Race · Round 15 of 15 · 7 October 1973

1973 United States Grand Prix

Ronnie Peterson won for Team Lotus from pole at Watkins Glen. 9 of the starters were not classified.

Dry, with cloud · High of 17 °C, 1.7 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: Watkins GlenWatkins Glen, New York, United States of America
Winner: Ronnie PetersonTeam Lotus
Pole: Ronnie Peterson
Fastest lap: James Hunt
Entries: 2816 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	—	1	59	Finished	9
2	James Hunt	March	731	4	59	Finished	6	fastest lap
3	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	—	2	59	Finished	4
4	Denny Hulme	McLaren	—	8	59	Finished	3
5	Peter Revson	McLaren	—	7	59	Finished	2
6	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	—	3	59	Finished	1
7	Jacky Ickx	Iso-Marlboro	—	23	58	Finished	0
8	Clay Regazzoni	BRM	—	15	58	Finished	0
9	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	—	14	58	Finished	0
10	Mike Beuttler	March	—	26	58	Finished	0
11	Jean-Pierre Jarier	March	—	17	57	Accident	0
12	Howden Ganley	Iso-Marlboro	—	19	57	Finished	0
13	Graham Hill	Shadow	DN1	18	57	Finished	0
14	George Follmer	Shadow	DN1	20	57	Finished	0
15	Jackie Oliver	Shadow	DN1	22	55	Finished	0
16	Arturo Merzario	Ferrari	—	11	55	Finished	0
NC	Wilson Fittipaldi	Brabham	—	25	52	NC	0
DNF	Jody Scheckter	McLaren	—	10	39	Suspension	0
DNF	Jochen Mass	Surtees	—	16	35	Engine	0
DNF	Niki Lauda	BRM	—	21	35	Fuel pump	0
DNF	Mike Hailwood	Surtees	TS14A	6	34	Suspension	0
DNF	Carlos Pace	Surtees	TS14A	9	32	Suspension	0
DNF	John Watson	Brabham	—	24	7	Engine	0
DSQ	Brian Redman	Shadow	DN1	13	5	Received outside assistance	0
DNF	Rikky von Opel	Ensign	N173	27	0	Throttle	0
DNS	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	—	5	—	Withdrew	0
DNS	Chris Amon	Tyrrell	—	12	—	Withdrew	0
DNS	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	—	—	—	Fatal accident in qualifying	0

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

F1DB layout watkins-glen-2 · 5.435 km · 11 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
Ronnie Peterson	1	1	59
James Hunt	4	2	59
Carlos Reutemann	2	3	59
Denny Hulme	8	4	59
Peter Revson	7	5	59
Emerson Fittipaldi	3	6	59
Jacky Ickx	23	7	58
Clay Regazzoni	15	8	58
Jean-Pierre Beltoise	14	9	58
Mike Beuttler	26	10	58
Jean-Pierre Jarier	17	11	57
Howden Ganley	19	12	57
Graham Hill	18	13	57
George Follmer	20	14	57
Jackie Oliver	22	15	55
Arturo Merzario	11	16	55
Wilson Fittipaldi	25	NC	52
Jody Scheckter	10	DNF	39
Jochen Mass	16	DNF	35
Niki Lauda	21	DNF	35
Mike Hailwood	6	DNF	34
Carlos Pace	9	DNF	32
John Watson	24	DNF	7
Brian Redman	13	DSQ	5
Rikky von Opel	27	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	2	1:39.657	—	0 m	—
2	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	10	1:40.013	+0.356	19 m	+0.356
3	Emerson Fittipaldi	Team Lotus	1	1:40.393	+0.736	40 m	+0.380
4	Francois Cevert	Tyrrell	6	1:40.444	+0.787	43 m	+0.051
5	James Hunt	March	27	1:40.520	+0.863	47 m	+0.76
6	Sir Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	5	1:40.635	+0.978	53 m	+0.115
7	Mike Hailwood	Surtees	23	1:40.844	+1.187	65 m	+0.209
8	Peter Revson	McLaren	8	1:40.895	+1.238	68 m	+0.051
9	Denny Hulme	McLaren	7	1:40.907	+1.250	68 m	+0.012
10	Carlos Pace	Surtees	24	1:41.125	+1.468	80 m	+0.218
11	Jody Scheckter	McLaren	0	1:41.321	+1.664	91 m	+0.196
12	Arturo Merzario	Ferrari	4	1:41.455	+1.798	98 m	+0.134
13	Chris Amon	Tyrrell	29	1:41.679	+2.022	110 m	+0.224
14	Brian Redman	Shadow	31	1:42.247	+2.590	141 m	+0.568
15	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	BRM	20	1:42.417	+2.760	151 m	+0.170
16	Clay Regazzoni	BRM	19	1:42.468	+2.811	153 m	+0.051
17	Jochen Mass	Surtees	30	1:42.517	+2.860	156 m	+0.049
18	Jean-Pierre Jarier	March	18	1:42.752	+3.095	169 m	+0.235
19	Graham Hill	Shadow	12	1:42.848	+3.191	174 m	+0.096
20	Howden Ganley	Iso-Marlboro	25	1:43.166	+3.509	191 m	+0.318
21	George Follmer	Shadow	16	1:43.387	+3.730	203 m	+0.221
22	Niki Lauda	BRM	21	1:43.543	+3.886	212 m	+0.156
23	Jackie Oliver	Shadow	17	1:43.650	+3.993	218 m	+0.107
24	Jacky Ickx	Iso-Marlboro	26	1:43.885	+4.228	231 m	+0.235
25	John Watson	Brabham	9	1:43.887	+4.230	231 m	+0.002
26	Wilson Fittipaldi	Brabham	11	1:44.478	+4.821	263 m	+0.591
27	Mike Beuttler	March	15	1:45.032	+5.375	293 m	+0.554
28	Rikky von Opel	Ensign	28	1:45.441	+5.784	315 m	+0.409

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.

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.

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

Where this comes from

Round: 15 of 1973
Grand Prix: United States Grand Prix
Dates: 7 Oct 1973
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Team Lotus
Entrant: Lotus-Ford
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.