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| - Colors = id:canvas value:rgb(0.937,0.937,0.937) id:linemark value:gray(0.8) id:linemark2 value:gray(0.9) BackgroundColors = canvas:canvas PlotData = mark:(line,linemark) from:start till:16 color:yellow shift:(20,-5) text:Ronnie Peterson (Laps 1-16) from:16 till:48 color:green shift:(20,-5) text:Emerson Fittipaldi (Laps 17-48) from:49 till:end color:yellow shift:(20,-5) text:Ronnie Peterson (Laps 49-54)
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| - Colors = id:canvas value:rgb(0.937,0.937,0.937) id:linemark value:gray(0.8) id:linemark2 value:gray(0.9) BackgroundColors = canvas:canvas PlotData = mark:(line,linemark) from:start till:16 color:yellow shift:(20,-5) text:Ronnie Peterson (Laps 1-16) from:16 till:48 color:green shift:(20,-5) text:Emerson Fittipaldi (Laps 17-48) from:49 till:end color:yellow shift:(20,-5) text:Ronnie Peterson (Laps 49-54) The XI Grosser Preis von Österreich, otherwise known as the 1973 Austrian Grand Prix, was the twelfth bout of the 1973 FIA Formula One World Championship, staged at the Österreichring on the 19th of August, 1973. The race would not go down as a classic in F1 history, as Ronnie Peterson claimed victory after teammate Emerson Fittipaldi retired from the lead. Qualifying saw Fittipaldi, having fully recovered from his accident in the Netherlands, claim pole, sharing the front row with Lotus teammate Ronnie Peterson. Championship leader Jackie Stewart, meanwhile, found himself in a lowly seventh, behind the two McLarens, Carlos Reutemann and a heavily revised Ferrari of Arturo Merzario. When the flag fell on raceday it would be Peterson who shot into an early lead, while teammate Fittipaldi slipped behind another fast starter Denny Hulme. Peter Revson, meanwhile, caused a traffic jam for the rest of the field as he suffered a clutch failure, although the only other man to suffer from this was Mike Beuttler, whose sustained an incurable oil leak after contact. The top three slowly pulled away from the rest of the field over the following laps, with Merzario keeping Stewart at bay until the end of lap four. The Scot duly sprinted away to try and catch the leaders, soon followed by Carlos Reutemann and Carlos Pace. François Cevert was the next man to try an nudge Merzario down the order, but contact between the two forced the Frenchman into retirement. Hulme, meanwhile, was doing a good job of splitting the two Loti, only for his McLaren to suffer an engine issue, the Kiwi having to stop to have a plug lead reconnected. Fittipaldi therefore inherited second before being waved through for the lead, for Stewart was slowly closing in on the pair. With five laps to go it seemed as if the Lotus one-two would last, only for a fuel pipe to burst on Fittipaldi's car and leave the Brazilian on the sidelines. Peterson therefore inherited the lead and began to pull clear of Stewart, who was just within sight of the two when Fittipaldi disappeared, while Pace was promoted onto the podium after taking Reutemann. With that the race was run, Peterson duly sweeping home for a second career win, ahead of Stewart and Pace. Reutemann came home in fourth ahead of the two BRMs of Jean-Pierre Beltoise and Clay Regazzoni, while Merzario and Hulme finished a lap down after their problems. The result effectively meant that Stewart could claim the title with victory at the next race in Italy, with Cevert and Fittipaldi over twenty points behind.
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