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The '1970 Formula One season' was the 21st FIA Formula One World Championship season. It commenced on March 7, 1970, and ended on October 25 after thirteen races. Up to now, this was the only season ever whose champion died before the end.

Contents

Season summary

Season review

1970 Constructors Championship final standings

1970 Drivers Championship final standings

Notes

Season summary

For 1970 following the agreement with Simca, Tyrrell were asked by Matra to use their V12 rather than the Cosworth. Stewart tested the Matra V12 and found it inferior to the DFV. As a large part of the Tyrrell budget was provided by Ford, and another significant element came from French state-owned petroleum company Elf, which had an agreement with Renault that precluded supporting a Simca partner, Ken Tyrrell had little alternative (due to clashing sponsorship deals) but to buy March 701 chassis as interim solution while developing his own car in secret; the first Tyrrell bore much resemblance to the MS80.
The new wedge-shaped Lotus 72 was a very innovative car featuring torsion bar suspension, hip-mounted radiators, inboard front brakes and an overhanging rear wing. The 72 originally had suspension problems, but when anti-dive and anti-squat were designed out of the suspension the car quickly showed is superiority and Lotus' new leader, the Austrian Jochen Rindt, dominated the championship until he was killed at Monza when a brake shaft broke. He took the 1970 title posthumously for Lotus. Jacky Ickx won the Austrian, the Canadian and the Mexican Grand Prix to become second in the driver championship, having re-joined Ferrari from Brabham.
1970 saw the introduction of slick tyres by Goodyear.
Triple champion Jack Brabham retired at the end of the year.

Season review

Rnd	Race	Date	Location	Winning driver	Constructor	Report
1	South African Grand Prix	March 7	Kyalami	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Ford	Report
2	Spanish Grand Prix	April 19	Jarama	Jackie Stewart	March-Ford	Report
3	Monaco Grand Prix	May 10	Monaco	Jochen Rindt	Lotus-Ford	Report
4	Belgian Grand Prix	June 7	Spa-Francorchamps	Pedro Rodríguez	BRM	Report
5	Dutch Grand Prix	June 21	Zandvoort	Jochen Rindt	Lotus-Ford	Report
6	French Grand Prix	July 5	Charade	Jochen Rindt	Lotus-Ford	Report
7	British Grand Prix	July 18	Brands Hatch	Jochen Rindt	Lotus-Ford	Report
8	German Grand Prix	August 2	Hockenheimring	Jochen Rindt	Lotus-Ford	Report
9	Austrian Grand Prix	August 16	Österreichring	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	Report
10	Italian Grand Prix	September 6	Monza	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	Report
11	Canadian Grand Prix	September 20	Mont-Tremblant	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	Report
12	United States Grand Prix	October 4	Watkins Glen	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus-Ford	Report
13	Mexican Grand Prix	October 25	Hermanos Rodriguez	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	Report

1970 Constructors Championship final standings

Place	Constructor	Chassis	Engine	Tyre	Points[1]	Wins	Podiums	Poles
1	Lotus-Ford	49C 72 72B 72C	Ford Cosworth DFV		59	6	7	3
2	Ferrari	312B	Ferrari 001		52 (55)	4	9	5
3	March-Ford	701	Ford Cosworth DFV		48	1	8	3
4	Brabham-Ford	BT33	Ford Cosworth DFV		35	1	5	1
5	McLaren-Ford	M14A	Ford Cosworth DFV		35		5
6	Matra	MS120	Matra MS12		23		3
7	BRM	P139 P153	BRM P142		23	1	2
8	Surtees-Ford	TS7	Ford Cosworth DFV		3
9	McLaren-Alfa Romeo	M7D M14D	Alfa Romeo T33
10	Tyrrell-Ford	001	Ford Cosworth DFV					1
11	Bellasi-Ford	F1	Ford Cosworth DFV
12	De Tomaso-Ford	505/38	Ford Cosworth DFV

