1976 Swedish Grand Prix

 1976 Swedish Grand Prix

Racing data
7th of 16 races of the 1976 Automobile World Championship
Surname:	XII Sveriges Grand Prix
Date:	June 13, 1976
Place:	Anderstorp
Course:	Scandinavian Raceway
Length:	289.296 km in 72 laps of 4.018 km
Weather:	cloudy but warm
Spectator:	~ 40,000
Pole position
Driver:	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell
Time:	1: 25.659 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Mario Andretti	lotus
Time:	1: 28.002 min
Podium
First:	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell
Second:	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell
Third:	Niki Lauda	Ferrari

The 1976 Swedish Grand Prix took place on June 13th at the Scandinavian Raceway in Anderstorp and was the seventh race of the 1976 World Automobile Championship .

Reports

background

After Mario Andretti and Brett Lunger , who had skipped the Monaco Grand Prix two weeks earlier, returned to the field, the Lotus and Surtees teams each competed with two factory cars. Due to the absence of Jacky Ickx , who took part in the parallel 24-hour race of Le Mans and finished it victoriously, the Wolf-Williams team, on the other hand, entered with just one vehicle.

The RAM Racing team , which had also skipped the Monaco GP, now reported two customers - Brabham . The cockpit of the second car next to that of regular driver Loris Kessel was given to the Danish Formula 1 newcomer Jac Nelleman this weekend .

Penske factory driver John Watson carried out the first Grand Prix outing of the new car called PC4 this weekend .

training

Jody Scheckter and Patrick Depailler already proved the competitiveness of the Tyrrell P34 with six wheels, which has so far been critically judged by the experts, by reaching the starting positions one and four . With a slightly further developed Lotus 77 , Mario Andretti achieved the second fastest training time ahead of Chris Amon , who surprisingly managed to qualify for third place on the grid with the Ensign N176 .

Only in fifth place on the grid followed with Niki Lauda, one of the previously mostly dominating Ferrari 312T2s . Local Gunnar Nilsson confirmed the upward trend at Lotus with sixth place.

run

Andretti took the lead from the front row in front of the two Tyrrell from Scheckter and Depailler as well as Ensign driver Amon.

Both factory drivers were unable to realize the potential of the modified Lotus 77 in this race. In front of his home crowd, Nilsson missed his chances of a good placement early on by spinning the pit wall, which meant the end for him. Due to an early start, the race stewards imposed a one-minute time penalty on Andretti, which his team immediately informed him on a pit board. The US-American was not discouraged and tried to get as big a lead as possible at the top so that a good final result seemed possible even after adding the announced penalty minute. On the 49th lap, however, he retired due to an engine failure.

The few position shifts during the race were almost all due to failures. Chris Amon had an accident on lap 39, so Lauda was able to take third place without a fight behind the two Tyrrell who had been in the lead since Andretti's failure. Clay Regazzoni managed to overtake both Carlos Pace and Ronnie Peterson during the final laps and thus secured the last championship point of the day in sixth place.

The Tyrrell one-two victory that day was the only success of a vehicle with an unusual number of wheels. All other Grand Prix victories in Formula 1 history were achieved with four-wheeled cars.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	1	Niki Lauda	Ferrari 312T2	Ferrari 015 3.0 F12	G
	2	Clay Regazzoni
Eleven Team Tyrrell	3	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell P34	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
	4th	Patrick Depailler
John Player Team Lotus	5	Mario Andretti	Lotus 77		G
	6th	Gunnar Nilsson
Martini Racing	7th	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham BT45	Alfa Romeo 115-12 3.0 F12	G
	8th	Carlos Pace
Beta Team March	9	Vittorio Brambilla	March 761	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
March engineering	10	Ronnie Peterson			G
	34	Hans-Joachim Stuck
Ovoro Team March	35	Arturo Merzario			G
Marlboro Team McLaren	11	James Hunt	McLaren M23		G
	12	Jochen Mass
Shadow Racing Team	16	Tom Pryce	Shadow DN5B		G
	17th	Jean-Pierre Jarier
Team Surtees	18th	Brett Lunger	Surtees TS19		G
	19th	Alan Jones
Walter Wolf Racing	21st	Michel Leclère	Williams FW05		G
Team Ensign	22nd	Chris Amon	Ensign N176		G
Hesketh Racing	24	Harald Ertl	Hesketh 308D		G
Ligier Gitanes	26th	Jacques Laffite	Ligier JS5	Matra MS73 3.0 V12	G
Citibank Team Penske	28	John Watson	Penske PC4	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	G
Copersucar-Fittipaldi	30th	Emerson Fittipaldi	Copersucar FD04		G
RAM Racing	32	Lori's cauldron	Brabham BT44B		G
	33	Jac Nelleman
HB Bewaking Alarm Systems	37	Larry Perkins	Boro 001		G

