Champions and dunes
The 1975 Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula One race, held at Circuit Zandvoort on 22 June 1975. It was race 8 of 14 in the 1975 World Championship of Drivers.
Picture above: Three champions are in good spirit ahead of the race, held in the dunes of Zandvoort. From left to right: reigning F1 World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi, is the lead driver at McLaren and qualified sixth, fellow Brazilian Carlos Pace is a Brabham driver and will start in ninth, while Niki Lauda, took pole position and is leading the championship for Ferrari.
The race is memorable for one of the greatest underdog victories in Formula One. British driver James Hunt won his first Grand Prix, fending off, in treacherous conditions, the Ferrari of Niki Lauda, giving small privateer operation Hesketh Racing the highlight of its six-year history, with its first and only Grand Prix win.
Picture below: James Hunt, at speed, in the Hesketh 308-Cosworth. He qualified in third, and went on to win his first and his team’s only, Formula One Grand Prix, at Zandvoort in 1975.