Race · Round 3 of 14 · 1 March 1975

1975 South African Grand Prix

Jody Scheckter won for Tyrrell from 3rd on the grid at Kyalami. 9 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: KyalamiMidrand, South Africa
Winner: Jody ScheckterTyrrell
Pole: Carlos Pace
Fastest lap: Carlos Pace
Entries: 2817 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	7	3	78	Finished	9
2	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	BT44B	2	78	Finished	6
3	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	7	5	78	Finished	4
4	Carlos Pace	Brabham	BT44B	1	78	Finished	3	fastest lap
5	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	—	4	78	Finished	2
6	Jochen Mass	McLaren	M23C	16	78	Finished	1
7	Rolf Stommelen	Lola	—	14	78	Finished	0
8	Mark Donohue	Penske	PC1	18	77	Finished	0
9	Tom Pryce	Shadow	—	19	77	Finished	0
10	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	72E	8	77	Finished	0
11	Guy Tunmer	Team Lotus	72E	25	76	Finished	0
12	Jacky Ickx	Team Lotus	72E	21	76	Finished	0
13	Eddie Keizan	Team Lotus	72E	22	76	Finished	0
14	Dave Charlton	McLaren	M23	20	76	Finished	0
15	Bob Evans	BRM	P201	24	76	Finished	0
16	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	—	9	71	Throttle	0
17	Mario Andretti	Parnelli	VPJ4	6	70	Transmission	0
NC	Jacques Laffite	Frank Williams Racing Cars	—	23	69	NC	0
NC	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren	M23C	11	65	NC	0
DNF	Ian Scheckter	Tyrrell	7	17	55	Accident	0
DNF	James Hunt	Hesketh	—	12	53	Fuel system	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	—	13	37	Overheating	0
DNF	Lella Lombardi	March	—	26	23	Fuel system	0
DNF	Arturo Merzario	Frank Williams Racing Cars	—	15	22	Engine	0
DNF	John Watson	Surtees	TS16	10	19	Clutch	0
DNF	Vittorio Brambilla	March	—	7	16	Radiator	0
DNQ	Wilson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Graham Hill	Lola	—	—	—	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 kyalami-1 · 4.094 km · 9 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
Jody Scheckter	3	1	78
Carlos Reutemann	2	2	78
Patrick Depailler	5	3	78
Carlos Pace	1	4	78
Niki Lauda	4	5	78
Jochen Mass	16	6	78
Rolf Stommelen	14	7	78
Mark Donohue	18	8	77
Tom Pryce	19	9	77
Ronnie Peterson	8	10	77
Guy Tunmer	25	11	76
Jacky Ickx	21	12	76
Eddie Keizan	22	13	76
Dave Charlton	20	14	76
Bob Evans	24	15	76
Clay Regazzoni	9	16	71
Mario Andretti	6	17	70
Jacques Laffite	23	NC	69
Emerson Fittipaldi	11	NC	65
Ian Scheckter	17	DNF	55
James Hunt	12	DNF	53
Jean-Pierre Jarier	13	DNF	37
Lella Lombardi	26	DNF	23
Arturo Merzario	15	DNF	22
John Watson	10	DNF	19
Vittorio Brambilla	7	DNF	16

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Carlos Pace	Brabham	8	1:16.410	—	—
2	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	7	1:16.480	+0.070	+0.070
3	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	3	1:16.640	+0.230	+0.160
4	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	12	1:16.830	+0.420	+0.190
5	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:16.830	+0.420	+0.000
6	Mario Andretti	Parnelli	27	1:16.890	+0.480	+0.060
7	Vittorio Brambilla	March	9	1:17.050	+0.640	+0.160
8	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	5	1:17.140	+0.730	+0.090
9	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	11	1:17.160	+0.750	+0.020
10	John Watson	Surtees	18	1:17.170	+0.760	+0.010
11	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren	1	1:17.220	+0.810	+0.050
12	James Hunt	Hesketh	24	1:17.300	+0.890	+0.080
13	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	17	1:17.320	+0.910	+0.020
14	Rolf Stommelen	Lola	23	1:17.470	+1.060	+0.150
15	Arturo Merzario	Frank Williams Racing Cars	20	1:17.530	+1.120	+0.060
16	Jochen Mass	McLaren	2	1:17.790	+1.380	+0.260
17	Ian Scheckter	Tyrrell	32	1:18.010	+1.600	+0.220
18	Mark Donohue	Penske	28	1:18.280	+1.870	+0.270
19	Tom Pryce	Shadow	16	1:18.360	+1.950	+0.080
20	Dave Charlton	McLaren	31	1:18.510	+2.100	+0.150
21	Jacky Ickx	Team Lotus	6	1:18.680	+2.270	+0.170
22	Eddie Keizan	Team Lotus	33	1:19.010	+2.600	+0.330
23	Jacques Laffite	Frank Williams Racing Cars	21	1:19.150	+2.740	+0.140
24	Bob Evans	BRM	14	1:19.170	+2.760	+0.020
25	Guy Tunmer	Team Lotus	34	1:19.520	+3.110	+0.350
26	Lella Lombardi	March	10	1:19.680	+3.270	+0.160
27	Wilson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	30	1:19.730	+3.320	+0.050
28	Graham Hill	Lola	22	1:21.450	+5.040	+1.720

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.

1 more photograph

Where this comes from

Round: 3 of 1975
Grand Prix: South African Grand Prix
Dates: 1 Mar 1975
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Tyrrell
Entrant: Tyrrell-Ford
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.