Race · Round 8 of 16 · 4 July 1976

1976 French Grand Prix

James Hunt won for McLaren from pole at Circuit Paul Ricard. 8 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for John Watson.

Circuit: Circuit Paul RicardLe Castellet, France
Winner: James HuntMcLaren
Pole: James Hunt
Fastest lap: Niki Lauda
Entries: 3019 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	James Hunt	McLaren	—	1	54	Finished	9
2	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	—	3	54	Finished	6
3	John Watson	Penske	—	8	54	Finished	4
4	Carlos Pace	Brabham	BT45	5	54	Finished	3
5	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	77	7	54	Finished	2
6	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	—	9	54	Finished	1
7	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	761	17	54	Finished	0
8	Tom Pryce	Shadow	—	16	54	Finished	0
9	Arturo Merzario	March	761	20	54	Finished	0
10	Jacky Ickx	Wolf-Williams	—	19	53	Finished	0
11	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	BT45	10	53	Finished	0
12	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	DN5B	15	53	Finished	0
13	Michel Leclère	Wolf-Williams	—	22	53	Finished	0
14	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS5	13	53	Finished	0
15	Jochen Mass	McLaren	—	14	53	Finished	0
16	Brett Lunger	Surtees	TS19	23	53	Finished	0
17	Guy Edwards	Hesketh	308D	25	53	Finished	0
18	Patrick Nève	Ensign	—	26	53	Finished	0
19	Ronnie Peterson	March	761	6	51	Fuel system	0
DNF	Alan Jones	Surtees	TS19	18	44	Suspension	0
DNF	Vittorio Brambilla	March	761	11	28	Oil pressure	0
DNF	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	21	21	Oil pressure	0
DNF	Henri Pescarolo	Surtees	TS19	24	19	Suspension	0
DNF	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	—	4	17	Engine	0
DNF	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	—	2	8	Engine	0	fastest lap
DNF	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	77	12	8	Gearbox	0
DNF	Harald Ertl	Hesketh	308D	27	4	Differential	0
DNQ	Damien Magee	Brabham	BT44B	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Ingo Hoffmann	Fittipaldi	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Loris Kessel	Brabham	BT44B	—	—	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 paul-ricard-1 · 5.809 km · 14 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	54
Patrick Depailler	3	2	54
John Watson	8	3	54
Carlos Pace	5	4	54
Mario Andretti	7	5	54
Jody Scheckter	9	6	54
Hans-Joachim Stuck	17	7	54
Tom Pryce	16	8	54
Arturo Merzario	20	9	54
Jacky Ickx	19	10	53
Carlos Reutemann	10	11	53
Jean-Pierre Jarier	15	12	53
Michel Leclère	22	13	53
Jacques Laffite	13	14	53
Jochen Mass	14	15	53
Brett Lunger	23	16	53
Guy Edwards	25	17	53
Patrick Nève	26	18	53
Ronnie Peterson	6	19	51
Alan Jones	18	DNF	44
Vittorio Brambilla	11	DNF	28
Emerson Fittipaldi	21	DNF	21
Henri Pescarolo	24	DNF	19
Clay Regazzoni	4	DNF	17
Niki Lauda	2	DNF	8
Gunnar Nilsson	12	DNF	8
Harald Ertl	27	DNF	4

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	James Hunt	McLaren	11	1:47.890	—	—
2	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	1	1:48.170	+0.280	+0.280
3	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:48.590	+0.700	+0.420
4	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	2	1:48.690	+0.800	+0.100
5	Carlos Pace	Brabham	8	1:48.750	+0.860	+0.060
6	Ronnie Peterson	March	10	1:49.070	+1.180	+0.320
7	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	5	1:49.190	+1.300	+0.120
8	John Watson	Penske	28	1:49.220	+1.330	+0.030
9	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	3	1:49.630	+1.740	+0.410
10	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	7	1:49.790	+1.900	+0.160
11	Vittorio Brambilla	March	9	1:49.790	+1.900	+0.000
12	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	6	1:49.830	+1.940	+0.040
13	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:50.060	+2.170	+0.230
14	Jochen Mass	McLaren	12	1:50.100	+2.210	+0.040
15	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	17	1:50.120	+2.230	+0.020
16	Tom Pryce	Shadow	16	1:50.270	+2.380	+0.150
17	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	34	1:50.310	+2.420	+0.040
18	Alan Jones	Surtees	19	1:51.110	+3.220	+0.800
19	Jacky Ickx	Wolf-Williams	20	1:51.410	+3.520	+0.300
20	Arturo Merzario	March	35	1:51.790	+3.900	+0.380
21	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	30	1:52.110	+4.220	+0.320
22	Michel Leclère	Wolf-Williams	21	1:52.290	+4.400	+0.180
23	Brett Lunger	Surtees	18	1:52.410	+4.520	+0.120
24	Henri Pescarolo	Surtees	38	1:52.600	+4.710	+0.190
25	Guy Edwards	Hesketh	25	1:52.630	+4.740	+0.030
26	Patrick Nève	Ensign	22	1:52.820	+4.930	+0.190
27	Damien Magee	Brabham	33	1:53.490	+5.600	+0.670
28	Ingo Hoffmann	Fittipaldi	31	1:53.780	+5.890	+0.290
29	Harald Ertl	Hesketh	24	1:54.050	+6.160	+0.270
30	Loris Kessel	Brabham	32	1:55.300	+7.410	+1.250

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

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

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: 8 of 1976
Grand Prix: French Grand Prix
Dates: 4 Jul 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.