Formula 1 1975 Italian Grand Prix Monza

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.


Pos. No Driver Constructor Time Gap
1 12 Austria Niki Lauda Ferrari 1:32.24
2 11 Switzerland Clay Regazzoni Ferrari 1:32.75 +0.51
3 1 Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi McLaren-Ford 1:33.08 +0.84
4 3 South Africa Jody Scheckter Tyrrell-Ford 1:33.27 +1.03
5 2 West Germany Jochen Mass McLaren-Ford 1:33.29 +1.05
6 23 United Kingdom Tony Brise Hill-Ford 1:33.34 +1.10
7 7 Argentina Carlos Reutemann Brabham-Ford 1:33.44 +1.20
8 24 United Kingdom James Hunt Hesketh-Ford 1:33.73 +1.49
9 9 Italy Vittorio Brambilla March-Ford 1:33.90 +1.66
10 8 Brazil Carlos Pace Brabham-Ford 1:34.17 +1.93
11 5 Sweden Ronnie Peterson Lotus-Ford 1:34.22 +1.98
12 4 France Patrick Depailler Tyrrell-Ford 1:34.36 +2.12
13 17 France Jean-Pierre Jarier Shadow-Matra 1:34.61 +2.37
14 16 United Kingdom Tom Pryce Shadow-Ford 1:34.71 +2.47
15 27 United States Mario Andretti Parnelli-Ford 1:34.72 +2.48
16 10 West Germany Hans-Joachim Stuck March-Ford 1:35.29 +3.05

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. Third place was enough for Lauda to secure his first world championship. Lauda's 16.5 point lead would be too much for Fittipaldi to bridge at the final round of the championship at the United States Grand Prix. With Regazzoni and Lauda scoring 13 points between them, Ferrari also secured the International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers, their first such win since 1964.