F1/Seasons/1972/Round 9
1972 · Round 9 of 12

Austrian Grand Prix

August 13, 1972 · Red Bull Ring · Spielberg · Austria
Fittipaldi
WINNER
Emerson Fittipaldi · Team Lotus · from grid 1
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+13
MOST PLACES GAINED
Jean-Pierre Beltoise · grid 21 to P8
14 of 25
CLASSIFIED
11 retired

01/Classification

25 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Emerson FittipaldiTeam Lotus10541:29:16.6609
2Denny HulmeMcLaren7+554+1.1806
3Peter RevsonMcLaren4+154+36.5304
4Mike HailwoodSurtees12+854+44.7603
5Chris AmonMatra6+154+45.6402
6Howden GanleyBRM10+454+1:01.1901
7Jackie StewartTyrrell3-454+1:09.0900
8Jean-Pierre BeltoiseBRM21+1354+1:21.4500
9François CevertTyrrell20+1153+1 Lap0
10Niki LaudaMarch22+1253+1 Lap0
11Tim SchenkenSurtees8-352+2 Laps0
12Ronnie PetersonMarch11-152+2 Laps0
13Peter GethinBRM16+351+3 Laps0
14Andrea de AdamichSurtees13-151+3 Laps0
RRolf StommelenMarch1748Engine0
RCarlos PaceMarch1846Not classified0
RNanni GalliTecno2345Oil leak0
RGraham HillBrabham1436Injection0
RWilson FittipaldiBrabham1531Brakes0
RMike BeuttlerMarch2424Fuel system0
RFrançois MigaultConnew2522Suspension0
RJacky IckxFerrari920Fuel system0
RCarlos ReutemannBrabham514Injection0
RClay RegazzoniFerrari213Fuel system0
RDavid WalkerTeam Lotus196Engine0

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. 11 of 25 cars here were not classified (11 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 25 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Jean-Pierre BeltoiseBRM218+13
Niki LaudaMarch2210+12
François CevertTyrrell209+11
Mike HailwoodSurtees124+8
Denny HulmeMcLaren72+5
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Jackie StewartTyrrell37-4
Tim SchenkenSurtees811-3
Ronnie PetersonMarch1112-1
Andrea de AdamichSurtees1314-1

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 14 of the 25 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 11: 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 1972 season

12 rounds
JAN 23 to OCT 8
RdDateGrand PrixCircuitWinnerConstructorCars
1JAN 23Argentine Grand PrixAutódromo Juan y Oscar GálvezJackie StewartTyrrell22
2MAR 4South African Grand PrixKyalamiDenny HulmeMcLaren26
3MAY 1Spanish Grand PrixJaramaEmerson FittipaldiTeam Lotus25
4MAY 14Monaco Grand PrixCircuit de MonacoJean-Pierre BeltoiseBRM25
5JUN 4Belgian Grand PrixNivelles-BaulersEmerson FittipaldiTeam Lotus25
6JUL 2French Grand PrixCharade CircuitJackie StewartTyrrell24
7JUL 15British Grand PrixBrands HatchEmerson FittipaldiTeam Lotus26
8JUL 30German Grand PrixNürburgringJacky IckxFerrari27
9AUG 13Austrian Grand PrixRed Bull RingEmerson FittipaldiTeam Lotus25
10SEP 10Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di MonzaEmerson FittipaldiTeam Lotus25
11SEP 24Canadian Grand PrixMosport International RacewayJackie StewartTyrrell24
12OCT 8United States Grand PrixWatkins GlenJackie StewartTyrrell31

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 1972 season is complete at 12 rounds.