Austrian Grand Prix

Österreichring, 19 Aug 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 23 Aug 1973 pp12-20 (by Pete Lyons). Motoring News 23 Aug 1973 pp12-16 (by 'AH' Alan Henry) and 'In the Paddock' (by 'ARM' Andrew Marriott). Motor Sport October 1973 p1148-1150 including 'Notes on the cars at Zeltweg' (by 'DSJ' Denis Jenkinson).

There were two entries from each of Lotus, Tyrrell, McLaren, Shadow, Surtees and Williams; three from Brabham and BRM; one from each of Ferrari, March, Tecno and Ensign. The three privateers were Embassy Racing with Hill's Shadow, Space Racing with the stockbroker March 731, and Hesketh Racing with the quickest of the March 731s, bringing the total to 25. Lauda and Amon did not start, leaving 23 on the grid. Jenkinson started a problem at this race by deciding that the Williams chassis IR/02, which had been rebuilt on a new monocoque, should be called IR/03 regardless of what the team wanted to call it. He maintained this new name all season, so when Williams later introduced a new car and called it IR/03, Jenks had to call it IR/04. When Williams renumbered their cars as FW/02 and FW/03 for 1974, Jenks continued to resist, but finally relented when an entirely new model was built and called the FW04. Some time after this, Jenks adopted a specific notation to indicate a car rebuilt on a new monocoque, so this rebuilt car would have been called IR/02-2 by a future Jenks. We follow that future Jenks here.

Amon used both Tecnos in practice but the engine in the McCall car blew up and then the Goral car persistently overheated. The Kiwi went home after practice and this turned out the be the final appearance of the team in F1. Jarier drove the usual Lec hire car as a works entry, still dark blue as Andy Granatelli had withdrawn STP sponsorship from the team. Mauro Forgieri had completely reworked the Ferrari 312B3 and Arturo Merzario was given the job of developing it. The Shadow and Williams teams were struggling, the works Shadow being unable to match the pace of Hill's Embassy car and the two Iso-Marlboro Williams being right at the back with the Tecno.

The six spare cars present were one Lotus 72D, Stewart's Tyrrell 005, a spare McLaren M23, a brand new spare Brabham BT42, a spare Surtees TS14 that stayed in the transporter, and the second Tecno.