The 1970 International Gold Cup was a non-championship
Formula One race held at
Oulton Park on 22 August 1970. The race was open to Formula One and
Formula 5000 cars. It was run in two heats of 20 laps, with the winner decided on aggregate times. The starting grid for Heat 1 was decided by a qualifying session, in which
John Surtees won pole position. The grid for Heat 2 was decided by the finishing order of Heat 1.
John Surtees won Heat 1 and overall, narrowly beating Heat 2 winner
Jochen Rindt, with
Howden Ganley posting the best aggregate result of the Formula 5000 entrants.
Jackie Stewart, debuting the brand-new
Tyrrell 001
The Tyrrell 001 is a Formula One racing car which was designed by Tyrrell Racing's chief designer, Derek Gardner and used at the end of the 1970 and the beginning of the 1971 Formula One season. The car competed in five Grands Prix, retiring on ...
, set fastest lap.
Qualifying
Blue background denotes F5000 entrants.
1Stewart started from the back of the grid
Classification
Blue background denotes F5000 entrants.
Heat 1
Heat 2
1Taylor stopped 1 lap early in error
Aggregate
References
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{{F1 Non Championship Races (1970-1979)
International Gold Cup
The International Gold Cup is a prize awarded annually to the winner of a motor race held at the Oulton Park circuit, Cheshire, England. In the 1950s and 1960s it formed one of a number of highly regarded non-Championship Formula One races, which r ...
International Gold Cup