1974 German Grand Prix
The Grand Prix of Germany in 1974 took place on August 4 at the Nürburgring place and was the eleventh round of the Formula 1 season 1974. Had the race even the FIA honorary title of European Grand Prix.
- 3.1 Start -up
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
- 4.2 Constructors' Championship
Reports
Background
The trend of large numbers of participants in the 1974 season also held at the Germany GP at the Nürburgring. 31 drivers attempted during the training sessions to reach one of the 26 starting positions for the race. Individual messages reported back the organizers in advance. This involved, inter alia, Scuderia Finotto, which had reported a Brabham BT42 for the German racing driver Manfred Mohr.
With few exceptions, the teams appeared with the same driver line-up as the Grand Prix of Great Britain two weeks earlier. The second cockpit of the team Frank Williams Racing Cars, which was awarded as usual to paying guest driver, received the debutant Jacques Laffite this weekend. For Token Racing David Purley was replaced by Ian Ashley, who is also the first time was on the entry list for a Grand Prix.
The Amon Team was the first time since the Monaco Grand Prix again present. Since Chris Amon was in poor health, his car took the third debutant of the weekend, Larry Perkins, during training.
Training
The training began with a serious accident of Maki pilots Howden Ganley at the section " Hatzenbach ". Because of his injuries he was unable to participate in the further course of the race weekend.
The two Ferrari 312B3 achieved the best lap times, with both Niki Lauda, who reached the fourth pole position in a row, as well as Clay Regazzoni missed the seven- minute limit by only a few tenths of a second. This was followed by Emerson Fittipaldi and Jody Scheckter in the second row. Thus, the four most promising pilots took the first four starting positions in the battle for the world championship.
Patrick Depailler and Carlos Reutemann represented the third row in front of Denis Hulme and Ronnie Peterson.
Race
Since Lauda started badly, Regazzoni immediately took the lead, which he did not relinquish it for the remainder of the afternoon. When trying to make up lost ground, Lauda crashed after a few meters with Scheckter and retired. Scheckter was unaffected, however, continue the race. He held his second position to the finish, as well as Reutemann, who was lying in third place.
Fittipaldi was also not a good start succeeded, what was of Hulme, who had started from seventh significantly better overlooked. The two teammates collided, whereupon Fittipaldi was able to continue the race first. Hulme, however, got out and moved to the T -Car. Because of that infringement, he was disqualified after two rounds. Also in the second round because of a difference Fittipaldi from suspension damage as a result of the collision. Previously, he had already had to drive over large parts of the extremely long stretch with a puncture back to the box.
Until the sixth round Jochen Mass was on the fourth. Then he was overtaken by the two Lotus drivers Jacky Ickx and Ronnie Peterson. He made it yet, the Swedes to overtake again before his engine failed in the eleventh round. This Mike Hailwood came to sixth place, which he held until the penultimate lap. Then he lost after a jump knoll at the section Pflanzgarten control of his car and crashed hard. The resulting injuries ended his Formula 1 career.
Clay Regazzoni took his second overall victory after the Italian Grand Prix in 1970 again the lead in the world championship. Tom Pryce won his sixth first championship point.
Message list
1 Chris Amon took his car with the start number 30 during training because of nausea Larry Perkins from.
Classifications
Line-up
Race
WM stands after the race
The first six of the race were 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s).