Mexican Grand Prix
Mexico City, 25 Oct 1970
Results | Laps | Time/Speed | |||||||
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1 | Jacky Ickx | Ferrari 312B/70 [001] - f12 #3 Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC |
65 | 1h 53m 28.36s |
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2 | Clay Regazzoni | Ferrari 312B/70 [004] - f12 #4 Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC |
65 | 1h 53m 53.00s |
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3 | Denis Hulme | McLaren M14A [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 #8 Bruce McLaren Motor Racing |
65 | 1h 54m 14.33s |
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4 | Chris Amon | March 701 [1-2] - Cosworth DFV V8 #12 March Engineering |
65 | 1h 54m 15.41s |
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5 | Jean-Pierre Beltoise | Matra MS120 [03] - MS12 V12 #6 Equipe Matra Elf |
65 | 1h 54m 18.47s |
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6 | Pedro Rodriguez | BRM P153 [05] - P142 V12 #19 Yardley Team BRM |
65 | 1h 54m 53.12s |
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7 | Jackie Oliver | BRM P153 [06] - P142 V12 #20 Yardley Team BRM |
64 | 1h 54m 14.03s |
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8 | John Surtees | Surtees TS7 [001] - Cosworth DFV V8 #17 Team Surtees |
64 | 1h 54m 29.20s |
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9 | Henri Pescarolo | Matra MS120 [02] - MS12 V12 #7 Equipe Matra Elf |
61 | 1h 54m 52.83s |
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NC | Reine Wisell | Lotus 72C [R3] - Cosworth DFV V8 #23 Gold Leaf Team Lotus |
56 | not classified | |||||
R | Jack Brabham | Brabham BT33 [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 #15 Motor Racing Developments Limited |
52 | engine | |||||
R | Jackie Stewart | Tyrrell [001] - Cosworth DFV V8 #1 Tyrrell Racing Organisation |
33 | suspension | |||||
R | Peter Gethin | McLaren M14A [3 as '1'] - Cosworth DFV V8 #9 Bruce McLaren Motor Racing |
27 | engine | |||||
R | Rolf Stommelen | Brabham BT33 [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 #16 Auto Motor und Sport |
15 | fuel feed | |||||
R | François Cevert | March 701 [4-2] - Cosworth DFV V8 #2 Tyrrell Racing Organisation |
8 | engine | |||||
R | Graham Hill | Lotus 72C [R4] - Cosworth DFV V8 #14 Brooke Bond Oxo Rob Walker Racing Team |
4 | overheating | |||||
R | Jo Siffert | March 701 [5-2] - Cosworth DFV V8 #11 March Engineering |
3 | engine | |||||
R | Emerson Fittipaldi | Lotus 72C [R5] - Cosworth DFV V8 #24 Gold Leaf Team Lotus |
1 | engine | |||||
T | Pedro Rodriguez | BRM P153 [04] - P142 V12 #19T Yardley Team BRM |
(Only used in practice) |
All cars are 3-litre F1 unless noted.
Qualifying | |||||
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1 | Clay Regazzoni | (F1) 3-litre Ferrari 312B/70 [004] - Ferrari f12 | 1m 41.86s | ||
2 | Jackie Stewart | (F1) 3-litre Tyrrell [001] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 41.88s | ||
3 | Jacky Ickx | (F1) 3-litre Ferrari 312B/70 [001] - Ferrari f12 | 1m 42.41s | ||
4 | Jack Brabham | (F1) 3-litre Brabham BT33 [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 43.57s | ||
5 | Chris Amon | (F1) 3-litre March 701 [1-2] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 43.71s | ||
6 | Jean-Pierre Beltoise | (F1) 3-litre Matra MS120 [03] - Matra MS12 V12 | 1m 43.82s | ||
7 | Pedro Rodriguez | (F1) 3-litre BRM P153 [05] - BRM P142 V12 | 1m 44.01s | ||
8 | Graham Hill | (F1) 3-litre Lotus 72C [R4] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 44.13s | ||
9 | François Cevert | (F1) 3-litre March 701 [4-2] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 44.21s | ||
10 | Peter Gethin | (F1) 3-litre McLaren M14A [3 as '1'] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 44.46s | ||
11 | Henri Pescarolo | (F1) 3-litre Matra MS120 [02] - Matra MS12 V12 | 1m 44.55s | ||
12 | Reine Wisell | (F1) 3-litre Lotus 72C [R3] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 44.59s | ||
13 | Jackie Oliver | (F1) 3-litre BRM P153 [06] - BRM P142 V12 | 1m 44.70s | ||
14 | Denis Hulme | (F1) 3-litre McLaren M14A [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 44.95s | ||
15 | John Surtees | (F1) 3-litre Surtees TS7 [001] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 45.03s | ||
16 | Jo Siffert | (F1) 3-litre March 701 [5-2] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 46.15s | ||
17 | Rolf Stommelen | (F1) 3-litre Brabham BT33 [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 46.30s | ||
18 | Emerson Fittipaldi | (F1) 3-litre Lotus 72C [R5] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1m 48.13s |
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 29 Oct 1970 pp7- (report by David Phipps). Motor Sport December 1970 pp1332-1333,1336 (by ARM, the 27-year-old Andrew Marriott having returned from the Petonyer-Team March outfit to become Assistant Editor of Motor Sport). Motoring News 29 Oct 1970 pp1,9-11 (also by ARM). Sport Auto Decembre 1970 pp24-30, including 'Les Voitures en Course' (by Gérard Crombac). Autocar 29 Oct 1970 pp23-26 (by Eoin Young). The Motor Racing Year No 2 p122-126 (by Anthony Pritchard). Autocar continued to give all chassis numbers on the grid.
The organisers paid for the cars to be transported from Watkins Glen and then back to New York, and only accepted 18 entries. These were two cars each from Tyrrell, Ferrari, Matra, McLaren, March Engineering, Brabham, BRM and Lotus, plus one from Surtees and Rob Walker's Lotus. GPDA President Jo Bonnier had secured an entry, but this was replaced by the second Tyrrell entry after pressure from FOCA. Entries from Frank Williams and Colin Crabbe were rejected, as were the second Surtees for Bell, the third BRM of Eaton and the McLaren-Alfa for De Adamich. BRM were the only team with a spare car, so March Engineering's spare March 701 had managed to go the whole season without being raced once. The identity of the spare P153 was only revealed by Motoring News where Marriott said it was P153/04, the car practiced by Peter Westbury at Watkins Glen. However, in Motor Sport, the same author recorded it as P153/03. The ex-Westbury reference makes 04 more likely to be correct, and Jabby Crombac at Sport Auto also called the car 04, so Motor Sport's reference to 03 can be dismissed as a typographical error.