# March 711 (F1)

- Source: https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/march-711/
- Publisher: Racing Car Network (racingcarnetwork.com), the race car marketplace
- Type: car · Brand: March
- Discipline: formula, historic-racing
- Series: f1-historic
- Era: 1970s
- Last updated: 2026-07-06

The 711 is F1's tea-tray beauty: the Spitfire-winged 1971 March — Peterson's runner-up season — the sport's strangest-loveliest aerodynamic experiment and the marque's best early year.

## Specifications

| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| Engine | 3.0 DFV / Alfa V8 split |
| Power | ~440-460 hp |
| Signature | Tea-tray elliptical wing (Costin) |
| House | March (second season) |
| Ledger | 1971 championship runner-up |
| Diligence | Chassis biography + wing originality |
| Years | 1971 |
| Class | F1's strangest beauty |

## History

March's second season produced its strangest beauty with the 711 (1971): the tea-tray car — Frank Costin's aerodynamic input (the elliptical high-mounted front wing the type's unmistakable signature — the tea-tray the paddock named it), the Geoff Ferris design beneath (the low-drag philosophy the shape served), and the Alfa-and-DFV engine split (the works' Alfa Romeo V8 experiment beside the customer Cosworths) — racing 1971 into the marque's best early result: Peterson's runner-up championship (the Swede's four seconds the season's consistency — the world championship's vice-crown in the start-up's second year), the customer-fleet campaigns beside, and the development lessons (the Alfa dead-end's cost, the DFV cars' proof) that fed the marque's iteration rhythm.

The experiment-era economics frame the type: the aerodynamic adventure culture (the era's freedom the tea-tray's audacity documents), the works-customer split's parallel programmes, and the Peterson partnership (the superstar-making seasons the marque's driver legend).

The strange-beauty identity structures the market: the Peterson-provenance summit (the runner-up season's chassis the crown biographies), the tea-tray originality forensics (the signature wing's authenticity the type's visual soul), and the experiment-romance the era's collectors price.

The present is historic-F1 custody: chassis-biography law, wing-originality documentation, and the loveliest-strangeness story throughout.

## Palmarès

Peterson's 1971 runner-up championship — the four-seconds consistency — the marque's best early season in the tea-tray's strange beauty.

## What to check before you buy

Tea-tray law: per-chassis scholarship first (the 711 run's works-versus-customer biographies — the Peterson-season chassis the provenance summit), signature-wing originality (the tea-tray's authenticity the type's visual identity — the restoration forensics the connoisseur's checkpoint), engine-identity precision (Alfa-experiment versus DFV cars' different histories and custody), and DFV rationality for the racing life. Historic-F1 eligibility structures the grids; the strange-beauty romance prices the type — the sport's loveliest experiment and Peterson's vice-crown trading at the era's storybook stakes.

## Did you know

- The paddock named it: the elliptical front wing becoming the tea-tray forever.
- Peterson nearly crowned it: four seconds taking the championship's runner-up in year two.
- The Alfa was the dead end: the works V8 experiment beside the customers' proven DFVs.

## Related entries

- March 701 (F1) — https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/march-701/
- March 721 (F1) — https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/march-721/
- Lotus 72 — https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/lotus-72/
- Surtees TS9 (Formula 1) — https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/surtees-ts9-f1/