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Motor car race
The
1975 Swedish Grand Prix
was a
Formula One
motor race
held at the
Scandinavian Raceway
at
Anderstorp
on 8 June 1975. It was race 7 of 14 in both the
1975 World Championship of Drivers
and the
1975 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers
. It was the sixth Swedish Grand Prix after it was first held as the Swedish Summer Grand Prix in 1933, and the third to be held at Scandinavian Raceway. It was held over 80 laps of the four kilometre circuit for a race distance of 322 kilometres.
The race was won by Austrian driver
Niki Lauda
driving
Ferrari 312T
. He took a six-second victory over the
Brabham BT44B
of Argentinian racer
Carlos Reutemann
. Lauda's
Ferrari
teammate, Swiss driver
Clay Regazzoni
finished third. It was Lauda's third consecutive win of the season after the
Monaco
and
Belgian Grands Prix
. The win strengthened his lead in the championship to ten points with Reutemann moving past
Emerson Fittipaldi
into second place.
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Qualifying resulted in pole position for
Vittorio Brambilla
in his March,
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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 Brise's promising but brief F1 career. Fittipaldi suffered braking problems and was passed by Jody Scheckter at the race end to finish in eighth.
Classification
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Qualifying
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Race
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Championship standings after the race
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- Drivers' Championship standings
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- Constructors' Championship standings
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- Note
: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. Only the best 6 results from the first 7 races and the best 6 results from the last 7 races counted towards the Championship. Numbers without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.
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