1975 Argentina Grand Prix

 1975 Argentina Grand Prix

Racing data
1st of 14 races of the 1975 automobile world championship
Surname:	XII Gran Premio de la Republica Argentina
Date:	January 12, 1975
Place:	Buenos Aires
Course:	Autódromo Municipal Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Length:	316.304 km in 53 laps of 5.968 km
Weather:	sunny and hot
Pole position
Driver:	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow
Time:	1: 49.21 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	James Hunt	Hesketh
Time:	1: 50.91 min
Podium
First:	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren
Second:	James Hunt	Hesketh
Third:	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham

The 1975 Argentina Grand Prix took place on January 12th at the Autódromo Municipal Ciudad de Buenos Aires and was the first race of the 1975 Automobile World Championship .

Reports

background

During the winter break, there were only comparatively few changes in the line-up of drivers. The teams Tyrrell , Brabham , Hesketh , Ferrari , Lotus , Shadow and the Lola team from Graham Hill each competed with the driver pairings with which they had completed the 1974 season . In addition, most of the teams fielded vehicles from the previous year on the now traditional early date of the Argentine Grand Prix in January.

With McLaren had decided to discontinue the operation of the third, sponsored by Yardley company car and focus-Texaco vehicles Marlboro to the two. After Denis Hulme's career ended , Jochen Mass , who had driven the third car in the last two races of the previous season, joined the team as the second regular driver alongside world champion Emerson Fittipaldi .

From now on, the Brabham works team competed under the name of its new main sponsor Martini .

After the end of the collaboration between Frank Williams and the Italian manufacturer Iso Rivolta , the team's racing cars were entered in the registration lists for the first time with the designation "Williams". However, these were initially not new developments, but modified models from the previous year. The strategy, with a regular driver and changing Paydrivers to compete, has been retained to the financially difficult situation to improve the team.

The March team had announced that they would no longer compete in Formula 1 for financial reasons. However, when the Beta company announced that it wanted to sponsor a vehicle for Vittorio Brambilla , this decision was reversed. Also due to a lack of funds, there were several changes at BRM. After the departure of team manager Tim Parnell and the renaming of the team to "Stanley BRM", only one company car was reported, which was driven by Mike Wilds . Even John Surtees reduced the commitment of his team to only a vehicle with John Watson was occupied. This was available because the private team "John Goldie Racing", for which he had started last year, had withdrawn from Formula 1.

The US teams Parnelli and Penske became an integral part of the Formula 1 World Cup, after having only participated in the two final races on the North American continent last year. The driver line-up was retained in both cases.

Wilson Fittipaldi , the brother of the reigning world champion, returned to the GP scene behind the wheel of his own car. It was the first Brazilian Formula 1 design. The car was registered under the name of the main sponsor Copersucar .

After Firestone's official withdrawal , Goodyear became the sole tire supplier to Formula 1.

training

One of the few new developments ready to start was the Shadow DN5 , the only example of which was piloted by Jean-Pierre Jarier this weekend and with which he completely surprisingly took pole position in front of the two works Brabham of Carlos Pace and Carlos Reutemann . Ferrari driver Niki Lauda followed ahead of Emerson Fittipaldi, James Hunt and Clay Regazzoni in the second Ferrari.

With the Lotus 72, which is now five years old in terms of its basic design, the two Lotus works drivers qualified for positions 11 and 18 respectively.

run

In the case of his first pole position, of all things, Jean-Pierre Jarier was unable to take part in the race because he retired during one of the warm-up laps before the start due to a gearbox failure. Reutemann took advantage of the vacated starting position directly in front of him and took the lead from third in front of his team-mate Pace. Jochen Mass and Jody Scheckter collided in the first corner, whereupon both had to head for their respective boxes for repairs and thus fell back.

Third placed Lauda was overtaken by Hunt on lap eight, who then caught up with the two leading Brabham. Wilson Fittipaldi lost control of his vehicle and hit the guardrails, causing the car to catch fire. Fittipaldi escaped unharmed, but the car was badly damaged during its first race. Meanwhile, Pace had taken the lead. Shortly thereafter, however, he spun in the area of ​​Fittipaldi's accident site and fell back to seventh place.

In the 26th lap, Hunt took the lead from Reutemann. During the following laps, Emerson Fittipaldi overtook Lauda, ​​Reutemann and finally the leading Hunt. The resulting order of the first three did not change until the finish. Pace, who had meanwhile worked his way up to fourth place, retired shortly before the end of the race due to an engine failure, so that fourth place ultimately went to Regazzoni. Patrick Depailler in fifth and Niki Lauda in sixth also ended the season opener in the points.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Marlboro Team Texaco	1	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren M23	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
	2	Jochen Mass
Eleven Team Tyrrell	3	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell 007		G
	4th	Patrick Depailler
John Player Team Lotus	5	Ronnie Peterson	Lotus 72E		G
	6th	Jacky Ickx
Martini Racing	7th	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham BT44B		G
	8th	Carlos Pace
Beta Team March	9	Vittorio Brambilla	March 741		G
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	11	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari 312B3	Ferrari 001/11 3.0 F12	G
	12	Niki Lauda
Stanley BRM	14th	Mike Wilds	BRM P201	BRM P200 3.0 V12	G
UOP Shadow Racing Team	16	Tom Pryce	Shadow DN3B	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
	17th	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow DN5
Team Surtees	18th	John Watson	Surtees TS16		G
Frank Williams Racing Cars	20th	Arturo Merzario	Williams FW03		G
	21st	Jacques Laffite	Williams FW02
Embassy Racing with Graham Hill	22nd	Graham Hill	Lola T370		G
	23	Rolf Stommelen
Hesketh Racing	24	James Hunt	Hesketh 308		G
Vel's Parnelli Jones Racing	27	Mario Andretti	Parnelli VPJ4		G
Penske Cars	28	Mark Donohue	Penske PC1		G
Copersucar-Fittipaldi	30th	Wilson Fittipaldi	Copersucar FD01		G

