Race · Round 3 of 16 · 28 March 1976

1976 United States Grand Prix West

Clay Regazzoni won for Ferrari from pole at Long Beach. 10 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Long BeachLong Beach, California, United States of America
Winner: Clay RegazzoniFerrari
Pole: Clay Regazzoni
Fastest lap: Clay Regazzoni
Entries: 2710 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	—	1	80	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	—	4	80	Finished	6
3	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	—	2	80	Finished	4
4	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS5	12	80	Finished	3
5	Jochen Mass	McLaren	—	14	80	Finished	2
6	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	16	79	Finished	1
7	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	DN5B	7	79	Finished	0
8	Chris Amon	Ensign	—	17	78	Finished	0
9	Carlos Pace	Brabham	BT45	13	77	Finished	0
10	Ronnie Peterson	March	761	6	77	Finished	0
NC	Alan Jones	Surtees	TS19	19	70	NC	0
NC	John Watson	Penske	—	9	69	NC	0
DNF	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	—	11	34	Suspension	0
DNF	Tom Pryce	Shadow	—	5	32	Halfshaft	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Parnelli	VPJ4B	15	15	Water leak	0
DNF	James Hunt	McLaren	—	3	3	Accident	0
DNF	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	761	18	2	Accident	0
DNF	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	77	20	0	Suspension	0
DNF	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	BT45	10	0	Collision	0
DNF	Vittorio Brambilla	March	761	8	0	Collision	0
DNQ	Michel Leclère	Wolf-Williams	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Ingo Hoffmann	Fittipaldi	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Arturo Merzario	March	761	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Bob Evans	Team Lotus	77	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Jacky Ickx	Wolf-Williams	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Harald Ertl	Hesketh	308D	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Brett Lunger	Surtees	TS19	—	—	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 long-beach-1 · 3.251 km · 13 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
Clay Regazzoni	1	1	80
Niki Lauda	4	2	80
Patrick Depailler	2	3	80
Jacques Laffite	12	4	80
Jochen Mass	14	5	80
Emerson Fittipaldi	16	6	79
Jean-Pierre Jarier	7	7	79
Chris Amon	17	8	78
Carlos Pace	13	9	77
Ronnie Peterson	6	10	77
Alan Jones	19	NC	70
John Watson	9	NC	69
Jody Scheckter	11	DNF	34
Tom Pryce	5	DNF	32
Mario Andretti	15	DNF	15
James Hunt	3	DNF	3
Hans-Joachim Stuck	18	DNF	2
Gunnar Nilsson	20	DNF	0
Carlos Reutemann	10	DNF	0
Vittorio Brambilla	8	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	2	1:23.099	—	—
2	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:23.292	+0.193	+0.193
3	James Hunt	McLaren	11	1:23.420	+0.321	+0.128
4	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	1	1:23.647	+0.548	+0.227
5	Tom Pryce	Shadow	16	1:23.677	+0.578	+0.030
6	Ronnie Peterson	March	10	1:24.157	+1.058	+0.480
7	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	17	1:24.163	+1.064	+0.006
8	Vittorio Brambilla	March	9	1:24.168	+1.069	+0.005
9	John Watson	Penske	28	1:24.170	+1.071	+0.002
10	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	7	1:24.265	+1.166	+0.095
11	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	3	1:24.344	+1.245	+0.079
12	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:24.442	+1.343	+0.098
13	Carlos Pace	Brabham	8	1:24.472	+1.373	+0.030
14	Jochen Mass	McLaren	12	1:24.541	+1.442	+0.069
15	Mario Andretti	Parnelli	27	1:24.566	+1.467	+0.025
16	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	30	1:24.779	+1.680	+0.213
17	Chris Amon	Ensign	22	1:24.803	+1.704	+0.024
18	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	34	1:25.122	+2.023	+0.319
19	Alan Jones	Surtees	19	1:25.214	+2.115	+0.092
20	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	6	1:25.277	+2.178	+0.063
21	Michel Leclère	Wolf-Williams	21	1:25.436	+2.337	+0.159
22	Ingo Hoffmann	Fittipaldi	31	1:25.557	+2.458	+0.121
23	Arturo Merzario	March	35	1:25.737	+2.638	+0.180
24	Bob Evans	Team Lotus	5	1:25.890	+2.791	+0.153
25	Jacky Ickx	Wolf-Williams	20	1:26.528	+3.429	+0.638
26	Harald Ertl	Hesketh	24	1:26.824	+3.725	+0.296
27	Brett Lunger	Surtees	18	1:26.828	+3.729	+0.004

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.

Photographs from this race

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5 more photographs

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The cars in this race

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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

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: 3 of 1976
Grand Prix: United States Grand Prix West
Dates: 28 Mar 1976
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
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.