1970

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Jochen Rindt	Austrian	Team Lotus	45	5
2	Jacky Ickx	Belgian	Ferrari	40	3
3	Clay Regazzoni	Swiss	Ferrari	33	1
4	Denny Hulme	New Zealander	McLaren-Ford	27	0
5	Jackie Stewart	British	March / Tyrrell	25	1
6	Jack Brabham	Australian	Brabham	25	1
7	Pedro Rodríguez	Mexican	BRM	23	1
8	Chris Amon	New Zealander	March	23	0
9	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	French	Matra	16	0
10	Emerson Fittipaldi	Brazilian	Team Lotus	12	1
11	Rolf Stommelen	German	Brabham	10	0
12	Henri Pescarolo	French	Matra	8	0
13	Graham Hill	British	Team Lotus	7	0
14	Bruce McLaren	New Zealander	McLaren-Ford	6	0
15	Reine Wisell	Swedish	Team Lotus	4	0
16	Mario Andretti	American	March	4	0
17	IGIgnazio Giunti	Italian	Ferrari	3	0
18	John Surtees	British	McLaren-Ford / Surtees	3	0
19	JMJohn Miles	British	Team Lotus	2	0
20	Jackie Oliver	British	BRM	2	0
21	JSJohnny Servoz-Gavin	French	March	2	0
22	François Cevert	French	March	1	0
23	Peter Gethin	British	McLaren-Ford	1	0
24	Dan Gurney	American	McLaren-Ford	1	0
25	DBDerek Bell	British	Brabham / Surtees	1	0
—	JBJo Bonnier	Swedish	McLaren-Ford	0	0
—	DCDave Charlton	South African	Team Lotus	0	0
—	Piers Courage	British	De Tomaso	0	0
—	GEGeorge Eaton	Canadian	BRM	0	0
—	GHGus Hutchison	American	Brabham	0	0
—	JLJohn Love	Rhodesian	Team Lotus	0	0
—	PLPete Lovely	American	Team Lotus	0	0
—	Silvio Moser	Swiss	Bellasi	0	0
—	Ronnie Peterson	Swedish	March	0	0
—	Tim Schenken	Australian	De Tomaso	0	0
—	JSJo Siffert	Swiss	March	0	0
—	AAAndrea de Adamich	Italian	McLaren-Alfa Romeo	0	0
—	PKPeter de Klerk	South African	Brabham	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 13 of 38 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points.

Read from the season’s final constructor standings row. A constructor scores through both of its cars, so these totals are not the sum of any one driver’s line above.

Both championship tables on this page are read from the season’s standings rows at round 13, the last round loaded, and neither is derived by adding up the race results. That distinction is the whole point: for most of the sport’s history only a driver’s best few results counted toward the title, a race stopped short paid half points, and a driver could be excluded from a championship he had scored in, so a table built by summing the results column would disagree with the championship as it was actually awarded. Positions are the source’s own; where it recorded none, the row prints a dash and sits below the placed field rather than being given a place it never held or dropped from the page. A points total is printed as it is stored, to two decimals where it needs them, because the sport has awarded half points and split shared drives since the 1950s and those fractions are real. The calendar is every round in the archive for 1970, in round order, with the winner taken from the classification code the source prints rather than from its sort key; three of the 1,161 races loaded were won by a shared car, and for those the calendar names one driver while the race classification credits both. The Cars column counts the rows in each race’s classification, which includes cars that retired, so it is entries with a recorded result rather than a count of cars that took the start. The drivers and constructors counted in the masthead are those that appear in a race result for 1970, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 1970 is complete: all 13 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.