Race · Round 12 of 17 · 14 August 1977

1977 Austrian Grand Prix

Alan Jones won for Shadow from 14th on the grid at Red Bull Ring. 9 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Alan Jones and for Shadow.

Circuit: Red Bull RingSpielberg, Austria
Winner: Alan JonesShadow
Pole: Niki Lauda
Fastest lap: John Watson
Entries: 3017 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Alan Jones	Shadow	—	14	54	Finished	9
2	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	312T2B	1	54	Finished	6
3	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Brabham	—	4	54	Finished	4
4	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	312T2B	5	54	Finished	3
5	Ronnie Peterson	Tyrrell	P34	15	54	Finished	2
6	Jochen Mass	McLaren	—	9	53	Finished	1
7	Rupert Keegan	Hesketh	308E	20	53	Finished	0
8	John Watson	Brabham	—	12	53	Finished	0	fastest lap
9	Patrick Nève	March	761	22	53	Finished	0
10	Brett Lunger	McLaren	M23	17	53	Finished	0
11	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	23	53	Finished	0
12	Hans Binder	Penske	PC4	19	53	Finished	0
13	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	P34	10	53	Finished	0
14	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Penske	PC4	18	52	Finished	0
15	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	TS19	13	52	Finished	0
16	Vern Schuppan	Surtees	TS19	25	52	Finished	0
17	Emilio de Villota	McLaren	M23	26	50	Accident	0
DNF	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	—	8	45	Spun off	0
DNF	James Hunt	McLaren	—	2	43	Engine	0
DNF	Patrick Tambay	Ensign	N177	7	41	Engine	0
DNF	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	78	16	38	Engine	0
DNF	Arturo Merzario	Shadow	—	21	29	Gearbox	0
DNF	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS7	6	21	Oil leak	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	78	3	11	Engine	0
DNF	Ian Scheckter	March	—	24	2	Accident	0
DNF	Clay Regazzoni	Ensign	N177	11	0	Accident	0
DNQ	Brian Henton	March	761	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Ian Ashley	Hesketh	308E	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Héctor Rebaque	Hesketh	308E	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Alex Ribeiro	March	761B	—	—	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 spielberg-2 · 5.942 km · 18 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
Alan Jones	14	1	54
Niki Lauda	1	2	54
Hans-Joachim Stuck	4	3	54
Carlos Reutemann	5	4	54
Ronnie Peterson	15	5	54
Jochen Mass	9	6	53
Rupert Keegan	20	7	53
John Watson	12	8	53
Patrick Nève	22	9	53
Brett Lunger	17	10	53
Emerson Fittipaldi	23	11	53
Hans Binder	19	12	53
Patrick Depailler	10	13	53
Jean-Pierre Jarier	18	14	52
Vittorio Brambilla	13	15	52
Vern Schuppan	25	16	52
Emilio de Villota	26	17	50
Jody Scheckter	8	DNF	45
James Hunt	2	DNF	43
Patrick Tambay	7	DNF	41
Gunnar Nilsson	16	DNF	38
Arturo Merzario	21	DNF	29
Jacques Laffite	6	DNF	21
Mario Andretti	3	DNF	11
Ian Scheckter	24	DNF	2
Clay Regazzoni	11	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	11	1:39.320	—	—
2	James Hunt	McLaren	1	1:39.450	+0.130	+0.130
3	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	5	1:39.740	+0.420	+0.290
4	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Brabham	8	1:39.970	+0.650	+0.230
5	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	12	1:40.120	+0.800	+0.150
6	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:40.220	+0.900	+0.100
7	Patrick Tambay	Ensign	23	1:40.290	+0.970	+0.070
8	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:40.400	+1.080	+0.110
9	Jochen Mass	McLaren	2	1:40.440	+1.120	+0.040
10	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:40.620	+1.300	+0.180
11	Clay Regazzoni	Ensign	22	1:40.740	+1.420	+0.120
12	John Watson	Brabham	7	1:40.920	+1.600	+0.180
13	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	19	1:40.930	+1.610	+0.010
14	Alan Jones	Shadow	17	1:41.000	+1.680	+0.070
15	Ronnie Peterson	Tyrrell	3	1:41.130	+1.810	+0.130
16	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	6	1:41.240	+1.920	+0.110
17	Brett Lunger	McLaren	30	1:41.400	+2.080	+0.160
18	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Penske	34	1:41.700	+2.380	+0.300
19	Hans Binder	Penske	33	1:41.710	+2.390	+0.010
20	Rupert Keegan	Hesketh	24	1:41.920	+2.600	+0.210
21	Arturo Merzario	Shadow	16	1:41.920	+2.600	+0.000
22	Patrick Nève	March	27	1:41.960	+2.640	+0.040
23	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	28	1:42.150	+2.830	+0.190
24	Ian Scheckter	March	10	1:42.220	+2.900	+0.070
25	Vern Schuppan	Surtees	18	1:42.310	+2.990	+0.090
26	Emilio de Villota	McLaren	36	1:42.380	+3.060	+0.070
27	Brian Henton	March	38	1:42.430	+3.110	+0.050
28	Ian Ashley	Hesketh	39	1:42.520	+3.200	+0.090
29	Héctor Rebaque	Hesketh	25	1:42.750	+3.430	+0.230
30	Alex Ribeiro	March	9	1:43.030	+3.710	+0.280

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.

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.

2 more photographs

Where this comes from

Round: 12 of 1977
Grand Prix: Austrian Grand Prix
Dates: 14 Aug 1977
Layout raced: Osterreichring · 5.942 km · 12 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Shadow
Entrant: Shadow-Ford
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.