Race · Round 9 of 12 · 13 August 1972

1972 Austrian Grand Prix

Emerson Fittipaldi won for Team Lotus from pole at Red Bull Ring. 10 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 28 °C, 0.5 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Red Bull RingSpielberg, Austria
Winner: Emerson FittipaldiTeam Lotus
Pole: Emerson Fittipaldi
Fastest lap: Denny Hulme
Entries: 2615 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	72D	1	54	Finished	9
2	Denny Hulme	McLaren	—	7	54	Finished	6	fastest lap
3	Peter Revson	McLaren	—	4	54	Finished	4
4	Mike Hailwood	Surtees	TS9B	12	54	Finished	3
5	Chris Amon	Matra	—	6	54	Finished	2
6	Howden Ganley	BRM	—	10	54	Finished	1
7	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	—	3	54	Finished	0
8	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	—	21	54	Finished	0
9	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	—	20	53	Finished	0
10	Niki Lauda	March	—	22	53	Finished	0
11	Tim Schenken	Surtees	TS9B	8	52	Finished	0
12	Ronnie Peterson	March	—	11	52	Finished	0
13	Peter Gethin	BRM	—	16	51	Finished	0
14	Andrea de Adamich	Surtees	TS9B	13	51	Finished	0
15	Rolf Stommelen	Eifelland	21	17	48	Finished	0
NC	Carlos Pace	March	—	18	46	NC	0
DNF	Nanni Galli	Tecno	PA123/3	23	45	Oil leak	0
DNF	Graham Hill	Brabham	—	14	36	Injection	0
DNF	Wilson Fittipaldi	Brabham	—	15	31	Brakes	0
DNF	Mike Beuttler	March	721G	24	24	Fuel system	0
DNF	François Migault	Connew	PC1	25	22	Suspension	0
DNF	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	312B2	9	20	Fuel system	0
DNF	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	—	5	14	Injection	0
DNF	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	312B2	2	13	Fuel system	0
DNF	David Walker	Team Lotus	72D	19	6	Engine	0
DNS	Henri Pescarolo	March	—	—	—	Accident	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout spielberg-1 · 5.911 km · 16 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Emerson Fittipaldi	1	1	54
Denny Hulme	7	2	54
Peter Revson	4	3	54
Mike Hailwood	12	4	54
Chris Amon	6	5	54
Howden Ganley	10	6	54
Sir Jackie Stewart	3	7	54
Jean-Pierre Beltoise	21	8	54
Francois Cevert	20	9	53
Niki Lauda	22	10	53
Tim Schenken	8	11	52
Ronnie Peterson	11	12	52
Peter Gethin	16	13	51
Andrea de Adamich	13	14	51
Rolf Stommelen	17	15	48
Carlos Pace	18	NC	46
Nanni Galli	23	DNF	45
Graham Hill	14	DNF	36
Wilson Fittipaldi	15	DNF	31
Mike Beuttler	24	DNF	24
François Migault	25	DNF	22
Jacky Ickx	9	DNF	20
Carlos Reutemann	5	DNF	14
Clay Regazzoni	2	DNF	13
David Walker	19	DNF	6

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	31	1:35.970	—	0 m	—
2	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	19	1:36.040	+0.070	4 m	+0.070
3	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	1	1:36.350	+0.380	24 m	+0.310
4	Peter Revson	McLaren	14	1:36.630	+0.660	41 m	+0.280
5	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	17	1:37.150	+1.180	73 m	+0.520
6	Chris Amon	Matra	10	1:37.160	+1.190	74 m	+0.010
7	Denny Hulme	McLaren	12	1:37.200	+1.230	76 m	+0.040
8	Tim Schenken	Surtees	24	1:37.250	+1.280	79 m	+0.050
9	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	18	1:37.330	+1.360	84 m	+0.080
10	Howden Ganley	BRM	9	1:37.550	+1.580	98 m	+0.220
11	Ronnie Peterson	March	5	1:37.580	+1.610	100 m	+0.030
12	Mike Hailwood	Surtees	25	1:37.770	+1.800	111 m	+0.190
13	Andrea de Adamich	Surtees	11	1:38.080	+2.110	131 m	+0.310
14	Graham Hill	Brabham	16	1:38.140	+2.170	134 m	+0.060
15	Wilson Fittipaldi	Brabham	28	1:38.350	+2.380	147 m	+0.210
16	Peter Gethin	BRM	6	1:38.480	+2.510	155 m	+0.130
17	Rolf Stommelen	Eifelland	27	1:38.620	+2.650	164 m	+0.140
18	Carlos Pace	March	23	1:38.620	+2.650	164 m	+0.000
19	David Walker	Team Lotus	21	1:38.810	+2.840	176 m	+0.190
20	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	2	1:38.850	+2.880	178 m	+0.040
21	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	7	1:38.890	+2.920	181 m	+0.040
22	Niki Lauda	March	4	1:39.040	+3.070	190 m	+0.150
23	Nanni Galli	Tecno	15	1:39.130	+3.160	196 m	+0.090
24	Mike Beuttler	March	3	1:39.920	+3.950	245 m	+0.790
25	Henri Pescarolo	March	22	1:40.280	+4.310	267 m	+0.360
26	François Migault	Connew	29	1:43.880	+7.910	490 m	+3.600

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

Photographs from this race

Filed on Wikimedia Commons under this race's own category, each shown with the photographer and licence its terms require. The filing is the Commons editors' and has not been checked here.

Everything filed under 1972 Austrian Grand Prix on Wikimedia Commons

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Where this comes from

Round: 9 of 1972
Grand Prix: Austrian Grand Prix
Dates: 13 Aug 1972
Layout raced: Osterreichring · 5.942 km · 12 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Team Lotus
Entrant: Lotus-Ford
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.