap three laps from the finish. Ickx had needed to win to have a chance of overtaking Jochen Rindt in the Championship; his fourth-place finish meant that Rindt became the first posthumous Formula One World Champion.

On lap 76, with a one-minute cushion, Stewart's Tyrrell began trailing smoke from its left-hand exhaust pipe. The smoke slowly grew worse, and Rodríguez tore into Stewart's lead, taking off five seconds a lap, while the Lotus teammates unlapped themselves. On lap 83, with its oil gone, the Cosworth engine in the Tyrrell seized, leaving Rodríguez with an 18.8 second lead over Fittipaldi, who led team-mate Reine Wisell by another 46 seconds.

At the end of the 100th lap, Rodríguez coasted into the pit lane having run out of fuel. BRM refueled the car, but Rodríguez had lost 38 seconds to Fittipaldi, who took the lead. Rodríguez rejoined ahead of the second Lotus of Wisell.

Fittipaldi recalled later, "I took the lead and, going over the finish line, I saw for the first time Colin [Chapman] jumping and throwing his hat, something I'd seen him do for Jim Clark and Graham Hill and Jochen, and I kept saying to myself, 'He's doing that for me. I won the race. I won the US Grand Prix!' It was unbelievable."

His victory was the seventh American win for Lotus, and it clinched the Drivers' Championship for the team's dead leader, Jochen Rindt, and the Constructors' Championship for Lotus and Colin Chapman.[2]

This was the final Grand Prix to be held on the Шаблон:Convert layout of the track, in use since 1956. Watkins Glen underwent extensive renovation over the course of 1971, including the lengthening of the track to Шаблон:Convert in time for that year's Grand Prix, with an interim layout adopted for the Six Hours sports car race beforehand.

Qualifying

Qualifying classification

Pos No Driver Constructor Time Gap Grid
1 3 Шаблон:Flagicon Jacky Ickx Ferrari 1:03.07 1
2 1 Шаблон:Flagicon Jackie Stewart Tyrrell-Ford 1:03.62 +0.55 2
3 24 Шаблон:Flagicon Emerson Fittipaldi Lotus-Ford 1:03.67 +0.60 3
4 19 Шаблон:Flagicon Pedro Rodríguez BRM 1:04.18 +1.11 4
5 12 Шаблон:Flagicon Chris Amon March-Ford 1:04.23 +1.16 5
6 4 Шаблон:Flagicon Clay Regazzoni Ferrari 1:04.30 +1.23 6
7 20 Шаблон:Flagicon Jackie Oliver BRM 1:04.37 +1.30 7
8 17 Шаблон:Flagicon John Surtees Surtees-Ford 1:04.52 +1.45 8
9 23 Шаблон:Flagicon Reine Wisell Lotus-Ford 1:04.79 +1.72 9
10 14 Шаблон:Flagicon Graham Hill Lotus-Ford 1:04.81 +1.74 10
11 8 Шаблон:Flagicon Denny Hulme McLaren-Ford 1:04.84 +1.77 11
12 7 Шаблон:Flagicon Henri Pescarolo Matra 1:05.00 +1.93 12
13 18 Шаблон:Flagicon Derek Bell Surtees-Ford 1:05.00 +1.93 13
14 21 Шаблон:Flagicon George Eaton BRM 1:05.14 +2.07 14
15 29 Шаблон:Flagicon Ronnie Peterson March-Ford 1:05.18 +2.11 15
16 15 Шаблон:Flagicon Jack Brabham Brabham-Ford 1:05.29 +2.22 16
17 2 Шаблон:Flagicon François Cevert March-Ford 1:05.30 +2.23 17
18 6 Шаблон:Flagicon Jean-Pierre Beltoise Matra 1:05.44 +2.37 18
19 16 Шаблон:Flagicon Rolf Stommelen Brabham-Ford 1:05.77 +2.70 19
20 30 Шаблон:Flagicon Tim Schenken De Tomaso-Ford 1:06.08 +3.01 20
21 9 Шаблон:Flagicon Peter Gethin McLaren-Ford 1:06.12 +3.05 21
22 31 Шаблон:Flagicon Gus Hutchison Brabham-Ford 1:06.22 +3.15 22
23 11 Шаблон:Flagicon Jo Siffert March-Ford 1:06.23 +3.16 23
24 27 Шаблон:Flagicon Jo Bonnier McLaren-Ford 1:06.46 +3.39 24
DNQ 32 Шаблон:Flagicon Peter Westbury BRM 1:07.20 +4.13
DNQ 28 Шаблон:Flagicon Pete Lovely Lotus-Ford 1:07.45 +4.38
DNQ 10 Шаблон:Flagicon Andrea de Adamich McLaren-Alfa Romeo 1:12.24 +9.17
Source:[3]