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor	time	Ø speed	begin
01	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 25.659	168.865 km / h	01
02	Mario Andretti	Lotus Ford	1: 26.008	168.180 km / h	02
03	Chris Amon	Ensign-Ford	1: 26.163	167.877 km / h	03
04th	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 26.362	167.490 km / h	04th
05	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	1: 26.441	167.337 km / h	05
06th	Gunnar Nilsson	Lotus Ford	1: 26.570	167.088 km / h	06th
07th	Jacques Laffite	Ligier-Matra	1: 26.773	166.697 km / h	07th
08th	James Hunt	McLaren-Ford	1: 26,958	166.342 km / h	08th
09	Ronnie Peterson	March-Ford	1: 27.040	166.186 km / h	09
10	Carlos Pace	Brabham-Alfa Romeo	1: 27.133	166.008 km / h	10
11	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	1: 27.157	165.963 km / h	11
12	Tom Pryce	Shadow Ford	1: 27.527	165.261 km / h	12
13	Jochen Mass	McLaren-Ford	1: 27.568	165.184 km / h	13
14th	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow Ford	1: 27.618	165.089 km / h	14th
15th	Vittorio Brambilla	March-Ford	1: 27.640	165.048 km / h	15th
16	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham-Alfa Romeo	1: 27.762	164.818 km / h	16
17th	John Watson	Penske-Ford	1: 28.065	164.251 km / h	17th
18th	Alan Jones	Surtees-Ford	1: 28.207	163.987 km / h	18th
19th	Arturo Merzario	March-Ford	1: 28.221	163.961 km / h	19th
20th	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March-Ford	1: 28.230	163.944 km / h	20th
21st	Emerson Fittipaldi	Copersucar-Ford	1: 28.670	163.131 km / h	21st
22nd	Larry Perkins	Boro-Ford	1: 28.815	162.864 km / h	22nd
23	Harald Ertl	Hesketh-Ford	1: 28.885	162.736 km / h	23
24	Brett Lunger	Surtees-Ford	1: 29.343	161.902 km / h	24
25th	Michel Leclère	Wolf-Williams-Ford	1: 29.597	161.443 km / h	25th
26th	Lori's cauldron	Brabham-Ford	1: 30.020	160.684 km / h	26th
DNQ	Jac Nelleman	Brabham-Ford	1: 30.259	160.259 km / h	-

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap	Failure reason
01	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell-Ford	72	0	1: 46: 53.729	01
02	Patrick Depailler	Tyrrell-Ford	72	0	+ 19.766	04th
03	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	72	0	+ 33.866	05
04th	Jacques Laffite	Ligier-Matra	72	0	+ 55.819	07th
05	James Hunt	McLaren-Ford	72	0	+ 59.483	08th
06th	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	72	0	+1: 00.366	11
07th	Ronnie Peterson	March-Ford	72	0	+1: 03.493	09
08th	Carlos Pace	Brabham-Alfa Romeo	72	0	+1: 11.613	10
09	Tom Pryce	Shadow Ford	71	0	+ 1 lap	12
10	Vittorio Brambilla	March-Ford	71	0	+ 1 lap	15th
11	Jochen Mass	McLaren-Ford	71	0	+ 1 lap	13
12	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Shadow Ford	71	0	+ 1 lap	14th
13	Alan Jones	Surtees-Ford	71	0	+ 1 lap	18th
14th	Arturo Merzario	March-Ford	70	0	DNF	19th		Engine failure
15th	Brett Lunger	Surtees-Ford	70	0	+ 2 rounds	24
-	Harald Ertl	Hesketh-Ford	54	0	DNF	23		Lathe operator
-	Hans-Joachim Stuck	March-Ford	52	0	DNF	20th		Engine failure
-	Mario Andretti	Lotus Ford	45	0	DNF	02	1: 28.002	Engine failure
-	Chris Amon	Ensign-Ford	38	0	DNF	03		accident
-	Michel Leclère	Wolf-Williams-Ford	20th	0	DNF	25th		Engine failure
-	Larry Perkins	Boro-Ford	18th	0	DNF	22nd		Engine failure
-	Emerson Fittipaldi	Copersucar-Ford	10	0	DNF	21st		task
-	Lori's cauldron	Brabham-Ford	05	0	DNF	26th		accident
-	Gunnar Nilsson	Lotus Ford	02	0	DNF	06th		accident
-	Carlos Reutemann	Brabham-Alfa Romeo	02	1	DNF	16		Engine failure
-	John Watson	Penske-Ford	00	0	DNF	17th		accident

World Cup stands after the race

The first six of the race got 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Niki Lauda Ferrari 55 02  Jody Scheckter Tyrrell 23 03  Patrick Depailler Tyrrell 20th 04th  Clay Regazzoni Ferrari 16 05  Jacques Laffite Ligier 10 06th  Jochen Mass McLaren 10 07th  James Hunt McLaren 8th 08th  Hans-Joachim Stuck March 6th 09  Gunnar Nilsson lotus 4th

Item driver constructor Points 10  Tom Pryce Shadow 4th 11  Carlos Reutemann Brabham 3 12  Chris Amon Ensign 2 13  John Watson Penske 2 14th  Alan Jones Surtees 2 15th  Emerson Fittipaldi Copersucar 2 16  Carlos Pace Brabham 1 17th  Mario Andretti Parnelli 1

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Ferrari 55 02  Tyrrell 31 03  McLaren 18th 04th  Ligier 10 05  March 6th 06th  Shadow 4th 07th  lotus 4th

Item constructor Points 08th  Brabham 3 09  Ensign 2 10  Penske 2 11  Copersucar 2 12  Surtees 2 13  Parnelli 1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Training" ( memento of the original from January 29, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on March 17, 2012)  
2. ^ "Report" (accessed on March 17, 2012)
3. ↑ "World Cup stands" ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on March 17, 2012)  

Web links

• Race result on the official Formula 1 website