Race · Round 16 of 17 · 9 October 1977

1977 Canadian Grand Prix

Jody Scheckter won for Walter Wolf Racing from 9th on the grid at Mosport Park. 13 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 13 °C, 20 mm of 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: Mosport ParkBowmanville, Ontario, Canada
Winner: Jody ScheckterWalter Wolf Racing
Pole: Mario Andretti
Fastest lap: Mario Andretti
Entries: 2712 classified

Two sources disagree about this race

Conditions

dryagainst20 mm of rain on the day, modelled

The race's Wikipedia article's words are read as dry: by data/harvest.py's rule, which finds no rain, showers or wet track in them, or by a reading declared there (race_weather_reported holds the words). ERA5's reanalysis of 9 October 1977, through Open-Meteo, holds 20 mm of rain over 12 hours of that day in the grid cell the circuit is in - a heavy-precipitation day, 10 mm or more. A daily total cannot say whether the rain fell during the race, and a grid cell is not the track, so neither is overruled. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Canadian_Grand_Prix; weather data by Open-Meteo.com, https://open-meteo.com/

Recorded rather than resolved, and open for somebody to settle. Every one is listed on the quality page. If you can settle it against a source that can be checked, report what you have.

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	—	9	80	Finished	9
2	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	P34	6	80	Finished	6
3	Jochen Mass	McLaren	—	5	80	Finished	4
4	Alan Jones	Shadow	—	7	80	Finished	3
5	Patrick Tambay	Ensign	N177	16	80	Finished	2
6	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	TS19	15	78	Accident	1
7	Danny Ongais	Penske	PC4	22	78	Finished	0
8	Alex Ribeiro	March	761B	23	78	Finished	0
9	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	78	1	77	Engine	0	fastest lap
10	Riccardo Patrese	Shadow	—	8	76	Spun off	0
11	Brett Lunger	McLaren	M23	20	76	Engine	0
12	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	312T2B	17	76	Transmission	0
DNF	James Hunt	McLaren	—	2	61	Accident	0
DNF	Patrick Nève	March	761	21	56	Engine	0
DNF	Ronnie Peterson	Tyrrell	P34	3	34	Fuel leak	0
DNF	Rupert Keegan	Hesketh	308E	25	32	Accident	0
DNF	Hans Binder	Surtees	TS19	24	31	Accident	0
DNF	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	—	19	29	Engine	0
DNF	Ian Scheckter	March	—	18	29	Engine	0
DNF	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	312T2B	12	20	Fuel system	0
DNF	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Brabham	—	13	19	Engine	0
DNF	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	78	4	17	Accident	0
DNF	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	JS7	11	12	Transmission	0
DNF	John Watson	Brabham	—	10	1	Suspension	0
DNF	Clay Regazzoni	Ensign	N177	14	0	Accident	0
DNS	Ian Ashley	Hesketh	308E	—	—	DNS	0
DNQ	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	RS01	—	—	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 mosport-1 · 3.957 km · 10 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
Jody Scheckter	9	1	80
Patrick Depailler	6	2	80
Jochen Mass	5	3	80
Alan Jones	7	4	80
Patrick Tambay	16	5	80
Vittorio Brambilla	15	6	78
Danny Ongais	22	7	78
Alex Ribeiro	23	8	78
Mario Andretti	1	9	77
Riccardo Patrese	8	10	76
Brett Lunger	20	11	76
Gilles Villeneuve	17	12	76
James Hunt	2	DNF	61
Patrick Nève	21	DNF	56
Ronnie Peterson	3	DNF	34
Rupert Keegan	25	DNF	32
Hans Binder	24	DNF	31
Emerson Fittipaldi	19	DNF	29
Ian Scheckter	18	DNF	29
Carlos Reutemann	12	DNF	20
Hans-Joachim Stuck	13	DNF	19
Gunnar Nilsson	4	DNF	17
Jacques Laffite	11	DNF	12
John Watson	10	DNF	1
Clay Regazzoni	14	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Mario Andretti	Team Lotus	5	1:11.385	—	0 m	—
2	James Hunt	McLaren	1	1:11.942	+0.557	31 m	+0.557
3	Ronnie Peterson	Tyrrell	3	1:12.752	+1.367	76 m	+0.810
4	Gunnar Nilsson	Team Lotus	6	1:12.975	+1.590	88 m	+0.223
5	Jochen Mass	McLaren	2	1:13.116	+1.731	96 m	+0.141
6	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell	4	1:13.207	+1.822	101 m	+0.091
7	Alan Jones	Shadow	17	1:13.347	+1.962	109 m	+0.140
8	Riccardo Patrese	Shadow	16	1:13.435	+2.050	114 m	+0.088
9	Jody Scheckter	Walter Wolf Racing	20	1:13.497	+2.112	117 m	+0.062
10	John Watson	Brabham	7	1:13.500	+2.115	117 m	+0.003
11	Jacques Laffite	Ligier	26	1:13.739	+2.354	130 m	+0.239
12	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	12	1:13.890	+2.505	139 m	+0.151
13	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Brabham	8	1:13.953	+2.568	142 m	+0.063
14	Clay Regazzoni	Ensign	22	1:13.999	+2.614	145 m	+0.046
15	Vittorio Brambilla	Surtees	19	1:14.229	+2.844	158 m	+0.230
16	Patrick Tambay	Ensign	23	1:14.464	+3.079	171 m	+0.235
17	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	21	1:14.465	+3.080	171 m	+0.001
18	Ian Scheckter	March	10	1:14.855	+3.470	192 m	+0.390
19	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi	28	1:14.857	+3.472	192 m	+0.002
20	Brett Lunger	McLaren	30	1:14.930	+3.545	197 m	+0.073
21	Patrick Nève	March	27	1:15.510	+4.125	229 m	+0.580
22	Danny Ongais	Penske	14	1:15.599	+4.214	234 m	+0.089
23	Alex Ribeiro	March	9	1:15.770	+4.385	243 m	+0.171
24	Hans Binder	Surtees	18	1:16.568	+5.183	287 m	+0.798
25	Ian Ashley	Hesketh	25	1:16.640	+5.255	291 m	+0.072
26	Rupert Keegan	Hesketh	24	1:17.000	+5.615	311 m	+0.360
27	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	15	1:18.999	+7.614	422 m	+1.999

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.

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.

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.

3 more photographs

Ferrari 312T
LaudaNiki19760731Ferrari312T2 · Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de

Where this comes from

Round: 16 of 1977
Grand Prix: Canadian Grand Prix
Dates: 9 Oct 1977
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Walter Wolf Racing
Entrant: Wolf-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.