Back جائزة بريطانيا الكبرى 1975 Arabic 1975 Голяма награда на Великобритания Bulgarian Gran Premi de Gran Bretanya del 1975 Catalan Grand Prix Velké Británie 1975 Czech Großer Preis von Großbritannien 1975 German Anexo:Gran Premio de Gran Bretaña de 1975 Spanish جایزه بزرگ بریتانیا ۱۹۷۵ FA Britannian Grand Prix 1975 Finnish Grand Prix automobile de Grande-Bretagne 1975 French Gran Premio do Reino Unido de 1975 GL
| 1975 British Grand Prix | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Race details | |||
| Date | 19 July 1975 | ||
| Official name | John Player Grand Prix[1] | ||
| Location | 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 | Shadow-Ford | ||
| Time | 1:19.36[2] | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Clay Regazzoni | Ferrari | |
| Time | 1:20.9 on lap 16[3] | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | McLaren-Ford | ||
| Second | Brabham-Ford | ||
| Third | Tyrrell-Ford | ||
|
Lap leaders | |||
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.
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- ^ 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.