1974 European Formula Two Championship

Last updated May 26, 2025

The 1974 European Formula Two season was contested over 10 rounds and had Frenchman Patrick Depailler as the season champion. Depailler, runner-up Hans-Joachim Stuck and some others also raced in 1974 Formula One season.^[1]

Calendar

Race No	Circuit	Date	Laps	Distance	Time	Speed	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winner
1	Barcelona	24 March	54	3.79=204.66 km	1'18:47.68	155.843 km/h	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Hans-Joachim Stuck
2	Hockenheim	7 April	20+20	6.789=271.56 km	1'21:37.1	199.632 km/h	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Hans-Joachim Stuck
3	Pau	5 May	75	2.76=207.0 km	1'54:33.57	108.415 km/h	Patrick Depailler	Jacques Laffite	Patrick Depailler
4	Salzburgring	2 June	50	4.238=211.9 km	1'00:33.00	209.975 km/h	Tom Pryce	José Dolhem	Jacques Laffite
5	Hockenheim	9 June	20+15	6.789=237.615 km	1'11:43.9	198.753 km/h	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Jean-Pierre Jabouille
6	Mugello	14 July	25+25	5.245=262.25 km	1'32:46.4	169.607 km/h	Jacques Laffite	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Patrick Depailler
7	Karlskoga	11 August	68	3.0=204.0 km	1'23:00.4 1'23:00.7	147.458 km/h 147.449 km/h	Patrick Depailler	Patrick Depailler	Ronnie Peterson Patrick Depailler
8	Pergusa-Enna	25 August	30+30	4.808=288.48 km	1'24:31.9	204.761 km/h	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Hans-Joachim Stuck
9	Hockenheim	28-29 September	20+20	6.789=271.56 km	1'23:26.4	195.273 km/h	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Patrick Depailler
10	Vallelunga	13 October	35+35	3.2=224.0 km	1'22:48.59	162.300 km/h	Patrick Depailler	Patrick Depailler	Patrick Depailler

Note:

Race 2, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10 were held in two heats, with results shown in aggregate.

Race 5: the second heat was also originally scheduled over 20 laps, but stopped early due to heavy rain.

Race 7 was won by a graded driver shown in Italics

Final point standings

Driver

For every race points were awarded: 9 points to the winner, 6 for runner-up, 4 for third place, 3 for fourth place, 2 for fifth place and 1 for sixth place. No additional points were awarded. The best 7 results count. No driver had a point deduction.

Place	Name	Team	Chassis	Engine	MNT	HOC	PAU	SAL	HOC	MUG	KAR	EMM	HOC	VLL	Total Points
1	Patrick Depailler	March Engineering	March	BMW	6	3	9	-	-	9	9	-	9	9	54
2	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March Engineering	March	BMW	9	9	-	-	4	-	-	9	6	6	43
3	Jacques Laffite	BP Racing France	March	BMW	-	-	6	9	6	-	6	-	-	4	31
4	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Écurie Elf	Elf-Alpine	BMW	4	-	3	-	9	-	-	-	4	-	20
5	David Purley	Team Harper	March	BMW	-	-	1								13
		Team Harper	Chevron	Ford				6	-	-	-
		Team Harper	Chevron	BMW								6	-	-
6	Michel Leclère	Équipe Elf	Elf-Alpine	BMW	1	4	2	-	2	-	-	3	-	-	12
7	Patrick Tambay	Équipe Elf	Elf-Alpine	BMW	-	2	-	3	-	-	-	-	3	3	11
8	Gabriele Serblin	Trivellato Racing	March	BMW	3	-	-	-	-	-	3	4	-	-	10
9	Tom Pryce	Team Baty	Chevron	Ford	-	-	-	-	3						9
9	Tom Pryce	Team Baty	Chevron	BMW						4	-	-	-	2	9
10	Andy Sutcliffe	Lewis Racing	March	BMW	2	-	4	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	7
11	John Watson	Surtees Racing	Surtees	Ford	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6
	Jean-Pierre Paoli	BP Racing France	March	BMW	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	-	-	6
13	Jacques Coulon	March Engineering	March	BMW	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	2	-	5
14	José Dolhem	Surtees Racing	Surtees	Ford	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
	Masami Kuwashima	Kuwashima Racing	March	BMW	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	4
16	Maurizio Flammini	Equipe Nationale	March	BMW	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
	Giancarlo Martini	Trivellato Racing	March	BMW	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	2
	Alain Cudini	Écurie Elf	Elf-Alpine	BMW	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	2
	Torsten Palm	Team Robert	GRD	BMW	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	2
	Duilio Truffo	Equipe Nationale	March	BMW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	2
	Alessandro Pesenti-Rossi	Equipe Nationale	March	BMW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	2
22	Bertil Roos	Opert Racing	Chevron	Ford	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	Brian Henton	March Engineering	March	BMW	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	1
	Cosimo Turizio	Trivellato Racing	March	BMW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1

Note:

Only drivers which were not graded were able to score points.

Non-Championship race results

Other Formula Two races, which did not count towards the European Championship, also held in 1974.

Race Name	Circuit	Date	Winning driver	Constructor
XXII Grand Prix de Rouen-les-Essarts	Rouen-Les-Essarts	30 June	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March-BMW
XV Grand Prix de Nogaro	Nogaro	22 September	Patrick Tambay	Elf-BMW

References

↑ "1974 European F2 Championship". motorsportmagazine.com. Motor Sport Magazine. Retrieved 1 April 2018.

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