1975 Italian Grand Prix

1975 Italian Grand Prix
Race details
Date 7 September 1975
Location Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 5.780 km (3.59 miles)
Distance 52 laps, 300.56 km (186.68 miles)
Weather Dry and sunny
Pole position
Driver Ferrari
Time 1:32.24[1]
Fastest lap
Driver Switzerland Clay Regazzoni Ferrari
Time 1:33.1[2] on lap 47
Podium
First Ferrari
Second McLaren-Ford
Third Ferrari
Lap leaders

The 1975 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 7 September 1975. It was race 13 of 14 in both the 1975 World Championship of Drivers and the 1975 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. It was the 45th Italian Grand Prix and the 41st to be held at Monza. The race held over 52 laps of the five kilometre circuit for a race distance of 300 kilometres.

The race was won by Swiss driver Clay Regazzoni in his Ferrari 312T in a glorious day for Scuderia Ferrari. It was Regazzoni's third win, Ferrari's fifth win for the season. Regazzoni took a sixteen-second win over the McLaren M23 of outgoing world champion, Brazilian driver Emerson Fittipaldi. Behind Fittipaldi was the second Ferrari of Austrian driver Niki Lauda.

  1. ^ Lang, Mike (1983). Grand Prix! Vol 3. Haynes Publishing Group. p. 96. ISBN 0-85429-380-9.
  2. ^ Lang, Mike (1983). Grand Prix! Vol 3. Haynes Publishing Group. p. 98. ISBN 0-85429-380-9.