Race

Classification

Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 24 Шаблон:Flagicon Emerson Fittipaldi Lotus-Ford 108 1:57:32.79 3 9
2 19 Шаблон:Flagicon Pedro Rodríguez BRM 108 + 36.39 4 6
3 23 Шаблон:Flagicon Reine Wisell Lotus-Ford 108 + 45.17 9 4
4 3 Шаблон:Flagicon Jacky Ickx Ferrari 107 + 1 Lap 1 3
5 12 Шаблон:Flagicon Chris Amon March-Ford 107 + 1 Lap 5 2
6 18 Шаблон:Flagicon Derek Bell Surtees-Ford 107 + 1 Lap 13 1
7 8 Шаблон:Flagicon Denny Hulme McLaren-Ford 106 + 2 Laps 11  
8 7 Шаблон:Flagicon Henri Pescarolo Matra 105 + 3 Laps 12  
9 11 Шаблон:Flagicon Jo Siffert March-Ford 105 + 3 Laps 23  
10 15 Шаблон:Flagicon Jack Brabham Brabham-Ford 105 + 3 Laps 16  
11 29 Шаблон:Flagicon Ronnie Peterson March-Ford 104 + 4 Laps 15  
12 16 Шаблон:Flagicon Rolf Stommelen Brabham-Ford 104 + 4 Laps 19  
13 4 Шаблон:Flagicon Clay Regazzoni Ferrari 101 + 7 Laps 6  
14 9 Шаблон:Flagicon Peter Gethin McLaren-Ford 100 + 8 Laps 21  
Ret 1 Шаблон:Flagicon Jackie Stewart Tyrrell-Ford 82 Oil Leak 2  
Ret 14 Шаблон:Flagicon Graham Hill Lotus-Ford 72 Clutch 10  
Ret 2 Шаблон:Flagicon François Cevert March-Ford 62 Wheel 17[4]  
Ret 30 Шаблон:Flagicon Tim Schenken De Tomaso-Ford 61 Suspension 20  
Ret 27 Шаблон:Flagicon Jo Bonnier McLaren-Ford 50 Water Pipe 24  
Ret 6 Шаблон:Flagicon Jean-Pierre Beltoise Matra 27 Handling 18  
Ret 31 Шаблон:Flagicon Gus Hutchison Brabham-Ford 21 Fuel Leak 22  
Ret 20 Шаблон:Flagicon Jackie Oliver BRM 14 Engine 7  
Ret 21 Шаблон:Flagicon George Eaton BRM 10 Engine 14  
Ret 17 Шаблон:Flagicon John Surtees Surtees-Ford 6 Engine 8  
DNQ 32 Шаблон:Flagicon Peter Westbury BRM        
DNQ 28 Шаблон:Flagicon Pete Lovely Lotus-Ford        
DNQ 10 Шаблон:Flagicon Andrea de Adamich McLaren-Alfa Romeo        
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Notes

  • This was the 100th race for Swedish driver and Grand Prix winner Jo Bonnier.
  • This was Emerson Fittipaldi's first victory and podium finish, which was also a first for a Brazilian driver.
  • This was the 50th fastest lap for a Ferrari, both as a constructor and as an engine supplier.

Championship standings after the race

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Drivers' Championship standings
Pos Driver Points
Файл:1rightarrow blue.svg 1 Шаблон:Flagicon Jochen Rindt 45
Файл:1rightarrow blue.svg 2 Шаблон:Flagicon Jacky Ickx 31
Файл:1rightarrow blue.svg 3 Шаблон:Flagicon Clay Regazzoni 27
Файл:1rightarrow blue.svg 4 Шаблон:Flagicon Jackie Stewart 25
Файл:1rightarrow blue.svg 5 Шаблон:Flagicon Jack Brabham 25
Source:[5]

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Constructors' Championship standings
Pos Constructor Points
Файл:1rightarrow blue.svg 1 Шаблон:Flagicon Lotus-Ford 59
Файл:1rightarrow blue.svg 2 Шаблон:Flagicon Ferrari 46
Файл:1rightarrow blue.svg 3 Шаблон:Flagicon March-Ford 45
Файл:1rightarrow blue.svg 4 Шаблон:Flagicon Brabham-Ford 35
Файл:1rightarrow blue.svg 5 Шаблон:Flagicon McLaren-Ford 31

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References

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Further reading

  • Doug Nye (1978). The United States Grand Prix and Grand Prize Races, 1908-1977. B. T. Batsford. Шаблон:ISBN
  • Rob Walker (January, 1971). "U.S. Grand Prix". Road & Track, 84-88.
  • Gordon Kirby (October, 1995). "Emerson Who?". RACER, 70-72.

Шаблон:F1 race report Шаблон:F1GP 70-79