1975 Swedish Grand Prix

  1975 Swedish Grand Prix

Race details
Race 7 of 14 in the 1975 Formula One season
Date	8 June 1975
Location	Scandinavian Raceway, Anderstorp
Course	4.025 km (2.501 mi)
Distance	80 laps, 322.0 km (200.1 mi)
Weather	Dry
Pole position
Driver	Vittorio Brambilla	March-Ford
Time	1:24.630
Fastest lap
Driver	Niki Lauda	Ferrari
Time	1:28.267 on lap 61
Podium
First	Niki Lauda	Ferrari
Second	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham-Ford
Third	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari

The 1975 Swedish Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Scandinavian Raceway at Anderstorp on June 8, 1975. It was the sixth Swedish Grand Prix after it was first held as the Swedish Summer Grand Prix in 1933, and the third to be held at Scandinavian Raceway. It was held over 80 laps of the four kilometre circuit for a race distance of 322 kilometres.

The race was won by Austrian driver Niki Lauda driving Ferrari 312T. He took a six second victory over the Brabham BT44B of Argentinian racer Carlos Reutemann. Lauda's Ferrari team mate, Swiss driver Clay Regazzoni finished third. It was Lauda's third consecutive win of the season after the Monaco and Belgian Grands Prix. The win strengthened his lead in the championship to ten points with Reutemann moving past Emerson Fittipaldi into second place.

Race report

Qualifying resulted in pole position for Vittorio Brambilla in his March, while Lauda qualified fifth fastest and his teammate Clay Regazzoni 11th. In the race Brambilla took the lead, but by lap 16 he was overtaken by Carlos Reutemann's Brabham and eventually had to retire with a blistered front tyre. Tom Pryce had to pit early due to throttle slides being clogged by sand, whilst Patrick Depailler suffered a brake line leak. Hunt retired on lap 22 with a brake-pipe leak, promoting Regazzoni and Mario Andretti. Poor Jean-Pierre Jarier lost second place to failing oil pressure on lap 38. Young Tony Brise was showing little respect for his elders, overtaking Mark Donohue and Ronnie Peterson and then challenging championship leader Emerson Fittipaldi. The battle which ensued slowed them up and John Watson in the Surtees had soon climbed up behind them. Meanwhile, Lauda was steadily progressing through the field and on lap 42 he was second. He put a series of fastest laps, benefiting from a harder tyre compound, closed on Reutemann and overtook him to win the Grand Prix by 6 seconds. Reutemann finished second with Regazzoni, in the other Ferrari 312T, third. Brise had his gearbox jammed in fourth and surrendered to Donohue, but on his third Grand Prix gained his first World Championship point and Graham Hill's first as a constructor. It would prove the only point of Brise's promising but brief F1 career. Fittipaldi suffered braking problems and was passed by Jody Scheckter at the race end to finish in eighth.

Classification

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	12	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	80	1:59:18.319	5	9
2	7	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham-Ford	80	+ 6.288	4	6
3	11	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	80	+ 29.095	12	4
4	27	Mario Andretti	Parnelli-Ford	80	+ 44.380	15	3
5	28	Mark Donohue	Penske-Ford	80	+ 1:30.763	16	2
6	23	Tony Brise	Hill-Ford	79	+ 1 Lap	17	1
7	3	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell-Ford	79	+ 1 Lap	8
8	1	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren-Ford	79	+ 1 Lap	11
9	5	Ronnie Peterson	Lotus-Ford	79	+ 1 Lap	9
10	32	Torsten Palm	Hesketh-Ford	78	Out of Fuel	21
11	26	Alan Jones	Hesketh-Ford	78	+ 2 Laps	19
12	4	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell-Ford	78	+ 2 Laps	2
13	14	Bob Evans	BRM	78	+ 2 Laps	23
14	20	Damien Magee	Williams-Ford	78	+ 2 Laps	22
15	6	Jacky Ickx	Lotus-Ford	77	+ 3 Laps	18
16	18	John Watson	Surtees-Ford	77	+ 3 Laps	10
17	30	Wilson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi-Ford	74	+ 6 Laps	25
Ret	16	Tom Pryce	Shadow-Ford	53	Spun off	7
Ret	21	Ian Scheckter	Williams-Ford	49	Tyre	20
Ret	22	Vern Schuppan	Hill-Ford	47	Transmission	26
Ret	8	Carlos Pace	Brabham-Ford	41	Spun off	6
Ret	17	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow-Ford	38	Engine	3
Ret	9	Vittorio Brambilla	March-Ford	36	Transmission	1
Ret	2	Jochen Mass	McLaren-Ford	34	Overheating	14
Ret	24	James Hunt	Hesketh-Ford	21	Brakes	13
Ret	10	Lella Lombardi	March-Ford	10	Fuel system	24

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Niki Lauda 32 2 Carlos Reutemann 22 3 Emerson Fittipaldi 21 4 Carlos Pace 16 5 Jody Scheckter 15

Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 Ferrari 35 2 Brabham-Ford 33 (35) 3 McLaren-Ford 26.5 4 Tyrrell-Ford 19 5 Hesketh-Ford 7

• 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.

References

Unless otherwise indicated, all race results are taken from "The Official Formula 1 website". http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1975/464/. Retrieved 2007-06-15. 

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