Race · Round 17 of 17 · 23 October 1977

1977 Japanese Grand Prix

James Hunt won for McLaren from 2nd on the grid at Fuji Speedway. 11 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Fuji SpeedwayOyama, Japan
Winner: James HuntMcLaren
Pole: Mario Andretti
Fastest lap: Jody Scheckter
Entries: 2312 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	James Hunt	McLaren	—	2	73	Finished	9
2	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	312T2B	7	73	Finished	6
3	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	P34	15	73	Finished	4
4	Alan Jones	Shadow	—	12	73	Finished	3
5	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS7	5	72	Out of fuel	2
6	Riccardo Patrese	Shadow	—	13	72	Finished	1
7	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Brabham	—	4	72	Finished	0
8	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	TS19	9	71	Finished	0
9	Kunimitsu Takahashi	Tyrrell	7	22	71	Finished	0
10	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	—	6	71	Finished	0	fastest lap
11	Kazuyoshi Hoshino	Kojima	KE009	11	71	Finished	0
12	Alex Ribeiro	March	761B	23	69	Finished	0
DNF	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	78	14	63	Gearbox	0
DNF	Clay Regazzoni	Ensign	N177	10	43	Engine	0
DNF	John Watson	Brabham	—	3	29	Gearbox	0
DNF	Jochen Mass	McLaren	—	8	28	Engine	0
DNF	Patrick Tambay	Ensign	N177	16	14	Engine	0
DNF	Ronnie Peterson	Tyrrell	P34	18	5	Accident	0
DNF	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	312T2B	20	5	Accident	0
DNF	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Ligier	JS7	17	3	Engine	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	78	1	1	Collision	0
DNF	Hans Binder	Surtees	TS19	21	1	Collision	0
DNF	Noritake Takahara	Kojima	KE009	19	1	Collision	0

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

F1DB layout fuji-1 · 4.359 km · 8 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	2	1	73
Carlos Reutemann	7	2	73
Patrick Depailler	15	3	73
Alan Jones	12	4	73
Jacques Laffite	5	5	72
Riccardo Patrese	13	6	72
Hans-Joachim Stuck	4	7	72
Vittorio Brambilla	9	8	71
Kunimitsu Takahashi	22	9	71
Jody Scheckter	6	10	71
Kazuyoshi Hoshino	11	11	71
Alex Ribeiro	23	12	69
Gunnar Nilsson	14	DNF	63
Clay Regazzoni	10	DNF	43
John Watson	3	DNF	29
Jochen Mass	8	DNF	28
Patrick Tambay	16	DNF	14
Ronnie Peterson	18	DNF	5
Gilles Villeneuve	20	DNF	5
Jean-Pierre Jarier	17	DNF	3
Mario Andretti	1	DNF	1
Hans Binder	21	DNF	1
Noritake Takahara	19	DNF	1

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	5	1:12.230	—	—
2	James Hunt	McLaren	1	1:12.390	+0.160	+0.160
3	John Watson	Brabham	7	1:12.490	+0.260	+0.100
4	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Brabham	8	1:13.010	+0.780	+0.520
5	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:13.080	+0.850	+0.070
6	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:13.150	+0.920	+0.070
7	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	12	1:13.320	+1.090	+0.170
8	Jochen Mass	McLaren	2	1:13.370	+1.140	+0.050
9	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	19	1:13.370	+1.140	+0.000
10	Clay Regazzoni	Ensign	22	1:13.520	+1.290	+0.150
11	Kazuyoshi Hoshino	Kojima	52	1:13.550	+1.320	+0.030
12	Alan Jones	Shadow	17	1:13.560	+1.330	+0.010
13	Riccardo Patrese	Shadow	16	1:13.580	+1.350	+0.020
14	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	6	1:13.660	+1.430	+0.080
15	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:14.160	+1.930	+0.500
16	Patrick Tambay	Ensign	23	1:14.220	+1.990	+0.060
17	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Ligier	27	1:14.250	+2.020	+0.030
18	Ronnie Peterson	Tyrrell	3	1:14.260	+2.030	+0.010
19	Noritake Takahara	Kojima	51	1:14.360	+2.130	+0.100
20	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	11	1:14.510	+2.280	+0.150
21	Hans Binder	Surtees	18	1:14.730	+2.500	+0.220
22	Kunimitsu Takahashi	Tyrrell	50	1:14.880	+2.650	+0.150
23	Alex Ribeiro	March	9	1:15.010	+2.780	+0.130

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

Tyrrell 007
Tyrrell 007 Canada 2004 · TMWolf · CC BY-SA 2.0

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: 17 of 1977
Grand Prix: Japanese Grand Prix
Dates: 23 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.