AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX

TWENTY CARS get under way at the start of the Austrian Grand Prix, led by Siffert’s Yardley-B R m P160. Not even a determined effort by Tyrrell drivers Stewart (11) and Cevert (12) could match the BRM’s 12-cylinder power and Regazzoni made a fruitless attempt to get past on the outside in his because the had not before the : themselves out behind

Ferrari (5). The start came as a surprise to many because the dummy grid had not stopped before the flag dropped : sorting themselves out behind are Fittipaldi (2), lckx (4), Hill (7), Schenken (8), Wisell (3), Hulme (9), Peterson (17) and Stommelen (24).