1975 Italian Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 13 of 14 in the 1975 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | September 7, 1975 | ||
| Location | Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 5.780 km (3.59 mi) | ||
| Distance | 52 laps, 300.56 km (186.68 mi) | ||
| Weather | Dry and sunny | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Ferrari | ||
| Time | 1:32.24 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Clay Regazzoni
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Ferrari | |
| Time | 1:33.1 on lap 47 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Ferrari | ||
| Second | McLaren-Ford | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
The 1975 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 7 September 1975. 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. 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 constructor's championship, their first such win since 1964.
The Italian supporters were gathered in expectation of Ferrari gaining their first championship in 11 years-on home ground, with many Austrians travelling over the border to support Niki Lauda and were delighted when Ferrari filled both spaces on the front row. Tony Brise delighted his boss Graham Hill by gaining a third-row spot.
Lauda only needed to finish 5th or higher to be champion; but Argentine Carlos Reutemann and Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi both needed to win with Lauda out of the points. Fittipaldi, who had won in Argentina and Great Britain, was Lauda's strongest challenger.
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