Grosser Preis von Deutschland 3 Augusti 1975, Nürburgring
Ronnie Peterson
blev fyra i fjolårets tyska GP på Nürburgring, men kan knappast tro på lika
gott resultat inför sin 73:e start i Formel 1 sammanhang. Tidskvalet har följt
en nedåtgående trend för Ronnie och denna gång är Ronnie inte bättre
placerad än 18:e inför starten på söndagen.
Ordningen är återställd och Lauda (Ferrari) står således i "pole position", denna gång före Carlos Pace (Brabham). Lauda har klockats för den första officiella varvtiden under sju minuter. Andra startledet ser de två Tyrrellbilarna med Jody Scheckter och Patrick Depailler.
Lauda tar täten. Efter nio varv har halva startfältet fallit ifrån och det ser ut som om Ferrari skall gå mot en dubbelseger. Plötsligt finner dock Carlos Reutemann (Brabham) sig själv vara i ledning då Regazzoni bryter med motorproblem och Lauda sackar med en punktering. Reutemann kan ta en överlägsen seger och är drygt en och en halv minut före Jacques Laffite (Williams) som kan gå in som tvåa efter det att denna position sett ett antal olika förare. Lauda blir till slut trea och Ferrari tar snabbaste varvet med Regazzoni och 7.06,4. Loppets ledare: Lauda 1-9; Reutemann 10-14.
Ronnie Peterson bryter redan på det första varvet efter problem med kopplingen.
Summary in english
The multiple accidents at Silverstone gave
the teams plenty to do in the two weeks before the German Grand Prix. Surtees could not repair its
cars and so John Watson was loaned to Team Lotus for the weekend. Williams had taken on Ian Ashley to be Jacques Laffite's partner for the
weekend, while Austrian journalist Harald Ertl had found money from
Warsteiner to run the old Hesketh which had been run by Harry Stiller earlier in
the year. Tony Trimmer turned up to drive the Maki but the car was still
well off the pace. In qualifying Ashley had a big accident at Pflanzgarten and
suffered serious ankle injuries.
Pole position went as usual to Niki Lauda
in his Ferrari (the Austrian clocking
the first official sub-seven minute lap of the Ring) with Carlos Pace second on the grid in
his Brabham. Then came the two Tyrrells
of Jody Scheckter and Patrick Depailler, followed by the Ferrari of Clay Regazzoni and Jochen Mass's McLaren. The top 10
was completed by Hans Stuck's Hesketh and Carlos Reutemann's Brabham.
In the race Lauda took the lead from Pace and Depailler while Scheckter made a
terrible start and dropped to the back of the field. On the first lap Mass
suffered a tire failure and crashed heavily, emerging unscathed. Mark Donohue had a similar problem
but was able to drive back to the pits while Ronnie Peterson (Lotus) also went out with a
clutch failure.
By the end of the lap Lauda was leading Depailler with Pace third, Reutemann
fourth and Regazzoni fifth. On the second lap sixth-placed Fittipaldi had a
puncture but while the field was being thinned out further down the order, the
leaders were untroubled until Pace had a puncture on the fifth lap. Scheckter in
the meantime had charged back through the field until a tire failure sent him
off into the barriers at high speed, luckily without injuring himself.
After nine laps half the field was gone and Depailler had dropped to the back of
the field after a suspension failure forced him to pit for repairs. This left
the Ferraris to run 1-2 but within minutes Regazzoni's engine failed and he was
out. Then Lauda had a puncture and Reutemann found himself in the lead with Hunt
second although the Hesketh suffered a hub failure and went out. Pryce was
second but he had fuel leaking into his cockpit and could not drive at full pace
and so he was overtaken by Laffite and by the recovering Lauda.
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Aktuell ställning
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Position |
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Nation |
Poäng |
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51 |
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2 |
34 |
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3 |
33 |
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4 |
25 |
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5 |
24 |
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6 |
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