Race · Round 3 of 17 · 5 March 1977

1977 South African Grand Prix

Niki Lauda won for Ferrari from 3rd on the grid at Kyalami. 8 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: KyalamiMidrand, South Africa
Winner: Niki LaudaFerrari
Pole: James Hunt
Fastest lap: John Watson
Entries: 2315 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	312T2B	3	78	Finished	9
2	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	—	5	78	Finished	6
3	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	P34	4	78	Finished	4
4	James Hunt	McLaren	—	1	78	Finished	3
5	Jochen Mass	McLaren	—	13	78	Finished	2
6	John Watson	Brabham	—	11	78	Finished	1	fastest lap
7	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	TS19	14	78	Finished	0
8	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	312T2B	8	78	Finished	0
9	Clay Regazzoni	Ensign	N177	16	78	Finished	0
10	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	9	78	Finished	0
11	Hans Binder	Surtees	TS19	19	77	Finished	0
12	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	78	10	77	Finished	0
13	Carlos Pace	Brabham	—	2	76	Finished	0
14	Brett Lunger	March	761	23	76	Finished	0
15	Larry Perkins	BRM	—	22	73	Finished	0
DNF	Alex Ribeiro	March	761B	17	66	Engine	0
DNF	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	—	18	55	Engine	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	78	6	43	Accident	0
DNF	Boy Hayje	March	761	21	33	Gearbox	0
DNF	Tom Pryce	Shadow	—	15	22	Fatal accident	0
DNF	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS7	12	22	Accident	0
DNF	Renzo Zorzi	Shadow	—	20	21	Fuel leak	0
DNF	Ronnie Peterson	Tyrrell	P34	7	5	Fuel system	0

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

F1DB layout kyalami-1 · 4.094 km · 9 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
Niki Lauda	3	1	78
Jody Scheckter	5	2	78
Patrick Depailler	4	3	78
James Hunt	1	4	78
Jochen Mass	13	5	78
John Watson	11	6	78
Vittorio Brambilla	14	7	78
Carlos Reutemann	8	8	78
Clay Regazzoni	16	9	78
Emerson Fittipaldi	9	10	78
Hans Binder	19	11	77
Gunnar Nilsson	10	12	77
Carlos Pace	2	13	76
Brett Lunger	23	14	76
Larry Perkins	22	15	73
Alex Ribeiro	17	DNF	66
Hans-Joachim Stuck	18	DNF	55
Mario Andretti	6	DNF	43
Boy Hayje	21	DNF	33
Tom Pryce	15	DNF	22
Jacques Laffite	12	DNF	22
Renzo Zorzi	20	DNF	21
Ronnie Peterson	7	DNF	5

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	James Hunt	McLaren	1	1:15.960	—	—
2	Carlos Pace	Brabham	8	1:16.010	+0.050	+0.050
3	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	11	1:16.290	+0.330	+0.280
4	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:16.330	+0.370	+0.040
5	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:16.350	+0.390	+0.020
6	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	5	1:16.380	+0.420	+0.030
7	Ronnie Peterson	Tyrrell	3	1:16.440	+0.480	+0.060
8	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	12	1:16.540	+0.580	+0.100
9	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	28	1:16.640	+0.680	+0.100
10	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	6	1:16.650	+0.690	+0.010
11	John Watson	Brabham	7	1:16.710	+0.750	+0.060
12	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:16.740	+0.780	+0.030
13	Jochen Mass	McLaren	2	1:16.990	+1.030	+0.250
14	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	19	1:17.080	+1.120	+0.090
15	Tom Pryce	Shadow	16	1:17.110	+1.150	+0.030
16	Clay Regazzoni	Ensign	22	1:17.210	+1.250	+0.100
17	Alex Ribeiro	March	9	1:17.440	+1.480	+0.230
18	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	10	1:17.490	+1.530	+0.050
19	Hans Binder	Surtees	18	1:18.070	+2.110	+0.580
20	Renzo Zorzi	Shadow	17	1:18.420	+2.460	+0.350
21	Boy Hayje	March	33	1:19.590	+3.630	+1.170
22	Larry Perkins	BRM	14	1:21.770	+5.810	+2.180
23	Brett Lunger	March	30	1:24.350	+8.390	+2.580

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.

Where this comes from

Round: 3 of 1977
Grand Prix: South African Grand Prix
Dates: 5 Mar 1977
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
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.