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.
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