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1973 Dutch Grand Prix | |||
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Race details | |||
Date | 29 July 1973 | ||
Official name | XX Grand Prix Zandvoort | ||
Location | Circuit Zandvoort, Zandvoort, Netherlands | ||
Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
Course length | 4.226 km (2.626[1] miles) | ||
Distance | 72 laps, 304.272 km (189.072 miles) | ||
Weather | Dry | ||
Pole position | |||
Driver | Lotus-Ford | ||
Time | 1:19.47 | ||
Fastest lap | |||
Driver | Ronnie Peterson | Lotus-Ford | |
Time | 1:20.31 | ||
Podium | |||
First | Tyrrell-Ford | ||
Second | Tyrrell-Ford | ||
Third | March-Ford | ||
Lap leaders |
The 1973 Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Zandvoort on 29 July 1973. It was race 10 of 15 in both the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. Zandvoort returned to the Formula One calendar following a year's absence for extensive safety upgrades to the race track including new asphalt, new barriers and a new race control tower. Jackie Stewart won the race, this Grand Prix being fourth of five wins for Stewart during the 1973 Formula One season, and he became the most successful Formula One driver of all time with his 26th Grand Prix victory, surpassing Jim Clark's record of 25 victories. Stewart's friend and future world champion James Hunt scored his first podium finish.
Driver Roger Williamson was killed in the race; this was the first of two driver fatalities in the 1973 season. François Cevert, who took the podium in second place at this race, would later perish during practice for the 1973 United States Grand Prix.