SUDAFRICA GRAND PRIX 1970

Pos	No	Piloto	Equipo	Vueltas	Tiempo/Retiro	Parrilla	Puntos
1	12	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Ford	80	1:49:35.4	3	9
2	6	Denny Hulme	McLaren-Ford	80	+ 8.1	6	6
3	1	Jackie Stewart	March-Ford	80	+ 17.1	1	4
4	3	Jean Pierre Beltoise	Matra	80	+ 1:13.1	8	3
5	10	John Miles	Lotus-Ford	79	+ 1 Vuelta	14	2
6	11	Graham Hill	Lotus-Ford	79	+ 1 Vuelta	19	1
7	4	Henri Pescarolo	Matra	78	+ 2 Vueltas	18
8	23	John Love	Lotus-Ford	78	+ 2 Vueltas	22
9	20	Pedro Rodríguez	BRM	76	+ 4 Vueltas	16
10	16	Jo Siffert	March-Ford	75	+ 5 Vueltas	9
11	24	Peter de Klerk	Brabham-Ford	75	+ 5 Vueltas	21
12	25	Dave Charlton	Lotus-Ford	73	Motor	13
13	9	Jochen Rindt	Lotus-Ford	72	Motor	4
Ret	17	Jacky Ickx	Ferrari	60	Motor	5
Ret	7	John Surtees	McLaren-Ford	60	Motor	7
Ret	21	George Eaton	BRM	58	Motor	23
Ret	2	Johnny Servoz-Gavin	March-Ford	57	Motor	17
Ret	5	Bruce McLaren	McLaren-Ford	39	Motor	10
Ret	22	Piers Courage	De Tomaso-Ford	39	Accidente	20
Ret	8	Mario Andretti	March-Ford	26	Enfriamiento	11
Ret	14	Rolf Stommelen	Brabham-Ford	23	Motor	15
Ret	19	Jackie Oliver	BRM	22	Caja	12
Ret	15	Chris Amon	March-Ford	14	Enfriamiento	2

South African GP
Kyalami
March 7, 1970

80 Laps, 4.104 km

The first race of the new decade took place at Kyalami and there were some major changes in the entry list for the new season. The big news was that the March company had been established by Max Mosley, Robin Herd, Alan Rees and Graham Coaker. This had built a Formula 3 car in 1969 but entered F1 in 1970 with major sponsorship from the STP oil treatment company. March had hired Chris Amon from Ferrari and Jo Siffert from the Walker-Durlacher team. Ferrari had hired Jacky Ickx from Brabham and would expand its F1 operations during the year as Enzo Ferrari no longer had to worry about running his car company, which had been taken over by Fiat. Pedro Rodriguez had decided to go back to BRM (which had landed money from the Yardley cosmetics company and had a completely new technical team which had produced the old new P153), where he replaced John Surtees, the 1964 World Champion having decided to build his own F1 cars. He bought (and modified) a McLaren for the early races. Jack Brabham built his first monocoque chassis, the BT33, and ran his car in unusual turquoise and yellow while the second Brabham appeared in Auto Moto und Sport colors for German Rolf Stommlen. Team Lotus was busy building the new Lotus 72 but began the year with the old 49s for Jochen Rindt and John Miles, while Graham Hill (now recovered from his leg-breaking accident at Watkins Glen the previous year) was shunted sideways into the Walker team, which had landed sponsorship from Brooke Bond Oxo.

McLaren continued to run Bruce McLaren and Denny Hulme but had a new M14A, while Ken Tyrrell had fallen out with Matra over the use of the French company's V12 engines and so became a March customer with backing from Elf for Jackie Stewart and Johnny Servoz-Gavin. Matra returned with its own team, fieldingJean-Pierre Beltoise and Henri Pescarolo in its V12-engined cars. Frank Williams retained Piers Courage but switched to a new Dallara-designed De Tomaso chassis, fitted with a Cosworth engine.

For the South African GP there was a fifth March, entered for Mario Andretti by the STP Corporation.

The March presence was impressive at Kyalami and after qualifying the World Champion Jackie Stewart was on pole position in his Tyrrell car, while Amon was alongside side him in a factory car. The front row was completed by Jack Brabham. Rindt and Ickx shared the second row while the third featured Hulme, Surteesand Beltoise.

The race began with Stewart getting into the lead while Rindt tangled with Amon at the first corner and spun across into Brabham. This enabled Ickx, Beltoise, Oliver and McLaren to get ahead of Brabham, whileAmon and Rindt dropped right down the order. Brabham quickly recovered and overtook all four drivers ahead of him by the end of lap six. he then chased after Stewart and took the lead on lap 20. Eighteen laps later Hulme (who had worked his way through to third) moved ahead of Stewart. The order remained unchanged to the finish with Beltoise being the only other driver unlapped in fourth place after McLaren and thenSurtees had gone out with engine trouble. Ickx suffered a similar fate while Oliver went out with gearbox trouble