F1/Seasons/1970/Round 12
1970 · Round 12 of 13

United States Grand Prix

October 4, 1970 · Watkins Glen · New York State · USA
Fittipaldi
WINNER
Emerson Fittipaldi · Team Lotus · from grid 3
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+14
MOST PLACES GAINED
Jo Siffert · grid 23 to P9
14 of 24
CLASSIFIED
10 retired

01/Classification

24 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Emerson FittipaldiTeam Lotus3+21081:57:32.7909
2Pedro RodríguezBRM4+2108+36.3906
3Reine WisellTeam Lotus9+6108+45.1704
4Jacky IckxFerrari1-3107+1 Lap3
5Chris AmonMarch50107+1 Lap2
6Derek BellSurtees13+7107+1 Lap1
7Denny HulmeMcLaren-Ford11+4106+2 Laps0
8Henri PescaroloMatra12+4105+3 Laps0
9Jo SiffertMarch23+14105+3 Laps0
10Jack BrabhamBrabham16+6105+3 Laps0
11Ronnie PetersonMarch15+4104+4 Laps0
12Rolf StommelenBrabham19+7104+4 Laps0
13Clay RegazzoniFerrari6-7101+7 Laps0
14Peter GethinMcLaren-Ford21+7100+8 Laps0
RJackie StewartTyrrell282Oil leak0
RGraham HillTeam Lotus1072Clutch0
RFrançois CevertMarch1762Wheel0
RTim SchenkenDe Tomaso2061Suspension0
RJo BonnierMcLaren-Ford2450Water pipe0
RJean-Pierre BeltoiseMatra1827Handling0
RGus HutchisonBrabham2221Fuel leak0
RJackie OliverBRM714Engine0
RGeorge EatonBRM1410Engine0
RJohn SurteesSurtees86Engine0

Ordered on the source’s position column and printed from position_text. Those two disagree on purpose: position is a sort key that is never null, and position_text is what happened to the car. 10 of 24 cars here were not classified (10 retired). Across the archive that is 9,612 of 26,048 result rows, so a page that printed the sort key would tell more than a third of every field it finished.


02/Grid to finish

14 of 24 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Jo SiffertMarch239+14
Derek BellSurtees136+7
Rolf StommelenBrabham1912+7
Peter GethinMcLaren-Ford2114+7
Reine WisellTeam Lotus93+6
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Clay RegazzoniFerrari613-7
Jacky IckxFerrari14-3

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 14 of the 24 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 10: a car that was not classified has no finishing position to subtract from, and no car here carries grid 0, the value the source uses for a pit lane start or for no recorded grid slot. Scoring a grid of 0 as a gain of every place on the grid is the arithmetic this rule exists to stop; 266 of 26,048 rows across the archive are grid 0, and 40 of those were classified.


03/The 1970 season

13 rounds
MAR 7 to OCT 25
RdDateGrand PrixCircuitWinnerConstructorCars
1MAR 7South African Grand PrixKyalamiJack BrabhamBrabham23
2APR 19Spanish Grand PrixJaramaJackie StewartMarch17
3MAY 10Monaco Grand PrixCircuit de MonacoJochen RindtTeam Lotus16
4JUN 7Belgian Grand PrixCircuit de Spa-FrancorchampsPedro RodríguezBRM17
5JUN 21Dutch Grand PrixCircuit Park ZandvoortJochen RindtTeam Lotus20
6JUL 5French Grand PrixCharade CircuitJochen RindtTeam Lotus20
7JUL 18British Grand PrixBrands HatchJochen RindtTeam Lotus23
8AUG 2German Grand PrixHockenheimringJochen RindtTeam Lotus21
9AUG 16Austrian Grand PrixRed Bull RingJacky IckxFerrari24
10SEP 6Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di MonzaClay RegazzoniFerrari24
11SEP 20Canadian Grand PrixCircuit Mont-TremblantJacky IckxFerrari20
12OCT 4United States Grand PrixWatkins GlenEmerson FittipaldiTeam Lotus24
13OCT 25Mexican Grand PrixAutódromo Hermanos RodríguezJacky IckxFerrari18

Every figure here is one race, read from f1_results and f1_races. The finishing order is the source’s position column; the printed position is position_text, which is a letter on 9,612 of 26,048 rows across the archive (R retired 9,089, W withdrew 364, D disqualified 159). Grid 0 is a pit lane start and prints as PIT, not as a place ahead of pole; 266 of 26,048 rows are grid 0. Time is a total for the winner and a gap to the car ahead for everyone else, and it is present on 8,508 of 26,048 rows only, so most of the archive shows the status instead; where both exist and the status is not “Finished” the status is printed beside the time, because 8,335 of 16,436 classified rows finished lapped or otherwise not cleanly. The fastest lap column is empty before 2004: the source carries lap timing on 8,977 of 26,048 rows and a ranked fastest lap in 447 of 1,161 races, and speed on 8,238 of those, none after 2024. Points are printed as the source stores them and are never rounded to a whole number: 38 of 26,048 rows are fractional (0.5, 1.33, 3.14), which is half points for a shortened race and a split score for a shared car, and every one of them is real. Three races (1951 French, 1956 Argentine, 1957 British) print two cars as first, because two drivers shared one car and the record books credit both; in those three the source hangs the race points on other rows, which is why 5 of 1,164 winning rows across the archive print zero points. Constructors carry no logo in any f1_* table, so none is drawn and none is invented. The 1970 season is complete at 13 rounds.