SPAIN: JACKIE STEWART SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDS TITLE IN SPANISH GRAND PRIX AS DRIVERS RACE THROUGH SMOKE FOLLOWING CRASH

Record ID: 208534

  • Title: SPAIN: JACKIE STEWART SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDS TITLE IN SPANISH GRAND PRIX AS DRIVERS RACE THROUGH SMOKE FOLLOWING CRASH
  • Date: 19th April 1970
  • Summary: 1. TV FLAGS AND COURSE 0.06 2. CU CAR NO. 8 BEING ROLLED OUT 0.08 3. CU CAR NO. 1 0.14 4. MV CROWD MECHANICS 0.16 5. MV TIMING OFFICIALS 0.21 6. CU CAR BEING WHEELED OUT AND OTHERS ON TRACK (3 SHOTS) 0.29 7. CU FLAG AND TV START OF RACE (2 SHOTS) 0.34 8. CU CAMERAMAN PAN TO CAR NO. II PAST 0.38 9. CU CAR NO. I PAST (2 SHOTS) 0.46 10. CU CAR NO.4 0.48 11. LV CAR AWAY 0.53 12. CU FIRE FROM CRASH 0.54 13. MV CARS PAN TO CARS THOROUGH CRASHED AND BURNING CARS ON SIDE OF TRACK 1.00 14. LV TO MV CARS PAST 1.04 15. CU FIREMEN HOSING CRASHED CAR 1.05 16. LV CARS THROUGH SMOKE 1.07 17. MV STRETCHERMEN WITH CRASH VICTIM 1.10 18. TV CAR NO. I PAST AND WINNING (2 SHOTS) 1.20 19. CU NO.I THROUGH CROWDS TO LV DITTO 1.28 20. MV STEWART WITH CARLANDS ONTO DAIS 1.33 Initials JH/VS/CT/PC EDITORS PLEASE NOTE THIS FILM HAS NATURAL SOUND THROUGHOUT SPORT: CAR RACING Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 4th May 1970 13:00
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  • Location: MADRID, SPAIN
  • Country: Spain
  • Reuters ID: LVA2O955FTG88IKOZ3M1ABJ1ABWD
  • Story Text: DEFENDING WORLD CHAMPION JACKIE STEWART OF SCOTLAND WON THE SPANISH GRAND PRIX ON SUNDAY (19 APRIL) DRIVING A MARCH 701 CAR. THE RACE ON THE JARAMA CIRCUIT NEAR MADRID BEGAN DRAMATICALLY WHEN BELGIAN DRIVER JACKY I CKX, IN A FERRARI, AND BRITISH DRIVER JACK OLIVER, IN A BRM, COLLIDED AND BOTH CARS PLUNGED OFF THE TRACK IN FLAMES. OTHERS DROVE THROUGH THE SMOKE.

    THE TIGHTLY-CORNERED 2.I MILE (3.4 KM) CIRCUIT TOOK A HEAVY TOLL OF THE DRIVERS, WITH ONLY FIVE OF THE SIXTEEN STARTERS FINISHING THE RACE.

    BOTH DRIVERS INVOLVED IN THE CRASH WALKED AWAY FROM THE FLAMING WRECKS. OLIVER UNHURT AND I CKX WITH BURNS ON HIS HANDS AND ARMS. OLIVER'S CAR REPORTEDLY LOST A WHEEL.

    IN SECOND PLACE WAS NEW ZEALANDER BRUCE McCLAREN IN HIS McCLAREN CAR. AMERICAN DRIVER MARIO ANDRETTI, IN A MARCH, TOOK THIRD PLACE IN THE 183-MILE (306 KMS) RACE.

    THE RACE DEVELOPED INTO A DUEL BETWEEN STEWART AND AUSTRALIAN JACK BRABHAM, AT THE WHEEL OF A BRABHAM CAR, BUT BRABHAM CAR, BUT BRABHAM RETIRED IN THE 61ST OF THE 90 LAPS WITH MECHANICAL TROUBLE.

    OTHER CASUALTIES INCLUDED AUSTRIAN JOCHEN RINDT, NEW ZEALANDERS DENIS HULME AND CHRIS AMON AND FORMER WORLD CHAMPION JOHN SURTEES OF BRITAIN, ALL WITH MECHANICAL DIFFICULTIES. EARLY IN THE RACE MEXICAN PEDRO RODRIGUEZ WAS RETIRED BECAUSE IT WAS FEARED HIS BRM MIGHT SUFFER THE SAME MECHANICAL WEAKNESS AS HAD HIS TEAM-MATE JACKIE OLIVER'S.

    FOURTH PLACE IN THE RACE WENT TO FORMER WORLD CHAMPION GRAHAM HILL OF BRITAIN, RECOVERING FROM AN ACCIDENT IN LAST YEAR'S UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX. FRENCH DRIVER JOHNNY SERVOZ GAVIN, IN A MARCH 701, WAS FIFTH. STEWART'S TIME WAS TWO HOURS, 10 MINUTES AND 58.2 SECONDS, WITH AN AVERAGE SPEED OF ABOUT 90 MILES AN HOUR (140.3 KPH).
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