1975 German Grand Prix

F1 West Germany German 3 August 1975 Circuit_N%C3%BCrburgring-1967-Nordschleife.svg XXXVII Großer Preis von Deutschland Nürburgring, Nürburg, West Germany Permanent racing facility 14.189 22.835 14 198.646 319.690 Dry and sunny Niki Lauda Ferrari 6:58.6Lang Mike Grand Prix! Vol 3 ML83 Haynes Publishing Group 1983 0-85429-380-9 91 AUT Clay Regazzoni Ferrari 7:06.4Lang 1983, p. 93. 7 SUI Carlos Reutemann Brabham-Ford ARG Jacques Laffite Williams-Ford FRA Niki Lauda Ferrari AUT GERhttp://www.motorsport-stats.com/f1/history/1975/germany.html https://web.archive.org/web/20070110201738/http://www.motorsport-stats.com/f1/history/1975/germany.html 10 January 2007 German Grand Prix 1975 motorsport-stats.com 11 August 2017 dead The 1975 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Nürburgring on 3 August 1975. It was race 11 of 14 in both the 1975 World Championship of Drivers and the 1975 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. It was the 37th German Grand Prix and the 34th to be held at the Nürburgring. The race was held over 14 laps of the 22.8 km mi on circuit for a race distance of 319 km mi. The race was won by Argentinian driver Carlos Reutemann driving a Brabham BT44B his first win of the season. Reutemann won by 1 minute and 37 seconds over the Williams FW04 of French driver Jacques Laffite. It was a stunning result for Laffite, his first point scoring finish in Formula One. It was also the peak result for Frank Williams Racing Cars, the first Formula One team run by British team principal, Frank Williams. While it was the team's third podium result, it was the first and only podium they would achieve in one of their own cars, having previously achieved second places at the 1969 Monaco Grand Prix and the 1969 United States Grand Prix with a customer Brabham. 46 seconds further back in third position was world championship points leader, Niki Lauda driving a Ferrari 312T. With Emerson Fittipaldi's McLaren M23 retiring with suspension damage, Lauda was able to expand his points lead to 17 points with Reutemann moving back into second place. Qualifying summary The pole position time set by Niki Lauda (6:58.6) was the fastest officially timed lap ever on that track configuration, though it was not eligible as lap record as it did not occur during the race. Lauda's average speed was 122.238 mph (196.289 km/h). In qualifying, Ian Ashley had an accident at Pflanzgarten and suffered serious ankle injuries.http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr261.html Grand Prix Results: German GP, 1975 Grandprix.com 27 June 2010 Additional Armco and other safety measures were added to the track at the drivers' demands. The average speed remains the fastest lap average speed for any race on the Nordschleife. Behind Lauda on pole was Carlos Pace in a Brabham, Jody Scheckter and Patrick Depailler in the Tyrrell cars, Clay Regazzoni in the second Ferrari, Jochen Mass in a McLaren, Hans-Joachim Stuck in a March, Emerson Fittipaldi in the other McLaren, James Hunt in his Hesketh and Carlos Reutemann in the second Brabham. Race summary At the start, Lauda took the lead from pole with Pace, Depailler, Mass, Regazzoni and Reutemann who made a lightning start from 10th. Depailler passed Pace at the Nordkurve left hander. At the end of the first lap, the order was Lauda, Depailler, Pace, Reutemann, and Regazzoni. Scheckter had a terrible start, he dropped to 20th and began to work his way through the field. It was a bad day for the McLaren team, as sixth-placed Fittipaldi had a puncture and retired on lap 4 with damaged suspension; and Mass had lost a wheel at the Fuchsröhre (Foxhole) and crashed heavily, he was unhurt. March's day went rapidly south too: Stuck retired with engine failure on the fourth