Grande Premio de Brasil 11 Februari 1973, Interlagos
Ronnie Peterson lyckas inför sitt 34:e F1 lopp för första gången prestera snabbast varvtid på träningen. Han står i första startled tillsammans med teamkompisen Emerson Fittipaldi. Ronnie har nu fått nr 2 på sin svarta Lotus och detta blir ett nummer han kommer att ha under resten av säsongen.
Fittipaldi tar starten. Ronnie tvingas bryta redan på det femte varvet efter att ha tappat ett hjul - fälgen sprack!
Emerson Fittipaldi tar sin andra raka seger för säsongen och vinner i sin Lotus sitt hemlands GP - han leder loppet från start till mål. Tvåa blir Jackie Stewart i en Tyrrell före Denny Hulme i en McLaren som kör in som trea.
Snabbaste varv gör Fittipaldi och Hulme med 2.35,0.
Ronnie har två tävlingar i rad tvingats bryta p g a mekaniska problem, men han har också visat att han sitter i en fortsatt konkurrenskraftig bil som han har förmågan att manövrera.
Summary in english
With a Brazilian World Champion there was
much demand for a Grand Prix in Brazil and, having run a non-championship event
in 1972, the Brazilians won the right to stage a World Championship event at
Interlagos in 1973. The event was held a fortnight after the race in Argentina
and so all the teams went directly there. As the field in Argentina had been a
small one the field was only 20 in number with the only new face being local man
Luis Pereira Bueno who rented an old Surtees for the event. This was
not his first F1 experience, however, as he had rented a March the previous year
for the non-championship event.
Team Lotus had done considerable
testing at the track in an effort to give Emerson Fittipaldi a chance to win
in front of his home crowd but as things turned out it was his team mate Ronnie Peterson was on pole position
with Fittipaldi second, two tenths of a second slower. There was then a gap of
1.3secs back to Jacky Ickx's
Ferrari (which was on the
outside of the front row). The second row featured Clay Regazzoni's BRM and Denny Hulme's McLaren with the third row being
made up of Carlos Pace
(Surtees), Carlos Reutemann (Brabham) and Jackie
Stewart (Tyrrell).
The temperatures were very high on race day and at the start the Brazilian crowd
was rewarded with two really good starts from the stars they had come to see:
Fittipaldi took the lead and Pace leapt through into second position with
Stewart third, Peterson fourth and Ickx fifth. On the second lap Pace was pushed
back to third by Stewart and he soon dropped behind Peterson as well. The
Swedish driver then closed up to Stewart and battled for second place until lap
six when Ronnie suffered a wheel failure and crashed heavily.
By then Ickx had moved to third place ahead of Pace, who was in trouble with a
rear suspension problem which forced him to retire a few laps later. The order
at the front remained unchanged while the excitement was provided by Hulme
driving up through the field. On the 12th lap he overtook fourth-placed Jean-Pierre Beltoise (BRM) and three laps later he passed Ickx
for third. The Belgian had to pit with a puncture and so fourth place went to
Beltoise until the French stopped with an electrical problem. Regazzoni then
moved into fourth but almost immediately had to pit for new tires and so the
position went to Arturo Merzario
in the second Ferrari.
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Aktuell ställning
| Position | Förare | Nation | Poäng |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emerson Fittipaldi | BRA | 18 |
| 2 | Jackie Stewart | GBR | 10 |
| 3 | Denny Hulme | NZ | 6 |
| " | François Cevert | FRA | 6 |
| 5 | Jacky Ickx | BEL | 5 |
| 6 | Arturo Merzario | ITA | 3 |
