Race · Round 15 of 17 · 2 October 1977

1977 United States Grand Prix

James Hunt won for McLaren from pole at Watkins Glen. 7 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Watkins GlenWatkins Glen, New York, United States of America
Winner: James HuntMcLaren
Pole: James Hunt
Fastest lap: Ronnie Peterson
Entries: 2719 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	James Hunt	McLaren	—	1	59	Finished	9
2	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	78	4	59	Finished	6
3	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	—	9	59	Finished	4
4	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	312T2B	7	59	Finished	3
5	Clay Regazzoni	Ensign	N177	19	59	Finished	2
6	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	312T2B	6	58	Finished	1
7	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS7	10	58	Finished	0
8	Rupert Keegan	Hesketh	308E	20	58	Finished	0
9	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	—	16	58	Finished	0
10	Brett Lunger	McLaren	M23	17	57	Finished	0
11	Hans Binder	Surtees	TS19	25	57	Finished	0
12	John Watson	Brabham	—	3	57	Finished	0
13	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	18	57	Finished	0
14	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	P34	8	56	Finished	0
15	Alex Ribeiro	March	761B	23	56	Finished	0
16	Ronnie Peterson	Tyrrell	P34	5	56	Finished	0	fastest lap
17	Ian Ashley	Hesketh	308E	22	55	Finished	0
18	Patrick Nève	March	761	24	55	Finished	0
19	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	TS19	11	54	Finished	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	RS01	14	30	Alternator	0
DNF	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	78	12	17	Accident	0
DNF	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Brabham	—	2	14	Accident	0
DNF	Ian Scheckter	March	—	21	10	Accident	0
DNF	Jochen Mass	McLaren	—	15	8	Fuel pump	0
DNF	Danny Ongais	Penske	PC4	26	6	Accident	0
DNF	Alan Jones	Shadow	—	13	3	Accident	0
DNQ	Patrick Tambay	Ensign	N177	—	—	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 watkins-glen-3 · 5.435 km · 11 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	59
Mario Andretti	4	2	59
Jody Scheckter	9	3	59
Niki Lauda	7	4	59
Clay Regazzoni	19	5	59
Carlos Reutemann	6	6	58
Jacques Laffite	10	7	58
Rupert Keegan	20	8	58
Jean-Pierre Jarier	16	9	58
Brett Lunger	17	10	57
Hans Binder	25	11	57
John Watson	3	12	57
Emerson Fittipaldi	18	13	57
Patrick Depailler	8	14	56
Alex Ribeiro	23	15	56
Ronnie Peterson	5	16	56
Ian Ashley	22	17	55
Patrick Nève	24	18	55
Vittorio Brambilla	11	19	54
Jean-Pierre Jabouille	14	DNF	30
Gunnar Nilsson	12	DNF	17
Hans-Joachim Stuck	2	DNF	14
Ian Scheckter	21	DNF	10
Jochen Mass	15	DNF	8
Danny Ongais	26	DNF	6
Alan Jones	13	DNF	3

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	James Hunt	McLaren	1	1:40.863	—	—
2	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Brabham	8	1:41.138	+0.275	+0.275
3	John Watson	Brabham	7	1:41.193	+0.330	+0.055
4	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	5	1:41.481	+0.618	+0.288
5	Ronnie Peterson	Tyrrell	3	1:41.908	+1.045	+0.427
6	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	12	1:41.952	+1.089	+0.044
7	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	11	1:42.089	+1.226	+0.137
8	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:42.238	+1.375	+0.149
9	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:42.315	+1.452	+0.077
10	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:42.640	+1.777	+0.325
11	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	19	1:42.786	+1.923	+0.146
12	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	6	1:42.815	+1.952	+0.029
13	Alan Jones	Shadow	17	1:43.019	+2.156	+0.204
14	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	15	1:43.069	+2.206	+0.050
15	Jochen Mass	McLaren	2	1:43.242	+2.379	+0.173
16	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	16	1:43.516	+2.653	+0.274
17	Brett Lunger	McLaren	30	1:43.698	+2.835	+0.182
18	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	28	1:43.938	+3.075	+0.240
19	Clay Regazzoni	Ensign	22	1:44.208	+3.345	+0.270
20	Rupert Keegan	Hesketh	24	1:44.550	+3.687	+0.342
21	Ian Scheckter	March	10	1:44.702	+3.839	+0.152
22	Ian Ashley	Hesketh	25	1:45.100	+4.237	+0.398
23	Alex Ribeiro	March	9	1:45.473	+4.610	+0.373
24	Patrick Nève	March	27	1:45.845	+4.982	+0.372
25	Hans Binder	Surtees	18	1:45.880	+5.017	+0.035
26	Danny Ongais	Penske	14	1:46.070	+5.207	+0.190
27	Patrick Tambay	Ensign	23	1:49.435	+8.572	+3.365

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

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.

3 more photographs

March 761
StuckHansJ1976-07-31 · Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de · unchecked

Where this comes from

Round: 15 of 1977
Grand Prix: United States Grand Prix
Dates: 2 Oct 1977
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.