1975 Swedish Grand Prix

The 1975 Formula One Swedish Grand Prix was held at the Scandinavian Raceway at Anderstorp on June 8, 1975.

Niki Lauda took his third consecutive win of the season after the Monaco and Belgian Grand Prix. Qualifying resulted in pole position for Vittorio Brambilla in his March, while Lauda qualified fifth fastest and his teammate Clay Regazzoni 11th. In the race Brambilla took the lead, but by lap 16 he was overtaken by Carlos Reutemann's Brabham and eventually had to retire with a blistered front tyre. Tom Pryce had to pit early due to throttle slides being clogged by sand, whilst Patrick Depailler suffered a brake line leak. Hunt retired on lap 22 with a brake-pipe leak, promoting Regazzoni and Mario Andretti. Poor Jean-Pierre Jarier lost second place to failing oil pressure on lap 38. Young Tony Brise was showing little respect for his elders, overtaking Mark Donohue and Ronnie Peterson and then challenging championship leader Emerson Fittipaldi. The battle which ensued slowed them up and John Watson in the Surtees had soon climbed up behind them. Meanwhile, Lauda was steadily progressing through the field and on lap 42 he was second. He put a series of fastest laps, benefiting from a harder tyre compound, closed on Reutemann and overtook him to win the Grand Prix by 6 seconds. Reutemann finished second with Regazzoni, in the other Ferrari 312T, third.Brise had his gearbox jammed in fourth and surrendered to Donohue, but on his third Grand Prix gained his first World Championship point and Graham Hill's first as a constructor. It would prove the only point of Tony Brise's highly promising, tragically brief F1 career. Fittipaldi suffered braking problems and was passed by Jody Scheckter at the race end to finish in eighth.

Classification

Notes

*Pole position: Vittorio Brambilla - 1:24.630cite book | last = Lang | first = Mike | title = Grand Prix! Vol 3 | publisher = Haynes Publishing Group | year = 1983 | pages = p80 | isbn = 0-85429-380-9]
*Fastest lap: Niki Lauda - 1:28.267 on lap 61cite book | last = Lang | first = Mike | title = Grand Prix! Vol 3 | publisher = Haynes Publishing Group | year = 1983 | pages = p82 | isbn = 0-85429-380-9]

References

"Unless otherwise indicated, all race results are taken from cite web | title = The Official Formula 1 website | url = http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1975/464/ | accessdate = 2007-06-15

F1 race report
Name_of_race = Swedish Grand Prix
Year_of_race = 1975
Previous_race_in_season = 1975 Belgian Grand Prix
Next_race_in_season = 1975 Dutch Grand Prix
Previous_year's_race = 1974 Swedish Grand Prix
Next_year's_race = 1976 Swedish Grand Prix