Race · Round 14 of 14 · 5 October 1975

1975 United States Grand Prix

Niki Lauda won for Ferrari from pole at Watkins Glen. 12 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Watkins GlenWatkins Glen, New York, United States of America
Winner: Niki LaudaFerrari
Pole: Niki Lauda
Fastest lap: Emerson Fittipaldi
Entries: 2410 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	—	1	59	Finished	9
2	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren	M23C	2	59	Finished	6	fastest lap
3	Jochen Mass	McLaren	M23C	9	59	Finished	4
4	James Hunt	Hesketh	—	15	59	Finished	3
5	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	72E	14	59	Finished	2
6	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	7	10	59	Finished	1
7	Vittorio Brambilla	March	—	6	59	Finished	0
8	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	—	13	58	Finished	0
9	John Watson	Penske	PC1	12	57	Finished	0
10	Wilson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	23	55	Finished	0
NC	Tom Pryce	Shadow	—	7	52	NC	0
NC	Brian Henton	Team Lotus	72E	19	49	NC	0
DNF	Brett Lunger	Hesketh	—	18	46	Accident	0
DNF	Roelof Wunderink	Ensign	—	22	41	Gearbox	0
DNF	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	—	11	28	Withdrew	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	—	4	19	Wheel bearing	0
DNF	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	BT44B	3	9	Engine	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Parnelli	VPJ4	5	9	Suspension	0
DNF	Tony Brise	Hill	GH1	17	5	Accident	0
DNF	Michel Leclère	Tyrrell	7	20	5	Engine	0
DNF	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	7	8	2	Accident	0
DNF	Carlos Pace	Brabham	BT44B	16	2	Accident	0
DNS	Jacques Laffite	Frank Williams Racing Cars	—	21	—	DNS	0
DNS	Lella Lombardi	Frank Williams Racing Cars	—	24	—	DNS	0

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

F1DB layout watkins-glen-3 · 5.435 km · 11 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
Niki Lauda	1	1	59
Emerson Fittipaldi	2	2	59
Jochen Mass	9	3	59
James Hunt	15	4	59
Ronnie Peterson	14	5	59
Jody Scheckter	10	6	59
Vittorio Brambilla	6	7	59
Hans-Joachim Stuck	13	8	58
John Watson	12	9	57
Wilson Fittipaldi	23	10	55
Tom Pryce	7	NC	52
Brian Henton	19	NC	49
Brett Lunger	18	DNF	46
Roelof Wunderink	22	DNF	41
Clay Regazzoni	11	DNF	28
Jean-Pierre Jarier	4	DNF	19
Carlos Reutemann	3	DNF	9
Mario Andretti	5	DNF	9
Tony Brise	17	DNF	5
Michel Leclère	20	DNF	5
Patrick Depailler	8	DNF	2
Carlos Pace	16	DNF	2

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	12	1:42.003	—	—
2	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren	1	1:42.360	+0.357	+0.357
3	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	7	1:42.685	+0.682	+0.325
4	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	17	1:42.759	+0.756	+0.074
5	Mario Andretti	Parnelli	27	1:42.822	+0.819	+0.063
6	Vittorio Brambilla	March	9	1:42.846	+0.843	+0.024
7	Tom Pryce	Shadow	16	1:42.960	+0.957	+0.114
8	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:43.032	+1.029	+0.072
9	Jochen Mass	McLaren	2	1:43.100	+1.097	+0.068
10	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	3	1:43.127	+1.124	+0.027
11	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	11	1:43.246	+1.243	+0.119
12	John Watson	Penske	28	1:43.310	+1.307	+0.064
13	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	10	1:43.417	+1.414	+0.107
14	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	5	1:43.570	+1.567	+0.153
15	James Hunt	Hesketh	24	1:43.820	+1.817	+0.250
16	Carlos Pace	Brabham	8	1:44.054	+2.051	+0.234
17	Tony Brise	Hill	23	1:44.064	+2.061	+0.010
18	Brett Lunger	Hesketh	25	1:45.236	+3.233	+1.172
19	Brian Henton	Team Lotus	6	1:45.244	+3.241	+0.008
20	Michel Leclère	Tyrrell	15	1:46.023	+4.020	+0.779
21	Jacques Laffite	Frank Williams Racing Cars	21	1:46.032	+4.029	+0.009
22	Roelof Wunderink	Ensign	31	1:47.224	+5.221	+1.192
23	Wilson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	30	1:48.226	+6.223	+1.002
24	Lella Lombardi	Frank Williams Racing Cars	20	1:49.734	+7.731	+1.508

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.

6 more photographs

Everything filed under 1975 United States Grand Prix on Wikimedia Commons

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

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

Where this comes from

Round: 14 of 1975
Grand Prix: United States Grand Prix
Dates: 5 Oct 1975
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.