What I most distinctly recall, other than the shambles at the end of the race, was the drive of a certain Mr. Lauda in the BRM handily leading the pack in wet conditions at the start and for the first 20 or so laps. If you do have a question though, please get in touch. 1973 Canadian Grand Prix – Saturday Practice Photo Gallery, Filed Under: Featured Articles, Profiles, Race Profiles Tagged With: Race Profiles. For the first time in Grand Prix history, a pace car (a Porsche 914) took to the track. That year, the Canadian race was the penultimate round on the calendar. © Copyright Off Camber Group, Inc. - 2008-2020. Frenchman Jean-Pierre Beltoise took fourth place for BRM ahead of Jackie Stewart and Howden Ganley in the Iso-Marlboro. However, it held the position in front of the wrong car, allowing those in front of it a clear catch-up run around the track and gain on lap on the wrong leaders. A co-worker and I left Cincinnati after work at 5 PM on Friday and arrived in the wee hours of the morning and parked in the circuit infield. My recollection was that it was a Hesketh; but everywhere I looked while researching to refresh my memory from that long ago it was shown as a March 731-Ford entered by Hesketh. The Canadian Grand Prix for 1973, held at the Mosport circuit on September 23, involved a number of firsts and last involving the Grand Prix circus and my photojournalism career. July 29 – Formula One racing driver Roger Williamson dies in an accident, witnessed live on European television, during the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix. It was a Hesketh entered March (chassis 731/2-2); Hesketh did not run their own cars (i.e. 1973 canadian grand prix start #F1 N8: Peter Revson (USA) (Yardley Team #McLaren), #McLaren M23 – #Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 (finished 1st) N11: Carlos Reutemann (ARG) (Motor Racing Developments), #Brabham BT42 – #Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 (finished 8th) Everyone can see who the winner is because he receives the chequered flag at the end. Three drivers – Peter Revson, Emerson Fittipaldi, and Jackie Oliver, driving for Shadow – were each convinced to have won the race. We awoke in the car to fog so thick that we couldn’t see the racing surface 50 feet away. Peter Revson was finally declared the winner and the various post-mortems would indicate that he definitely was first on the road. The highly unpredictable microclimate that reigns over the region of Mosport Park, adjacent to the immense Lake Ontario, played a crucial role in the September 23rd weekend as fog interfered with practice and rain turned the race into a nightmare. Race 1972 Canadian Grand Prix was part of the 1972 F1 World Championship and was won by Jackie Stewart on 1972-09-24 00:00:00 When Lord Hesketh capriciously jumped into F1 he bought the March, hired Harvey Postlethwaite away from the March factory to modify it so Hunt could drive it the remainder of the 1973 season. On Lap 45, the race was restarted and no one was really sure about who was (really) leading the race…. James Hunt did, in fact, drive a March 73-Ford Cosworth at the 1973 Grand Prix of Canada. Our plans to put our sleeping bags to use were foiled by waves of mosquitos only slightly smaller and less noisy the WWII fighter planes. The morning practice, after a significant delay, involved the cars being sent out one at a time and working their way through the fog in a clearly lower gear at about 50 MPH. Race 1973 Canadian Grand Prix was part of the 1973 F1 World Championship and was won by Peter Revson on 1973-09-23 00:00:00 ‘Heskeths’) until the following season. Jackie Stewart was first out. The official timekeepers and scorers experienced huge difficulties at identifying the cars are they blasted in front of them in the spray, and the dampened laps charts were soon filled with errors. Let us know by using the email address below. Goods pictures. The weather cleared for the afternoon practice, interrupted only by a brief thunderstorm and a Jackie Stewart spin with light Armco contact at the exit of Moss Corner on the back of the circuit. I’m hopeful that the significance of the subjects will make up for my shortcomings. 