1974 Argentine Grand Prix

The 1974 Argentine Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at Buenos Aires on January 13, 1974.

tart-of-season preliminaries

It had been one of the most frantic close seasons ever with only Ronnie Peterson, Denny Hulme, Carlos Reutemann and James Hunt remaining with their teams. Emerson Fittipaldi moved from Lotus to McLaren to be replaced by Mike Hailwood. His place at Surtees in turn was taken by Jochen Mass, whilst his new McLaren team-mate was former Shadow driver Peter Revson.

Jacky Ickx filled the vacant Lotus spot. Niki Lauda and Clay Regazzoni remained teammates but would be driving for Ferrari instead of BRM who had replaced them with Henri Pescarolo and Francois Migault.With the death of Francois Cevert and the retirement of Jackie Stewart, Tyrrell had an entirely new lineup in Jody Scheckter and Patrick Depailler.

Race summary

Peterson took pole from Regazzoni but it was Hunt who led from the start before spinning on the next lap.Revson and Jean-Pierre Jarier collided and Reutemann took the lead on lap 3. Peterson had tyre problems whilst Fittipaldi knocked off his ignition,damaging the gears.Hulme had climbed to 2nd place and on lap 52 he took the lead when Reutemann ran out of fuel.The distraught Argentine was just a lap short of the flag and a home victory.It would be Hulme's last Grand Prix win, and Ferrari claimed 2nd and 3rd to round off the podium.

Classification

Notes

*Pole position: Ronnie Peterson - 1:50.78cite book | last = Lang | first = Mike | title = Grand Prix! Vol 3 | publisher = Haynes Publishing Group | date = 1983 | pages = p17 | isbn = 0-85429-380-9]
*Fastest lap: Clay Regazzoni - 1:52.10 on lap 38cite book | last = Lang | first = Mike | title = Grand Prix! Vol 3 | publisher = Haynes Publishing Group | date = 1983 | pages = p19 | isbn = 0-85429-380-9]

References

"Unless otherwise indicated, all race results are taken from cite web | title = The Official Formula 1 website | url = http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1974/472/ | accessdate = 2007-06-15
F1 race report
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Year_of_race = 1974
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