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1976 Monaco Grand Prix
Race 6 of 16 in the 1976 Formula One season
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Race details
Date 30 May 1976
Official name XXXIV Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco[1]
Location Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Course Street circuit
Course length 3.312 km (2.057 miles)
Distance 78 laps, 258.336 km (160.522 miles)
Weather Dry
Pole position
Driver
Ferrari
Time 1:29.65
Fastest lap
Driver Switzerland Clay Regazzoni Ferrari
Time 1:30.28 on lap 60[2]
Podium
First
Ferrari
Second
Tyrrell-Ford
Third
Tyrrell-Ford
Lap leaders

The 1976 Monaco Grand Prix (formally the XXXIV Grand Prix de Monaco) was a Formula One motor race held at the Monaco street circuit in Monaco on 30 May 1976. It was the sixth round of the 1976 Formula One season and the 34th Monaco Grand Prix. The race was contested over 78 laps of the 3.3 km circuit for a race distance of 257 kilometres.

The race was won by Ferrari driver Niki Lauda, who had also taken pole position in his Ferrari 312T2.

Qualifying

Qualifying classification

Pos. No. Driver Constructor Time
1 1 Austria Niki Lauda Ferrari 1:29.65
2 2 Switzerland Clay Regazzoni Ferrari 1:29.91
3 10 Sweden Ronnie Peterson March-Ford 1:30.08
4 4 France Patrick Depailler Tyrrell-Ford 1:30.33
5 3 South Africa Jody Scheckter Tyrrell-Ford 1:30.55
6 34 West Germany Hans-Joachim Stuck March-Ford 1:30.66
7 30 Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi Fittipaldi-Ford 1:31.39
8 26 France Jacques Laffite Ligier-Matra 1:31.46
9 9 Italy Vittorio Brambilla March-Ford 1:31.47
10 17 France Jean-Pierre Jarier Shadow-Ford 1:31.65
11 12 Germany Jochen Mass McLaren-Ford 1:31.67
12 22 New Zealand Chris Amon Ensign-Ford 1:31.75
13 8 Brazil Carlos Pace Brabham-Alfa Romeo 1:31.81
14 11 United Kingdom James Hunt McLaren-Ford 1:31.88
15 16 United Kingdom Tom Pryce Shadow-Ford 1:31.98
16 6 Sweden Gunnar Nilsson Lotus-Ford 1:32.10
17 28 United Kingdom John Watson Penske-Ford 1:32.14
18 21 France Michel Leclère Wolf-Williams-Ford 1:32.17
19 19 Australia Alan Jones Surtees-Ford 1:32.33
20 7 Argentina Carlos Reutemann Brabham-Alfa Romeo 1:32.43
21 20 Belgium Jacky Ickx Wolf-Williams-Ford 1:32.74
22 38 France Henri Pescarolo Surtees-Ford 1:32.82
23 37 Australia Larry Perkins Boro-Ford 1:33.73
24 24 Austria Harald Ertl Hesketh-Ford 1:33.93
25 35 Italy Arturo Merzario March-Ford 1:35.17
Source:[3][4]

*Drivers with a red background all failed to qualify as the grid was limited to 20 places.[3]

Race

Lauda won by 11 seconds over Jody Scheckter driving the six-wheeled Tyrrell P34, whilst Scheckter's teammate, Patrick Depailler, completed the podium in third. As a consequence of the race, Lauda extended his lead in the World Drivers' Championship to 36 points over his teammate Clay Regazzoni who had retired after starting second, going off track on oil laid down when James Hunt retired with a blown engine on lap 25, climbing back to third before crashing.

A lap down in fourth was the March 761 of Hans-Joachim Stuck with the McLaren M23 of Jochen Mass and the Fittipaldi FD04 of Emerson Fittipaldi completing the point scoring positions.

Race classification

Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 1 Austria Niki Lauda Ferrari 78 1:59:51.47 1 9
2 3 South Africa Jody Scheckter Tyrrell-Ford 78 + 11.13 5 6
3 4 France Patrick Depailler Tyrrell-Ford 78 + 1:04.84 4 4
4 34 West Germany Hans Joachim Stuck March-Ford 77 + 1 Lap 6 3
5 12 West Germany Jochen Mass McLaren-Ford 77 + 1 Lap 11 2
6 30 Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi Fittipaldi-Ford 77 + 1 lap 7 1
7 16 United Kingdom Tom Pryce Shadow-Ford 77 + 1 Lap 15  
8 17 France Jean-Pierre Jarier Shadow-Ford 76 + 2 Laps 10  
9 8 Brazil Carlos Pace Brabham-Alfa Romeo 76 + 2 Laps 13  
10 28 United Kingdom John Watson Penske-Ford 76 + 2 Laps 17  
11 21 France Michel Leclère Wolf-Williams-Ford 76 + 2 Laps 18  
12 26 France Jacques Laffite Ligier-Matra 75 Accident 8  
13 22 New Zealand Chris Amon Ensign-Ford 74 + 4 Laps 12  
14 2 Switzerland Clay Regazzoni Ferrari 73 Accident 2  
Ret 6 Sweden Gunnar Nilsson Lotus-Ford 39 Engine 16  
Ret 10 Sweden Ronnie Peterson March-Ford 26 Accident 3  
Ret 11 United Kingdom James Hunt McLaren-Ford 24 Engine 14  
Ret 9 Italy Vittorio Brambilla March-Ford 9 Suspension 9  
Ret 19 Australia Alan Jones Surtees-Ford 1 Collision 19  
Ret 7 Argentina Carlos Reutemann Brabham-Alfa Romeo 0 Accident 20  
Source:[4][5]

Championship standings after the race

Points are accurate at the conclusion of the race and do not reflect final results of the 1976 Spanish Grand Prix as it was under appeal.

  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

  1. ↑ "1976 Monaco GP". www.chicanef1.com. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  2. ↑ Lang, Mike (1983). Grand Prix! Vol 3. Haynes Publishing Group. p. 125. ISBN 0-85429-380-9.
  3. 1 2 "Monaco 1976 - Qualifications • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com (in French). Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  4. 1 2 "Monaco 1976 - Starting grid • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  5. ↑ "1976 Monaco Grand Prix". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 10 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  6. 1 2 "Monaco 1976 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
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