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The 1976 Japanese Grand Prix was a Formula 1 race held at Fuji on October 24, 1976. Image File history File links Flag_of_Japan. ... The 1976 Formula One season was the 27th FIA Formula One World Championship season. ... October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the 1976 Gregorian calendar. ... Fuji Speedway is a race track standing in the foothills of the Mount Fuji, in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940 in Montona dIstria, Italy, now Motovun, Croatia) is an Italian American racing driver, and one of the most successful Americans in the history of auto racing. ... Lotus Logo with monogram of its founder, Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports and racing cars based at Hethel, Norfolk, England. ... Ford Motor Company is an American multinational corporation and the worlds third largest automaker after Toyota and General Motors, based on worldwide vehicle sales. ... In motorsport the quickest lap during the whole race is called the Fatest Lap. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Japan. ... Masahiro Hasemi was a Formula One driver from Japan. ... Kojima was a Japanese Formula One constructor who entered cars in the Japanese Grand Prix in 1976 and 1977. ... Ford Motor Company is an American multinational corporation and the worlds third largest automaker after Toyota and General Motors, based on worldwide vehicle sales. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940 in Montona dIstria, Italy, now Motovun, Croatia) is an Italian American racing driver, and one of the most successful Americans in the history of auto racing. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Patrick AndrÃ© EugÃ¨ne Joseph Depailler (born in Clermont-Ferrand, 9 August 1944 - died 1 August 1980) was a Formula One driver from France. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... James Simon Wallis Hunt (29 August 1947 â€“ 15 June 1993) was an English racing driver and Formula 1 world champion and subsequently a commentator and businessman. ... Formula One, abbreviated to F1 and also known as Grand Prix racing, is the highest class of single-seat open-wheel auto racing. ... Fuji Speedway is a race track standing in the foothills of the Mount Fuji, in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. ... October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the 1976 Gregorian calendar. ...

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. The field was almost unchanged from the last race: Noritake Takahara rented the second Surtees, replacing Brett Lunger, and Hans Binder was back in the second Wolf Williams after Masami Kuwashima's money failed to materialize. Maki resurrected its old Formula One car for Tony Trimmer while Heros Racing entered an old Tyrrell for Kazuyoshi Hoshino, and Kojima Engineering entered a locally-built chassis for Masahiro Hasemi (on Dunlop tires). Andreas Nikolaus Niki Lauda (born February 22, 1949 in Vienna) is an Austrian aviator, entrepreneur, former Formula One (F1) racing driver and three-time F1 World Champion. ... James Simon Wallis Hunt (29 August 1947 â€“ 15 June 1993) was an English racing driver and Formula 1 world champion and subsequently a commentator and businessman. ... Noritake Takahara was a Formula One driver from Japan. ... The Surtees Racing Organization was a race team that spent 9 seasons (1970 to 1978) as a constructor in Formula One. ... Brett Lunger (born November 14, 1945) was a Formula One driver from the USA. A former US marine who served in the Vietnam war, his racing career was mostly spent in privateer cars, paid for by his family wealth (Lunger was a scion of the DuPont family). ... Hans Binder (Zell am Ziller, near Innsbruck, June 12, 1948) was a Formula One driver from Austria. ... Walter Wolf Racing was a Formula One constructor from 1976 to 1980. ... Masami Kuwashima (b. ... Maki was a Formula One constructor from Japan, fully named as Maki Engineering. ... Tony Trimmer was a professional race car driver from Great Britain. ... Kazuyoshi Hoshino(Japanese: æ˜Ÿé‡Ž ä¸€ç¾©) (Born July 1, 1947, Shizuoka Prefecture) was a Formula One driver from Japan. ... Kojima was a Japanese Formula One constructor who entered cars in the Japanese Grand Prix in 1976 and 1977. ... Masahiro Hasemi was a Formula One driver from Japan. ... Dunlop Tyres is an international United Kingdom-based company founded in 1888 by John Boyd Dunlop after he invented the modern pneumatic inflatable tyre. ...

In qualifying Mario Andretti took pole position in the Lotus 77 with Hunt on second place and Lauda third. Then came John Watson's Penske, Jody Scheckter, Carlos Pace, Clay Regazzoni and Vittorio Brambilla . The top 10 was completed by Ronnie Peterson and Hasemi. The Maki failed to qualify. Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940 in Montona dIstria, Italy, now Motovun, Croatia) is an Italian American racing driver, and one of the most successful Americans in the history of auto racing. ... The Lotus 77 was a Formula 1 car designed by Colin Chapman, Ralph Bellamy and Tony Rudd for the 1976 season. ... John Marshall Wattie Watson MBE (born May 4, 1946, Belfast) is a British former racing driver from Northern Ireland. ... Team Penske (also known as Penske Racing) is a racing team that currently owns cars running in the Indy Racing League and NASCAR; it formerly competed in CART. The team is named after its founder and principal owner, Roger Penske, and is a part of his conglomerate, Penske Corporation. ... Jody David Scheckter (born January 29, 1950) is a former auto racing driver, the 1979 Formula One World Drivers Champion. ... Carlos Pace was a Formula One driver from Brazil. ... Gianclaudio Giuseppe Clay Regazzoni (September 5, 1939 â€“ December 15, 2006) was a Swiss racing car driver. ... Vittorio Brambilla was a Formula One driver from Italy. ... Bengt Ronnie Peterson, (IPA: , February 14, 1944 - September 11, 1978) was a Swedish racing driver. ...

