Motorcycle World Championship 1976

**Motorcycle World Championship 1976**
	500 cm³ world champion
Driver:	Barry Sheene
Constructor:	Suzuki
	350 cm³ world champion
Driver:	Walter Villa
Constructor:	Harley-Davidson
	250 cc world champion
Driver:	Walter Villa
Constructor:	Harley-Davidson
	125 cc world champion
Driver:	Pier Paolo Bianchi
Constructor:	Morbidelli
	50 cm³ world champion
Driver:	Ángel Nieto
Constructor:	Bultaco
	Team (500 cm³) world champions
Driver:	Rolf Steinhausen; Josef Huber
Constructor:	Bush King

The 1976 motorcycle world championship was the 28th in the history of the FIM - motorcycle road world championship .

Ten races were held in the classes up to 500 cm³ and up to 350 cm³, eleven in the class up to 250 cm³, nine in the classes up to 125 cm³ and up to 50 cm³ and seven races for the teams .

Distribution of points

Scoring
space	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
Points	15th	12	10	8th	6th	5	4th	3	2	1

The three best results achieved in each half of the season were considered.

useful information

For the first time in the history of the motorcycle world championship, there were no works teams at the start in the 500 cm³ class.
The German Grand Prix was originally supposed to be held on the Südschleife , as it was last in 1968 . Since the necessary work to improve the track was not carried out, the race took place again on the Nordschleife , which was considered dangerous , but which, unlike the Südschleife, had been rebuilt in 1970/71. The foreign motorcycle world championship pilots had already boycotted the Nordschleife Grand Prix in 1974 because of adapting the route safety to Eifelrennen automobile races , and four weeks earlier the Austrian Niki Lauda had had a serious accident in the Formula 1 GP.
Giacomo Agostini achieved his 122nd and last victory in the motorcycle world championship in the 500 cc class on the Nürburgring - Nordschleife , the location of his first Grand Prix victory (although at that time on the Südschleife ) . This mark is unmatched to this day. Only Valentino Rossi and Agostini managed to break the magical limit of 100 Grand Prix victories and is currently holding 106 victories. The victory is also the last of a four-stroke engine in the 500 cc class held until 2002 .

Deaths

The two local drivers Paolo Tordi and Otello Buscherini were killed at the Nations Grand Prix on the race track in Mugello, which is on the calendar for the first time . Tordi fell in the 350 cc run, Buscherini in the 250 cc race, both died on the way to the hospital.
The Isle of Man TT also claimed two lives that year. Walter Wörner, Siegfried Maier's passenger in the sidecar class and the Australian Les Kenny , in the lightweight TT race , were killed.

500 cc class

Race results

	date	run	route	1st place	place 2	place 3	Pole position	Nice Race lap
1	04/25	France French GP	Le Mans	Barry Sheene	Johnny Cecotto	Marco Lucchinelli	Barry Sheene	Marco Lucchinelli
2	02.05.	Austria Austrian GP	Salzburgring	Barry Sheene	Marco Lucchinelli	Phil Read	Barry Sheene	Barry Sheene
3	16.05.	Italy 54th Nations Grand Prix	Mugello	Barry Sheene	Phil Read	Virginio Ferrari	Giacomo Agostini	Barry Sheene
4th	June 7-11	Isle of Man 58th Isle of Man TT	Mountain Course	Tom Herron	Ian Richards	Billie Guthrie	John Williams	John Williams
5	26.06.	Netherlands 46. Dutch TT	Aces	Barry Sheene	Pat hens	Wil Hartog	Barry Sheene	Barry Sheene
6th	04.07.	Belgium 49th Belgian GP	Spa Francorchamps	John Williams	Barry Sheene	Marcel Ankoné	Barry Sheene	John Williams
7th	25.07.	Sweden Swedish GP	Anderstorp	Barry Sheene	Jack Findlay	Chas Mortimer	Teuvo Länsivuori	Teuvo Länsivuori
8th	08/01	Finland GP of Finland	Imatra	Pat hens	Teuvo Länsivuori	Philippe Coulon	Giacomo Agostini	John Newbold
9	08/22	Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakian GP	Masaryk ring	John Newbold	Teuvo Länsivuori	Philippe Coulon	Teuvo Länsivuori	Teuvo Länsivuori
10	08/29	Germany 40th GP of Germany	Nürburgring - Nordschleife	Giacomo Agostini	Marco Lucchinelli	Pat hens	Virginio Ferrari	Marcel Ankoné

Driver ranking

1	United Kingdom Barry Sheene	Suzuki	72 (87)
2	Finland Teuvo Länsivuori	Suzuki	48 (54)
3	United States Pat hens	Suzuki	46
4th	Italy Marco Lucchinelli	Suzuki	40
5	United Kingdom John Newbold	Suzuki	31 (34)
6th	Switzerland Philippe Coulon	Suzuki	28
7th	Italy Giacomo Agostini	MV Agusta / Suzuki	26th
8th	Australia Jack Findlay	Suzuki	25th
9	United Kingdom John Williams	Suzuki	24
10	United Kingdom Phil Read	Suzuki	22nd
11	Netherlands Marcel Ankoné	Suzuki	21st
12	Australia Stu Avant	Suzuki	20th
13	United Kingdom Chas Mortimer	Suzuki	18th
14th	Northern Ireland Tom Herron	Yamaha	17th
15th	France Michel Rougerie	Suzuki	16
16	Austria Karl Auer	Yamaha	16
17th	Germany Dieter Braun	Suzuki	15th
18th	Spain 1945 Víctor Palomo	Yamaha	13
19th	Venezuela 1954 Johnny Cecotto	Yamaha	12
	United Kingdom Ian Richards	Yamaha	12
21st	Italy Virginio Ferrari	Suzuki	10
22nd	Northern Ireland Billie Guthrie	Yamaha	10
23	Netherlands Wil Hartog	Suzuki	10

24	United Kingdom Alex George	Yamaha	9
25th	Netherlands Boet van Dulmen	Yamaha / Suzuki	9
26th	Japan Takazumi Katayama	Yamaha	8th
27	United Kingdom Roger Nicholls	Yamaha	6th
	Austria Max Wiener	Yamaha	6th
29	South Africa 1961 Jon Ekerold	Yamaha	5
	France Olivier Chevallier	Yamaha	5
31	France Bernard Fau	Yamaha	4th
	Germany Bernd Tüngethal	Yamaha	4th
	South Africa 1961 Alan North	Suzuki	4th
34	United Kingdom Gordon Pantall	Yamaha	3
	Netherlands Rob Bron	Yamaha	3
	France Christian Estrosi	Suzuki	3
	France Christian Bourgeois	Yamaha	3
38	Germany Helmut Kassner	Suzuki	3
39	United Kingdom John Weeden	Yamaha	2
	Finland Pekka Nurmi	Yamaha	2
41	Denmark Børge Nielsen	Yamaha	1
	United Kingdom Bill Smith	Yamaha	1
	United Kingdom Dave Potter	Yamaha	1
	Brazil 1968 Edmar Ferreira	Yamaha	1
	Germany Egid Schwemmer	Yamaha	1

(Points in brackets including deletion results )

Constructors' championship

The design engineer title was awarded to Suzuki .