Race · Round 16 of 16 · 24 October 1976

1976 Japanese Grand Prix

Mario Andretti won for Team Lotus from pole at Fuji Speedway. 14 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Fuji SpeedwayOyama, Japan
Winner: Mario AndrettiTeam Lotus
Pole: Mario Andretti
Fastest lap: Jacques Laffite
Entries: 2711 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	77	1	73	Finished	9
2	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	—	13	72	Finished	6
3	James Hunt	McLaren	—	2	72	Finished	4
4	Alan Jones	Surtees	TS19	20	72	Finished	3
5	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	—	7	72	Finished	2
6	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	77	16	72	Finished	1
7	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS5	11	72	Finished	0	fastest lap
8	Harald Ertl	Hesketh	308D	22	72	Finished	0
9	Noritake Takahara	Surtees	TS19	24	70	Finished	0
10	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	DN5B	15	69	Finished	0
11	Masahiro Hasemi	Kojima	KE007	10	66	Finished	0
DNF	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	—	5	58	Overheating	0
DNF	Hans Binder	Wolf-Williams	—	25	49	Wheel	0
DNF	Tom Pryce	Shadow	—	14	46	Oil pressure	0
DNF	Vittorio Brambilla	March	761	8	38	Electrical	0
DNF	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	761	18	37	Electrical	0
DNF	Jochen Mass	McLaren	—	12	35	Accident	0
DNF	John Watson	Penske	—	4	33	Engine	0
DNF	Kazuyoshi Hoshino	Tyrrell	7	21	27	Tyre	0
DNF	Arturo Merzario	Wolf-Williams	—	19	23	Gearbox	0
DNF	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	23	9	Withdrew	0
DNF	Carlos Pace	Brabham	BT45	6	7	Withdrew	0
DNF	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	—	3	2	Withdrew	0
DNF	Larry Perkins	Brabham	BT45	17	1	Withdrew	0
DNF	Ronnie Peterson	March	761	9	0	Engine	0
DNS	Masami Kuwashima	Wolf-Williams	—	—	—	DNS	0
DNQ	Tony Trimmer	Maki	F102A	—	—	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 fuji-1 · 4.359 km · 8 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
Mario Andretti	1	1	73
Patrick Depailler	13	2	72
James Hunt	2	3	72
Alan Jones	20	4	72
Clay Regazzoni	7	5	72
Gunnar Nilsson	16	6	72
Jacques Laffite	11	7	72
Harald Ertl	22	8	72
Noritake Takahara	24	9	70
Jean-Pierre Jarier	15	10	69
Masahiro Hasemi	10	11	66
Jody Scheckter	5	DNF	58
Hans Binder	25	DNF	49
Tom Pryce	14	DNF	46
Vittorio Brambilla	8	DNF	38
Hans-Joachim Stuck	18	DNF	37
Jochen Mass	12	DNF	35
John Watson	4	DNF	33
Kazuyoshi Hoshino	21	DNF	27
Arturo Merzario	19	DNF	23
Emerson Fittipaldi	23	DNF	9
Carlos Pace	6	DNF	7
Niki Lauda	3	DNF	2
Larry Perkins	17	DNF	1
Ronnie Peterson	9	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	5	1:12.770	—	—
2	James Hunt	McLaren	11	1:12.800	+0.030	+0.030
3	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	1	1:13.080	+0.310	+0.280
4	John Watson	Penske	28	1:13.290	+0.520	+0.210
5	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	3	1:13.310	+0.540	+0.020
6	Carlos Pace	Brabham	8	1:13.430	+0.660	+0.120
7	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	2	1:13.640	+0.870	+0.210
8	Vittorio Brambilla	March	9	1:13.720	+0.950	+0.080
9	Ronnie Peterson	March	10	1:13.850	+1.080	+0.130
10	Masahiro Hasemi	Kojima	51	1:13.880	+1.110	+0.030
11	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:13.880	+1.110	+0.000
12	Jochen Mass	McLaren	12	1:14.050	+1.280	+0.170
13	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:14.150	+1.380	+0.100
14	Tom Pryce	Shadow	16	1:14.230	+1.460	+0.080
15	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	17	1:14.320	+1.550	+0.090
16	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	6	1:14.350	+1.580	+0.030
17	Larry Perkins	Brabham	7	1:14.380	+1.610	+0.030
18	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	34	1:14.380	+1.610	+0.000
19	Arturo Merzario	Wolf-Williams	20	1:14.410	+1.640	+0.030
20	Alan Jones	Surtees	19	1:14.600	+1.830	+0.190
21	Kazuyoshi Hoshino	Tyrrell	52	1:14.650	+1.880	+0.050
22	Harald Ertl	Hesketh	24	1:15.260	+2.490	+0.610
23	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	30	1:15.300	+2.530	+0.040
24	Noritake Takahara	Surtees	18	1:15.770	+3.000	+0.470
25	Hans Binder	Wolf-Williams	21	1:17.360	+4.590	+1.590
26	Masami Kuwashima	Wolf-Williams	21	1:17.900	+5.130	+0.540
27	Tony Trimmer	Maki	54	1:30.910	+18.140	+13.010

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.

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

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

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

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: 16 of 1976
Grand Prix: Japanese Grand Prix
Dates: 24 Oct 1976
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Team Lotus
Entrant: Lotus-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.