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The quality of the attached photos will attest to my rookie status and the quality of the camera. It should read March 731. Sorry, but somehow I lost a “1” above. Our new database page will launch shortly. I remember that race. Report and photos by Al Wolford. On Lap 80, Lotus’ boss Colin Chapman, who was convinced that Fittipaldi was the winner, began to celebrate only to realize that the official had not waved the chequered flag! Meanwhile Harvey was beavering away on the design of the first Hesketh F1 car. We want the content of the database to be driven by you, the readers. Registration to or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our user agreement and privacy policy. It took on an additional aura in the fog! July 30 – An 11-year legal action for the victims of Thalidomide ends. Militant protesters led by Ian Paisley disrupt the first sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly. The green flag eventually waved and Peterson immediately took the lead. A few of us turned to one another and remarked that the lad had promise……. Driving a Lotus 72-Ford, Ronnie Peterson clinched pole position ahead of Peter Revson in a McLaren, Jody Scheckter in the other McLaren, Carlos Reutemann in a Brabham Emerson Fittipaldi in the other Lotus 72 and François Cevert, Stewart’s teammate, in a Tyrrell. It is total chaos in the pit lane. I mentioned the fog to him years later, and he was surprised someone would remember that . The 1973 Canadian Formula 1 Grand Prix at Mosport Park turned out to be the strangest and most controversial of all. It was finally shown several seconds later for a group of four cars bunched up together. I’ll start by saying that the event was my first Formula One race and my first attempt — albeit with a used, off-brand 35mm camera — at photographing a road race. It rained very hard on Sunday morning and the organizers had little choice but to postpone the start of the race by one hour. The track then began to dry, and the running order changed constantly as drivers stopped for slick tires and repairs of all sorts. Critics of rallying will always tell you that the trouble with that particular branch of motor sport is that often one has to wait hours to find out who won; when the result is announced it is often contested and, even then, because of timing error, or other factors, the wrong man can easily take the honours. Everything is crystal clear with the organisation and the competing teams knowing exactly where each competitor is lying, thanks to that marvel of science — the lap chart. Marco Werner (Audi R10 TDI), 1m05.823, 134.488 mph, ALMS Sports Cars, 2008. No wonder the eventful Formula 1 race was quickly nicknamed ‘The Grand Prix of Confusion’! Jackie Stewart had just clinched the World Championship in Monza two weeks before and was ready to retire from the sport. Every effort has been made to trace the origins of the images. These anti-rally people will tell you that in Grand Prix racing it is very different. All rights reserved. I think the Hunt’s car is a Hesket, not an March. 1973 Canadian Grand Prix – A Study in Firsts and Lasts. The officials took the time to compare their lap charts to those of the teams. I agree to receive email updates and promotions. After four hours of intense revisions, Revson was declared the winner ahead of Fittipaldi and Oliver. On Lap 35, the track got partially blocked by the wrecked Tyrrell of Cevert and the McLaren of Scheckter after the two rivals fought for the same piece of tarmac. But more of that later. Viewing consisted of seeing a barely visible racer appearing through the fog, within eyesight for about 100 feet and then disappearing into the fog again. But let it be said that it was a lucky win thanks mainly to the pace-car being wrongly positioned — a great start for the new CSI/GPDA safety measure — his victory in front of Emerson Fittipaldi by half a lap would certainly have been the reverse had the pace-car been properly positioned. Al, I enjoyed your photos and would like you to contact me at jeff.allison@comcast.net. Then came the Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport Park with a chapter of incidents, including a complete foul up with the pace-car, that can do absolutely nothing to enhance the reputation of Grand Prix racing. Which series would you like included? Ronnie Peterson sat on the pole for Lotus 72 with Peter Revson’s McLaren M23 alongside. What would you like to see? Sports Car Digest - The Sports, Racing and Vintage Car Journal, February 5, 2015 by Sports Car Digest 9 Comments, 1973 Canadian Grand Prix – A Study in Firsts and Lasts. I remember one year – not sure if it was ’73 – waking up in the infield with a piper playing Amazing Grace just after dawn. This factor and the never ending pit stops made the hand-made lap charts to be filled with mistakes. In fact, several drivers had led the race, including Peterson, Niki Lauda, Fittipaldi, Stewart, Jean-Pierre Beltoise and Jackie Oliver. I marshalled that event. Confirmation needed; July 31. 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