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A huge crowd of some 90,000 came to the Nurburgring for this meeting which featured Interserie and European Sports Car rounds as well as this F3 race. Practice was dominated by the French Alpines and Martinis with Tony Brise the best UK runner in fifth.
The French cars also dominated the race with victory going to the works Alpine of Alain Serpaggi ahead of the works Martini of Jean-Pierre Paoli that had lead briefly on lap 5. Leclere had been running with Serpaggi until a quick stop near the end, his car was later disqualified for being underweight. Brise had to stop to change a broken airfoil on lap 1 and was then hampered by a failing head gasket during the rest of the race.
f3 HISTORY
RACES
Race Report: Nurburgring, 1 April 1973
Race Heat 1
1 Vittorio Brambilla
Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40
2 Fabrizio Noe
Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50
3 Luigi Fontanesi
Tecno-Ford 20:13.10
4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)
De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40
Race Heat 2
1 Giovanni Lo Voi
Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00
2 Adelmo Fossati
Brabham BT28 15:05.00
3 Patrice Compain
Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00
4 Manfred Möhr
Lotus-Ford 15:34.10
5 Marcello Gallo
Brabham BT28
Race Final
1 Vittorio Brambilla
Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318
2 Marcello Gallo
Brabham BT28 30:44.34
3 Fabrizio Noe
Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10
4 Adelmo Fossati
Brabham BT28 30:55.40
5 Patrice Compain
Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00
6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)
De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50
7 Manfred Möhr
Lotus-Ford 31:59.60
8 Giovanni Lo Voi
Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00