Race · Round 15 of 16 · 10 October 1976

1976 United States Grand Prix

James Hunt won for McLaren from pole at Watkins Glen. 12 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Watkins GlenWatkins Glen, New York, United States of America
Winner: James HuntMcLaren
Pole: James Hunt
Fastest lap: James Hunt
Entries: 2714 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	James Hunt	McLaren	—	1	59	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	—	2	59	Finished	6
3	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	—	5	59	Finished	4
4	Jochen Mass	McLaren	—	17	59	Finished	3
5	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	761	6	59	Finished	2
6	John Watson	Penske	—	8	59	Finished	1
7	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	—	14	58	Finished	0
8	Alan Jones	Surtees	TS19	18	58	Finished	0
9	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	15	57	Finished	0
10	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	DN5B	16	57	Finished	0
11	Brett Lunger	Surtees	TS19	24	57	Finished	0
12	Alex Ribeiro	Hesketh	308D	22	57	Finished	0
13	Harald Ertl	Hesketh	308D	21	54	Finished	0
14	Warwick Brown	Wolf-Williams	—	23	54	Finished	0
NC	Henri Pescarolo	Surtees	TS19	26	48	NC	0
DNF	Tom Pryce	Shadow	—	9	45	Engine	0
DNF	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS5	12	34	Tyre	0
DNF	Vittorio Brambilla	March	761	4	34	Tyre	0
DNF	Carlos Pace	Brabham	BT45	10	31	Collision	0
DNF	Larry Perkins	Brabham	BT45	13	30	Suspension	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	77	11	23	Suspension	0
DNF	Jacky Ickx	Ensign	—	19	14	Accident	0
DNF	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	77	20	13	Engine	0
DNF	Ronnie Peterson	March	761	3	12	Suspension	0
DNF	Arturo Merzario	Wolf-Williams	—	25	9	Accident	0
DNF	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	—	7	7	Fuel pipe	0
DNQ	Otto Stuppacher	Tyrrell	7	—	—	DNQ	0

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

F1DB layout watkins-glen-3 · 5.435 km · 11 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
James Hunt	1	1	59
Jody Scheckter	2	2	59
Niki Lauda	5	3	59
Jochen Mass	17	4	59
Hans-Joachim Stuck	6	5	59
John Watson	8	6	59
Clay Regazzoni	14	7	58
Alan Jones	18	8	58
Emerson Fittipaldi	15	9	57
Jean-Pierre Jarier	16	10	57
Brett Lunger	24	11	57
Alex Ribeiro	22	12	57
Harald Ertl	21	13	54
Warwick Brown	23	14	54
Henri Pescarolo	26	NC	48
Tom Pryce	9	DNF	45
Jacques Laffite	12	DNF	34
Vittorio Brambilla	4	DNF	34
Carlos Pace	10	DNF	31
Larry Perkins	13	DNF	30
Mario Andretti	11	DNF	23
Jacky Ickx	19	DNF	14
Gunnar Nilsson	20	DNF	13
Ronnie Peterson	3	DNF	12
Arturo Merzario	25	DNF	9
Patrick Depailler	7	DNF	7

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	James Hunt	McLaren	11	1:43.622	—	—
2	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	3	1:43.870	+0.248	+0.248
3	Ronnie Peterson	March	10	1:43.941	+0.319	+0.071
4	Vittorio Brambilla	March	9	1:44.250	+0.628	+0.309
5	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	1	1:44.257	+0.635	+0.007
6	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	34	1:44.265	+0.643	+0.008
7	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:44.516	+0.894	+0.251
8	John Watson	Penske	28	1:44.719	+1.097	+0.203
9	Tom Pryce	Shadow	16	1:45.102	+1.480	+0.383
10	Carlos Pace	Brabham	8	1:45.274	+1.652	+0.172
11	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	5	1:45.311	+1.689	+0.037
12	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:45.324	+1.702	+0.013
13	Larry Perkins	Brabham	7	1:45.353	+1.731	+0.029
14	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	2	1:45.534	+1.912	+0.181
15	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	30	1:45.646	+2.024	+0.112
16	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	17	1:45.979	+2.357	+0.333
17	Jochen Mass	McLaren	12	1:46.067	+2.445	+0.088
18	Alan Jones	Surtees	19	1:46.402	+2.780	+0.335
19	Jacky Ickx	Ensign	22	1:46.605	+2.983	+0.203
20	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	6	1:46.776	+3.154	+0.171
21	Harald Ertl	Hesketh	24	1:49.418	+5.796	+2.642
22	Alex Ribeiro	Hesketh	25	1:49.669	+6.047	+0.251
23	Warwick Brown	Wolf-Williams	21	1:51.124	+7.502	+1.455
24	Brett Lunger	Surtees	18	1:51.373	+7.751	+0.249
25	Arturo Merzario	Wolf-Williams	20	2:00.932	+17.310	+9.559
26	Henri Pescarolo	Surtees	38	2:05.211	+21.589	+4.279
27	Otto Stuppacher	Tyrrell	39	2:11.070	+27.448	+5.859

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.

1 more photograph

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

Where this comes from

Round: 15 of 1976
Grand Prix: United States Grand Prix
Dates: 10 Oct 1976
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: McLaren
Entrant: McLaren-Ford
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.