| 1973 Rally of Morocco | |
| Native Name: | 16th Rally of Morocco |
| Round: | 5 |
| Previous Round: | 1973 Safari Rally |
| Next Round: | 1973 Acropolis Rally |
| Start: | Rabat, Morocco |
| Finish: | Casablanca, Morocco |
| Startdate: | 8 May 1973 |
| Enddate: | 13 May 1973 |
| Stages: | 27 |
| Stagekm: | 1210 |
| Overallkm: | 5300 |
| Surface: | Asphalt and gravel |
| Championship: | 1973 World Rally Championship season |
| Team1: |  Alpine Renault |
| Car1: | Alpine Renault A110 1800 |
| Teamsstart: | 66 |
| Teamsfinish: | 13 |
The 1973 Rally of Morocco (formally the 16th Rally of Morocco) was the fifth round of the inaugural World Rally Championship season. Run in mid-May between Morocco's two major cities, Rabat and Casablanca, the Rallye du Maroc was a very long stage rally covering more than 1200 km on both hard and soft surface roads.
In 1973, and for several years afterward, only manufacturers were given points for finishes in WRC events. Morocco represented a third win for the strong Alpine Renault A110 1800, though the Citroën DS 23 also made a strong showing.
| + align=center style="background:#BFD7FF" | 1973 Rally of Morocco results | ||||||||||||
| width=15% colspan=2 | Finish | width=15% rowspan=2 | Total time | width=5% rowspan=2 | Group | width=5% rowspan=2 | Car # | width=25% rowspan=2 | Driver Co-driver | width=25% rowspan=2 | Car | width=10% rowspan=2 | Mfr. points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | In group | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 15 h : 1 m : 22 s | 4 | 1 | Bernard Darniche Alain Mahé | Alpine-Renault A110 1800 | 20 | ||||||
| 2 | 1 | 15 h : 20 m : 4 s | 2 | 9 | Bob Neyret Jacques Terramorsi | Citroën DS 23 | 15 | ||||||
| 3 | 1 | 15 h : 34 m : 37 s | 1 | 21 |  Richard Bochnicek Sepp-Dieter Kernmayer | Citroën DS 23 | |||||||
| 4 | 2 | 15 h : 39 m : 56 s | 1 | 15 | Raymond Ponnelle Pierre de Serpos | Citroën DS 23 | |||||||
| 5 | 2 | 15 h : 52 m : 0 s | 4 | 4 | Jean-Pierre Nicolas Michel Vial | Alpine-Renault A110 1800 | |||||||
| 6 | 3 | 15 h : 59 m : 43 s | 4 | 6 |  Björn Waldegård Fergus Sager |  Fiat Abarth 124 Rallye | 6 | ||||||
| 7 | 4 | 16 h : 18 m : 16 s | 4 | 3 | Jean-Luc Thérier Christian Delferrier | Alpine-Renault A110 1800 | |||||||
| 8 | 2 | 16 h : 48 m : 26 s | 2 | 7 |  Jean Deschazeaux Jean Plassard | Citroën DS 23 | |||||||
| 9 | 3 | 17 h : 53 m : 47 s | 2 | 35 | Lorenzo Merlone Riccardo Mortara | Volvo 142 S | 2 | ||||||
| 10 | 3 | 18 h : 3 m : 33 s | 1 | 25 | [1] Marie-Pierre Palayer | Peugeot 504 | 1 | ||||||
| 11 | 4 | 20 h : 18 m : 38 s | 1 | 42 | Marc Gerenthon Hélène Gerenthon |  Datsun 1600 SSS | |||||||
| 12 | 4 | 22 h : 47 m : 41 s | 2 | 30 | Pierre Pagani Jean-Claude Refuveille |  Volkswagen K 70 | |||||||
| Finished over the limit | 2 | 46 | Paul Hadley Dave Robson | Opel Ascona SR | |||||||||
| Retired (mechanical) | 4 | 2 |  Rauno AaltonenJohn Davenport | Fiat Abarth 124 Rallye | |||||||||
| Retired (accident) | 4 | 5 |  Shekhar MehtaGeraint Phillips | Datsun 240Z | |||||||||
| Retired (mechanical) | 2 | 8 | Bernard Consten Gérard Flocon | Peugeot 504 | |||||||||
| Retired (mechanical) | 2 | 10 | Hannu Mikkola Atso Aho | Peugeot 504 | |||||||||
| Retired (mechanical) | 2 | 11 | Tony Fall Mike Wood | Peugeot 504 | |||||||||
| Retired (mechanical) | 2 | 12 | Jean-François Piot Jean De Alexandris | Renault 12 Gordini | |||||||||
| Retired (mechanical) | 2 | 13 | Timo Mäkinen Henry Liddon | Peugeot 504 | |||||||||
| Retired (mechanical) | 4 | 16 | Marianne Hoepfner Yveline Vanoni | Alpine Renault A110 1800 | |||||||||
| Retired (mechanical) | 2 | 17 |  Francisco Romãozinho José Bernardo | Citroën GS | |||||||||
| Retired (mechanical) | 2 | 18 | Claude Laurent Jacques Marché | Citroën GS | |||||||||
| Retired (mechanical) | 2 | 19 | Jean Guichet Jean Todt | Peugeot 504 | |||||||||
Source: Independent WRC archive[2]
| + align=center style="background:#BFD7FF" | 1973 World Rally Championship for Manufacturers points standings after round 5 | ||||||
| width=20% colspan=2 | After round 5 | width=60% rowspan=2 | Team | width=20% colspan=2 | Season end | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=10% | Position | width=10% | Points | width=10% | Position | width=10% | Points |
| 1 | 72 | Alpine Renault | 1 | 147 | |||
| 2 | 28 | Fiat | 2 | 84 | |||
| 3 | 27 | Citroën | 7 | 33 | |||
| 4 | 22 | Datsun | 6 | 34 | |||
| 5 | 20 | Saab | 5 | 42 | |||
| 6 | 13 | Lancia | 13 | 17 | |||
| 7 | 13 | Peugeot | 16 | 13 | |||
| 8 | 12 |  Ford | 3 | 76 | |||
| 9 | 8 | Porsche | 9 | 27 | |||
| 10 | 6 | Volkswagen | 15 | 15 | |||
| 11 | 5 | Opel | 11 | 25 | |||
| 12 | 4 | BMW | 8 | 28 | |||
| 4 | Mitsubishi | 17 | 4 | ||||
| 4 | Volvo | 4 | 44 | ||||
| 15 | 3 | Škoda | 18 | 3 |