Race · Round 1 of 17 · 9 January 1977

1977 Argentine Grand Prix

Jody Scheckter won for Walter Wolf Racing from 11th on the grid at Autodromo Oscar Galvez. 13 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Walter Wolf Racing.

Circuit: Autodromo Oscar GalvezBuenos Aires, Argentina
Winner: Jody ScheckterWalter Wolf Racing
Pole: James Hunt
Fastest lap: James Hunt
Entries: 217 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	—	11	53	Finished	9
2	Carlos Pace	Brabham	—	6	53	Finished	6
3	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	312T2B	7	53	Finished	4
4	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	16	53	Finished	3
5	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	78	8	51	Wheel bearing	2
6	Clay Regazzoni	Ensign	N177	12	51	Finished	1
7	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	TS19	13	48	Out of fuel	0
NC	Tom Pryce	Shadow	—	9	45	NC	0
DNF	Ian Scheckter	March	—	17	45	Electrical	0
DNF	John Watson	Brabham	—	2	41	Suspension	0
DNF	Alex Ribeiro	March	761B	20	39	Transmission	0
NC	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS7	15	37	NC	0
DNF	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	P34	3	32	Overheating	0
DNF	James Hunt	McLaren	—	1	31	Suspension	0	fastest lap
DNF	Jochen Mass	McLaren	—	5	28	Spun off	0
DNF	Ronnie Peterson	Tyrrell	P34	14	28	Spun off	0
DNF	Ingo Hoffmann	Fittipaldi	—	19	22	Engine	0
DNF	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	312T2B	4	20	Fuel system	0
DNF	Hans Binder	Surtees	TS19	18	18	Accident	0
DNF	Renzo Zorzi	Shadow	—	21	2	Gearbox	0
DNS	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	78	10	—	DNS	0

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

F1DB layout buenos-aires-3 · 5.968 km · 16 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
Jody Scheckter	11	1	53
Carlos Pace	6	2	53
Carlos Reutemann	7	3	53
Emerson Fittipaldi	16	4	53
Mario Andretti	8	5	51
Clay Regazzoni	12	6	51
Vittorio Brambilla	13	7	48
Tom Pryce	9	NC	45
Ian Scheckter	17	DNF	45
John Watson	2	DNF	41
Alex Ribeiro	20	DNF	39
Jacques Laffite	15	NC	37
Patrick Depailler	3	DNF	32
James Hunt	1	DNF	31
Jochen Mass	5	DNF	28
Ronnie Peterson	14	DNF	28
Ingo Hoffmann	19	DNF	22
Niki Lauda	4	DNF	20
Hans Binder	18	DNF	18
Renzo Zorzi	21	DNF	2

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	James Hunt	McLaren	1	1:48.680	—	—
2	John Watson	Brabham	7	1:48.960	+0.280	+0.280
3	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:49.130	+0.450	+0.170
4	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	11	1:49.730	+1.050	+0.600
5	Jochen Mass	McLaren	2	1:49.810	+1.130	+0.080
6	Carlos Pace	Brabham	8	1:49.970	+1.290	+0.160
7	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	12	1:50.020	+1.340	+0.050
8	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	5	1:50.130	+1.450	+0.110
9	Tom Pryce	Shadow	16	1:50.650	+1.970	+0.520
10	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	6	1:50.660	+1.980	+0.010
11	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:50.760	+2.080	+0.100
12	Clay Regazzoni	Ensign	22	1:50.970	+2.290	+0.210
13	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	19	1:51.030	+2.350	+0.060
14	Ronnie Peterson	Tyrrell	3	1:51.340	+2.660	+0.310
15	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:51.520	+2.840	+0.180
16	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	28	1:51.530	+2.850	+0.010
17	Ian Scheckter	March	10	1:52.400	+3.720	+0.870
18	Hans Binder	Surtees	18	1:53.110	+4.430	+0.710
19	Ingo Hoffmann	Fittipaldi	29	1:53.280	+4.600	+0.170
20	Alex Ribeiro	March	9	1:53.540	+4.860	+0.260
21	Renzo Zorzi	Shadow	17	1:54.190	+5.510	+0.650

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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At the 1977 Argentine Grand Prix — 1977 Argentine Grand Prix Andretti · Revista CORSA, enero 1977 · Public domain

6 more photographs

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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.

Ferrari 312T
LaudaNiki19760731Ferrari312T2 · Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de

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.

Where this comes from

Round: 1 of 1977
Grand Prix: Argentine Grand Prix
Dates: 9 Jan 1977
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Walter Wolf Racing
Entrant: Wolf-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.