1975 German Grand Prix
The Grand Prix of Germany in 1975 took place on 3 August at the Nurburgring and was the eleventh round of the Formula 1 season 1975.
- 3.1 Start -up
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
- 4.2 Constructors' Championship
Reports
Background
Because of the large number of accidents that had occurred in the last round of the Grand Prix of Great Britain due to sudden onset of rain, the repair costs of some teams was very large in the two weeks before the Germany -GP. For this reason, the team Surtees had to do without the participation and then allowed his regular driver John Watson to step in at Lotus as a substitute for Jacky Ickx.
Frank Williams came back on a second car next to the driver Jacques Laffite for master and cast him with Ian Ashley.
The Warsteiner brewery allowed the antretenden with German drivers license Austrian Harald Ertl made his Grand Prix debut by sponsoring the second plant - Hesketh, the factory team had borrowed at an earlier stage of the season to the private Harry Stiller Racing Team.
Instead of the two hapless Hiroshi Fushida now tried the debutant Tony Trimmer, to qualify with the inferior Maki F101 for a Grand Prix.
Training
Ian Ashley crashed during training at the section Pflanzgarten heavy and could not participate in the race because of his injuries.
With a lap time of 6:58,6 min. secured Niki Lauda for the sixth time this season the pole position. This is the fastest lap ever driven on the 22.835 km long Nordschleife, which consisted in her former layout until 1982. However, since a training time is, that did not materialize under race conditions, it is not valid as an official lap record.
In the second place Carlos Pace, although the exact reached the seven- minute mark, but could not provide qualified. The two Tyrrell works driver Jody Scheckter and Patrick Depailler formed on the second row in front of Clay Regazzoni in the second Ferrari 312T and McLaren M23 Jochen Mass in. His teammate, the reigning world champion Emerson Fittipaldi, qualified behind the March- pilot Hans -Joachim Stuck for eighth place. James Hunt and Carlos Reutemann completed the top ten.
Race
From the start, initially took the lead ahead of Lauda Pace and Depailler while Scheckter after a very bad start, falling back to the end of the field. Already during the first lap was Jochen Mass victim of a puncture and crashed violently, but escaped unharmed. Mark Donohue had a similar problem, but made the way back to the box. This was the beginning of a series of punctures that were triggered during the race due to the extreme high heat. Due to a clutch damage the race was already finished for Ronnie Peterson after only one lap.
The second round began Lauda as the leader before Depailler, Pace, Reutemann and Regazzoni. During this circulation Emerson Fittipaldi was due to a puncture, which eventually caused a defect in the suspension from. In the fifth round, this also happened Pace. Scheckter, who had worked from the end of the field to some forward positions, crashed hard in the seventh round, without suffering injury.
After nine rounds was only about half of the starters in the race. Depailler had fallen behind by a repair stop due to suspension damage. This resulted in a short time a Ferrari double guide, but already ended in the same round due to engine failure of Regazzoni car. Shortly after, was also Lauda victim of a puncture. Due to the necessary pit stop he fell back to fifth place, while Carlos Reutemann led the race ahead of James Hunt and Tom Pryce. Hunt failed after the tenth round and Pryce could not drive at the limit, since spilled fuel through a leak in the tank in his cockpit.
Ultimately celebrated Reutemann his first victory of the season and Jacques Laffite assured the under-funded team of Frank Williams Racing Cars as runner-up of the best results of the team 's history. Lauda built as a third party his lead in the world championship against its main competitors from Fittipaldi, who took second place in this table had provisionally left to the victorious Reutemann after his failure.
Clay Regazzoni drove the fastest lap of the race in 7:06,4 min. Since this time came under race conditions, it is considered the official lap record of 22.835 kilometers long track layouts. The record can since 1982 due to changes in routing in the area of the former start and target loop no longer be broken and therefore still valid today.
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).