1000 km race from Zeltweg 1975
The seventh 1000 km race of Zeltweg , also 1000 km Zeltweg , took place on June 29, 1975 at the Österreichring and was the eighth race of the sports car world championship of that year.
The race
The Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 12s used by the Willi Kauhsen Racing Team were also safe in the overall standings at the world championship run at the Österreichring . The race had to be stopped after driving nearly 600 kilometers during a thunderstorm and was not restarted. Alfa Romeo scored a double victory with the teams Derek Bell / Henri Pescarolo and Arturo Merzario / Vittorio Brambilla . Jody Scheckter, a guest starter in the sports car world championship, drove an Alpine-Renault A442 this time . Team partner was Patrick Depailler , his racing partner in theFormula 1 . There the two started in 1975 for Tyrrell . In Zeltweg, a defective timing chain on the Alpine stopped her ambitions for a top spot.
Results
Final ranking
Item | class | No. | team | driver | chassis | Round | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | S 3.0 | 2 | Willi Kauhsen Racing Team |
Derek Bell Henri Pescarolo |
Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 12 | 103 | ||
2 | S 3.0 | 1 | Willi Kauhsen Racing Team |
Arturo Merzario Vittorio Brambilla |
Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 12 | 103 | ||
3 | S 3.0 | 5 | Scuderia Nettuno Ovoro |
Reinhold Joest Mario Casoni |
Porsche 908/4 | 102 | ||
4th | S 3.0 | 6th | Scuderia Nettuno |
Jürgen Barth Ernst Kraus
|
Porsche 908/3 | 92 | ||
5 | S 2.0 | 29 | March Racing |
David Morgan John Lepp
|
March 75S | 90 | ||
6th | S 2.0 | 40 | Manfred Mohr |
Martino Finotto Manfred Mohr
|
Lola T294 | 87 | ||
7th | S 2.0 | 21st | Peter Smith |
Peter Smith John Turner
|
Chevron B23 | 87 | ||
8th | S 2.0 | 25th | Dorset Racing Associates |
Claude Crespin Ian Bracey
|
Lola T294 | 85 | ||
9 | S 3.0 | 4th | Dr. H. Dannesberger |
Herbert Müller Leo Kinnunen |
Porsche 908/4 | 84 | ||
10 | S 2.0 | 20th | Tony Charnell |
Tony Charnell Andrew Jeffrey Ian Harrower |
Chevron B23 | 84 | ||
11 | S 3.0 | 15th | Ecuador Marlboro |
Guillermo Ortega Lothar Ranft Xavier Espinosa
|
Porsche 908/02 | 81 | ||
12 | GT | 35 | Porsche Club Upper Austria |
Franz Doppler Horst Felbermayr senior |
Porsche Carrera RSR | 80 | ||
13 | S 2.0 | 24 | Team Fisons |
Martin Raymond Tony Goodwin
|
Chevron B31 | 80 | ||
14th | S 2.0 | 16 | Alroy Racing |
Mario Cabral Brett Lunger |
March 75S | 77 | ||
15th | S 2.0 | 38 | Sociéte ROC |
François Sérvanin Laurent Ferrier |
Lola T294 | 76 | ||
Not classified | ||||||||
16 | S 2.0 | 27 | Robin Smith |
Robin Smith Richard Robarts |
Chevron B23 | 69 | ||
17th | S 2.0 | 33 | Roger Heavens Racing |
Hervé LeGuellec Otto Stuppacher |
Lola T294 | 51 | ||
Failed | ||||||||
18th | S 3.0 | 8th | Renault Alpine |
Jody Scheckter Patrick Depailler |
Alpine-Renault A442 | 88 | ||
19th | S 3.0 | 17th | Alroy Racing |
Hans Binder Antônio Castro Prado Alan Stubbs
|
March 75S | 68 | ||
20th | S 2.0 | 26th | Roger Heavens Racing |
Manrico Zanuso Alois Müller
|
Lola T294 | 45 | ||
21st | S 3.0 | 11 | KMW |
Hans Müller-Perschl Helmut Schweiger
|
KMW SP30 | 43 | ||
22nd | S 2.0 | 28 | John Calvert |
John Blanckley John Calvert
|
Chevron B23 | 37 | ||
23 | S 2.0 | 19th | Stuart Chubb |
Kurt Rieder Franz Kaiser
|
Lola T294 | 24 | ||
24 | S 2.0 | 10 | Sports Car Team Austria |
Günther Egermann Walter Penker
|
KMW SP30 | 20th | ||
25th | S 2.0 | 34 | Equipe Elf Switzerland |
Lella Lombardi Marie-Claude Charmasson |
Alpine-Renault A441 | 20th | ||
26th | S 3.0 | 9 | Boeri Racing |
Kurt Hild Siegfried Schrieder
|
KMW SP30 | 16 | ||
27 | S 3.0 | 7th | Renault Alpine |
Gérard Larrousse Jean-Pierre Jarier |
Alpine-Renault A442 | 10 | ||
28 | S 2.0 | 23 | KVG Racing |
Ian Grob John Hine
|
Chevron B31 | 9 | ||
Not started | ||||||||
29 | S 3.0 | 1T | Willi Kauhsen Racing Team |
Arturo Merzario Vittorio Brambilla
|
Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 12 | 1 |
1 training car
Only in the entry list
Here you will find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race but did not take part for a variety of reasons.
Item | class | No. | team | driver | chassis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
30th | GT | Porsche Carrera RSR | |||
31 | S 3.0 | Gelo Racing Team |
Tim Gifting Howden Ganley |
Mirage GR7 | |
32 | S 2.0 | Charles Graemiger | Cheetah G501 | ||
33 | S 2.0 | Osella | |||
34 | S 2.0 | Obermoser Racing | TOJ SC03 |
Class winner
Racing data
- Registered: 34
- Started: 28
- Valued: 15
- Race classes: 3
- Spectators: 6000
- Race day weather: first warm and dry, later heavy rain
- Route length: 5.911 km
- Driving time of the winning team: 3: 34: 50.880 hours
- Total laps of the winning team: 103
- Total distance of the winning team: 608.830 km
- Winner's average: 170.200 km / h
- Pole position: Gérard Larrousse - Alpine-Renault A442 (# 7) - 1: 36.530 = 210.857 km / h
- Fastest race lap: Jody Scheckter - Alpine-Renault A442 (# 8) - 1: 41.210 = 200.252 km / h
- Racing series: 8th round of the sports car world championship in 1975
literature
- Peter Higham: The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. A complete Reference from Formula 1 to Touring Car. Guinness Publishing Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-85112-642-1 .
Web links
Previous race 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1975 |
Sports car world championship |
Successor to the 6-hour race at Watkins Glen 1975 |