Gran Premio d`Italia 6 September 1970, Monza
Ronnie Peterson i sitt sjunde lopp i F1 cirkusen, denna gång på den beryktade Monza-banan i Italiens GP den 6 september 1970. Ronnie har återigen 13:e startposition och nr 52 på den gula March:en.
Jacky Ickx står i "pole" före Rodriguez. Ledningen växlar ett flertal gånger under loppet, men det är Clay Regazzoni i en Ferrari som passerar målflaggan först före Jackie Stewart i en March och med Jean-Pierre Beltoise en en Matra som trea. Detta är Regazzonis första seger i Formel 1. Ronnie bryter ännu en gång efter motorproblem och har då endast kört 35 varv av 65.
Det är inför detta lopp som Jochen Rindt omkommer under träning efter ett bromsaxelbrott på sin Lotus 72. Rindt har tidigare under säsongen vunnit fem lopp, vilket är tillräckligt för att han efter den totala sammanräkningen postumt skall komma att utses till mästare. Österrikaren Rindt var världens bäste förare 1970 och korades senare postumt till världsmästare. När Ronnie senare hade gift sig med Barbro och de fått barn, valde de att döpa sin dotter efter Jochens fru Nina. Ronnie beundrade Jochen Rindt och kom av många att liknas vid denne.
Detta är också det första F1-lopp där Ronnie kunde ha kommit att tävla mot en annan svensk, men Jo Bonnier lyckades inte kvala in till söndagens tävling.
Summary in english
When the F1 teams gathered at Monza the talking point
was the performance of the new Tyrrell
001 which had taken the Grand Prix world by complete surprise when it was
announced and had shown well in the non-championship Oulton Gold Cup a week
after the Austrian GP. This convinced Ken Tyrrell to enter the car for Jackie Stewart at Monza. The team had Stewart's usual
March with them as well and Stewart used this in practice on Friday. He did run
the new car briefly but this suffered a variety of mechanical problems and
Jackie settled for the March.
Ferrari had been dominant in Austria and once again Jacky Ickx was joined by Clay Regazzoni and Ignazio Giunti.
On Friday Ickx was fastest. Practice saw Emerson Fittipaldi going off at the Parabolica,
crashing over an earth bank in his first run in a Lotus 72. He ended up among the trees,
fortunately without hitting any of them. On Saturday afternoon in the same place
Jochen Rindt's Lotus darted suddenly left as he applied
the brakes and crashed heavily into the barriers. The car was severely damaged
and Rindt was taken to hospital but was dead on arrival. The accident stunned
the F1 circus. Rindt was the third F1 star to die that year (after Bruce McLaren and Piers Courage).
Team Lotus withdrew all its cars.
Qualifying was completed but no-one beat Ickx's time
although Pedro Rodriguez did get his BRM to within two-tenths of the Ferrari and Regazzoni snatched third from
Stewart's March. Giunti in the third Ferrari
and Jackie Oliver in the second BRM shared the third row.
At the start Ickx took the lead but on the fourth lap
he was overtaken by both Rodriguez and Stewart and as they battled for the lead
they were joined by Regazzoni who managed to get ahead of both of them on the
tenth lap. The order was changing with each lap as the leaders slipstreamed one
another although the battle lost Rodriguez on lap 13 when his engine blew up.
The battle for the lead continued with Stewart, Regazzoni and Oliver being
joined by Ickx and it was Oliver who was the first to hold the lead for any
length of time. Ickx retired with with clutch failure on lap 26 and Oliver soon
fell back into the clutches of Stewart, Regazzoni and Denny Hulme.
On lap 37 Oliver's engine failed him.
It was not until the closing laps that Regazzoni was
finally able to get away from Stewart to win his first victory by six seconds
with Jean-Pierre Beltoise's Matra emerging from the battles to finish
third ahead of Hulme, Rolf Stommelen in a Brabham
and Francois Cevert's Tyrrell
March.
It
had been a dramatic battle but there was little celebrating as the teams packed
up and headed for home.
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Aktuell ställning
| Position | Förare | Nationalitet | Poäng |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jochen Rindt | AUT | 45 |
| 2 | Jack Brabham | AUS | 25 |
| " | Jackie Stewart | GBR | 25 |
| 4 | Denny Hulme | NZ | 23 |
| 5 | Clay Regazzoni | CH | 21 |
| 6 | Jacky Ickx | BEL | 19 |
