Tyskland GP 1975

Grosser Preis von Deutschland 3 Augusti 1975, Nürburgring

Ronnie Peterson blev fyra i fjolårets tyska GP på Nürburgring, men kan knappast tro på lika gott resultat inför sin 73:e start i Formel 1 sammanhang. Tidskvalet har följt en nedåtgående trend för Ronnie och denna gång är Ronnie inte bättre placerad än 18:e inför starten på söndagen.

Ordningen är återställd och Lauda (Ferrari) står således i "pole position", denna gång före Carlos Pace (Brabham). Lauda har klockats för den första officiella varvtiden under sju minuter. Andra startledet ser de två Tyrrellbilarna med Jody Scheckter och Patrick Depailler.

Lauda tar täten. Efter nio varv har halva startfältet fallit ifrån och det ser ut som om Ferrari skall gå mot en dubbelseger. Plötsligt finner dock Carlos Reutemann (Brabham) sig själv vara i ledning då Regazzoni bryter med motorproblem och Lauda sackar med en punktering. Reutemann kan ta en överlägsen seger och är drygt en och en halv minut före Jacques Laffite (Williams) som kan gå in som tvåa efter det att denna position sett ett antal olika förare. Lauda blir till slut trea och Ferrari tar snabbaste varvet med Regazzoni och 7.06,4. Loppets ledare: Lauda 1-9; Reutemann 10-14.

Ronnie Peterson bryter redan på det första varvet efter problem med kopplingen.

Summary in english

The multiple accidents at Silverstone gave the teams plenty to do in the two weeks before the German Grand Prix. Surtees could not repair its cars and so John Watson was loaned to Team Lotus for the weekend. Williams had taken on Ian Ashley to be Jacques Laffite's partner for the weekend, while Austrian journalist Harald Ertl had found money from Warsteiner to run the old Hesketh which had been run by Harry Stiller earlier in the year. Tony Trimmer turned up to drive the Maki but the car was still well off the pace. In qualifying Ashley had a big accident at Pflanzgarten and suffered serious ankle injuries.

Pole position went as usual to
Niki Lauda in his Ferrari (the Austrian clocking the first official sub-seven minute lap of the Ring) with Carlos Pace second on the grid in his Brabham. Then came the two Tyrrells of Jody Scheckter and Patrick Depailler, followed by the Ferrari of Clay Regazzoni and Jochen Mass's McLaren. The top 10 was completed by Hans Stuck's Hesketh and Carlos Reutemann's Brabham.

In the race Lauda took the lead from Pace and Depailler while Scheckter made a terrible start and dropped to the back of the field. On the first lap Mass suffered a tire failure and crashed heavily, emerging unscathed.
Mark Donohue had a similar problem but was able to drive back to the pits while Ronnie Peterson (Lotus) also went out with a clutch failure.

By the end of the lap Lauda was leading Depailler with Pace third, Reutemann fourth and Regazzoni fifth. On the second lap sixth-placed Fittipaldi had a puncture but while the field was being thinned out further down the order, the leaders were untroubled until Pace had a puncture on the fifth lap. Scheckter in the meantime had charged back through the field until a tire failure sent him off into the barriers at high speed, luckily without injuring himself.

After nine laps half the field was gone and Depailler had dropped to the back of the field after a suspension failure forced him to pit for repairs. This left the Ferraris to run 1-2 but within minutes Regazzoni's engine failed and he was out. Then Lauda had a puncture and Reutemann found himself in the lead with Hunt second although the Hesketh suffered a hub failure and went out. Pryce was second but he had fuel leaking into his cockpit and could not drive at full pace and so he was overtaken by Laffite and by the recovering Lauda.

Sammanställning

Grand Prix

Tyskland

Datum

3 Augusti 1975

Bana

Nürburgring

Säsong

1975

Deltävling

11

Längd (km)

22.835

Varv

14

Tid

1:41:14.100

Placering

Nr

Förare

Team

Tid

Grid

1

7

Carlos Reutemann

Brabham

1:41:14.100

10

2

21

Jacques Laffite

Williams

97.700

15

3

12

Niki Lauda

Ferrari

143.300

1

4

16

Tom Pryce

Shadow

211.400

16

5

22

Alan Jones

Hill

230.300

21

6

19

Gijs van Lennep

Ensign

305.500

24

7

29

Lella Lombardi

March

450.400

25

8

25

Harald Ertl

Hesketh

460.900

23

9

4

Patrick Depailler

Tyrrell

+1 varv

4

r

27

Mario Andretti

Parnelli

+2 varv

13

r

24

James Hunt

Hesketh

+4 varv

9

r

11

Clay Regazzoni

Ferrari

+5 varv

5

r

23

Tony Brise

Hill

+5 varv

17

r

3

Jody Scheckter

Tyrrell

+7 varv

3

r

17

Jean-Pierre Jarier

Shadow

+7 varv

12

r

8

Carlos Pace

Brabham

+9 varv

2

r

30

Wilson Fittipaldi

Fittipaldi

+10 varv

22

r

1

Emerson Fittipaldi

McLaren

+11 varv

8

r

10

Hans-Joachim Stuck

March

+11 varv

7

r

9

Vittorio Brambilla

March

+11 varv

11

r

6

John Watson

Lotus

+12 varv

14

r

5

Ronnie Peterson

Lotus

+13 varv

18

r

28

Mark Donohue

March

+13 varv

19

r

2

Jochen Mass

McLaren

+14 varv

6

ns

20

Ian Ashley

Williams

 

20

nq

35

Tony Trimmer

Maki

 

 

 

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

Aktuell ställning

Position

Förare

Nation

Poäng

1

Niki Lauda

AUT

51

2

Carlos Reutemann

ARG

34

3

Emerson Fittipaldi

BRA

33

4

James Hunt

GBR

25

5

Carlos Pace

BRA

24

6

Jody Scheckter

ZA

19

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