Argentinian Grand Prix

Buenos Aires, 28 Jan 1973

All cars are 3-litre F1 unless noted.

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 1 Feb 1973 pp8-17 (by Pete Lyons, who had replaced Patrick McNally as Overseas Editor from the start of 1973, with McNally becoming European Editor). Motoring News 1 Feb 1973 pp11-13 (by 'ARM' Andrew Marriott). Motor Sport March 1973 pp252,254-255 and 'Notes on the cars in Argentina' p256 (by 'ARM' Andrew Marriott).

20 cars arrived, for 19 entries. F1 was now settling into a two-car standard, with Lotus, Tyrrell, Brabham, McLaren, Ferrari, Surtees and Williams all entering two cars. There was only one official works March, the ex-Lauda car for Jarier with repositioned oil tank, and the unmodified Stockbroker March continued to be run by Space Racing. BRM were the only team with three entries. The only spare car was Tyrrell 003, which remained untouched. Four new cars were present, the two Surtees TS14As which had modified rear suspension with twin bottom "unparallel" links replacing the wishbone, a second Williams to much the same pattern as the former Politoys but called an Iso-Marlboro instead of a Politoys, and a new Lotus 72D as Lotus intended to have four cars at all races this season.