Grand Prix de Monaco 11 Maj 1975

Ronnie Peterson när vissa förhoppningar inför årets start i Monacos GP. Banan kräver inte lika mycket av bilarna och uppmuntrar förarskicklighet. Ronnie är dessutom regerande mästare och har inför sin 67:e F1 start en titel att försvara. 

Redan i tidskvalet visar Ronnie att fjolårets seger i en ålderstigen bil inte var en tillfällighet. Ronnie lyckas i säsongen femte tävling ta sin bästa startposition för året och är med den fjärde bästa tiden placerad i andra startled tillsammans med Jean-Pierre Jarier (Shadow) bakom Niki Lauda i "pole position" (Ferrari) och Tom Pryce (Shadow).

Det blir Lauda som tar starten, men Ronnie överraskar och lyckas till och med ta sig upp i ledningen under ett varv efter en tredjedel av loppet. Ferrarin blir emellertid för svår och Lauda kan återta tätpositionen. Lauda vinner loppet, Emerson Fittipaldi (McLaren) går in som tvåa, knappt tre sekunder bakom. Carlos Pace kan i sin Brabham relativt ohotad ta hem den sista pallplatsen, men det blir Ronnie som knappt 40 sekunder efter segraren kan gå i mål som fyra - detta strax före Patrick Depailler (Tyrrell) och Jochen Mass (McLaren).

Depailler presterar loppets snabbaste tid med 1.28,67 och loppet ser följande ledare: Lauda 1-23, 25-75; Ronnie 24.

Summary in english

Coming just two weeks after the scandalous Spanish Grand Prix, the organizers at Monaco did some quick safety work on the track and decided that only 18 cars should be allowed to start and that the grid should be staggered to avoid another first corner accident. There were 26 cars entered. Jacques Laffite was back with Williams while Graham Hill took part in what would be his last event, running one of his cars but failing to qualify. Hesketh had built a third car and this was rented to Torsten Palm, who had sponsorship from Polar Caravans.

The practice was frenetic as teams tried to ensure that they qualified but there was disaster for Williams with neither Arturo Merzario or Laffite making it.

Pole position went to Niki Lauda by six-tenths of a second while the Shadows of Tom Pryce and Jean-Pierre Jarier were second and third. Ronnie Peterson was next in his Lotus while Vittorio Brambilla (March), Clay Regazzoni (Ferrari), Jody Scheckter (Tyrrell), Carlos Pace (Brabham), Emerson Fittipaldi (McLaren) and Carlos Reutemann (Brabham) completed the top 10.

The track was damp at the start of the race and the field set off on wet weather tires. Lauda took off into the lead but Pryce was slow away and so Jarier went into second place with Peterson third and Pryce fourth. On the first lap Jarier hit the barriers at Mirabeau. This upset his car and he hit the wall again at the chicane. Peterson and Pryce worked their way through the wreckage and the order then remained unchanged at the front until the 19th lap when Pryce spun and dropped behind Scheckter and Fittipaldi. Not long afterwards the front-runners began to stop for slick tires and when this was completed Lauda was still ahead but Fittipaldi was up to second and Pace third, having stopped earlier than Peterson who slipped to fifth behind Scheckter. The South Africa had a puncture later and had to stop. This gave Peterson fourth place again. Little changed after that with Lauda leading Fittipaldi all the way to the flag (which came early because of the two hour time limit) although the Brazilian had closed up on the Ferrari. Pace was third and Peterson fourth. Jochen Mass (McLaren) had been running fifth but was overtaken by Depailler on the penultimate lap and so had to settle for a single point.

 

Sammanställning Grand Prix Monaco Datum 11 Maj 1975 Bana Monte Carlo Säsong 1975 Deltävling 5 Längd (km) 3.278 Varv 75 Tid 2:01:21.310

Placering Nr Förare Team Tid Grid 1 12 Niki Lauda Ferrari 2:01:21.310 1 2 1 Emerson Fittipaldi McLaren 2.780 9 3 8 Carlos Pace Brabham 17.810 8 4 5 Ronnie Peterson Lotus 38.450 4 5 4 Patrick Depailler Tyrrell 40.860 12 6 2 Jochen Mass McLaren 42.070 15 7 3 Jody Scheckter Tyrrell +1 varv 7 8 6 Jacky Ickx Lotus +1 varv 14 9 7 Carlos Reutemann Brabham +2 varv 10 r 28 Mark Donohue Penske +9 varv 16 r 24 James Hunt Hesketh +12 varv 11 r 26 Alan Jones Hesketh +14 varv 18 r 9 Vittorio Brambilla March +27 varv 5 r 16 Tom Pryce Shadow +36 varv 2 r 18 John Watson Surtees +39 varv 17 r 11 Clay Regazzoni Ferrari +39 varv 6 r 27 Mario Andretti Parnelli +66 varv 13 r 17 Jean-Pierre Jarier Shadow +75 varv 3 nq 21 Jacques Laffite Williams     nq 20 Arturo Merzario Williams     nq 23 Graham Hill Hill     nq 14 Bob Evans BRM     nq 31 Roelof Wunderink Ensign     nq 25 Torsten Palm Hesketh     nq 10 Lella Lombardi March     nq 30 Wilson Fittipaldi Fittipaldi

NC=Not Classified NT=No time set in qualifying R=Retired EX=Excluded from meeting W=Withdrawn DQ=Disqualified NS=Did not start NQ=Did not qualify NPQ=Did not pre-qualify

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