On race day the weather was very wet with streams running across the track and fog. There were intense debates as to whether the race should be started; in the end the organizers decided to go ahead and most drivers all agreed, although some were not happy with the decision, and Lauda was among them. At the start Hunt went into the lead with Watson behind him and Andretti leading the rest of the field. Lauda, who wasn't yet in a perfect form after the crash at the Nürburgring, was in the midfield, but in the second lap (during which Watson went down an escape road) Lauda pulled into the pits and withdrew, because the track was becoming too dangerous, in his view, to continue the race (he will say later "my life is worth more than a title"). In the laps that followed Pace and Emerson Fittipaldi also pulled out, joining Larry Perkins who had decided against racing at the end of the first lap. Results from the 1976 Formula One German Grand Prix held at Nürburgring on August 1, 1976 Classification Notes Fastest Lap: Jody Scheckter 710. ... Emerson Fittipaldi (born December 12, 1946, SÃ£o Paulo, Brazil) is a highly successful open-wheel racing series driver, winning world championships in both Formula One and CART, and the Indianapolis 500 twice. ... Larry Perkins (born March 18, 1950) is a former racing driver and current V8 Supercar team owner from Australia. ...

Out on the race track Hunt continued to lead while the situation behind him was rather more confused as second place passed between Andretti and Brambilla. On lap 22 Brambilla even challenged for the lead but then spun off. Jochen Mass run to the second place to a McLaren 1-2 but on the 36th lap he crashed and so Patrick Depailler moved to second place with Andretti third. Jochen Mass, born September 30, 1946 was a Formula One driver from Germany. ... Patrick AndrÃ© EugÃ¨ne Joseph Depailler (born in Clermont-Ferrand, 9 August 1944 - died 1 August 1980) was a Formula One driver from France. ...

It seemed Hunt was on for an easy win, but as the track began to dry he started to lose positions (though he only needed a fourth place to win the title, because of Lauda's retire). On lap 62 he fell behind Depailler and Andretti, but two laps later Depailler's left rear tyre started to deflate and he had to pit. Andretti took the lead, but then Hunt had a similar tyre problem. Distraught, he headed for the pits, and thus dropped to fifth and set off after Depailler, Alan Jones and Regazzoni. Depailler overtook both men on lap 70 and on the next lap Hunt did the same, although he finished thinking that he had lost the title. Alan Jones MBE (born November 2, 1946) is an Australian former Formula One racer. ...

Even with Lauda's withdrawal, Ferrari won the Constructors' Championship. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Formula One World Constructors Championship (WCC) is awarded by the FIA to the most successful Formula One constructor over a season, as determined by a points system based on Grand Prix results. ...

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Noritake Takahara was a Formula One driver from Japan. ... The Surtees Racing Organization was a race team that spent 9 seasons (1970 to 1978) as a constructor in Formula One. ... Ford Motor Company is an American multinational corporation and the worlds third largest automaker after Toyota and General Motors, based on worldwide vehicle sales. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Jean-Pierre Jarier (born July 10, 1946) is a French Grand Prix racing driver, now retired. ... Shadow Racing Cars was a Formula One and sports car racing team from Britain. ... Ford Motor Company is an American multinational corporation and the worlds third largest automaker after Toyota and General Motors, based on worldwide vehicle sales. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Japan. ... Masahiro Hasemi was a Formula One driver from Japan. ... Kojima was a Japanese Formula One constructor who entered cars in the Japanese Grand Prix in 1976 and 1977. ... 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Categories: 1976 Formula One race reports | Japanese Grand Prix | 1976 in Japan Formula Nippon is a type of formula racing and the top level of open-wheeled racing in Japan. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GBÂ£4 billion. ... The 1976 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on October 10, 1976 at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. ... The FÃ©dÃ©ration Internationale de lAutomobile, commonly referred to as the FIA, is a non-profit association established in 1904 to represent the interest of motoring organisations and motor car users. ... Formula One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The 1976 Formula One season was the 27th FIA Formula One World Championship season. ... Results from the 1977 Formula One Argentine Grand Prix held at Argentina on January 9, 1977 Classification Notes Fastest Lap: James Hunt 151. ... The Japanese Grand Prix s traditional place at the end of the season means this event has seen a great number of Championship crowns being won and lost. ... Results from the 1977 Formula One Japanese Grand Prix held at Fuji on October 23, 1977 Classification Notes Fastest Lap: Jody Scheckter 114. ...

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