1975 French Grand Prix
The French Grand Prix 1975 was held on July 6 at the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet place and was the ninth race of the Formula 1 season 1975.
- 3.1 Start -up
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
- 4.2 Constructors' Championship
Reports
Background
A substantially unchanged participants came two weeks after the Grand Prix of the Netherlands for the ninth round of the season at, which took place for the third time on the state of the art at the time, Circuit Paul Ricard.
The only changes were that Ian Scheckter no longer took for Frank Williams Racing Cars and was replaced by François Migault, and that Tyrrell presented a third factory cars available for the support from the team Hauptsonsor Elf Jean -Pierre Jabouille. In addition, the Parnelli team with driver Mario Andretti was back at the start.
Training
Niki Lauda secured for the fifth time this season the pole position and pointed with his qualifying time Jody Scheckter and the winner of the Holland GP, James Hunt, who finished second and third respectively. This was followed by Shadow - driver Jean -Pierre Jarier before Brabham of Carlos Pace and Tom Pryce in the second plant -Shadow. Jochen Mass, Vittorio Brambilla, Clay Regazzoni and Emerson Fittipaldi completed the top ten.
Race
Lauda went before Scheckter and Hunt in the lead. While Jarier could follow the leading trio, his teammate Pryce fell back after a poor start to the end of the field. Mass then took a fourth place ahead of Pace and Regazzoni.
Regazzoni made during the first rounds up the most places. Already in the sixth round he was behind his teammate Lauda on the second rank. However, in the seventh round he fell out due to an engine failure.
Until lap 14 succeeded both Hunt and Mass and Fittipaldi to overtake Scheckter, who dropped in the further course of the race up to the ninth. The order of the first four not changed then. Mario Andretti finished fifth and Patrick Depailler sixth.
18 of the 25 launched pilots reached the goal, twelve of them completed the full race distance of 54 laps. During the second half of the race, there were no failures. Jochen Mass went for the first time the fastest lap of a Grand Prix.
Message list
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).