French Grand Prix

Paul Ricard, 6 Jul 1975

All cars are 3-litre F1 unless noted.

Sources

Note that the identification of individual cars in these results is based on the material presented elsewhere in this site and may in some cases contradict the organisers' published results.

3-litre Formula 1 World Championship events 1966-1985

These 1966 to 1985 results were initially compiled by Allen Brown, but these were in the very basic form required to track individual car histories. Since then further details, such as laps completed, qualifying times and so on, have been added from Rob Ryder's extensive database.

All comments, clarifications, corrections and additions are most welcome. Please email Allen at allen@oldracingcars.com if you can help with our research.

Individual sources for this event

Autosport 10 Jul 1975 pp10-18 (by Pete Lyons). Motor Sport August 1975 p879-881 (by 'DSJ' Denis Jenkinson).

Two entries arrived from McLaren, Lotus, Brabham, March, Ferrari, Shadow, Williams and Hill. Tyrrell had three entries this time, Jabouille being squeezed into the entry list at No 15. Single entries arrived from BRM, Surtees, Hesketh, Parnelli, Penske, Fittipaldi and Ensign. The third Tyrrell and return of Parnelli more than made up for the absence of Maki, so there were 26 entries again.

The spare cars present were a McLaren M23, Tyrrell 007, Lotus 72E, Brabham BT44B, Ferrari 312T, BRM P201, Shadow DN5, Surtees TS16, Hill GH1, Hesketh 308, Parnelli VPJ4, Penske PC1, Fittipaldi FD and even a spare Ensign. The spare Surtees was not noticed by Autosport and the spare Penske was not noticed by Motor Sport. The new Ensign N175 was very smart and a vast improvement on the older N174. As Jabouille was driving Tyrrell 007/5, there was a new Tyrrell 007 for Scheckter identified as 007/6 by both Autosport and Motor Sport. As it was described as bardn new, all references to 007/6 at previous races can safely be allocated to 007/5. Both Autosport and Motor Sport had by this time lost interest in the letters that had previously been added to the specifications of the Lotus 72s as Lotus were having to try so many old and new ideas to get the Lotus 72s working again.