French motorcycle Grand Prix 1975

The French motorcycle Grand Prix in 1975 was the first race of the world championship road race -season 1975 . The race was held on March 30th 1975 at the Paul Ricard circuit near Le Castellet , France .

In this Grand Prix debuted Johnny Cecotto in the world championship with two class wins. The duo Hermann Schmid / Martial Jean-Petit-Matile debuted in the sidecar class with a win. Kurt Gerber and Jacob Epprecht scored the pole position in their debut in the sidecar class, but took no points.



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[verbergen]  *1 General  ==General [  edit ] == The French Grand Prix began just like in 1973, when it was also driven at Paul Ricard, with a crowded training. Again, it was so crowded that renowned riders not a good time could drive and could not qualify. Absentees were Gianfranco Bonera, who during a race in Modena had broken a leg, and Barry Sheene , who was seriously injured during the Daytona 200 . BMW was trumped definitively in the sidecar class by two-stroke engines . While Klaus Enders in 1974 became world champion, took the fastest BMW in the opening GP in France disagree points: Otto Haller / Erich Haselbeck were with the former Auerbacher -BMW eleventh. Remarkably, the reigning 500cc World Champion Phil Read of the organization was awarded the starting number 58, while number 1 for Teuvo Länsivuori was. Read pecked not started and the number 0. ==500cc [  edit ] == In the opening race in France had Teuvo Länsivuori with his Suzuki RG 500 drove the fastest training time. He also took the lead in the race, but dropped out after a few laps with a broken gearbox . Then came an exciting race between the Yamaha -fabrieksrijders Giacomo Agostini and Hideo Kanaya, which was won by Agostini with only half a second ahead. Phil Read ( MV Agusta ) received little respect from his temporary teammate Armando Toracca, who was filling in for the injured Gianfranco Bonera. Read Toracca forced to fight for third place. Therefore this duo was well behind the two Yamahas, but Read was third with 1.4 seconds ahead Toracca. ===Result 500cc [  edit ] === ==350 cc <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The Venezuelan Johnny Cecotto debuted in France in the World Cup. He was also awarded the youngest of the field and had all the 250cc race. With Yamaha he took the 350cc race once the leadership to relinquish it anymore. Works driver Giacomo Agostini could not follow him and was second with 24 seconds behind. The Frenchman Gérard Choukroun (Yamaha) was third in his home race. ===Result 350 cc <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==250 cc <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Johnny Cecotto ( Yamaha ) won the 250cc race after he had been impressed by during the Daytona 200 to start last and third. Another debutant in Europe, the Japanese Ikujiro Takai, was second with his Yamaha.Walter Villa fell on his Harley-Davidson RR 250 , but his teammate Michel Rougerie was third. ===Result 250cc <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==125cc <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In the 125cc class were Kent Andersson ( Yamaha ), Bruno Kneubühler (Yamaha), Paolo Pileri ( Morbidelli ) and Pier Paolo Bianchi (Morbidelli) on the front row. Pileri had even driven the fastest training time, but it coincided with his teammate Bianchi in the first round. Bianchi finally fell, but Pileri drove a great race to catch that brought him to third. Andersson won after a fierce battle with Leif Gustafsson (Yamaha), who finished second. Gustafsson drove the Yamaha Andersson from 1974. ===Result 125cc <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);"><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">[Sidecar  class <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The sidecar race at Le Castellet opened the World Cup season of 1975 and was won by the unknown duo Hermann Schmid / Martial Jean-Petit-Matile with Schmid- König . Werner Schwärzel / Andreas Huber(König) finished second because they had gear problems and Malcolm Hobson / Mick Burns ( Yamaha ) third. Schmid / Jean-Petit-Matile debuted with their victory in the World Cup. ===Result sidecar class <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * 2500 cc
 * 2.1 Result 500cc
 * 3350 cc
 * 3.1 Result 350cc
 * 4250 cc
 * 4.1 Result 250cc
 * 5125 cc
 * 5.1 Result 125cc
 * 6 Sidecar class
 * 6.1 Result sidecar class
 * 7 Footnotes