Brazilian GP January 26, 1975  40 Laps, 7.96 km  There was
considerable speculation that Ronnie Peterson would be switching
to the Shadow team because of Lotus's lack of performance but he
remained a Lotus driver in Brazil where Jean-Pierre Jarier took
his second consecutive pole position in the Shadow. Emerson
Fittipaldi, the winner of the first race at fortnight earlier in
Argentina, was second in his McLaren while Carlos Reutemann
(Brabham) and Niki Lauda (Ferrari) shared the second row. Then
came Carlos Pace (Brabham) and Clay Regazzoni (Ferrari) followed
by James Hunt (Hesketh), Jody Scheckter and Patrick Depailler
(Tyrrells) and Jochen Mass (McLaren). With Mario Andretti having
decided to use Goodyear tires, the Akron firm had a monopoly for
the first time.  At the start Fittipaldi had too much wheelspin
and Reutemann passed him and took the lead from Jarier at the
first corner, while Pace also made a good start to take third
place ahead of Regazzoni, Lauda, Scheckter and the slow-starting
Fittipaldi.