lap. Regazzoni got past Reutemann on the third lap, and the order by the start of the fourth lap was Lauda, Depailler, Pace, Regazzoni, Reutemann, and Hunt. Lauda and Depailler battled and began to pull away from the other front-runners, and this battle raged on until the 7th lap, when Depailler had a puncture and went into the pits to repair his rear suspension; he went out again, but had lost a lap- which at the old Nürburgring, was more than 7 minutes of lost time. Pace went off with a puncture and damaged his suspension, he retired near the Karrusell on the 6th lap, and Scheckter- who had climbed to 6th, crashed out on the 8th lap. Depailler and Pace's misfortunes allowed Regazzoni to come up to 2nd and make it a Ferrari 1–2, but then Regazzoni's engine failed and Reutemann took 2nd, with Hunt 3rd, Tom Pryce in the Shadow 4th and Jacques Laffite in the Williams in 5th (who started 17th and 15th respectively). But on the 10th lap, Lauda too suffered a puncture of his right front tire, and Reutemann was able to pass him at the Eiskurve and Hunt was able to get by as well later on. By the time Lauda had reached the pits, his car had sustained damage to the front spoiler, and the handling was made poor. The Ferrari team changed the damaged tire (pit stops in those days were extremely slow compared to today's pit stops; races were usually run on one set of tires). By the time the Ferrari team had finished their work, Lauda stormed out of the pits; but Reutemann and Hunt were out of sight; Pryce and Laffite had passed him, too. Lauda charged after the 4 runners ahead of him and he climbed to 4th after Hunt had a wheel-hub failure and retired on the 11th lap; and then he was able to inherit 3rd after he passed Pryce, who had fuel leaking into his cockpit and could not drive at race pace. Reutemann, who was almost 2 minutes ahead of Laffite, who was nearly a minute ahead of Lauda – held onto the lead to record his only victory of the year; and became the first (and so far last) Argentine driver since Juan Manuel Fangio to win the German Grand Prix. Laffite finished second, which equalled the struggling Williams team's highest ever finish with Piers Courage in 1969; and Depailler, whom Lauda had been fighting for the lead with earlier and was a lap down in 9th place- caught up to and started to push Lauda and attempted unsuccessfully to unlap himself; he finished close behind Lauda's ill-handling 3rd-placed Ferrari. Pryce finished an excellent 4th, followed by Australian future world champion Alan Jones in Graham Hill's Embassy-Hill car, with Dutch Le Mans winner Gijs Van Lennep in an Ensign rounding out the last points finishing slot in 6th place. With his victory, Reutemann moved into 2nd place in the championship, 1 point ahead of Fittipaldi, but 17 points behind Lauda; and with only 3 races left in the championship, Lauda's first championship looked to be virtually a lock. Classification Qualifying Pos No. Driver Constructor Time Gap 1 12 Austria Niki Lauda Ferrari 6:58.6 – 2 8 Brazil Carlos Pace Brabham-Ford 7:00.0 + 1.4 3 3 South Africa 1928 Jody Scheckter Tyrrell-Ford 7:01.3 + 2.7 4 4 France Patrick Depailler Tyrrell-Ford 7:01.4 + 2.8 5 11 SWI Clay Regazzoni Ferrari 7:01.6 + 3.0 6 2 FRG Jochen Mass McLaren-Ford 7:01.8 + 3.2 7 10 FRG Hans-Joachim Stuck March-Ford 7:02.1 + 3.5 8 1 BRA Emerson Fittipaldi McLaren-Ford 7:02.7 + 4.1 9 24 UK James Hunt Hesketh-Ford 7:02.7 + 4.1 10 7 ARG Carlos Reutemann Brabham-Ford 7:04.0 + 5.4 11 9 ITA Vittorio Brambilla March-Ford 7:06.0 + 7.4 12 17 FRA Jean-Pierre Jarier Shadow-Ford 7:07.1 + 8.5 13 27 USA Mario Andretti Parnelli-Ford 7:08.2 + 9.6 14 6 UK John Watson Lotus-Ford 7:09.4 + 10.8 15 21 FRA Jacques Laffite Williams-Ford 7:10.0 + 11.4 16 16 UK Tom Pryce Shadow-Ford 7:10.1 + 11.5 17 23 UK Tony Brise Hill-Ford 7:10.9 + 12.3 18 5 SWE Ronnie Peterson Lotus-Ford 7:11.6 + 13.0 19 28 USA Mark Donohue March-Ford 7:11.8 + 13.2 20 20 UK Ian Ashley Williams-Ford 7:15.9 + 17.3 21 22 AUS Alan Jones Hill-Ford 7:18.6 + 20.0 22 30 BRA Wilson Fittipaldi Fittipaldi-Ford 7:19.1 + 20.5 23 25 Austria Harald Ertl Hesketh-Ford 7:19.5 + 20.9 24 19 NED Gijs van Lennep Ensign-Ford 7:20.4 + 21.8 25 14 ITA Lella Lombardi March-Ford 7:36.4 + 37.8 26 35 UK Tony Trimmer Maki-Ford 7:43.1 + 44.5 *Positions in red indicate entries that failed to qualify. Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 7ARG Carlos Reutemann Brabham-Ford 14 1:41:14.1 10 9 2 21 FRA Jacques Laffite Williams-Ford 14 + 1:37.7 15 6 3 12 AUT Niki Lauda Ferrari 14 + 2:23.3 1 4 4 16 GBR Tom Pryce Shadow-Ford 14 + 3:31.4 16 3 5 22 AUS Alan Jones Hill-Ford 14 + 3:50.3 21 2 6 19 NED Gijs van Lennep Ensign-Ford 14 + 5:05.5 24 1 7 29 ITA Lella Lombardi March-Ford 14 + 7:30.4 25   8 25 AUT Harald Ertl Hesketh-Ford 14 + 7:40.9 23   9 4 FRA Patrick Depailler Tyrrell-Ford 13 + 1 Lap 4   10 27 USA Mario Andretti Parnelli-Ford 12 Out of fuel 13   Ret Retired 24 GBR James Hunt Hesketh-Ford 10 Wheel 9   Ret Retired 11 SUI Clay Regazzoni Ferrari 9 Engine 5   Ret Retired 23 GBR Tony Brise Hill-Ford 9 Accident 17   Ret Retired 3 South Africa 1928 Jody Scheckter Tyrrell-Ford 7 Accident 3   Ret Retired 17 FRA Jean-Pierre Jarier Shadow-Ford 7 Tyre 12   Ret Retired 8 BRA Carlos Pace Brabham-Ford 5 Suspension 2   Ret Retired 30 BRA Wilson Fittipaldi Fittipaldi-Ford 4 Engine 22   Ret Retired 10 FRG Hans-Joachim Stuck March-Ford 3 Engine 7   Ret Retired 1 BRA Emerson Fittipaldi McLaren-Ford 3 Suspension 8   Ret Retired 9 ITA Vittorio Brambilla March-Ford 3 Suspension 11   Ret Retired 6 GBR John Watson Lotus-Ford 2 Suspension 14   Ret Retired 5 SWE Ronnie Peterson Lotus-Ford 1 Clutch 18   Ret Retired 28 USA Mark Donohue March-Ford 1 Tyre 19   Ret Retired 2 FRG Jochen Mass McLaren-Ford 0 Accident 6   DNS Did not start 20 GBR Ian Ashley Williams-Ford Accident 20   DNQ Did not qualify 35 GBR Tony Trimmer Maki-Ford   Suspension    Source:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1975/468/ 1975 German Grand Prix formula1.com 22 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20140611100210/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1975/468/ 11 June 2014 Notes This was the Formula One World Championship debut for Austrian driver Harald Ertl and British driver Tony Trimmer. This was the 25th pole position by an Austrian driver. This race marked the 50th podium finish for a French driver. This was the 10th Grand Prix start for a Williams. This race also marked their first podium finish. Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 AUT Niki Lauda* 51 10px 2 2 ARG Carlos Reutemann* 34 10px 1 3 BRA Emerson Fittipaldi* 33 10px 1 4 UK James Hunt* 25 10px 5 BRA Carlos Pace 24Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1975/allemagne/championnat.aspx Germany 1975 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 18 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 10px 1 ITA Ferrari* 54 10px 2 UK Brabham-Ford* 51 (53) 10px 3 UK McLaren-Ford* 39.5 10px 4 UK Hesketh-Ford 25 10px 5 UK Tyrrell-Ford 24Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. Only the best 6 results from the first 7 races and the best 6 results from the last 7 races counted towards the Championship. Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored. Competitors in bold and marked with an asterisk still had a theoretical chance of becoming World Champion. References 30em German Grand Prix 1975 1975 British Grand Prix 1975 Austrian Grand Prix 1974 German Grand Prix 1976 German Grand Prix German Grand Prix Category:German Grand Prix German Grand Prix Category:Sport in Rhineland-Palatinate