Race · Round 7 of 17 · 5 June 1977

1977 Belgian Grand Prix

Gunnar Nilsson won for Team Lotus from 3rd on the grid at Circuit Zolder. 12 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Gunnar Nilsson.

Circuit: Circuit ZolderHeusden-Zolder, Belgium
Winner: Gunnar NilssonTeam Lotus
Pole: Mario Andretti
Fastest lap: Gunnar Nilsson
Entries: 3214 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	78	3	70	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	312T2B	11	70	Finished	6
3	Ronnie Peterson	Tyrrell	P34	8	70	Finished	4
4	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	TS19	12	70	Finished	3
5	Alan Jones	Shadow	—	17	70	Finished	2
6	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Brabham	—	18	69	Finished	1
7	James Hunt	McLaren	—	9	69	Finished	0
8	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	P34	5	69	Finished	0
9	Harald Ertl	Hesketh	308E	25	69	Finished	0
10	Patrick Nève	March	761	24	68	Finished	0
11	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Penske	PC4	26	68	Finished	0
12	Larry Perkins	Surtees	TS19	23	67	Finished	0
13	David Purley	LEC	CRP1	20	67	Finished	0
14	Arturo Merzario	March	761B	14	65	Finished	0
NC	Boy Hayje	March	761	27	63	NC	0
DNF	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	—	4	62	Engine	0
DNF	Jochen Mass	McLaren	—	6	39	Accident	0
DNF	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS7	10	32	Engine	0
DNF	Clay Regazzoni	Ensign	N177	13	29	Engine	0
DNF	Rupert Keegan	Hesketh	308E	19	14	Accident	0
DNF	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	312T2B	7	14	Accident	0
DNF	Riccardo Patrese	Shadow	—	15	12	Accident	0
DNF	Ian Scheckter	March	—	21	8	Accident	0
DNF	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	16	2	Electrical	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	78	1	0	Collision	0
DNF	John Watson	Brabham	—	2	0	Collision	0
DNS	Brett Lunger	McLaren	M23	—	—	DNS	0
DNQ	Emilio de Villota	McLaren	M23	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Alex Ribeiro	March	761B	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Conny Andersson	BRM	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Bernard de Dryver	March	761	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Héctor Rebaque	Hesketh	308E	—	—	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 zolder-2 · 4.262 km · 15 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
Gunnar Nilsson	3	1	70
Niki Lauda	11	2	70
Ronnie Peterson	8	3	70
Vittorio Brambilla	12	4	70
Alan Jones	17	5	70
Hans-Joachim Stuck	18	6	69
James Hunt	9	7	69
Patrick Depailler	5	8	69
Harald Ertl	25	9	69
Patrick Nève	24	10	68
Jean-Pierre Jarier	26	11	68
Larry Perkins	23	12	67
David Purley	20	13	67
Arturo Merzario	14	14	65
Boy Hayje	27	NC	63
Jody Scheckter	4	DNF	62
Jochen Mass	6	DNF	39
Jacques Laffite	10	DNF	32
Clay Regazzoni	13	DNF	29
Rupert Keegan	19	DNF	14
Carlos Reutemann	7	DNF	14
Riccardo Patrese	15	DNF	12
Ian Scheckter	21	DNF	8
Emerson Fittipaldi	16	DNF	2
Mario Andretti	1	DNF	0
John Watson	2	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	5	1:24.640	—	—
2	John Watson	Brabham	7	1:26.180	+1.540	+1.540
3	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	6	1:26.450	+1.810	+0.270
4	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:26.480	+1.840	+0.030
5	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:26.710	+2.070	+0.230
6	Jochen Mass	McLaren	2	1:26.810	+2.170	+0.100
7	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	12	1:26.850	+2.210	+0.040
8	Ronnie Peterson	Tyrrell	3	1:26.950	+2.310	+0.100
9	James Hunt	McLaren	1	1:27.040	+2.400	+0.090
10	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:27.050	+2.410	+0.010
11	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	11	1:27.110	+2.470	+0.060
12	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	19	1:27.230	+2.590	+0.120
13	Clay Regazzoni	Ensign	22	1:27.280	+2.640	+0.050
14	Arturo Merzario	March	37	1:27.330	+2.690	+0.050
15	Riccardo Patrese	Shadow	16	1:27.350	+2.710	+0.020
16	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	28	1:27.470	+2.830	+0.120
17	Alan Jones	Shadow	17	1:27.550	+2.910	+0.080
18	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Brabham	8	1:27.750	+3.110	+0.200
19	Rupert Keegan	Hesketh	24	1:28.020	+3.380	+0.270
20	David Purley	LEC	31	1:28.100	+3.460	+0.080
21	Ian Scheckter	March	10	1:28.500	+3.860	+0.400
22	Brett Lunger	McLaren	30	1:28.510	+3.870	+0.010
23	Larry Perkins	Surtees	18	1:28.530	+3.890	+0.020
24	Patrick Nève	March	27	1:28.670	+4.030	+0.140
25	Harald Ertl	Hesketh	25	1:29.020	+4.380	+0.350
26	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Penske	34	1:29.110	+4.470	+0.090
27	Boy Hayje	March	33	1:29.460	+4.820	+0.350
28	Emilio de Villota	McLaren	36	1:30.120	+5.480	+0.660
29	Conny Andersson	BRM	35	1:30.240	+5.600	+0.120
30	Alex Ribeiro	March	9	1:30.240	+5.600	+0.000
31	Bernard de Dryver	March	38	1:30.420	+5.780	+0.180
32	Héctor Rebaque	Hesketh	39	1:33.300	+8.660	+2.880

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: 7 of 1977
Grand Prix: Belgian Grand Prix
Dates: 5 Jun 1977
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Team Lotus
Entrant: Lotus-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.