Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire, Great Britain
Course
Permanent racing facility
Course length
4.719 km (2.932 miles)
Distance
56 laps, 264.264 km (164.192 miles)
Weather
Sunny, then overcast, then heavy rain
Pole position
Driver
Tom Pryce
Shadow-Ford
Time
1:19.36[2]
Fastest lap
Driver
Clay Regazzoni
Ferrari
Time
1:20.9 on lap 16[3]
Podium
First
Emerson Fittipaldi
McLaren-Ford
Second
Carlos Pace
Brabham-Ford
Third
Jody Scheckter
Tyrrell-Ford
Lap leaders
[4]
Motor car race
The 1975 British Grand Prix (formally the John Player Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held at Silverstone on 19 July 1975. It was race 10 of 14 in both the 1975 World Championship of Drivers and the 1975 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. It was the 30th British Grand Prix to be held since the race was first held in 1926 and the 17th time the race had been held at Silverstone. The race was held over 56 of the scheduled 67 laps of the four kilometre venue for a race distance of 264 kilometres. This was the first race that used the traffic light system with coloured lights (red and green) at the start (system used until the 1995 Australian Grand Prix).
The results were overshadowed by a heavy hail storm from Lap 53, which caused three out of the top four cars (Jody Scheckter, James Hunt, and Mark Donohue), to aquaplane and crash in the same corner, bringing an early finish to the race, and a significant absence on the podium. A number of other cars crashed at the same corner as well, including Wilson Fittipaldi, Jochen Mass, and John Watson. The race results were finalised the lap after the lap most cars crashed, giving Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi, who had been the race leader prior to the storm, a one lap win in his McLaren M23. Carlos Pace, who was one of the crashers in his Brabham BT44B was classified in second position with another of the crashers, Tyrrell 007 driver Jody Scheckter classified third.
^"Motor Racing Programme Covers: 1975". The Programme Covers Project. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
^Lang, Mike (1983). Grand Prix! Vol 3. Haynes Publishing Group. p. 88. ISBN 0-85429-380-9.
^Lang, Mike (1983). Grand Prix! Vol 3. Haynes Publishing Group. p. 90. ISBN 0-85429-380-9.
^"British Grand Prix 1975". motorsport-stats.com. Archived from the original on 16 July 2007. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
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