Spanish Grand Prix

Montjuich Park, 29 Apr 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 3 May 1973 pp8-15 (by Pete Lyons). Motoring News 3 May 1973 pp18-20 (by 'ARM' Andrew Marriott). Motor Sport June 1973 pp615-617,620 and 'Notes on the cars in Barcelona' p654 (by 'DSJ' Denis Jenkinson).

There were two entries from Lotus, Tyrrell, McLaren, Surtees, Shadow and Williams; three from BRM and Brabham; and one each from Ferrari and March. There were only two privateers at this race: Beuttler in the new stockbroker March 731, which he had been able to test briefly before the event, unlike the works STP car being driven here by Pescarolo; and Graham Hill in his new Shadow DN1 run by his own new operation, Embassy Racing, making a total of 22. Andrea de Adamich and his colourful Ceramica Pagnossin sponsorship had moved from Surtees to Brabham, Motoring News revealing that there had been a dispute between Surtees and the sponsor. Surtees used an interview in Motoring News in July 1973 to say of the Italian, "Andrea's biggest problem is his personality", accusing him of "Walter Mitty" fantasies. Denis Jenkinson awarded his 'Team Shambles' title to Team Surtees. Tecno, who had done rather more to deserve the title, did not turn up after the truck was ordered to return to base when an engine problem was discovered. Spare cars were Fittipaldi's Lotus 72 R5, which arrived late from Zolder where he had been testing, Stewart's Tyrrell 005, a second Ferrari 312B3 for Ickx, Hulme and Revson's third McLaren M23, a spare BRM P160E used by Lauda, and the second Brabham BT37 which stayed on a trailer.