1976 Japanese Grand Prix

1976 Japanese Grand Prix
Race 16 of 16 in the 1976 Formula One season
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Race details
Date 24 October 1976
Official name XI Japanese Grand Prix[1]
Location Fuji Speedway
Oyama, Shizuoka, Japan
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 4.359 km (2.709 miles)
Distance 73 laps, 318.207[2] km (197.725 miles)
Weather Very wet and misty, eventually drying
Pole position
Driver Lotus-Ford
Time 1:12.77
Fastest lap
Driver France Jacques Laffite2 Ligier-Matra
Time 1:19.97 on lap 70
Podium
First Lotus-Ford
Second Tyrrell-Ford
Third McLaren-Ford
Lap leaders

The 1976 Japanese Grand Prix1 was a Formula One motor race held at Fuji Speedway on 24 October 1976. It was the 16th and final race of the 1976 Formula One World Championship

The 1976 World Championship was to be decided at the Mount Fuji circuit, with Niki Lauda just three points ahead of James Hunt after a season full of incidents including Lauda's near-fatal crash at the Nürburgring and subsequent missed races.

  1. ^ "1976 Japanese GP". www.chicanef1.com. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference StatsF1-race was invoked but never defined (see the help page).