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow Ford	1: 49.21	196.729 km / h	01
02	Carlos Pace	Brabham-Ford	1: 49.64	195.958 km / h	02
03	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham-Ford	1: 49.80	195.672 km / h	03
04th	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	1: 49.96	195.387 km / h	04th
05	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren-Ford	1: 50.02	195.281 km / h	05
06th	James Hunt	Hesketh-Ford	1: 50.26	194.856 km / h	06th
07th	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	1: 50.71	194.064 km / h	07th
08th	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 50.80	193.906 km / h	08th
09	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 50.82	193.871 km / h	09
10	Mario Andretti	Parnelli-Ford	1: 51.06	193.452 km / h	10
11	Ronnie Peterson	Lotus Ford	1: 51.44	192.793 km / h	11
12	Vittorio Brambilla	March-Ford	1: 51.77	192.223 km / h	12
13	Jochen Mass	McLaren-Ford	1: 51.82	192.137 km / h	13
14th	Tom Pryce	Shadow Ford	1: 51.92	191.966 km / h	14th
15th	John Watson	Surtees-Ford	1: 52.13	191.606 km / h	15th
16	Mark Donohue	Penske-Ford	1: 52.36	191.214 km / h	16
17th	Jacques Laffite	Williams-Ford	1: 52.88	190.333 km / h	17th
18th	Jacky Ickx	Lotus Ford	1: 52.90	190.299 km / h	18th
19th	Rolf Stommelen	Lola Ford	1: 53.12	189.929 km / h	19th
20th	Arturo Merzario	Williams-Ford	1: 53.43	189.410 km / h	20th
21st	Graham Hill	Lola Ford	1: 54.00	188.463 km / h	21st
22nd	Mike Wilds	BRM	1: 54.48	187.673 km / h	22nd
23	Wilson Fittipaldi	Copersucar-Ford	2: 00.22	178.712 km / h	23

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren-Ford	53	0	1: 39: 26.29	05	1: 50.97
02	James Hunt	Hesketh-Ford	53	0	+ 5.61	06th	1: 50.91
03	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham-Ford	53	0	+ 17.06	03	1: 51.61
04th	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	53	0	+ 35.79	07th	1: 51.76
05	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell-Ford	53	0	+ 54.25	08th	1: 52.31
06th	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	53	0	+1: 19.65	04th	1: 52.26
07th	Mark Donohue	Penske-Ford	52	0	+ 1 lap	16	1: 52.84
08th	Jacky Ickx	Lotus Ford	52	0	+ 1 lap	18th	1: 54.03
09	Vittorio Brambilla	March-Ford	52	0	+ 1 lap	12	1: 54.24
10	Graham Hill	Lola Ford	52	0	+ 1 lap	21st	1: 54.38
11	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell-Ford	52	3	+ 1 lap	09	1: 51.91
12	Tom Pryce	Shadow Ford	51	0	DNF	14th	1: 54.17	Gearbox damage
13	Rolf Stommelen	Lola Ford	51	0	+ 2 rounds	19th	1: 53.01
14th	Jochen Mass	McLaren-Ford	50	1	+ 3 rounds	13	1: 51.99
-	Carlos Pace	Brabham-Ford	46	0	DNF	02	1: 51.76	Engine failure
-	Arturo Merzario	Williams-Ford	44	2	NC	20th	1: 53.63	Unrated
-	Mario Andretti	Parnelli-Ford	27	0	DNF	10	1: 52.93	broken drive shaft
-	Mike Wilds	BRM	24	0	DNF	22nd	1: 56.06	Engine failure
-	Ronnie Peterson	Lotus Ford	15th	0	DNF	11	1: 53.10	Engine failure
-	Jacques Laffite	Williams-Ford	15th	0	DNF	17th	1: 55.30	Gearbox damage
-	Wilson Fittipaldi	Copersucar-Ford	12	0	DNF	23	1: 57.86	accident
-	John Watson	Surtees-Ford	06th	0	DSQ	15th	1: 54.46	disqualified
-	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow Ford	-	0	DNS	01	-	not started

World Cup stands after the race

The first six of the race got 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Emerson Fittipaldi McLaren 9 02  James Hunt Hesketh 6th 03  Carlos Reutemann Brabham 4th

Item driver constructor Points 04th  Clay Regazzoni Ferrari 3 05  Patrick Depailler Tyrrell 2 06th  Niki Lauda Ferrari 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  McLaren 9 02  Hesketh 6th 03  Brabham 4th

Item constructor Points 04th  Ferrari 4th 05  Tyrrell 2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Training"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on December 10, 2011)  
2. ^ "Report" (accessed December 10, 2011)
3. ↑ "World Cup stands"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on October 12, 2011)  

Web links

• Race result on the official Formula 1 website