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1970 Dutch Grand Prix
Zandvoort original layout
Race details
Date	June 21, 1970
Official name	XVIII Grote Prijs van Nederland
Location	Circuit Zandvoort, Zandvoort, Netherlands
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	4.193 km (2.605 miles)
Distance	90 laps, 377.370 km (234.487 miles)
Weather	Cloudy
Pole position
Driver	Jochen Rindt	Lotus-Ford
Time	1:18.5
Fastest lap
Driver	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari
Time	1:19.23
Podium
First	Jochen Rindt	Lotus-Ford
Second	Jackie Stewart	March-Ford
Third	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari
Lap leaders

The 1970 Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Zandvoort on June 21, 1970. It was race 5 of 13 in both the 1970 World Championship of Drivers and the 1970 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. This race was held the same day as the 1970 FIFA World Cup Final in Mexico City, Mexico, but that event took place later in the day from this Grand Prix.

The race was won by Lotus-Ford driver Jochen Rindt in his new monocoque-chassis Type 72, a radical wedge shape first used on the 1968 Indianapolis Lotus, with inboard braking and torsion bar suspension, it represented a major technical advance, giving the driver superior ride and vision in a better ventilated seat. Rindt had only raced the car twice before (but in a different spec) and had preferred his old Lotus 49 in the preceding Monaco and Belgian rounds of the World Championship. Three years earlier the 72's predecessor; DFV-debutant Type 49 won in 1967 won first time out at exactly the same track with Jim Clark driving. Rindt racing the 72 without the complex anti-squat and anti-dive features, which the Austrian had never believed in, effortlessly dominated the practice and race putting little pressure on the car and not even having to use the maximum road width or line. The race also saw the debut of Clay Regazzoni with Ferrari, who finished fourth.

Report

Jacky Ickx led Jochen Rindt off the line. On lap 2, Rindt running on full tanks, with 50–55 gallons of petrol on board, put in his fastest lap of the race and outbraked Ickx into the Tarzan hairpin, on the inside in a classic passing manoeuvre, at the start of lap 3. Colin Chapman had persisted with anti-squat and dive on John Miles' Lotus 72 which was fifth on the first lap and proved difficult to pass. This assisted Team Lotus as it was much easier for Rindt to thread past the four car duel for fifth on lap 29–32 than for Ickx or Jackie Stewart who spent 7 laps getting past Jack Brabham, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, John Surtees and Miles Miles in the second 72 was finally being passed by Beltoise on lap 49, when a large wave over the coast dunes saw Miles lose adhesion and Surtees did finally claim the 6th place and the final point by passing John Miles' Lotus, which was brakeless by then, 4 laps from the flag. However the race was marred by the violent fatal accident of British driver Piers Courage driving the Frank Williams-entered De Tomaso-Ford on lap 22, at Tunnel Oost, when his car's suspension was damaged after hitting a curb, and the car went straight up a grass embankment. It then somersaulted and exploded, and Courage had died instantly after being hit on the head by one of the car's front wheels. The flames were so intense, that trees surrounding the accident site, were lit up as a result. A similar accident occurred at the 1973 race, which claimed the life of Roger Williamson.

Qualifying

Qualifying classification

Pos.	Driver	Constructor	Time	Grid
1	Jochen Rindt	Lotus-Ford	1:18.50	1
2	Jackie Stewart	March-Ford	1:18.73	2
3	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	1:18.93	3
4	Chris Amon	March-Ford	1:19.25	4
5	Jackie Oliver	BRM	1:19.30	5
6	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	1:19.48	6
7	Pedro Rodríguez	BRM	1:20.07	7
8	John Miles	Lotus-Ford	1:20.24	8
9	Piers Courage	De Tomaso-Ford	1:20.32	9
10	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	1:20.38	10
11	Peter Gethin	McLaren-Ford	1:20.41	11
12	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Ford	1:20.76	12
13	Henri Pescarolo	Matra	1:20.89	13
14	John Surtees	McLaren-Ford	1:21.18	14
15	François Cevert	March-Ford	1:21.18	15
16	Ronnie Peterson	March-Ford	1:21.24	16
17	Jo Siffert	March-Ford	1:21.27	17
18	George Eaton	BRM	1:21.35	18
19	Dan Gurney	McLaren-Ford	1:21.36	19
DNQ	Andrea de Adamich	McLaren-Alfa Romeo	1:21.36	—
21	Graham Hill	Lotus-Ford	1:21.75	20
DNQ	Rolf Stommelen	Brabham-Ford	1:22.34	—
DNQ	Pete Lovely	Lotus-Ford	1:23.37	—
DNQ	Silvio Moser	Bellasi-Ford	1:24.29	—
Source:

Race

Classification

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	10	Jochen Rindt	Lotus-Ford	80	1:50:43.41	1	9
2	5	Jackie Stewart	March-Ford	80	+ 30.00	2	6
3	25	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	79	+ 1 Lap	3	4
4	26	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	79	+ 1 Lap	6	3
5	23	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra	79	+ 1 Lap	10	2
6	16	John Surtees	McLaren-Ford	79	+ 1 Lap	14	1
7	12	John Miles	Lotus-Ford	78	+ 2 Laps	8
8	24	Henri Pescarolo	Matra	78	+ 2 Laps	13
9	22	Ronnie Peterson	March-Ford	78	+ 2 Laps	16
10	1	Pedro Rodríguez	BRM	77	+ 3 Laps	7
11	18	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Ford	76	+ 4 laps	12
NC	15	Graham Hill	Lotus-Ford	71	Not Classified	20
Ret	6	François Cevert	March-Ford	31	Engine	15
Ret	3	George Eaton	BRM	26	Oil Leak	18
Ret	2	Jackie Oliver	BRM	23	Engine	5
Ret	4	Piers Courage	De Tomaso-Ford	22	Fatal Accident	9
Ret	9	Jo Siffert	March-Ford	22	Engine	17
Ret	20	Peter Gethin	McLaren-Ford	18	Accident	11
Ret	32	Dan Gurney	McLaren-Ford	2	Engine	19
Ret	8	Chris Amon	March-Ford	1	Clutch	4
DNQ	21	Andrea de Adamich	McLaren-Alfa Romeo
DNQ	19	Rolf Stommelen	Brabham-Ford
DNQ	31	Pete Lovely	Lotus-Ford
DNQ	29	Silvio Moser	Bellasi-Ford
Source:

Notes

• This was the Formula One World Championship debut for British driver and future Grand Prix winner Peter Gethin and for Swiss driver and future Grand Prix winner Clay Regazzoni.
• This was the first win for the Lotus 72.
• This race marked the 10th podium finish for an Austrian driver.
• This was the Formula One World Championship debut for Swiss constructor Bellasi.
• For the first time since the 1968 French Grand Prix, a Ford-powered car did not set the fastest lap during the race. This ended a record streak of 21 consecutive fastest laps set by a Ford-powered car.

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 1 Jackie Stewart 19 2 2 Jochen Rindt 18 2 3 Jack Brabham 15 1 4 Pedro Rodríguez 10 5 Denny Hulme 9 Source:

Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 March-Ford 25 2 2 Lotus-Ford 23 1 3 Brabham-Ford 17 1 4 McLaren-Ford 16 5 Matra 13 Source:

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

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7. ^ "Netherlands 1970 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 15 March 2019.

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