Race · Round 4 of 16 · 2 May 1976

1976 Spanish Grand Prix

James Hunt won for McLaren from pole at Circuito del Jarama. 11 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Gunnar Nilsson.

Circuit: Circuito del JaramaMadrid, Spain
Winner: James HuntMcLaren
Pole: James Hunt
Fastest lap: Jochen Mass
Entries: 3013 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	James Hunt	McLaren	—	1	75	Finished	9
2	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	—	2	75	Finished	6
3	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	77	7	75	Finished	4
4	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	BT45	12	74	Finished	3
5	Chris Amon	Ensign	—	10	74	Finished	2
6	Carlos Pace	Brabham	BT45	11	74	Finished	1
7	Jacky Ickx	Wolf-Williams	—	21	74	Finished	0
8	Tom Pryce	Shadow	—	22	74	Finished	0
9	Alan Jones	Surtees	TS19	20	74	Finished	0
10	Michel Leclère	Wolf-Williams	—	23	73	Finished	0
11	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	—	5	72	Finished	0
12	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS5	8	72	Finished	0
13	Larry Perkins	Boro	1	24	72	Finished	0
DNF	Jochen Mass	McLaren	—	4	65	Engine	0	fastest lap
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	DN5B	15	61	Electrical	0
DNF	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	—	14	53	Engine	0
DNF	John Watson	Penske	—	13	51	Engine	0
DNF	Arturo Merzario	March	761	18	36	Gearbox	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	77	9	34	Gearbox	0
DNF	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	—	3	25	Accident	0
DNF	Vittorio Brambilla	March	761	6	21	Suspension	0
DNF	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	761	17	16	Gearbox	0
DNF	Ronnie Peterson	March	761	16	11	Transmission	0
DNF	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	19	3	Transmission	0
DNQ	Brett Lunger	Surtees	TS19	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Loris Kessel	Brabham	BT44B	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Emilio Zapico	Wolf-Williams	FW04	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Emilio de Villota	Brabham	BT44B	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Harald Ertl	Hesketh	308D	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Ingo Hoffmann	Fittipaldi	—	—	—	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 jarama-1 · 3.404 km · 15 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	75
Niki Lauda	2	2	75
Gunnar Nilsson	7	3	75
Carlos Reutemann	12	4	74
Chris Amon	10	5	74
Carlos Pace	11	6	74
Jacky Ickx	21	7	74
Tom Pryce	22	8	74
Alan Jones	20	9	74
Michel Leclère	23	10	73
Clay Regazzoni	5	11	72
Jacques Laffite	8	12	72
Larry Perkins	24	13	72
Jochen Mass	4	DNF	65
Jean-Pierre Jarier	15	DNF	61
Jody Scheckter	14	DNF	53
John Watson	13	DNF	51
Arturo Merzario	18	DNF	36
Mario Andretti	9	DNF	34
Patrick Depailler	3	DNF	25
Vittorio Brambilla	6	DNF	21
Hans-Joachim Stuck	17	DNF	16
Ronnie Peterson	16	DNF	11
Emerson Fittipaldi	19	DNF	3

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	James Hunt	McLaren	11	1:18.520	—	—
2	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	1	1:18.840	+0.320	+0.320
3	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:19.110	+0.590	+0.270
4	Jochen Mass	McLaren	12	1:19.140	+0.620	+0.030
5	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	2	1:19.150	+0.630	+0.010
6	Vittorio Brambilla	March	9	1:19.270	+0.750	+0.120
7	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	6	1:19.350	+0.830	+0.080
8	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:19.390	+0.870	+0.040
9	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	5	1:19.590	+1.070	+0.200
10	Chris Amon	Ensign	22	1:19.830	+1.310	+0.240
11	Carlos Pace	Brabham	8	1:19.930	+1.410	+0.100
12	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	7	1:20.120	+1.600	+0.190
13	John Watson	Penske	28	1:20.170	+1.650	+0.050
14	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	3	1:20.190	+1.670	+0.020
15	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	17	1:20.210	+1.690	+0.020
16	Ronnie Peterson	March	10	1:20.340	+1.820	+0.130
17	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	34	1:20.400	+1.880	+0.060
18	Arturo Merzario	March	35	1:20.630	+2.110	+0.230
19	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	30	1:20.710	+2.190	+0.080
20	Alan Jones	Surtees	19	1:20.870	+2.350	+0.160
21	Jacky Ickx	Wolf-Williams	20	1:21.130	+2.610	+0.260
22	Tom Pryce	Shadow	16	1:21.190	+2.670	+0.060
23	Michel Leclère	Wolf-Williams	21	1:21.290	+2.770	+0.100
24	Larry Perkins	Boro	37	1:21.520	+3.000	+0.230
25	Brett Lunger	Surtees	18	1:21.960	+3.440	+0.440
26	Loris Kessel	Brabham	32	1:22.050	+3.530	+0.090
27	Emilio Zapico	Wolf-Williams	25	1:22.220	+3.700	+0.170
28	Emilio de Villota	Brabham	33	1:22.890	+4.370	+0.670
29	Harald Ertl	Hesketh	24	1:22.920	+4.400	+0.030
30	Ingo Hoffmann	Fittipaldi	31	1:53.120	+34.600	+30.200

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

Where this comes from

Round: 4 of 1976
Grand Prix: Spanish Grand Prix
Dates: 2 May 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.