Race · Round 12 of 14 · 17 August 1975

1975 Austrian Grand Prix

Vittorio Brambilla won for March from 8th on the grid at Red Bull Ring. 9 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Vittorio Brambilla, and the first championship podium for Tom Pryce.

Circuit: Red Bull RingSpielberg, Austria
Winner: Vittorio BrambillaMarch
Pole: Niki Lauda
Fastest lap: Vittorio Brambilla
Entries: 3017 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Vittorio Brambilla	March	—	8	29	Finished	4.5	fastest lap
2	James Hunt	Hesketh	—	2	29	Finished	3
3	Tom Pryce	Shadow	—	15	29	Finished	2
4	Jochen Mass	McLaren	M23C	9	29	Finished	1.5
5	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	72E	13	29	Finished	1
6	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	—	1	29	Finished	0.5
7	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	—	5	29	Finished	0
8	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	7	10	28	Finished	0
9	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren	M23C	3	28	Finished	0
10	John Watson	Surtees	TS16	18	28	Finished	0
11	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	7	7	28	Finished	0
12	Chris Amon	Ensign	—	23	28	Finished	0
13	Brett Lunger	Hesketh	—	17	28	Finished	0
14	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	BT44B	11	28	Finished	0
15	Tony Brise	Hill	GH1	16	28	Finished	0
16	Rolf Stommelen	Hill	GH1	25	27	Finished	0
17	Lella Lombardi	March	—	21	26	Finished	0
NC	Roelof Wunderink	Ensign	—	27	25	NC	0
DNF	Harald Ertl	Hesketh	308	26	23	Electrical	0
DNF	Jacques Laffite	Frank Williams Racing Cars	—	12	21	Handling	0
DNF	Carlos Pace	Brabham	BT44B	6	17	Engine	0
DNF	Jo Vonlanthen	Frank Williams Racing Cars	—	28	14	Engine	0
DNF	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	—	4	10	Accident	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	DN7	14	10	Injection	0
DNF	Bob Evans	BRM	P201	24	2	Engine	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Parnelli	VPJ4	19	1	Accident	0
DNS	Wilson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	—	—	Accident	0
DNS	Mark Donohue	March	751	20	—	Fatal accident	0
DNS	Brian Henton	Team Lotus	72E	22	—	Accident	0
DNQ	Tony Trimmer	Maki	F101C	—	—	DNQ	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout spielberg-1 · 5.911 km · 16 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Vittorio Brambilla	8	1	29
James Hunt	2	2	29
Tom Pryce	15	3	29
Jochen Mass	9	4	29
Ronnie Peterson	13	5	29
Niki Lauda	1	6	29
Clay Regazzoni	5	7	29
Jody Scheckter	10	8	28
Emerson Fittipaldi	3	9	28
John Watson	18	10	28
Patrick Depailler	7	11	28
Chris Amon	23	12	28
Brett Lunger	17	13	28
Carlos Reutemann	11	14	28
Tony Brise	16	15	28
Rolf Stommelen	25	16	27
Lella Lombardi	21	17	26
Roelof Wunderink	27	NC	25
Harald Ertl	26	DNF	23
Jacques Laffite	12	DNF	21
Carlos Pace	6	DNF	17
Jo Vonlanthen	28	DNF	14
Hans-Joachim Stuck	4	DNF	10
Jean-Pierre Jarier	14	DNF	10
Bob Evans	24	DNF	2
Mario Andretti	19	DNF	1

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	12	1:34.850	—	—
2	James Hunt	Hesketh	24	1:34.970	+0.120	+0.120
3	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren	1	1:35.210	+0.360	+0.240
4	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	10	1:35.380	+0.530	+0.170
5	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	11	1:35.410	+0.560	+0.030
6	Carlos Pace	Brabham	8	1:35.710	+0.860	+0.300
7	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:35.780	+0.930	+0.070
8	Vittorio Brambilla	March	9	1:35.800	+0.950	+0.020
9	Jochen Mass	McLaren	2	1:36.120	+1.270	+0.320
10	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	3	1:36.140	+1.290	+0.020
11	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	7	1:36.430	+1.580	+0.290
12	Jacques Laffite	Frank Williams Racing Cars	21	1:37.600	+2.750	+1.170
13	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	5	1:37.610	+2.760	+0.010
14	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	17	1:37.620	+2.770	+0.010
15	Tom Pryce	Shadow	16	1:37.640	+2.790	+0.020
16	Tony Brise	Hill	23	1:37.690	+2.840	+0.050
17	Brett Lunger	Hesketh	25	1:37.870	+3.020	+0.180
18	John Watson	Surtees	18	1:37.960	+3.110	+0.090
19	Mario Andretti	Parnelli	27	1:37.970	+3.120	+0.010
20	Wilson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	30	1:38.140	+3.290	+0.170
21	Mark Donohue	March	28	1:38.190	+3.340	+0.050
22	Lella Lombardi	March	29	1:38.430	+3.580	+0.240
23	Brian Henton	Team Lotus	6	1:38.720	+3.870	+0.290
24	Chris Amon	Ensign	31	1:38.750	+3.900	+0.030
25	Bob Evans	BRM	14	1:39.530	+4.680	+0.780
26	Rolf Stommelen	Hill	22	1:39.560	+4.710	+0.030
27	Harald Ertl	Hesketh	32	1:40.720	+5.870	+1.160
28	Roelof Wunderink	Ensign	33	1:42.580	+7.730	+1.860
29	Jo Vonlanthen	Frank Williams Racing Cars	20	1:42.800	+7.950	+0.220
30	Tony Trimmer	Maki	35	1:44.880	+10.030	+2.080

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

Photographs from this race

Filed on Wikimedia Commons under this race's own category, each shown with the photographer and licence its terms require. The filing is the Commons editors' and has not been checked here.

At the 1975 Austrian Grand Prix — Peterson hunt austrian gp · El Gráfico · Public domain

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The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Tyrrell 007
Tyrrell 007 Canada 2004 · TMWolf · CC BY-SA 2.0

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2 more photographs

Shadow DN7
DN7matra · Bryce 003 at English Wikipedia · Public domain · unchecked

Where this comes from

Round: 12 of 1975
Grand Prix: Austrian Grand Prix
Dates: 17 Aug 1975
Layout raced: Osterreichring · 5.942 km · 12 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: March
Entrant: March-Ford
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.