1000 km race from Zeltweg 1975

Österreichring track layout 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

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
S 3.0	Derek Bell	Henri Pescarolo	Alfa Romeo T33 / TT / 12	Overall victory
S 2.0	David Morgan	John Lepp	March 75S	Rank 5
GT	Franz Doppler	Horst Felbermayr senior	Porsche Carrera RSR	Rank 12

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

• Race results

Previous race 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1975

Sports car world championship

Successor to the 6-hour race at Watkins Glen 1975