Race · Round 9 of 16 · 18 July 1976

1976 British Grand Prix

Niki Lauda won for Ferrari from pole at Brands Hatch. 17 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 23 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Brands HatchWest Kingsdown, Kent, United Kingdom
Winner: Niki LaudaFerrari
Pole: Niki Lauda
Fastest lap: Niki Lauda
Entries: 309 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	—	1	76	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	—	8	76	Finished	6
3	John Watson	Penske	—	11	75	Finished	4
4	Tom Pryce	Shadow	—	20	75	Finished	3
5	Alan Jones	Surtees	TS19	19	75	Finished	2
6	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	21	74	Finished	1
7	Harald Ertl	Hesketh	308D	23	73	Finished	0
8	Carlos Pace	Brabham	BT45	16	73	Finished	0
9	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	DN5B	24	70	Finished	0
DSQ	James Hunt	McLaren	—	2	76	Received outside assistance	0
DNF	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	77	14	67	Engine	0
DNF	Ronnie Peterson	March	761	7	60	Fuel system	0
DNF	Brett Lunger	Surtees	TS19	18	55	Gearbox	0
DNF	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	—	5	47	Engine	0
DNF	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	BT45	15	46	Oil pressure	0
DNF	Arturo Merzario	March	761	9	39	Engine	0
DSQ	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	—	4	36	Illegal car change	0
DNF	Bob Evans	Brabham	BT44B	22	31	Gearbox	0
DSQ	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS5	13	31	Illegal car change	0
DNF	Vittorio Brambilla	March	761	10	22	Accident	0
DNF	Henri Pescarolo	Surtees	TS19	26	16	Fuel system	0
DNF	Chris Amon	Ensign	—	6	8	Water leak	0
DNF	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	77	3	4	Ignition	0
DNF	Jochen Mass	McLaren	—	12	1	Clutch	0
DNF	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	761	17	0	Accident	0
DNF	Guy Edwards	Hesketh	308D	25	0	Accident	0
DNQ	Jacky Ickx	Wolf-Williams	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Divina Galica	Surtees	TS16	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Mike Wilds	Shadow	DN3B	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Lella Lombardi	Brabham	BT44B	—	—	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 brands-hatch-2 · 4.207 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	1	1	76
Jody Scheckter	8	2	76
John Watson	11	3	75
Tom Pryce	20	4	75
Alan Jones	19	5	75
Emerson Fittipaldi	21	6	74
Harald Ertl	23	7	73
Carlos Pace	16	8	73
Jean-Pierre Jarier	24	9	70
James Hunt	2	DSQ	76
Gunnar Nilsson	14	DNF	67
Ronnie Peterson	7	DNF	60
Brett Lunger	18	DNF	55
Patrick Depailler	5	DNF	47
Carlos Reutemann	15	DNF	46
Arturo Merzario	9	DNF	39
Clay Regazzoni	4	DSQ	36
Bob Evans	22	DNF	31
Jacques Laffite	13	DSQ	31
Vittorio Brambilla	10	DNF	22
Henri Pescarolo	26	DNF	16
Chris Amon	6	DNF	8
Mario Andretti	3	DNF	4
Jochen Mass	12	DNF	1
Hans-Joachim Stuck	17	DNF	0
Guy Edwards	25	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	1	1:19.350	—	0 m	—
2	James Hunt	McLaren	11	1:19.410	+0.060	3 m	+0.060
3	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	5	1:19.760	+0.410	22 m	+0.350
4	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	2	1:20.050	+0.700	37 m	+0.290
5	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:20.150	+0.800	42 m	+0.100
6	Chris Amon	Ensign	22	1:20.270	+0.920	49 m	+0.120
7	Ronnie Peterson	March	10	1:20.290	+0.940	50 m	+0.020
8	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell	3	1:20.310	+0.960	51 m	+0.020
9	Arturo Merzario	March	35	1:20.320	+0.970	51 m	+0.010
10	Vittorio Brambilla	March	9	1:20.360	+1.010	54 m	+0.040
11	John Watson	Penske	28	1:20.410	+1.060	56 m	+0.050
12	Jochen Mass	McLaren	12	1:20.610	+1.260	67 m	+0.200
13	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:20.670	+1.320	70 m	+0.060
14	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	6	1:20.670	+1.320	70 m	+0.000
15	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham	7	1:20.990	+1.640	87 m	+0.320
16	Carlos Pace	Brabham	8	1:21.030	+1.680	89 m	+0.040
17	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March	34	1:21.200	+1.850	98 m	+0.170
18	Brett Lunger	Surtees	18	1:21.300	+1.950	103 m	+0.100
19	Alan Jones	Surtees	19	1:21.420	+2.070	110 m	+0.120
20	Tom Pryce	Shadow	16	1:21.840	+2.490	132 m	+0.420
21	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	30	1:22.060	+2.710	144 m	+0.220
22	Bob Evans	Brabham	32	1:22.470	+3.120	165 m	+0.410
23	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow	17	1:22.720	+3.370	179 m	+0.250
24	Harald Ertl	Hesketh	24	1:22.750	+3.400	180 m	+0.030
25	Guy Edwards	Hesketh	25	1:22.760	+3.410	181 m	+0.010
26	Henri Pescarolo	Surtees	38	1:22.760	+3.410	181 m	+0.000
27	Jacky Ickx	Wolf-Williams	20	1:23.320	+3.970	210 m	+0.560
28	Divina Galica	Surtees	13	1:25.240	+5.890	312 m	+1.920
29	Mike Wilds	Shadow	40	1:25.660	+6.310	335 m	+0.420
30	Lella Lombardi	Brabham	33	1:27.080	+7.730	410 m	+1.420

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

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.

Photographs from this race

Filed on Wikimedia Commons under this race's own category, each shown with the photographer and licence its terms require. The filing is the Commons editors' and has not been checked here.

At the 1976 British Grand Prix — 1976 British GP Amon Ensign (2) · Gillfoto · CC BY-SA 3.0

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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.

Ligier JS5
Jacques Laffite GP Italia 1976 · Transferred from http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques_Laffite_Gp_Italia_1976.jpg it.wikipedia] Original source - f1passion.it · Public domain · unchecked

Lotus 77
Lotus 77 Sears Point · Luca Varani · CC BY-SA 2.5

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3 more photographs

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

Where this comes from

Round: 9 of 1976
Grand Prix: British Grand Prix
Dates: 18 Jul 1976
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.