1970 United States Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 12 of 13 in the 1970 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | October 4, 1970 | ||
| Official name | XIII United States Grand Prix | ||
| Location |
Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course Watkins Glen, New York |
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| Course | Permanent road course | ||
| Course length | 3.78 km (2.35 mi) | ||
| Distance | 108 laps, 408.2 km (253.8 mi) | ||
| Weather | Cloudy and dry with temperatures reaching up to 50 °F (10 °C); winds gusting up to 15.9 miles per hour (25.6 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Ferrari | ||
| Time | 1:03.07 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Jacky Ickx |
Ferrari | |
| Time | 1:02.74 on lap 105 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Lotus-Ford | ||
| Second | BRM | ||
| Third | Lotus-Ford | ||
The 1970 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 4, 1970, at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. It was the twelfth and penultimate race of the 1970 Formula One season. The 108-lap race was won by Lotus driver Emerson Fittipaldi after he started from third position. Pedro Rodríguez finished second for the BRM team and Fittipaldi's teammate Reine Wisell came in third.
Twenty-three-year-old Lotus rookie Emerson Fittipaldi captured his first Grand Prix win in only the fourth start of his Formula One career. The dominating performance of Jackie Stewart's brand new Tyrrell went by the boards when his engine failed, and the Brazilian inherited the lead with eight laps to go when Mexican Pedro Rodríguez had to stop for a splash of fuel. Fittipaldi came home thirty-six seconds ahead of Rodríguez, while his Lotus teammate Reine Wisell finished third in his Formula One debut.
Jochen Rindt, whose first career victory came at Watkins Glen in 1969, took charge of the 1970 Driver's Championship with five wins, including four in a row at mid-season in the revolutionary Lotus 72. When Rindt was killed during practice for the Italian Grand Prix, the team was devastated, and they withdrew from that race and the next one in Canada. With two new drivers for the last two races of the season, the team were determined to clinch a posthumous title for their late team leader.
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