Race · Round 11 of 16 · 15 August 1976

1976 Austrian Grand Prix

John Watson won for Penske from 2nd on the grid at Red Bull Ring. 13 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for John Watson and for Penske.

Circuit: Red Bull RingSpielberg, Austria
Winner: John WatsonPenske
Pole: James Hunt
Fastest lap: James Hunt
Entries: 2512 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	John Watson	Penske	—	2	54	Finished	9
2	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS5	5	54	Finished	6
3	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	77	4	54	Finished	4
4	James Hunt	McLaren	—	1	54	Finished	3	fastest lap
5	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	77	9	54	Finished	2
6	Ronnie Peterson	March	761	3	54	Finished	1
7	Jochen Mass	McLaren	—	12	54	Finished	0
8	Harald Ertl	Hesketh	308D	20	53	Finished	0
9	Henri Pescarolo	Surtees	TS19	22	52	Finished	0
10	Brett Lunger	Surtees	TS19	16	51	Accident	0
11	Alessandro Pesenti-Rossi	Tyrrell	7	23	51	Finished	0
12	Lella Lombardi	Brabham	BT44B	24	50	Finished	0
DNF	Hans Binder	Ensign	—	19	47	Throttle	0
NC	Loris Kessel	Brabham	BT44B	25	44	NC	0
DNF	Vittorio Brambilla	March	761	7	43	Accident	0
DNF	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	17	43	Accident	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	DN5B	18	40	Fuel pump	0
DNF	Carlos Pace	Brabham	BT45	8	40	Accident	0
DNF	Alan Jones	Surtees	TS19	15	40	Accident	0
DNF	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	761	11	26	Fuel system	0
DNF	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	—	13	24	Suspension	0
DNF	Arturo Merzario	Wolf-Williams	—	21	17	Accident	0
DNF	Tom Pryce	Shadow	—	6	14	Brakes	0
DNF	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	—	10	14	Suspension	0
DNF	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	BT45	14	0	Clutch	0

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

F1DB layout spielberg-1 · 5.911 km · 16 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
John Watson	2	1	54
Jacques Laffite	5	2	54
Gunnar Nilsson	4	3	54
James Hunt	1	4	54
Mario Andretti	9	5	54
Ronnie Peterson	3	6	54
Jochen Mass	12	7	54
Harald Ertl	20	8	53
Henri Pescarolo	22	9	52
Brett Lunger	16	10	51
Alessandro Pesenti-Rossi	23	11	51
Lella Lombardi	24	12	50
Hans Binder	19	DNF	47
Loris Kessel	25	NC	44
Vittorio Brambilla	7	DNF	43
Emerson Fittipaldi	17	DNF	43
Jean-Pierre Jarier	18	DNF	40
Carlos Pace	8	DNF	40
Alan Jones	15	DNF	40
Hans-Joachim Stuck	11	DNF	26
Patrick Depailler	13	DNF	24
Arturo Merzario	21	DNF	17
Tom Pryce	6	DNF	14
Jody Scheckter	10	DNF	14
Carlos Reutemann	14	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	James Hunt	McLaren	11	1:35.020	—	—
2	John Watson	Penske	28	1:35.840	+0.820	+0.820
3	Ronnie Peterson	March	10	1:36.340	+1.320	+0.500
4	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	6	1:36.460	+1.440	+0.120
5	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:36.520	+1.500	+0.060
6	Tom Pryce	Shadow	16	1:36.560	+1.540	+0.040
7	Vittorio Brambilla	March	9	1:36.590	+1.570	+0.030
8	Carlos Pace	Brabham	8	1:36.660	+1.640	+0.070
9	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	5	1:36.680	+1.660	+0.020
10	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	3	1:36.910	+1.890	+0.230
11	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	34	1:36.950	+1.930	+0.040
12	Jochen Mass	McLaren	12	1:37.220	+2.200	+0.270
13	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:37.240	+2.220	+0.020
14	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	7	1:37.240	+2.220	+0.000
15	Alan Jones	Surtees	19	1:37.600	+2.580	+0.360
16	Brett Lunger	Surtees	18	1:37.620	+2.600	+0.020
17	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	30	1:37.760	+2.740	+0.140
18	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	17	1:37.880	+2.860	+0.120
19	Hans Binder	Ensign	22	1:38.360	+3.340	+0.480
20	Harald Ertl	Hesketh	24	1:39.090	+4.070	+0.730
21	Arturo Merzario	Wolf-Williams	20	1:39.330	+4.310	+0.240
22	Henri Pescarolo	Surtees	38	1:39.840	+4.820	+0.510
23	Alessandro Pesenti-Rossi	Tyrrell	39	1:40.670	+5.650	+0.830
24	Lella Lombardi	Brabham	33	1:42.250	+7.230	+1.580
25	Loris Kessel	Brabham	32	1:56.010	+20.990	+13.760

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.

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

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

Tyrrell 007
Tyrrell 007 Canada 2004 · TMWolf · CC BY-SA 2.0

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.

2 more photographs

Where this comes from

Round: 11 of 1976
Grand Prix: Austrian Grand Prix
Dates: 15 Aug 1976
Layout raced: Osterreichring · 5.942 km · 12 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Penske
Entrant: Penske-Ford
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.