1970 United States Grand Prix

August 2023 F1 United States United States Watkins Glen International Track Map-1960-1970.svg XIII United States Grand Prix October 4 1970 Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race CourseWatkins Glen, New York Permanent road course 2.35 3.78 108 253.8 408.2 Cloudy and dry with temperatures reaching up to 50 F C flip;Wind speeds up to 18.3 mph km/h flip http://www.almanac.com/weather/history/NY/Watkins%20Glen/1970-10-04 Weather information for the 1970 United States Grand Prix The Old Farmers' Almanac November 17, 2013 Belgium Jacky Ickx Ferrari 1:03.07 Belgium Jacky Ickx Ferrari 1:02.74 105 Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi Lotus-Ford Mexico Pedro Rodríguez BRM Sweden Reine Wisell Lotus-Ford USA 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.http://www.racingsportscars.com/covers/_Watkins_Glen-1970-10-04e.jpg 1970 United States Grand Prix Entry list 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. Qualifying 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. Qualifying classification PosNoDriverConstructorTimeGapGrid13BEL Jacky IckxFerrari1:03.07 —121GBR Jackie StewartTyrrell-Ford1:03.62 +0.552324BRA Emerson FittipaldiLotus-Ford1:03.67 +0.603419MEX Pedro RodríguezBRM1:04.18 +1.114512NZL Chris AmonMarch-Ford1:04.23 +1.16564SUI Clay RegazzoniFerrari1:04.30 +1.236720GBR Jackie OliverBRM1:04.37 +1.307817GBR John SurteesSurtees-Ford1:04.52 +1.458923SWE Reine WisellLotus-Ford1:04.79 +1.7291014GBR Graham HillLotus-Ford1:04.81 +1.7410118NZL Denny HulmeMcLaren-Ford1:04.84 +1.7711127FRA Henri PescaroloMatra1:05.00 +1.93121318GBR Derek BellSurtees-Ford1:05.00 +1.93131421CAN George EatonBRM1:05.14 +2.07141529SWE Ronnie PetersonMarch-Ford1:05.18 +2.11151615AUS Jack BrabhamBrabham-Ford1:05.29 +2.2216172FRA François CevertMarch-Ford1:05.30 +2.2317186FRA Jean-Pierre BeltoiseMatra1:05.44 +2.37181916GER Rolf StommelenBrabham-Ford1:05.77 +2.70192030AUS Tim SchenkenDe Tomaso-Ford1:06.08 +3.0120219GBR Peter GethinMcLaren-Ford1:06.12 +3.05212231USA Gus HutchisonBrabham-Ford1:06.22 +3.15222311SUI Jo SiffertMarch-Ford1:06.23 +3.16232427SWE Jo BonnierMcLaren-Ford1:06.46 +3.3924DNQ Did not qualify32GBR Peter WestburyBRM1:07.20 +4.13—DNQ Did not qualify28USA Pete LovelyLotus-Ford1:07.45 +4.38—DNQ Did not qualify10ITA Andrea de AdamichMcLaren-Alfa Romeo1:12.24 +9.17—Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1970/etats-unis/qualification.aspx USA 1970 - Qualification • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 28 December 2021 Race report On Sunday, with a crowd exceeding 100,000 for the second straight year,October 2009 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.October 2009 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,October 2009 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,September 2017 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 would mean that Rindt would become 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. It clinched the Drivers' Championship for the team's dead leader, Jochen Rindt, and the Constructors' Championship for Lotus and Colin Chapman.USA 1970 https://www.statsf1.com/en/1970/etats-unis.aspx 31 December 2020 StatsF1 This was the final Grand Prix to be held on the 2.35 mi km on 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 3.377 mi km in time for that year's Grand Prix, with an interim layout adopted for the Six Hours sports car race beforehand. Race classification Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 24 Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi Lotus-Ford 108 1:57:32.79 3 9 2 19 Mexico Pedro Rodríguez BRM 108 + 36.39 4 6 3 23 Sweden Reine Wisell Lotus-Ford 108 + 45.17 9 4 4 3 Belgium Jacky Ickx Ferrari 107 + 1 Lap 1 3 5 12 New Zealand Chris Amon March-Ford 107 + 1 Lap 5 2 6 18 UK Derek Bell Surtees-Ford 107 + 1 Lap 13 1 7 8 New Zealand Denny Hulme McLaren-Ford 106 + 2 Laps 11   8 7 France Henri Pescarolo Matra 105 + 3 Laps 12   9 11 Switzerland Jo Siffert March-Ford 105 + 3 Laps 23   10 15 Australia Jack Brabham Brabham-Ford 105 + 3 Laps 16   11 29 Sweden Ronnie Peterson March-Ford 104 + 4 Laps 15   12 16 West Germany Rolf Stommelen Brabham-Ford 104 + 4 Laps 19   13 4 Switzerland Clay Regazzoni Ferrari 101 + 7 Laps 6   14 9 UK Peter Gethin McLaren-Ford 100 + 8 Laps 21   Ret Retired 1 UK Jackie Stewart Tyrrell-Ford 82 Oil Leak 2   Ret Retired 14 UK Graham Hill Lotus-Ford 72 Clutch 10   Ret Retired 2 France François Cevert March-Ford 62 Wheel 17Lang Mike Grand Prix! Vol 2 Haynes Publishing Group 1982 0-85429-321-3 137   Ret Retired 30 Australia Tim Schenken De Tomaso-Ford 61 Suspension 20   Ret Retired 27 Sweden Jo Bonnier McLaren-Ford 50 Water Pipe 24   Ret Retired 6 France Jean-Pierre Beltoise Matra 27 Handling 18   Ret Retired 31 USA Gus Hutchison Brabham-Ford 21 Fuel Leak 22   Ret Retired 20 UK Jackie Oliver BRM 14 Engine 7   Ret Retired 21 Canada George Eaton BRM 10 Engine 14   Ret Retired 17 UK John Surtees Surtees-Ford 6 Engine 8   DNQ Did not qualify 32 UK Peter Westbury BRM         DNQ Did not qualify 28 USA Pete Lovely Lotus-Ford         DNQ Did not qualify 10 Italy Andrea de Adamich McLaren-Alfa Romeo        Source:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1970/534/ 1970 United States Grand Prix formula1.com 22 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20131031021527/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1970/534/ 31 October 2013 Notes This was the Formula One World Championship debut for Swedish driver Reine Wisell and for American driver Gus Hutchison. This was the first Grand Prix win and podium finish for future World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi and for a Brazilian driver. Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 AUT Jochen Rindt 45 10px 2 BEL Jacky Ickx 31 10px 3 Switzerland Clay Regazzoni 27 10px 4 United Kingdom Jackie Stewart 25 10px 5 AUS Jack Brabham 25Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1970/etats-unis/championnat.aspx United States 1970 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 21 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 10px 1 UK Lotus-Ford 59 10px 2 ITA Ferrari 46 10px 3 UK March-Ford 45 10px 4 UK Brabham-Ford 35 10px 5 UK McLaren-Ford 31Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. Note: Bold indicates that the driver/constructor has won the respective title. References em30 Further reading Doug Nye (1978). The United States Grand Prix and Grand Prize Races, 1908-1977. B. T. 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