Canadian Grand Prix

Mosport Park, 19 Sep 1971

All cars are 3-litre F1 unless noted.

Notes on the cars:

1. Lotus 69/49B [69.F2.5] (Pete Lovely): New to Jochen Rindt Racing Ltd, managed by Bernie Ecclestone, for John Mikes and Graham Hill to race in F2 in 1970. According to Richard Spelberg's research, this car was Hill's previous Lotus 59B chassis 59-F2-20 converted to Lotus 69 specification for 1970. Also driven by Eugenio Baturone at Montjuich Park. Retained by Ecclestone for Hill to race in the first few F2 races of 1971, then sold to Pete Lovely and fitted with the rear end of his Lotus 49B for suitable races at his home track in Seattle, and for the 1971 US GP. After Lovely died in 2011, the car was sold by his daughter to Peter Gleeson (Seattle, WA), a BMW collector originally from England.

Sources

Note that the identification of individual cars in these results is based on the material presented elsewhere in this site and may in some cases contradict the organisers' published results.

3-litre Formula 1 World Championship events 1966-1985

These 1966 to 1985 results were initially compiled by Allen Brown, but these were in the very basic form required to track individual car histories. Since then further details, such as laps completed, qualifying times and so on, have been added from Rob Ryder's extensive database.

All comments, clarifications, corrections and additions are most welcome. Please email Allen at allen@oldracingcars.com if you can help with our research.

Individual sources for this event

Autosport 23 Sep 1971 pp8-15 (by Pete Lyons). Motoring News 23 Sep 1971 pp10-12 (by 'ARM' Andrew Marriott). Motor Sport November 1971 pp1158,1160-1161 (by 'ARM' Andrew Marriott). Autocourse 1971-72 pp122-127 (by David Phipps). The Motor Racing Year No 3 (by Anthony Pritchard) pp100-108.

Two cars arrived from Lotus, Brabham, Tyrrell, Matra, Surtees, plus only one from McLaren, three from Ferrari and March, and a completely absurd five from BRM, with George Eaton buying a drive in a P160 as well as Marko in the P153 he usually drove. The privateers this time were Frank Williams, Ecurie Evergreen with Keith Greene as team manager, Gene Mason for Skip Barber, and Pete Lovely with his nicely modified Lotus 69/49 hybrid, bringing the total to 27. The second McLaren had been leased by Penske/White Racing, painted blue and appeared as a private entry with its own mechanics led by John Woodard, although it was sharing a pool of engines with the works team. Beuttler was now in a works March instead of his Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie car, but was using the Stockbroker car's Ford engine. Only two spare cars were present: Stewart's Tyrrell 001 and Ferrari 312B/004 numbered 25T and used by Regazzoni. Pritchard said that 312B/002 was also present, but it was not seen by anyone else. The McLaren M19As had their rising rate rear suspension replaced with conventional wishbones and links, but retained the rising rate front suspension. There would have been two non-qualifiers, but Craft's engine failure and Pescarolo's accident meant this was never an issue.

Given the uncertainty over Amon's mount at Monza, it is interesting that this time he had his "accustomed" MS120B-06 and "his usual spare" was said to have been left at home. So why had 04 been his main car at Monza? Was Motor Sport right after all? Autosport said that the "sports car" nose on Schenken's Brabham BT33 was "designed without a bottom panel to create a 'suction' or 'ground effect'". The Tyrrell nose, by contrast, did not have "ground effect", even allegedly. Matra, the only other user of a "sports car" nose at this stage, also tried removing the bottom panel during practice.