Race · Round 2 of 14 · 26 January 1975

1975 Brazilian Grand Prix

Carlos Pace won for Brabham from 6th on the grid at Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace (Interlagos). 8 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Carlos Pace, and the first championship podium for Jochen Mass.

Circuit: Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace (Interlagos)Sao Paulo, Brazil
Winner: Carlos PaceBrabham
Pole: Jean-Pierre Jarier
Fastest lap: Jean-Pierre Jarier
Entries: 2315 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Carlos Pace	Brabham	BT44B	6	40	Finished	9
2	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren	M23C	2	40	Finished	6
3	Jochen Mass	McLaren	M23C	10	40	Finished	4
4	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	—	5	40	Finished	3
5	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	—	4	40	Finished	2
6	James Hunt	Hesketh	—	7	40	Finished	1
7	Mario Andretti	Parnelli	VPJ4	18	40	Finished	0
8	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	BT44B	3	40	Finished	0
9	Jacky Ickx	Team Lotus	72E	12	40	Finished	0
10	John Watson	Surtees	TS16	13	40	Finished	0
11	Jacques Laffite	Frank Williams Racing Cars	—	19	39	Finished	0
12	Graham Hill	Lola	—	20	39	Finished	0
13	Wilson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	21	39	Finished	0
14	Rolf Stommelen	Lola	—	23	39	Finished	0
15	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	72E	16	38	Finished	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	—	1	32	Fuel system	0	fastest lap
DNF	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	7	9	31	Suspension	0
DNF	Tom Pryce	Shadow	—	14	31	Accident	0
DNF	Arturo Merzario	Frank Williams Racing Cars	—	11	24	Fuel system	0
DNF	Mike Wilds	BRM	P201	22	22	Electrical	0
DNF	Mark Donohue	Penske	PC1	15	22	Handling	0
DNF	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	7	8	18	Oil leak	0
DNF	Vittorio Brambilla	March	—	17	1	Engine	0

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

F1DB layout interlagos-1 · 7.873 km · 26 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
Carlos Pace	6	1	40
Emerson Fittipaldi	2	2	40
Jochen Mass	10	3	40
Clay Regazzoni	5	4	40
Niki Lauda	4	5	40
James Hunt	7	6	40
Mario Andretti	18	7	40
Carlos Reutemann	3	8	40
Jacky Ickx	12	9	40
John Watson	13	10	40
Jacques Laffite	19	11	39
Graham Hill	20	12	39
Wilson Fittipaldi	21	13	39
Rolf Stommelen	23	14	39
Ronnie Peterson	16	15	38
Jean-Pierre Jarier	1	DNF	32
Patrick Depailler	9	DNF	31
Tom Pryce	14	DNF	31
Arturo Merzario	11	DNF	24
Mike Wilds	22	DNF	22
Mark Donohue	15	DNF	22
Jody Scheckter	8	DNF	18
Vittorio Brambilla	17	DNF	1

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	17	2:29.880	—	—
2	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren	1	2:30.680	+0.800	+0.800
3	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	7	2:31.000	+1.120	+0.320
4	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	12	2:31.120	+1.240	+0.120
5	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	11	2:31.220	+1.340	+0.100
6	Carlos Pace	Brabham	8	2:31.580	+1.700	+0.360
7	James Hunt	Hesketh	24	2:31.700	+1.820	+0.120
8	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	3	2:31.740	+1.860	+0.040
9	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	2:32.940	+3.060	+1.200
10	Jochen Mass	McLaren	2	2:33.060	+3.180	+0.120
11	Arturo Merzario	Frank Williams Racing Cars	20	2:33.160	+3.280	+0.100
12	Jacky Ickx	Team Lotus	6	2:33.200	+3.320	+0.040
13	John Watson	Surtees	18	2:33.230	+3.350	+0.030
14	Tom Pryce	Shadow	16	2:33.240	+3.360	+0.010
15	Mark Donohue	Penske	28	2:33.330	+3.450	+0.090
16	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	5	2:33.900	+4.020	+0.570
17	Vittorio Brambilla	March	9	2:34.440	+4.560	+0.540
18	Mario Andretti	Parnelli	27	2:34.560	+4.680	+0.120
19	Jacques Laffite	Frank Williams Racing Cars	21	2:34.760	+4.880	+0.200
20	Graham Hill	Lola	22	2:35.490	+5.610	+0.730
21	Wilson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	30	2:36.470	+6.590	+0.980
22	Mike Wilds	BRM	14	2:37.150	+7.270	+0.680
23	Rolf Stommelen	Lola	23	2:38.050	+8.170	+0.900

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.

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: 2 of 1975
Grand Prix: Brazilian Grand Prix
Dates: 26 Jan 1975
Layout raced: Original long circuit · 7.96 km · 26 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Brabham
Entrant: Brabham-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.