1972 Formula One season
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The 1972 Formula One season was the 26th season of the FIA's Formula One motor racing. It featured the 23rd World Championship of Drivers, the 15th International Cup for F1 Manufacturers, and numerous non-championship Formula One races. The World Championship season commenced on 23 January and ended on 8 October after twelve races.
Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi (pictured in 1974) won the World Drivers' Championship, driving for Lotus-Ford
Jean-Pierre Beltoise, driving for BRM in the 1972 French Grand Prix
David Walker in the Lotus 72
Rolf Stommelen in the Eifelland in France
Emerson Fittipaldi
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Emerson Fittipaldi is a Brazilian former automobile racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship and the Indianapolis 500 twice each and the CART championship once.
Fittipaldi in 2020
Fittipaldi driving the Jim Russell Racing Drivers School F3 Lotus 59 in the 1969 F3 Guards Trophy at Brands Hatch
Fittipaldi driving the Lotus 72 at the Nürburgring in 1971
Fittipaldi at the wheel of the Lotus 72D at the 1972 Austrian Grand Prix