Race · Round 1 of 16 · 25 January 1976

1976 Brazilian Grand Prix

Niki Lauda won for Ferrari from 2nd on the grid at Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace (Interlagos). 8 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace (Interlagos)Sao Paulo, Brazil
Winner: Niki LaudaFerrari
Pole: James Hunt
Fastest lap: Jean-Pierre Jarier
Entries: 2214 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	—	2	40	Finished	9
2	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	—	9	40	Finished	6
3	Tom Pryce	Shadow	—	12	40	Finished	4
4	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	761	14	40	Finished	3
5	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	—	13	40	Finished	2
6	Jochen Mass	McLaren	—	6	40	Finished	1
7	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	—	4	40	Finished	0
8	Jacky Ickx	Wolf-Williams	—	19	39	Finished	0
9	Renzo Zorzi	Wolf-Williams	—	17	39	Finished	0
10	Carlos Pace	Brabham	BT45	10	39	Finished	0
11	Ingo Hoffmann	Fittipaldi	—	20	39	Finished	0
12	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	BT45	15	37	Out of fuel	0
13	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	5	37	Finished	0
14	Lella Lombardi	March	761	22	36	Finished	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	DN5B	3	33	Accident	0	fastest lap
DNF	James Hunt	McLaren	—	1	32	Throttle	0
DNF	Vittorio Brambilla	March	761	7	15	Oil leak	0
DNF	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS5	11	14	Transmission	0
DNF	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	77	18	10	Accident	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	77	16	6	Accident	0
DNF	John Watson	Penske	—	8	2	Fuel system	0
DNF	Ian Ashley	BRM	P201B	21	2	Oil pump	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout interlagos-1 · 7.873 km · 26 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Niki Lauda	2	1	40
Patrick Depailler	9	2	40
Tom Pryce	12	3	40
Hans-Joachim Stuck	14	4	40
Jody Scheckter	13	5	40
Jochen Mass	6	6	40
Clay Regazzoni	4	7	40
Jacky Ickx	19	8	39
Renzo Zorzi	17	9	39
Carlos Pace	10	10	39
Ingo Hoffmann	20	11	39
Carlos Reutemann	15	12	37
Emerson Fittipaldi	5	13	37
Lella Lombardi	22	14	36
Jean-Pierre Jarier	3	DNF	33
James Hunt	1	DNF	32
Vittorio Brambilla	7	DNF	15
Jacques Laffite	11	DNF	14
Ronnie Peterson	18	DNF	10
Mario Andretti	16	DNF	6
John Watson	8	DNF	2
Ian Ashley	21	DNF	2

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	James Hunt	McLaren	11	2:32.500	—	—
2	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	1	2:32.520	+0.020	+0.020
3	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	17	2:32.660	+0.160	+0.140
4	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	2	2:33.170	+0.670	+0.510
5	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	30	2:33.330	+0.830	+0.160
6	Jochen Mass	McLaren	12	2:33.590	+1.090	+0.260
7	Vittorio Brambilla	March	9	2:33.630	+1.130	+0.040
8	John Watson	Penske	28	2:33.870	+1.370	+0.240
9	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	2:34.490	+1.990	+0.620
10	Carlos Pace	Brabham	8	2:34.540	+2.040	+0.050
11	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	2:34.670	+2.170	+0.130
12	Tom Pryce	Shadow	16	2:34.840	+2.340	+0.170
13	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	3	2:35.020	+2.520	+0.180
14	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	34	2:35.380	+2.880	+0.360
15	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	7	2:35.970	+3.470	+0.590
16	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	6	2:36.010	+3.510	+0.040
17	Renzo Zorzi	Wolf-Williams	21	2:37.070	+4.570	+1.060
18	Ronnie Peterson	Team Lotus	5	2:37.190	+4.690	+0.120
19	Jacky Ickx	Wolf-Williams	20	2:37.620	+5.120	+0.430
20	Ingo Hoffmann	Fittipaldi	31	2:40.250	+7.750	+2.630
21	Ian Ashley	BRM	14	2:40.940	+8.440	+0.690
22	Lella Lombardi	March	10	2:40.950	+8.450	+0.010

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

March 761
StuckHansJ1976-07-31 · Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de · unchecked

Ligier JS5
Jacques Laffite GP Italia 1976 · Transferred from http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques_Laffite_Gp_Italia_1976.jpg it.wikipedia] Original source - f1passion.it · Public domain · unchecked

Lotus 77
Lotus 77 Sears Point · Luca Varani · CC BY-SA 2.5

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

Where this comes from

Round: 1 of 1976
Grand Prix: Brazilian Grand Prix
Dates: 25 Jan 1976
Layout raced: Original long circuit · 7.96 km · 26 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.