1973 Austrian Alpine Rally

1973 Austrian Rally 44. Austrian Alpine Rally 9 1973 1000 Lakes Rally 1973 Rallye Sanremo Baden, Austria 12 September 1973 14 September 1973 27 310 2233 Gravel 1973 World Rally Championship season Germany Achim WarmboldFrance Jean Todt GER BMW BMW 2002 TII 74 25 The 1973 Austrian Rally (formally the 44. Austrian Alpine Rally) was the ninth round of the inaugural World Rally Championship season. Run in mid-September around Baden, Austria, the rally was entirely on gravel surface special stages. 1973 would be the only year to see the WRC hold an event in Austria, despite the strong presence of Austrian drivers in the series through the present. Report In 1973, and for several years afterward, only manufacturers were given points for finishes in WRC events. Austria hosted BMW's first ever win of the World Rally Championship, with front-runners Alpine-Renault, Saab, and Fiat also making strong bids for points. Results 1973 Austrian Rally results Finish Totaltime Group Car # DriverCo-driver Car Mfr.points Overall Ingroup 1 1 3 h : 58 m : 55.5 s 2 8 West Germany Achim WarmboldFrance Jean Todt West Germany BMW 2002 TII 20 2 1 4 h : 0 m : 10.1 s 4 2 France Bernard DarnicheFrance Alain Mahé France Alpine-Renault A110 1800 15 3 2 4 h : 0 m : 11.2 s 2 15 Sweden Per EklundSweden Bo Reinicke Sweden Saab 96 V4 12 4 3 4 h : 1 m : 10.5 s 2 16 Sweden Björn WaldegårdSweden Hans Thorszelius West Germany BMW 2002 TII 10 5 2 4 h : 1 m : 25.8 s 4 11 France Jean-Pierre NicolasFrance Michel Vial France Alpine-Renault A110 1800 6 3 4 h : 6 m : 15.9 s 4 3 Sweden Håkan LindbergItaly Helmut Eisendle Italy Fiat Abarth 124 Rallye 6 7 4 4 h : 6 m : 38.3 s 4 5 Austria Klaus RusslingAustria Wolfgang Weiß West Germany Porsche 911 4 8 4 4 h : 9 m : 5.8 s 2 9 Sweden Ove AnderssonSweden Gunnar Häggbom Japan Toyota Celica 3 9 5 4 h : 10 m : 2.2 s 2 17 Austria Herbert GrünsteidlAustria Georg Hopf West Germany BMW 2002 10 6 4 h : 11 m : 16.9 s 2 12 UK Tony FallUK Mike Wood West Germany Volkswagen 1303S 1 11 7 4 h : 11 m : 48.5 s 2 6 Sweden Harry KällströmSweden Claes Billstam West Germany Volkswagen 1303S 12 8 4 h : 14 m : 35.8 s 2 25 Austria Franz WittmanAustria Hans Siebert West Germany Volkswagen 1303S 13 9 4 h : 20 m : 17.1 s 2 24 Sweden Gunnar BlomqvistAustria Gerhard Kalnay West Germany Opel Ascona 14 1 4 h : 35 m : 14.1 s 1 27 Austria Vic Dietmayer West Germany BMW 2002 15 10 4 h : 48 m : 31.8 s 2 47 Austria H. SteinwenderAustria F. Mick Italy Fiat 124 16 2 4 h : 58 m : 23.7 s 1 29 Austria Walter ZöcklAustria Günther Böhs West Germany BMW 2002 Retired (accident) 2 1 Austria Günther JangerAustria Harald Gottlieb West Germany Volkswagen 1303S Retired (mechanical) 2 4 West Germany Walter RöhrlWest Germany Jochen Berger West Germany Opel Ascona Retired (mechanical) 2 4 Sweden Stig BlomqvistSweden Arne Hertz Sweden Saab 96 V4 Retired (accident) 4 10 Italy Raffaele PintoItaly Arnaldo Bernacchini Italy Fiat Abarth 124 Rallye Retired (mechanical) 4 14 Italy Alcide PaganelliItaly Ninni Russo Italy Fiat Abarth 124 Rallye Retired 4 19 Austria Walter RoserAustria Erich Bazalka France Alpine-Renault A110 1600 Retired (mechanical) 2 21 Austria Richard BochnicekAustria Sepp-Dieter Kernmayer France Citroën DS 23 Source: Independent WRC archiveAustrian Rally http://www.juwra.com/austria_1973.html juwra.com Independent WRC archive 2017-03-15 Championship standings after the event 1973 World Rally Championship for Manufacturers points standings after round 8 After round 8 Team Season end Position Points Position Points 1 107 France Alpine Renault 1 147 2 69 Italy Fiat 2 84 3 42 Sweden Saab 5 42 4 36 USA Ford 3 76 5 33 France Citroën 7 33 6 24 Germany BMW 8 28 7 24 Germany Porsche 9 27 8 22 Japan Datsun 6 34 9 19 Sweden Volvo 4 44 10 15 East Germany Wartburg 14 15 11 14 Germany Volkswagen 15 15 12 13 Italy Lancia 13 17 13 13 France Peugeot 16 13 14 13 Germany Opel 11 25 15 12 Poland Polski Fiat 12 18 16 5 Japan Toyota 10 25 17 4 Japan Mitsubishi 17 4 18 3 Czechoslovakia Škoda 18 3 19 1 Germany Audi 20 2 References External links Official website of the World Rally Championship 1973 Austrian Rally https://web.archive.org/web/20070927182814/http://www.rallye-info.com/event.asp?event=330 2007-09-27 at Rallye-info https://web.archive.org/web/20200627135750/http://www.rallye-info.com/ 2020-06-27 Austrian Category:Austrian Alpine Rally Austrian Alpine Rally, 1973 Austrian Alpine Rally