1975 United States Grand Prix

1975 United States Grand Prix
Race details
Date	October 5, 1975
Official name	XVIII United States Grand Prix
Location	Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course Watkins Glen, New York
Course	Permanent road course
Course length	5.435 km (3.377 miles)
Distance	59 laps, 320.67 km (199.24 miles)
Weather	Partly sunny with temperatures reaching a maximum of 20.6 °C (69.1 °F); Winds gusting up to 31.48 km/h (19.56 mph)[1]
Pole position
Driver	Niki Lauda	Ferrari
Time	1:42.003
Fastest lap
Driver	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren-Ford
Time	1:43.374 on lap 43
Podium
First	Niki Lauda	Ferrari
Second	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren-Ford
Third	Jochen Mass	McLaren-Ford
Lap leaders [2]

The 1975 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 5, 1975, at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. It was race 14 of 14 in both the 1975 World Championship of Drivers and the 1975 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.^[3] It was the 25th United States Grand Prix since the first American Grand Prize was held in 1908 and the 18th since the first United States Grand Prix at Riverside in 1958.

The race was won by the new world champion, Austrian driver Niki Lauda driving a Ferrari 312T. Lauda took his fifth win for the season by a four-second margin over outgoing world champion, Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi in a McLaren M23. Fittipaldi's West German teammate Jochen Mass finished third. The second place allowed Fittipaldi to confirm runner's up position in the points race after a half-season long battle with Argentine Brabham driver Carlos Reutemann, although Fittipaldi's McLaren team would fall one point short of overhauling Brabham in the Constructors battle to be second behind Ferrari.