1973

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Jackie Stewart	British	Tyrrell	71	5
2	Emerson Fittipaldi	Brazilian	Team Lotus	55	3
3	Ronnie Peterson	Swedish	Team Lotus	52	4
4	François Cevert	French	Tyrrell	47	0
5	Peter Revson	American	McLaren	38	2
6	Denny Hulme	New Zealander	McLaren	26	1
7	Carlos Reutemann	Argentine	Brabham	16	0
8	James Hunt	British	March	14	0
9	Jacky Ickx	Belgian	Ferrari / Iso Marlboro / McLaren	12	0
10	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	French	BRM	9	0
11	Carlos Pace	Brazilian	Surtees	7	0
12	Arturo Merzario	Italian	Ferrari	6	0
13	George Follmer	American	Shadow	5	0
14	Jackie Oliver	British	Shadow	4	0
15	AAAndrea de Adamich	Italian	Brabham / Surtees	3	0
16	WFWilson Fittipaldi	Brazilian	Brabham	3	0
17	Niki Lauda	Austrian	BRM	2	0
18	Clay Regazzoni	Swiss	BRM	2	0
19	Howden Ganley	New Zealander	Iso Marlboro	1	0
20	GLGijs van Lennep	Dutch	Iso Marlboro	1	0
21	Chris Amon	New Zealander	Tecno / Tyrrell	1	0
—	MBMike Beuttler	British	March	0	0
—	Luiz Bueno	Brazilian	Surtees	0	0
—	DCDave Charlton	South African	Team Lotus	0	0
—	NGNanni Galli	Italian	Iso Marlboro	0	0
—	Peter Gethin	British	BRM	0	0
—	Mike Hailwood	British	Surtees	0	0
—	Graham Hill	British	Shadow	0	0
—	Jean-Pierre Jarier	French	March	0	0
—	EKEddie Keizan	South African	Tyrrell	0	0
—	Jochen Mass	German	Surtees	0	0
—	Graham McRae	New Zealander	Iso Marlboro	0	0
—	Henri Pescarolo	French	Iso Marlboro / March	0	0
—	JPJackie Pretorius	South African	Iso Marlboro	0	0
—	DPDavid Purley	British	March	0	0
—	BRBrian Redman	British	Shadow	0	0
—	Jody Scheckter	South African	McLaren	0	0
—	Tim Schenken	Australian	Iso Marlboro	0	0
—	Rolf Stommelen	German	Brabham	0	0
—	John Watson	British	Brabham	0	0
—	RWRoger Williamson	British	March	0	0
—	Reine Wisell	Swedish	March	0	0
—	RORikky von Opel	Liechtensteiner	Ensign	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 22 of 43 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 15, 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 1973, 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 1973, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 1973 is complete: all 15 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.