1970 Drivers Championship final standings

Pos Driver RSA ESP MON BEL NED FRA GBR GER AUT ITA CAN USA MEX Pts 1 Jochen Rindt 13 Ret 1 Ret 1 1 1 1 Ret DNS '45' 2 Jacky Ickx Ret Ret Ret 8 3 Ret Ret 2 1 Ret 1 4 1 '40' 3 Clay Regazzoni 4 4 Ret 2 1 2 13 2 '33' 4 Denny Hulme 2 Ret 4 4 3 3 Ret 4 Ret 7 3 '27' 5 Jackie Stewart 3 1 Ret Ret 2 9 Ret Ret Ret 2 Ret Ret Ret '25' 6 Jack Brabham 1 Ret 2 Ret 11 3 2 Ret 13 Ret Ret 10 Ret '25' 7 Pedro Rodríguez 9 WD 6 1 10 Ret Ret Ret 4 Ret 4 2 6 '23' 8 Chris Amon Ret Ret Ret 2 Ret 2 5 Ret 8 7 3 5 4 '23' 9 Jean-Pierre Beltoise 4 Ret Ret 3 5 13 Ret Ret 6 3 8 Ret 5 '16' 10 Emerson Fittipaldi 8 4 15 WD 1 Ret '12' 11 Rolf Stommelen Ret Ret DNQ 5 DNQ 7 5 3 5 Ret 12 Ret '10' 12 Henri Pescarolo 7 Ret 3 6 8 5 Ret 6 14 Ret 7 8 9 '8' 13 Graham Hill 6 4 5 Ret NC 10 6 Ret WD NC Ret Ret '7' 14 Bruce McLaren Ret 2 Ret '6' 15 Mario Andretti Ret 3 Ret Ret Ret '4' 16 Reine Wisell 3 NC '4' 17 Ignazio Giunti 4 14 7 Ret '3' 18 John Surtees Ret Ret Ret 6 Ret 9 Ret Ret 5 Ret 8 '3' 19 John Miles 5 DNQ DNQ Ret 7 8 Ret Ret Ret WD '2' 20 Jackie Oliver Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 5 Ret NC Ret 7 '2' 21 Johnny Servoz-Gavin Ret 5 DNQ '2' 22 François Cevert Ret 11 7 7 Ret 6 9 Ret Ret '1' 23 Peter Gethin Ret Ret 10 NC 6 14 Ret '1' 24 Dan Gurney Ret 6 Ret '1' 25 Derek Bell Ret 6 '1' 26 Jo Siffert 10 DNQ 8 7 Ret Ret Ret 8 9 Ret Ret 9 Ret '0' 27 Ronnie Peterson 7 NC 9 Ret 9 Ret Ret NC 11 '0' 28 Andrea de Adamich DNQ DNQ DNQ NC Ret DNQ 12 8 Ret DNQ '0' 29 John Love 8 '0' 30 George Eaton Ret DNQ DNQ Ret 12 Ret 11 Ret 10 Ret '0' 31 Peter de Klerk 11 '0' 32 Dave Charlton 12 '0' — Piers Courage Ret DNS NC Ret Ret '0' — Tim Schenken Ret Ret NC Ret '0' — Silvio Moser DNQ DNQ DNQ Ret DNQ '0' — Pete Lovely DNQ DNQ NC DNQ '0' — Jo Bonnier DNQ Ret '0' — Gus Hutchison Ret '0' — Alex Soler-Roig DNQ DNQ '0' — Brian Redman DNQ '0' — Hubert Hahne DNQ '0' — Nanni Galli DNQ '0' — Peter Westbury DNQ '0' Pos Driver RSA ESP MON BEL NED FRA GBR GER AUT ITA CAN USA MEX Pts

Notes

1. Only the best 6 results from the first 7 races and the best 5 results from the last 6 races counted towards the Championship. Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.