1975 Argentine Grand Prix

The 1975 Argentine Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Buenos Aires on 12th January 1975. It was the first race in both the 1975 World Championship of Drivers and the 1975 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. 
== Race Summary ==
The drivers went to Argentina to start the season, and it was Stefan Van Damme in the Lotus who set the pole position with the Williams of Mick Ashcroft and McLaren of Maria Parker who started in second and third respectively.
The race started with immediate action as Jorge Fernandez in the Ferrari was caught out by the slow starting Ashcroft in the Williams. Fernandez attempted to evade the Williams but that caused his Ferrari to spin and hit Nathan Meiri in the Lotus and Max Westland in the Shadow. 
After the first lap the race carried on without any major incidents until the last few laps of the race in which Bastian Stüber mistakenly thought the race ended when there was a lap left. The March of Erik Peters suffered a steering rack failure in the middle of the sweeping right-hander of turn 3/4. Peters went into the barriers as the lower part failed, but he managed to limp to finish the race in 8th place. 
"Following the opening race of the season we were happy with an 8th place finish, sadly Erik collapsed shortly after finishing and has died in hospital. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family." - Max Mosley, Co-Founder of March Engineering
== Classification ==
Pos	Driver 	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1 	Stefan Van Damme	Lotus 	12 	22:42.582 	1 	9
2 	Mick Ashcroft 	Williams 	12 	2 	6 	
3 	Maria Parker 	McLaren 	12 	3 	4 	
4 	Gunnar Olander 	Ferrari 	12 	7 	3 	
5 	Gregory Gray 	Hesketh 	12 	8 	2 	
6 	Bastian Stüber 	Brabham 	12 	6 	1 	
7 	Nathan Meiri 	Lotus 	12 	5 	 	
8 	Erik Peters 	March 	11 	9 	 	
9 	Jorge Fernandez 	Ferrari 	11 	4 	 	
10 	Max Westland 	Shadow 	11 	10 	 	
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